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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 thechaotic limit between two planes in which matter returns to nothing, oppositesreturn to neutral. A Laya Centre is a focal point of Electrical Life (Fohat) in theLaya Zone. Fohat focalisation creates a "hole in the Laya" between theuniverses, generating a vortex of mechanical energy.Through that vortex,consciousness may pass towards both sides of the Laya Zone. When Theconsciousness 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 materialconstituents in the lower plane (which we call "death"). When a consciousnesscomes into material existence, it passes through the Fohatic vortex of a givenLaya 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 andautomatically 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 weare surrounded by the Laya zone as well as we are surrounded by the AstralPlane. A living Being in the Astral Plane should say the same concerning theLaya zones which separate its plane from both the Mental and the Physicalones.

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 raysof consciouness may filtrate into the various universes or levels. Thisis 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 raysof consciouness may filtrate into the various universes or levels. Thisis the technical explanation of the ingoing and outgoing cycles of theseven rays.

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Quotations from the Secret Doctrine

** From the Sanskrit Laya, the point of matter where every differentiation hasceased.

The "imperishable Laya Centres" have a great importance, and their meaningmust be fully understood if we would have a clear conception of the ArchaicCosmogony, whose theories have now passed into Occultism. At present, onething may be stated. The worlds are built neither upon, nor over, nor in the Layacentres, 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 andeternal, (i.e., the Root of all, Mûlaprakriti): assert that all the so-called Forcesof Nature, Electricity, Magnetism, Light, Heat, etc., etc., far from being modesof motion of material particles, are in esse, i.e., in their ultimate constitution, thedifferentiated aspects of that Universal Motion which is discussed and explainedin 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, theGREAT LAW (Theists may call it God) stops, or rather modifies its perpetualmotion on seven invisible points within the area of the manifested Universe."The great Breath digs through Space seven holes into Laya to cause them tocircumgyrate 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 theSeventh State of that which we ignorantly call and recognise as "Force"; oragain the Noumenon of Undifferentiated Cosmic Substance which is itself anunreachable 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 manyaspects, but its centre. It may serve to elucidate the meaning if we attempt toimagine a neutral centre -- the dream of those who would discover perpetualmotion. 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; eachof these corresponding to an appropriate set of perceptive organs. We are

forced to admit that between these two planes of matter an incessant circulationtakes place; and if we follow the atoms and molecules of (say) the lower in theirtransformation upwards, these will come to a point where they pass altogetherbeyond the range of the faculties we are using on the lower plane. In fact, to usthe 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 correspondingto such a point of transition must certainly possess special and not readilydiscoverable properties. Such "Seven Neutral Centres,"* then, are produced byFohat, who, when, as Milton has it --

"Fair foundations (are) laid whereon to build . . ." quickens matter into activityand evolution.

The worlds are built neither upon, nor over, nor in the Laya centres, thezero-point being a condition, not any mathematical point.

"Whatsoever quits the Laya State, becomes active life; it is drawn into thevortex 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 theabsolute life, latent." (Book of Dzyan, Comm. III., par. 18). . . . "Spirit is thefirst differentiation of (and in) SPACE; and Matter the first differentiation of Spirit. That, which is neither Spirit nor matter -- that is IT -- the CauselessCAUSE of Spirit and Matter, which are the Cause of Kosmos. And THAT wecall 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 planetarysuspension:--

"As regards planetary volume, we would ask in a scientific point of view, Howcan the immense difference of volume in the planets exist without disorganisingthe harmonious action that has always characterised them? I can only answerthis question properly by entering into a progressive analysis, starting on therotating 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 atomits inconceivable velocity of rotation (or introductory impulse), I must answerthat 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 wecan so speak, of such an atom, presents to the attractive or magnetic, theelective or propulsive, all the receptive force and all the antagonistic force that

characterises a planet of the largest magnitude; consequently, as theaccumulation goes on, the perfect equation remains the same. When this minutecentre has once been fixed, the power to rend it from its position wouldnecessarily have to be so great as to displace the most immense planet thatexists. 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, andremains 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; thereshould be a displacement of all the material, with the exception of a crust 5,000miles thick, leaving an intervening void between this crust and a centre of thesize of an ordinary billiard ball, it would then require a force as great to movethis 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 theimmense 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 thesame sense that Chemists do, to indicate a point at which, in Esotericism, thescale of reckoning of differentiation begins. From the Centres -- beyond whichEsoteric philosophy allows us to perceive the dim metaphysical outlines of the"Seven Sons" of Life and Light, the Seven Logoï of the Hermetic and all otherphilosophers -- begins the differentiation of the elements which enter into theconstitution of our Solar System.

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