Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00471)

i remember reading a science fiction take on Gullivers Travels - The
explanation was that as one went back in time the people would appear as
giants and in the future as midgets, the people weren't in fact any
different, everything is shrinking all the time, but you'd never notice
because its all relativity.

Nos

At 04:49 AM 8/28/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Aug 28th 1998
>
>Dear Andrew:
>
>I will shortly send you details about the book I mentioned, published in San
>Diego.
>
>I recall seeing in a copy of the national Geographic magazine some years ago
>photographs taken in Utah in the areas where so many fossilized skeletons of
>dinosaurs, etc are found, of human appearing footprints which were very
>large in size.  some of them overlapped the prints of the dinosaurs, as
>though they were contemporary imprints in the same "mud" that became
>fossilized.  It was a mystery, but the theory advanced was that the mud had
>become liquefied at some far later date in order to have human footprints
>overlapping -- but the theory did not explain how or why they were so huge.
>
>In the SD there are references to an early Round (the 3rd) when all matter
>was "astral" and when the forms were much larger, so that animal man and
>animal dinosaur were of a comparable size.  It is also suggested that the
>"astral fossils" have been "materialized" so as to leave their imprint in
>our present (4th Round) matter just as a reflection or impression of that
>which was made in the original "astral matter."    [ see SD  II 68fn, 684,
>730, 149, 277, 285, 196-7. 686fn, 208, 217-8,  ]
>
>As I understand the S D, and its view of the history of evolution on our
>World, the earlier Rounds ( 1, 2, 3, saw "matter" of a far more tenuous kind
>than that we know of at present -- perhaps the space between the nucleus and
>the electrons was a wider one ? -- but that may be a very "materialistic"
>speculation)
>
>The SD calls that matter of the 3rd Round "astral" -- and if we apply the
>law of analogy it is now interior to our "physical matter" and forms the
>lattice work, the electro-magnetic mold or pattern on which the physical
>molecules arrange themselves.  [ see HPB article:  "PSYCHIC AND NOETIC
>ACTION" ]
>
>Hope this is of further help.
>
>Dallas.
>
>From: "Andrew Rooke" <andrew@mmclib.med.monash.edu.au>
>Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 12:50 AM
>Subject: Giants - again
>
>>Many thanks Dallas for your time and trouble in answering my query re-
>>recent discoveries of the remains of giants. So often in theosophical
>>discussion it happens that we seem to be relying on "ancient"
>>evidence when this is not credible to many enquirers. Eg. if bones of
>>giants were exposed in earthquakes etc and recorded by chroniclers of
>>the ancient world, why don't we have the evidence from modern
>>systemmatic investigation, from a much larger population where the
>>earth's land area is more settled and monitored than in ancient days.
>>Perhaps the answer lies in the book you mentoned published in San
>>Diego last year regarding scientific cover-ups. I would be glad to
>>know the details of this book, though one can't help thinking that if
>>anybody discovered the bones of a giant human they would be certain
>>to advertise the fact as they would be certain to obtain a grant for
>>extra scientific investigation!
>>
>>Have you seen the excellent article by Bill Savage in the Theosophic
>>Link 8:3 (also on the WWW at the American Section TS (Pasadena) site)
>>coordinating HPB's chronology of the ancient history of the human
>>race and modern scientific timelines? He mentions the possibility
>>that self-conscious humanity and dinosaurs may have coexisted for a
>>while. To me it seems the enormous interest in movies like Jurassic
>>Park and Godzilla bespeak of some deeply rooted shared memories of
>>these creatures in the human psyche.
>>
>>Thankyou also for your comments on the antiquity of some buildings in
>>ancient Egypt and the material by Charles Fort and Veikovsky. Gives
>>me plenty to think about and points to the value of the Internet as a
>>medium for sharing perspectives across the oceans.
>>
>>All the best,
>>
>>Andrew Rooke - Melbourne, Australia
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