Theos-Talk Archives (September 1996 Message tt00023)

Brenda and Bee:

I still think that sishtas are not forms but what inhabits the
forms. From this point of view the hope to discover sishtas in
fossils is not substantiated--what is usually found is remnants
of the forms, life having escaped from them to exist as sishtas.
(Howver, I do know what to think about those supposed Martian
bacterias found in suspicious meteorites...)

I base my interpretation of sishtas on HPB's usage; it's quite
possible that in writings of later theosophical writings this
term has acquired new meanings unknown to me.

On the other hand, Bee's idea that trees in the winter may have
something to do with sishtas seems to be sound: cosmically,
monads are small particles of life (the second cosmic ether), so
there may be a direct analogy between sishtas and --not trees
themselves but sleeping life in them.