Theos-Talk Archives (September 1997 Message tt00039)

In the recent exchanges some mention and opinion has been offered
about the "Third Race," and the nature of man's consciousness.
As I was looking these up in theosophical literature, I cam
across the following which may be of some help. At least they
made me do some thinking.

So I send them out to see if anyone is interested in them and
perhaps in commenting on them further.

> no sooner had the mental eye of man been opened to understanding,
> than the 3rd Race felt itself one with the ever-present as the
> ever unknown and invisible ALL, the One Universal Deity.
>
> Endowed with divine powers, and feeling his inner God, each felt
> he was a Man-God in his nature, though an animal in his physical
> Self...
>
> -- SD II 272

> The struggle between the two began from the very day they tasted
> of the fruit of the Tree of Wisdom; a struggle for life between
> the spiritual and the psychic, the psychic and the physical.
>
> -- SD II 272

> ...the bright Spirits sacrificed their own respective
> super-ethereal essences to animate the man of clay, by endowing
> each of his inner principles with a portion, or rather, a
> reflection of that essence.
>
> -- SD II 273

> ...that law in Nature, which implants in man as well as in every
> beast a passionate , inherent, and instinctive desire for freedom
> and self-guidance pertains to psychology...
>
> SD II 273

> ...all those Monads of men who had reached the highest point of
> Merit and Karma in the preceeding Manvantara--owed their psychic
> and rational natures to diving Beings hypostasing into their 5th
> (Manas-mind) principles...The divine man dwelt in the animal.
>
> -- SD II 275

> ...the informing principle in man--the HIGHER SELF or human
> Monad--and the animal Monad, both one and the same, although the
> former is endowed with DIVINE intelligence, the latter with
> Instinctual faculty alone...
>
> -- SD II 103

> The 'breath of heaven,' or rather the breath of Life...is in
> every animal, in every animate speck...[even the] atom. But none
> has, like man, the consciousness of the nature of that highest
> Being, as none has that divine harmony in its form which man
> possesses...
>
> -- SD I 212

> It is the Higher Manas, the pure man, which is assimilated with
> the 6th (Buddhi) and the 7th (Atma) principles, that goes into
> Devachan.
>
> -- HPB, "Mahatmas and Chelas", Theosophist, July 1884

> The closer the approach to one's Prototype, "in Heaven," the
> better for the mortal whose personality was chosen, by his own
> personal deity (the 7th principle --ATMAN) as its terrestrial
> abode. For with every effort of WILL towards purification and
> unity with that "Self-god," one of the lower rays breaks, and the
> spiritual entity of man is drawn higher abd ever higher to the
> ray that supercedes the first, until, from ray to ray, the inner
> man is drawn into the one and highest beams of the Parent-SUN.
>
> -- SD I 638-9

There is much here which seems mysterious, or perhaps it
stimulates our intuition. But in any case these statements make
me think a lot. Perhaps there are some further quotes along
these lines that somone can offer to further assist?