Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00243)

Brenda S. Tucker wrote:
>
> At 07:31 PM 1/17/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >No. What I meant was that there are cats and dogs, birds and cows,
> >elephants, bugs, fish and sheep, etc. all on planet Earth, living "side
> >by side" with man, sometimes in our homes or in the woods, the
> >mountains, jungles, etc. You know, like "Mutual of Omaha's Wild
> >Kingdom."
>
> How is it possible for you and I to know if what we mean by "animal" in all
> its variety as you described above, is a form alone waiting for the return
> of its evolving life, or a form equipped with evolving life? We can know
> our own nature much easier than we can know what is inside another being.

I don't think you can know. I certainly don't. I'm just responding to
you with what I understand of theosophical teaching regarding the
subject and/or my opinion. Anything else is speculation.

> >> Can you explain why the second and
> >> the sixth races are androgynous?
>
> >As I understand it, and speaking of this 4th round on this planet Earth
> >(globe D): the first, second and the early part of the third root race
> >of man were androgynous. I believe they were so because it is the nature
> >of the Monad and the Causal Ego to be a polar whole and at these periods
> >of man's development it was not necessary yet for the division into two
> >distinct sexes.
>
> Wouldn't this be true for animals and plants as well as man? Wouldn't all
> forms go through periods of descent as one being, gradually breaking into
> two and then return to one being? Why does this seem to occur only with man
> if it is a Monadic TRUTH?

But it doesn't. There are male and female animals and plants too.

Mark
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