Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00322)

>From: "Nicholas Weeks" <am455@lafn.org>
>Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 1:44 PM
>Subject: On limited # of Monads


>
>
>>Keith:
>>
>>Excuse me!  Can anyone really believe (well yes, anybody can believe
>>anything really) that the limited number of human monads (sparks) from the
>>one Monad (divine fire) is limited. Pa-lease!  I don't care who said it.
>
>HPB wrote, on 171 of SD I, that the number of Monads are "almost
>incalculable, they are still finite."  On 303 of vol. II she used the
>word "countless", but still limited.  So there is no conflict between
>limited & countless.  The number of stars in this galaxy are countless,
>yet still limited.  The number of grains of sand on all our oceans'
>beaches are countless, yet limited.
>
>>p.s.  I stopped before I sent this message, because I don't want to take
it
>>back, but maybe modify the stridency.
>
>I do not mind stridency.  You might consider pondering and investigating
>a bit longer before responding though.
>
>Best,
>
>--
>Nicholas <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles <> "The evil that has overtaken
>souls has its source in self-will...They...largely indulged their own
>motion; thus they were hurried down the wrong path...they came to lose
>even the thought of their origin in the Divine."  Plotinus
>
>-- THEOSOPHY WORLD --


Keith;   Thanks sincerely.  Yes, I see what you are saying that the number
of souls is limited as everything is in the manifest.  I should have thought
about this quotation from HPB as I have heard it before as see her well made
point.  The number of everything seems infinite from atom to galaxies, but
this is the maya of our thinking mechanism, not our MIND that can contact
the ONE (of Plotinus) only indiriectly though it is a near as our every
breath.

As far as not thinking goes, isn't this the real cause of the fall?  Not
looking before we leap, or being unable to forsee, but beeing pushed by an
UNSEEN hand called Fate, Providence, Kismet, Karma and so on.  The fall from
the One into the many ... well I do it everyday, minute to minute ....   :)


A HAPPY Namaste
Ketih