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207 Hari, we have said, is the first differentiated condition realised by the human ego. He is therefore the son represented by the sign Leo on the Zodiac (see Mr. Subba Row's invaluable article on the 'Twelve Signs of the Zodiac' in the Theosophist Vol. III). Viranchi or Brahma the Creator is the aggregation of the perceptible universe. Sakti is therefore above these three, and the consort of Siva. This explains why Kaci is called Tripuraraidhavi, the royal residence of the destroyer of the three cities, the undifferentiated synthetic condition of the three states mentioned above. With regard to the human ego the three cities are the three bodies, gross, subtile and causal, beyond which is the spirit. From this it also becomes clear that Kaci is the eternal Chinmatra which has been well explained by Mr. Subba Row in his article on 'Personal and Impersonal God.'—(Theosophist, Vol. IV). It also becomes manifest from this that in one of its aspects Kaci is pragna, in which is realized the great formula 'Thou art It.' This pragna is the mother of mukti or liberation, as all Vedantins know. The Trithayati says:—'I make salutation to that Kaci by whose favour I am Siva,' and I know Siva to be the spirit of all that is. Kaci is pragna, Buddhi, Sakti or Maya, the different names of the divine power which dominates throughout the universe; in fact, it is one aspect of the One Soul. The above quoted mystic states farther:—'This Kaci is the power of Siva, the supreme consciousness, but not different from him. Know Kaci to be the same as Siva and the supreme bliss... Kaci is that by which the supreme reality of the spirit is manifested or in which it is so manifested. She is also sung as the Chinmatra; I make salutiation to her, the supreme Knowledge. Elsewhere the same writer calls Kaci the darkness (Syámá).' This Darkness is the undifferentiated matter of the Cosmos, beyond which dwelleth the sun-coloured one, the spirit. In the Psalms this Asat or Prakriti is referred to in the highly poetical passage:—'There is darkness round his pavilion.'

"Krishna, the supreme spirit, is dark in his human form. No human eye can penetrate beyond this divine darkness.