Re:races and maya and thought
Jan 21, 1998 09:41 AM
by Dallas TenBroeck
Jan 21st 1998
As to the progression of sex-changes in Theosophical doctrine, one will
find them outlined in THE SECRET DOCTRINE at the following pages:
SD Vol. 2 pp. 124-137, 157, 166-167, 171-172
I hope this will help all those who are interested.
Dallas TenBroeck
dalval@nwc.net (818) 222-8024
23145 Park Contessa,
Calabasas, Ca., 91302, USA.
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> From: "Brenda S Tucker" <brenda@theosophy.com>
> Subject: Re:races and maya and thought
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 7:46 PM
>
> There is evidence in ancient writings that support the existence of
> androgynous beings at one time, just as (I suppose) there are examples of
> creatures, like fish maybe, who are live today who have rudiments of both
> sexes in them. So we all feel comfortable with the concept. From asexual
to
> bisexual to androgynous to sexual is the way the process looks from the
top
> down. From the bottom up, we could just reverse it.
>
> But because the sixth and second races are reported androgynous doesn't
> mean that they couldn't also be half man and half animal? or half man and
> half ascended master? I know the concept is spoken out loud in the SD,
but
> she mentions mystery still remaining behind what she was able to speak
> frequently through the volumes. In my mind there would be four
> possibilities. Male AM, male H; Male AM, female H; Female AM, male H,
> Female AM, female H.
>
> So let's say we call two out of the four possibilities androgynous.
People
> accept this notion. What are we to call the other two possibilities? Do
> they accept the notion of the unamed two? I don't think they do YET. I
> don't think it's been written about or there was any evidence of it
> existing, but I am ignorant on the matter and can only report on what I
> read. The centaur would be our half man, half beast example. There were
> others, I think, too.
>
> I thought man brought sexuality to the animals and plants on the earth. I
> read where flowers have only been existing in their present form for 4
> million years or so, which would be close to 4th race man time-wise.
> Dinosaurs laid eggs. Does anyone know how they fertilized them?
>
> Plato's description of the roly-poly man is in THE SECRET DOCTRINE, Vol
II
> where he describes a being with four arms, two heads, four legs, etc.,
that
> couldn't walk but had to sort of float - a future use for levitation!? I
> wonder if that being really had bones throughout. Would it be possible to
> have a sixth race animal creation in the same body as a human? One might
> have bones and the other wouldn't. Boneless man could have attained some
> degree of visible form that could function only secondarily until the
> animal was completely subjugated and a second ascension had occurred.
When
> the animal had taken a second ascension, man could simply flick off all
of
> this unnecessary baggage and a nice little separated creation could
> coinhabit the earth.
>
>
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