The Doctrine of Cycles - CH 3-4 - Lydia Ross M.D. - Adding Depth to our Current Awareness of Cycles

Read along with very light commentary The Doctrine of Cycles by Lydia Ross M.D..
The doctrine of cycles is a most important, fascinating, and illuminating subject as it is presented in theosophical teachings. In studying it, we find that here is a logical and comprehensive law which not only bears an intimate relation to our daily lives, but also has a universal range of operation. It not only concerns the details of our whole life, but it applies to everything and to every being in the universe. In short, the law of cyclic recurrences proves to be the principle or regulator for timing the events and operations of everything, visible and invisible, in mind and in matter, in time and in space. We find in it, at last, a reason why things happen when they do. The ancients well understood the vast sweep of the natural law of periodicity, and they included it in the cosmic scheme of unity when they said: "as it is above, so it is below." H. P. Blavatsky pointed out that it taught
"the absolute universality of that law of periodicity, of flux and reflux, ebb and flow, which physical science has observed and recorded in all departments of nature. An alternation such as that of Day and Night, Life and Death, Sleeping and Waking, is a fact so common, so perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of the universe." — The Secret Doctrine 1:17