Manifestation

Use in the book

In IV the changing forms of experience are outward manifestations of a supposed substantial reality. VII narrates their production as an outpouring of divine energy. VIII groups degrees of life manifestation into planes, so that a division into categories need not imply a division into independent substances.

The principles themselves also manifest: gender appears as sex on one level and as mental generation on another, while rhythm is identified in cosmic cycles and moods. The same verb thus connects a source with its effects and a general principle with its instances.

Places to read

1. IV THE ALL · Block 3“Under and behind all outward appearances or manifestations, there must always be a Substantial Reality. This is the Law. Man considering the Universe, of which he is a unit, sees nothing” …
2. VII THE ALL in All · Block 9“The Hermetic Teachings concerning the process of the Mental Creation of the Universe, are that at the beginning of the Creative Cycle, THE ALL, in its aspect of Being, projects its” …
3. VIII Planes of Correspondence · Block 5“These divisions are more or less artificial and arbitrary, for the truth is that all of the three divisions are but ascending degrees of the great scale of Life, the lowest” …
4. IX Vibration · Block 3… “vibration, but that the "differences" between the various manifestations of the universal power are due entirely to the varying rate and mode of vibrations. Not only this, but that even THE” …
5. XIII Gender · Block 4… “that of creating, producing, generating, etc., and its manifestations are visible on every plane of phenomena. It is somewhat difficult to produce proofs of this along scientific lines, for the reason” …

In this edition

Manifestation is retained rather than systematically replaced by appearance, because it can name an effective activity as well as an outward look.

Reading the argument

The vocabulary provides coherence, but the use of one word does not demonstrate one mechanism across all the cases. The relation between a principle and its alleged instance still has to be established in each application.

manifestation

“manifestation” — 29 occurrences in 27 text blocks: II.10; V.8, 11, 14; VI.11; VII.7, 13; VIII.2, 6, 8; IX.7, 9–10; X.3; XI.7–8; XIII.3–4, 8–10; XIV.2, 10, 13, 16, 18; XV.1.

manifestations

“manifestations” — 19 occurrences in 18 text blocks: II.7, 13, 16; IV.2–3; VIII.11, 15, 24; IX.3, 6; XI.4, 6; XII.13; XIII.4, 9–10; XIV.18; XV.18.

manifest

“manifest” — 19 occurrences in 17 text blocks: Intro.8; II.19; IV.19; VII.11, 16–17; VIII.31; IX.2, 5, 8–9; XI.2, 8; XII.11; XIII.7; XIV.15; XV.11.

manifests

“manifests” — 30 occurrences in 21 text blocks: II.16, 18, 24–25; IV.20; V.12; VI.2; VII.6, 13; VIII.2, 31; IX.3, 5, 7; XI.1–3; XIII.1, 8; XV.11, 14.