Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00093)

Nov 4th 1997

Dear Sveinn:

 Notes received. Briefly, as I see it:

 The process of change sweeps our whole world and system through many kinds
of influences. Some are brief in time and others are great in years [ see
for instance: SD II pp 68-70 ]

 Individuallly our own Karma causes to reincarnate at a time and in a place
where we ought to be -- to continue our pilgrimage.

 Personally, I have never tried to give names or place duties even in Idea
on that great Beings who have been instrumental in supervising the
evolutionary stage we are all involved with. Suffice it that they do exist
and have been given those and othe names dependeing on the source of
individual study which each student adopts.

 In the SECRET DOCTRINE, Vol. i pp. 170-205 a system borrowed from the
ancient Hindus is described which covers as I see it pretty well most of
the cycles of change which make for a whole volutionary perid of 311
trillion + years. Or a Kalpa.

 When I said we (as eternal Pilgrims -- immortal Egos) are "mid-way between
our indiscernable "beginnings" and our equally
indiscernable "endings," I meant that in eternity there are neither
beginnings nor endings, but only an eternal NOW -- a Present, in which we
all are, each where we are presently living. It is an idea, and not a place
or an actual location in either space or time.

 "Graduation" implies a process of growth in a period of limited time and
space. Briefly: a day, a week, an hour, a life-time, 100 life-times, a
whole Manvantara of 308,448,000 years acciording to the Hindu calculations.
 Again it is an arbitrary matter, since in an ever evolving and
ever-progressive system the "graduations" are only the marks of
passage from one level of knowledge or wisdom to another level.

 The scheme as a whole envisages the development in knowledge and wisdom of
every "life-atom" from the undistinguished position of an "elemental," or
nature-spirit, through mineal, vegetable, anila, human and finally god-like
levels of achievement, consciousness and knowledge.

 The Theosophical scheme makes this plain. To me it is inspiring and
encouraging. I will be around, even if this body dies, which it
willinvitably in its own time. So, I work and thinkas i can searching
always for confirmation of those grand ideas.

 As I see it the Zodiac which marks arbitrarily segments of the firmament,
and has been employed by astrolaters and astrologers down the ages to
define periods of influence as they sweep again and again across our world
and solar system, is generally used to mark the sidereal year of 25, 868
years, making the perd of each Zodiacal sign/influence about 2,155 years.
1997-98 showed (as I undrstan it) that last of these great periods
altering from the Picean to the Aquarian.

 The ancient books Hindu and So. American mention the "17 Rayed Sun,"
endowing it with special secret characteristics. I find that suggestinve
and interesting, for the numbers and geometries offer wide fields for
research and thought.

 All the best, Dallas

> Date  Monday, November 03, 1997 6:31 PM
> From  Sveinn Freyr <meta@isholf.is>
> Subject: Our place in Cosmic Evolution.
>
> Getting our discussions to the mail-list:
>
>
> Some glimpses from this letter:
> ----------------
> That our present Solar System is going through a period, which
corresponds