Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00069)

Dear Svenin:

Your response read with interest.

Let me have your mail address and I will send you a copy of
EPITOME - W.Q.Judge [ my E-Mail is " dalval@nwc.net ' ]

I am not familiar with Martinus, but as one who uses cosmological
ideas (as Hawkings today ? ) he must have dealt in "universal
ideas." It is easier to stay clear and straight in those, as
Plato did.  We often get bogged down in details to the extent
that we forget what we started to explore.

When I used quotation marks "widen out to the universal" I was
not only using it for emphasis, but I was thinking of something
Mr.  W.Q.Judge had written using that idea.  [ I admit that I
would have to hunt for the exact location of that particular
quote, at the moment.  ] It has always appealed to me as an idea
of unlimited horizon in both space and time, which I feel, can
only be conceived of by an "immortal" thinking being to which the
time factor is not a limitation.  And this quality I would
ascribe in thought to the "life-atom" -- not as a physical
something, but as a concept, a center of energy and force, and
perhaps not on this plane of our present waking conscious
existence, but rather "behind" it as a motivator, and a guide to
our "embodied consciousness".

The concept of progression in wisdom -- the process of "widening
out to the Universal" -- would be a very long one and would
include all those designations and gradations which you mention,
and which were employed in early schemes of vision to represent
the "excellences" that could be acquired by work and study by
those "life-atoms: which set themselves to acquire them.

To me the logic of such a statement is that we at present are
mid-way between the beginning of our evolution and the potential
end of it.  While we may not be able to precisely state when the
beginning was, so too, we may find it difficult to define at
peresent a "100%" graduation ! I would say that on any one
"world" there would be for all the beings involved in human
evolution (of the mind) a point when the majority would so
"graduate." Mme.  Blavatsky in the "Secret Doctrine" considers
that this "world" of ours is a reincarnation of an earlier
"world." So too, when this world goes to "sleep" in the distant
future it and all the beings connected with it (including us, as
thinkers, and as graduates) will again be involved in that work
of education whcih will be resumed there.  By that time we should
be a great deal wiser and have more definite idea of what our
best work is and should be.  And that will be a most interesting
and plasant duty to look forward to.

I think the analogy of a School is useful.  It includes all
levels of educations (evolution) and also dimily, in considering
potentially the future, it allows the entering student to aspire
to the eminence of a Professor in the discipline of his
choice...or of the scuring of a number of doctorates as his study
advances.  It is clear that in all cases such advances are the
result of individual effort using the opportunities that are to
be had.

The terms and designations you mention are the result of "seers"
looking into the potentials of learning and the responisbilities
that accrue to every one of us, as we are by that time those
"graduate life-atoms" which, as we in knowledge, we find also
increases our responsibilities.