Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00234)

To answer any such questions, I can only speak for myself and base
my responses on my experience rather than on all the conflicting
information that I have read and digested mentally. With that in
mind:

>1 - Why should I (we) accept that 'as above, so below' is an axiom?


I accept this because my experiences demonstrate it.


>2 - What is the final goal? Non-existence?


Non-existence is no better or worse than existence since
both are polar opposites and neither have meaning without
the other. No, the ultimate "goal" is transcendence over
all dualities.


>3 - Why do anything at all, especially incarnate?


There is one and only one answer: because I wanted to.
My own personal desire, for whatever reason, is the
compelling force. I think for me, the reason is just to
have a neat adventure.


>4 - Where is Guatama Buddha right now? He knows that we are all just
>figments of his imagination - so why help illusory beings?


Buddha, according to Buddhism, went into nirvana. The teaching
that we are just figments of imagination and not in need of help is
taught by the Hinayana or Theravadin School.  This school contains
the so-called pretyekabuddhas. The Mahayana and Vajrayana teach
differently.

>5- Is loneliness the driving force of the absolute?


Absolutely not. In fact, it is loneliness, the sense of isolation
and separation, that is the Great Heresy and chief attribute
of maya. We are alone below the Abyss. We are collectively
together above the Abyss.


>6- Does every individual sperm have a unique 'entity' ?


Every single atom of matter does.


>7- Is onanism murder of sperm?


Yes, and we murder countless insects every time we step
across the grass, and animals and vegetables in order to eat.
Life and death are a timeless dance, and we cannot have
life without death, and vice versa. For me to live, something
else has to die. Annie Besant discusses this in what she
calls the need for sacrifice; probably the best thing she ever
wrote.


>8- What happens to the sperm that don't make it - try and try again?


Exactly the same thing that happens to anything that dies. You
can't be born unless you're dead first, and you can only die if
you first accept birth.


>9- Does the egg have all 7 principles before fertilization?


Every single atom, every material particle, has its principles.
HPB says somewhere that "not a plane or subplane can be
skipped" or words to the effect that in order for a material
particle to exist, it has to come through the causal,
mental, and astral cosmic planes first.


>10 - Can more than one entity occupy a physical body at the same time?
>
>Regards,
>
>Darren the Seeker


Yes. It not only can, but does all the time. The idea of multiple selves
is an old one. Please see David-Neel on Tibetan Buddhism which
also teaches this. It is only when an entity (read in Jungian terms as
a "complex") takes over control that we have true possession.

Jerry S.