Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00100)

>What I meant to say is that the MONAD being a part of the Universal All has
>properties that are the same as its source.  To me, this includes eternity,
>as to time, and immortality as to its existence in the past/present/future
>of which we are aware as memory (past) choice (present) and anticipation
>(future) -- I hope that my meaning is now clearer

>If from the theosophical point of view there is correctness, and the Soul
>is the Real Man -- and his mind is one of its functions -- then it
>certainly bridges many gaps of consciousness, as for instance, sleep,
>trance, anesthesia, death, and the vast gap of Pralaya too -- that is if
>Karma as Law is the governing fact of Universal existence.
>
>I wonder if this is of any help at all.  do let me know.

It would help me if you could see the distinction I'm trying to make
between eternal and immortal. We humans are in an eternal state because we
are cycling in birth and death. Other beings, including early man, would be
in an immortal state of existence because they don't take physical bodies
and then cast them off YET. For instance wasn't 1st race man in his etheric
bodies. Well, if I were in an etheric, hovering state and trying to become
physical, it would benefit me to try to stay within the BEST physical
bodies available on the planet (that would be the dinosaurs) and to try to
develop my own previously attained level of physical existence and
form from what was available PHYSICALLY in the body of the dinosaur.

I'm hoping that some day we can trade our eternal existence with masters
and assume their immortal existence (in our seventh race). Is there
anything in THE SECRET DOCTRINE about humans some day becoming undying?

Brenda