Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00099)

>> The mind is maya because it is filled with facts about the visible world.
>> When we limit our consciousness to the plants, animals, and elements, we
>> are falling prey to maya. When we seek for answers to life's problems, we
>> seek for something that isn't currently visible. This helps us to look
>> beyond what is present and concrete. Conventional truth would just be truth
>> that is posited through perception.
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>Everything but the Absolute is maya. Forms, forces and beings of any
>kind, on any plane that manifest or appear during a manvantara are all
>products of maya. Manifestation = maya.

You know, this is similar to the way I used to think, because the word maya
was so general in its meaning, but then I took a good hard second look  at
what sense I could make from what really tricks me, like illusion would
trick me, and what has "tricked" me and perhaps tricked everyone, is that
we are actually existing alongside plants and animals. This is a very
common idea that no one (except maybe HPB and the masters) has tried to
refute. But do we really? If these forms are empty of an evolving,
chain-like life form, in other words, the ensouling life will never really
reach the human stage of existence, maybe some heads would turn about what
we can and can't do with plants and animals.

I now look at them (and elements, too) as ensouled by angels (on earth).
Each of these kingdoms has its own globe of manifestation and (to my
dismay) are not nearly evolved as we have pictured them within our own
globe. We travel with this group of angels so that when we leave this globe
the angels go with us and work with us to create a human world again (as we
would like it).


The real animals have just left that primitive dinosaur state and while
perhaps not mammals on their next globe, could be manifesting forth as
birds, I suppose. The real plants are probably mushy, oozy, and maybe more
along the lines of cactuses on earth today. I don't know, I'm just
guessing. I've studied cactus a little and they are fun.  We are in
illusion because we think that plants and animals are developed like we
have them. We are not in illusion when we look at ourselves as beings or at
the higher realm of beings because we find out more and more about the true
and real identity.

>Sounds like fun, if you're into it. But why create states of matter at
>all?

We need to live within these states of matter and I much prefer them to
conform to some minimum standards when they are associated with man.

>What's the difference between that and self-expression? I don't see
>much. Just imagine if some of these beings then decided to play a game
>and jump into the world they had just created. The only rule was that
>they had to temporarily forget who they were until the playing of the
>game itself helped them to remember. Lila:the play of God.

The difference would be one that we make it. When I think realistically
about what ascended masters are able to do with me and the world around me,
as I watch this take place, I transplant these ideas to what I might be
able to accomplish with animals forms. This is purpose it is not play.
There may also be specific intent to make ourselves beneficial beings to
solar life forms and to create conditions that would not only be blessings
to humans, but beneficial to the adepts when their time comes and for their
purposes. So many beings stand to benefit from man's existence if we can
plan out carefully what impacts there are currently and what we might
choose to encompass as living conditions in the future.