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What is a Laya Centre ?

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The Laya zone is the "place" where laya Centres can be found. This is the chaotic limit between two planes in which matter returns to nothing, opposites return to neutral. A Laya Centre is a focal point of Electrical Life (Fohat) in the Laya Zone. Fohat focalisation creates a "hole in the Laya" between the universes, generating a vortex of mechanical energy.Through that vortex, consciousness may pass towards both sides of the Laya Zone. When The consciousness of a form is leaded to a specific point of vibration (by means of electricity or sound - See Leadbeatter observations in "occult chemistry" and

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J.W. Keely's works -), the latter goes to the higher plane leaving its material constituents in the lower plane (which we call "death"). When a consciousness comes into material existence, it passes through the Fohatic vortex of a given Laya centre towards a an atomique or molecular shape which may be prepared (it's the case of the baby's birth), or which may be arranged more rapidly and automatically by Devas - at the etheric level for instance. Laya zone exists everywhere for the next plane which follows the physical is the astral one. So we are surrounded by the Laya zone as well as we are surrounded by the Astral Plane. A living Being in the Astral Plane should say the same concerning the Laya zones which separate its plane from both the Mental and the Physical ones. Details of the Laya Zone and Laya Centres

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A Laya Centre may exist in the shortest particle of the physical plane (Anu) as well as in the centre of a star. Through such a star, some rays of consciouness may filtrate into the various universes or levels. This is the technical explanation of the ingoing and outgoing cycles of the seven rays.

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A Laya Centre may exist in the shortest particle of the physical plane (Anu) as well as in the centre of a star. Through such a star, some rays of consciouness may filtrate into the various universes or levels. This is the technical explanation of the ingoing and outgoing cycles of the seven rays.

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Quotations from the Secret Doctrine

** From the Sanskrit Laya, the point of matter where every differentiation has ceased. The "imperishable Laya Centres" have a great importance, and their meaning must be fully understood if we would have a clear conception of the Archaic Cosmogony, whose theories have now passed into Occultism. At present, one thing may be stated. The worlds are built neither upon, nor over, nor in the Laya centres, the zero-point being a condition, not any mathematical point. The Occultists, who do not say -- if they would express themselves correctly -that matter, but only the substance or essence of matter, is indestructible and eternal, (i.e., the Root of all, Mlaprakriti): assert that all the so-called Forces of Nature, Electricity, Magnetism, Light, Heat, etc., etc., far from being modes of motion of material particles, are in esse, i.e., in their ultimate constitution, the differentiated aspects of that Universal Motion which is discussed and explained in the first pages of this volume (See Proem). When Fohat is said to produce "Seven Laya Centres," it means that for formative or creative purposes, the GREAT LAW (Theists may call it God) stops, or rather modifies its perpetual motion on seven invisible points within the area of the manifested Universe. "The great Breath digs through Space seven holes into Laya to cause them to circumgyrate during Manvantara" (Occult Catechism). We have said that Laya is what Science may call the Zero-point or line; the realm of absolute negativeness, or the one real absolute Force, the NOUMENON of the Seventh State of that which we ignorantly call and recognise as "Force"; or again the Noumenon of Undifferentiated Cosmic Substance which is itself an unreachable and unknowable object to finite perception; the root and basis of all

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states of objectivity and subjectivity too; the neutral axis, not one of the many aspects, but its centre. It may serve to elucidate the meaning if we attempt to imagine a neutral centre -- the dream of those who would discover perpetual motion. A "neutral centre" is, in one aspect, the limiting point of any given set of senses. Thus, imagine two consecutive planes of matter as already formed; each of these corresponding to an appropriate set of perceptive organs. We are forced to admit that between these two planes of matter an incessant circulation takes place; and if we follow the atoms and molecules of (say) the lower in their transformation upwards, these will come to a point where they pass altogether beyond the range of the faculties we are using on the lower plane. In fact, to us the matter of the lower plane there vanishes from our perception into nothing -or rather it passes on to the higher plane, and the state of matter corresponding to such a point of transition must certainly possess special and not readily discoverable properties. Such "Seven Neutral Centres,"* then, are produced by Fohat, who, when, as Milton has it -"Fair foundations (are) laid whereon to build . . ." quickens matter into activity and evolution. The worlds are built neither upon, nor over, nor in the Laya centres, the zero-point being a condition, not any mathematical point. "Whatsoever quits the Laya State, becomes active life; it is drawn into the vortex of MOTION (the alchemical solvent of Life); Spirit and Matter are the two States of the ONE, which is neither Spirit nor Matter, both being the absolute life, latent." (Book of Dzyan, Comm. III., par. 18). . . . "Spirit is the first differentiation of (and in) SPACE; and Matter the first differentiation of Spirit. That, which is neither Spirit nor matter -- that is IT -- the Causeless CAUSE of Spirit and Matter, which are the Cause of Kosmos. And THAT we call the ONE LIFE or the Intra-Cosmic Breath." Of course, the laya centre cannot be produced, but an inter-etheric vacuum can -- as proved in the production of bell-sounds in space. Mr. Keely speaks as an unconscious Occultist, nevertheless, when he remarks in his theory of planetary suspension:-"As regards planetary volume, we would ask in a scientific point of view, How can the immense difference of volume in the planets exist without disorganising the harmonious action that has always characterised them? I can only answer this question properly by entering into a progressive analysis, starting on the rotating etheric centres that were fixed by the Creator* with their attractive or

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accumulative power. If you ask what power it is that gives to each etheric atom its inconceivable velocity of rotation (or introductory impulse), I must answer that no finite mind will ever be able to conceive what it is. The philosophy of accumulation is the only proof that such a power has been given. The area, if we can so speak, of such an atom, presents to the attractive or magnetic, the elective or propulsive, all the receptive force and all the antagonistic force that characterises a planet of the largest magnitude; consequently, as the accumulation goes on, the perfect equation remains the same. When this minute centre has once been fixed, the power to rend it from its position would necessarily have to be so great as to displace the most immense planet that exists. When this atomic neutral centre is displaced, the planet must go with it. The neutral centre carries the full load of any accumulation from the start, and remains the same, for ever balanced in the eternal space." Mr. Keely illustrates his idea of "a neutral centre" in this way:-"We will imagine that, after an accumulation of a planet of any diameter, say, 20,000 miles, more or less, for the size has nothing to do with the problem; there should be a displacement of all the material, with the exception of a crust 5,000 miles thick, leaving an intervening void between this crust and a centre of the size of an ordinary billiard ball, it would then require a force as great to move this small central mass as it would to move the shell of 5,000 miles thickness. Moreover, this small central mass would carry the load of this crust for ever, keeping it equidistant; and there could be no opposing power, however great, that could bring them together. The imagination staggers in contemplating the immense load which bears upon this point of centre, where weight ceases. . . . This is what we understand by a neutral centre." And what Occultists understand by a "laya centre." a. The seven Laya centres are the seven Zero points, using the term Zero in the same sense that Chemists do, to indicate a point at which, in Esotericism, the scale of reckoning of differentiation begins. From the Centres -- beyond which Esoteric philosophy allows us to perceive the dim metaphysical outlines of the "Seven Sons" of Life and Light, the Seven Logo of the Hermetic and all other philosophers -- begins the differentiation of the elements which enter into the constitution of our Solar System.

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