Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00004)

>SORRY  I THOUGHT YOU WERE AWARE OF THE DIAGRAM ON p. 200 of the
>SD Vol. 1
>
>THERE ARE 7 PLANES ILLUSTRATED THERE - AND THAT IS IN
>MANIFESTATION.
>

She shows the standard 7-plane model (Tree of Life) here as understood
in Qabalism, and compares this with her own gv model of 10 circular Globes.
Technically, the lower 4 planes are in manifestation (samsara) while the
upper three are unmanifested (nirvana). Qabalism includes the Abyss
or "Veil of the Abyss" as a separator between these two regions.


>HOWEVER, PRIOR TO THE LIMITS OF MANIFESTATION, THERE ARE THREE
>(AT LEAST)
>EVEN 3 SUPERIOR PLANES, WHERE, PRIOR TO MANIFESTATION THE IDEAS,
>PLANS AND
>OBJECTIVES OF REAWAKENING THE UNIVERSE FROM ITS PRALAYIC SLEEP
>OCCUR

Don't get too wrapped up in the number of planes. These are but human models
of formless spiritual realms. G de Purucker says, rightly, that we can
divide our
solar system up into 7 planes, 10 planes, or even 12 planes, depending on
how we want to look at it.


>AGAIN YOU ARE QUITE RIGHT - THE ABSOLUTE IS SUPERIOR, but,
>unfortunately
>we are not able to find out (from this, our present condition)
>what the
>details are, except for what is given in these Stanzas we read.
>


We are neither limited to our present condition nor to HPB's stanzas.


>SEE "VOICE OF THE SILENCE" end of the 3rd Fragment  pp. 77-79 and
>Footnotes.  There is an Ideal superior to the "Bodhisattva Vow,"
>That of the Nirmanakaya - who renounces Nirvana and resolves to
>Remain in the world to help and serve Humanity - and this is what
>Gautama the Buddha did.  [ That is as I see it.  And, to me, that
>Is inspiring. ]
>

Your Buddhism is a bit skewed, I think. Gautama actually entered
Nirvana and will no longer incarnate. It is the bodhisattva who
renounces Nirvana to remain in the world to help others. The
Nirmanakaya is HPB's term for someone who stays dis-carnate
within the atmosphere of the earth to help others (this idea is
Buddhist, but they have an altogether different meaning for
the term Nirmanakaya). But otherwise I agree with what you are
saying.

Jerry S.