Theosophy

Time in Theosophy is Emergent, One-dimensional in its surface flow but inserted into an Infinite series of cycles (manvantaras and pralayas) of immense duration: the cosmic Day and Night of Brahma. Traversability is Cyclical at the macro scale, though each moment of subjective experience is Uni-directional and Continuous. Freedom is Non-Deterministic: karma is a law of moral causation but not fatalism, and the soul shapes its future incarnations by present choices. The overall historical arc is Progressive within each cycle, as monads evolve through successive rounds of experience.

Space is Emergent and Infinite, with multiple planes of being beyond the physical — etheric, astral, mental, causal — so its dimensionality is best classified as N rather than as the ordinary three. Curvature is Curved at the cosmic level (the rounds and globes of 'The Secret Doctrine' are organised in nested spherical schemes) and Non-local in the sense that subtle influences propagate independently of physical distance, through the principle of correspondence and through the universal medium (akasha).

Matter is Emergent and exists on multiple planes of progressively subtler vibration: physical matter is only the densest form, and astral and mental matter are also real, occupying their own dimensional ranges (hence dimensionality N rather than Three). Conservation holds across the cosmic cycle — matter is repeatedly reabsorbed into spirit at pralaya and re-emanated at the next manvantara. Locality is Non-local: subtle correspondences link distant material objects (Leadbeater's 'Occult Chemistry' purports to clairvoyantly observe atomic structure), and physical events have their astral counterparts.

The Theosophical observer is a complex being constituted on several planes — Blavatsky speaks of seven principles (physical, etheric, astral, manas, buddhi, atma, plus the monad) — and is therefore Both embodied and disembodied, depending on the plane one considers. Obs_time_instance and obs_space_instance are Multiple because the same monad passes through a long series of reincarnations on this and other planets within vast cosmic cycles. Knowledge extent and retainment are Total in principle: through clairvoyance, meditation and initiation the adept can read the Akashic Records and recover the experience of past lives. Agency is Active and Plural: each individual monad is genuinely responsible for its own evolution, even as it is guided by the Masters of the hidden Brotherhood.

Energy is Emergent, Infinite, and Variable: the cosmos is animated by subtle energies (prana, fohat, kundalini) of which physical energy is only the densest manifestation, and these subtle currents can be concentrated, raised and directed by trained will. Dispersibility is Reversible because the cosmic process is fundamentally cyclical and involutive-evolutive: spirit descends into matter and matter is resublimated into spirit. This is why Theosophy is naturally drawn to talk of healing, occult chemistry, and the perfectibility of the body through spiritual practice.

Information is Substantival and Discrete: the Akashic Records — the cosmic memory — preserve every event, thought and act in a permanent register from which advanced adepts can read. Cosmic information is therefore Conserved; personal-identity information is Conserved across reincarnations because the higher self (the reincarnating ego) carries the moral and karmic record of its previous lives. Granularity is Discrete because the cosmos is articulated into distinct planes, rounds, root-races and sub-races, each with its own characteristic vibration and informational signature.