Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00236)

> Re:  LIPIKA
>
>Since we are studying Theosophy and doing this on the basis of
>the doctrines that are available, I wanted to know if you had a
>basis for your statement that the Lipika were related solely (as
>I think you put it ) to Globe D.  I can find no such restriction
>made by HPB, and as far as I know she is the one who introduced
>the subject and gave the information.
>

Like all fundamentalists, Dallas, you take the weird notion that if
HPB didn't say a=b, then for sure we know that a can't be equal to b.
My own take on her work is that she deliberately left a lot of teachings
out. This does not mean that it isn't so. It just means that she never
said. You are quite right when you say that HPB never explicitly
said that the Lipika were on Globe G. However, she never said they
weren't, and she never clearly said where they are. However, if you
take some time to study exactly what these guys are and what they do,
(they are nothing more than an Eastern version of the Egyptian god,
Thoth, the divine recorder of events) you will likely see that they can
only be on the causal plane (nothing else makes any sense). Furthermore,
owing to their nature of recording after the fact, they can't be on Globe
A, which contains before-the-fact material. So, ipsofacto we can conclude
that they really have to be on Globe G, or somewhere between these
two Globes, perhaps. Also, you and anyone else who tries, can go there
and see them for yourself.

As far as "restriction" is concerned, we are all restricted to certain
locations.
This is what time and space imply--you can only be in one place at a time.
Only consciousness is un-restricted.


>As far as I am concerned, I "go by the book" and when I make a
>statement I try to have a "back-up" in the literature to refer
>to.  I had hoped that you had found something I had not yet
>found.  I need corroboration, if available please.
>

Yes, you certainly do go by the book. The problem with that approach
comes when we occasionally find something that isn't mentioned one way
or another in the book at all. Then what do we do?  Well, you can
choose to ignore it if you want to, but I can't do that.

Jerry S.