Theos-Talk Archives (October 1998 Message tt00015)

Oct 4th 1998

Dear Jerry:

SOME NOTES INTERJECTED BELOW

Dal

> From: Jerry Schueler
> Sent:	Saturday, October 03, 1998 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: "Spiritual culture" answering some inquiries

>I believe that "crossing the Abyss" has a special meaning for
>some students.  But I have not met it as an expression in the
>writings of HPB.  The abyss needs definition.
>

She calls it a Ring-Pass-Not, Dallas.


Is this similar then to the usage of it in THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
by the Egyptians, as after death the states of consciousness
available to the Monadic Ego change - body being eliminated there
is 1st.	Kamaloca, and
2nd.	Devachan.  [   SD I 90 129-135 ]

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>The only way that I can see this is by using the Theosophical
>division of the
>7-fold Man in 7-fold Nature.
>

The Abyss separates the upper three planes/principles from
the lower four.


That I grasp as the thread of the Antaskarana between the Higher
and the Lower Manas unites them and bridges that gap  [ Key to
Theosophy explains, I think ]

Thanks		Dal

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Jerry S.