What are the Archetypes?

Archetypes are those archetypal thoughtforms created by the Divine Mind operating in the Cosmic Mental Plane. The Cosmic Mental Plane is fiery electricity in which exists what we call beauty. The Divine Mind contemplated and created these Archetypes which are saturated with harmony, symphony, and unimaginable beauty. Thus the Great Architect visualizes and builds the Archetype of a man, and then He projects that image into Space.

The image passes through many planes and meets many forces and elements and eventually becomes a "monkey-like" man. But in that "monkey-man" the seed of the Archetype exists. And he goes back "home," age after age, until he becomes exactly that which the Great Architect visualized for him.

We are told that the most exalted beauty on the earthly plane is a muddy shadow of an Archetype.

We have heard that God created man in His image. This is a mysterious statement. The reality is that the Cosmic Mind created man in the image of the Archetype. This image is in the human being, and the human being will never be satisfied on the pathway to achievement and becomingness until he reaches the measure of his Archetype, the measure of his future. The perfect man in heaven is the man who became like his Archetype or became his Self on the Cosmic Mental Plane.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Thought & and the Glory of Thinking