Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00244)

Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
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> Do not the references you brought in show that the Monad is immortal and
> that it accumulates experience in all those stages.  The essence gives way
> to the mineral stage, then to the vegetable, to the animal, then to the
> human where mind is developed to it highest extent, finally through the
> development of the intuition the same Monad becomes a Sage, a wise Master
> of wisdom -- the chain is completed as I understand it.

Is the chain complete then? Is it ever?

> [To use a poor analogy: each Manvantara is like a "year."  Each "year "
> has 7 'months" or 7 Rounds.  Each "month" has 7 "weeks" or 7 Globes.  Each
> of the "weeks" has 7 "days," or 7 Races.  Each of the "days" has 7 "hours,"
> or 7 Sub-Races, and so on....  The divisions are both periods of time, and
> stages of development, so that by the 7th Round and 7th Globe the whole
> Wave or Host of Monads can become as the Masters now are to us.]

Theosophy only specifically speaks of the doctrine of cycles as it
pertains to the evolution of the Solar System (and even strangely calls
the Solar System the "universe.") Any larger cosmic cycle is only
inferred by analogy. The evolution of the Solar System has a few larger
meta-cycles to it beyond Rounds, namely Chains and Schemes.

> When the evolutionary Manvantara opens,  the "Wave of Monads" after passing
> through "Globe 1," passes on to "Globe 2."
>
> At the same time a fresh "wave" (Wave 2) enters "Globe 1" to pursue its
> evolution there while those of "Wave 1" continue on Globe 2 -- and so on
> for the First Round, the 2nd and the 3rd Rounds.

This round and globe stuff is complex.

There are said to be not just one "Wave of Monads" cycling through but
seven (or even occultly ten.) They represent a series of evolving
"Kingdoms" from the first, second and third elemental kingdoms, through
mineral, vegetable, animal and human (that's the seven.) They cycle
through, more or less, as a set and when the set has, more or less,
completed it's cycle they go into obscuration before moving on to the
next, whether this be a globe, round, chain, etc.

These are said to be the classes of Monads "leftover" from the previous
manvantara.

But above and beyond this set, all during the course of the manvantara,
are many, many other fresh Monads pulsating into their evolutionary
cycles from out of the heart of the Solar Logos.
They "take up the space," so to speak, left vacant by the Monads who had
been the First Elemental Kingdom in the last manvantara, but are now
evolving in the Second and keep the scheme running as upward progress is
made.

Mark
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