Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00343)

Nov. 19th

The theosophical view starts with the ABSOLUTE.

When under karmic cycles evolution starts there is a division.

Spirit and Matter in their primordial condition emerge.  They are
interpenetrative.  And the Force of Spirit guides universal
Evolution.

Theosophy describes in S D I the process in detail.

However there is also the Karma of all the beings that lived
worked and progressed in the previous Manvantara - they are
INTELLIGENCES and are conscious in various degrees.  They
represent individualizations of the interaction of spirit and
Matter in all the departments of NATURE.

In other words there is a vast range of conscious cooperators
with nature in her developmental processes at every stage.  They
are called the Cosmocratores, Builders, Dhyan Chohans, Elohim,
etc... and finally there are the great hosts of human Monads - of
developing human beings.  We are included in this category.

The whole range of the Scheme has to he held in mind.

Spirit unifies and is the UNITY.

Law reigns throughout and covers the grandest as well as the most
minute event.

Evolution is total and the "goal" of any one individualized Egoic
Monad is to acquire a perfect knowledge of all that is going on
around him in terms of evolution, so that he may harmonize
voluntarily and intelligently with the total purpose.  He does
not loose either his INDIVIDUALITY nor his FREE-WILL.
But he uses those to assist in the program of developing still
less progressed beings up to and into the condition which he
presently occupies - one of duty and of responsibility.

This does not eliminate the "Personal consciousness,"  it
sublimates it.  Hence the need for a wider and deeper
understanding of the scope of Theosophical teachings and
doctrines.  They encompass the WHOLE and describe the fact and
process of unification in which we already participate to some
degree.

We have to learn to understand this. It is the link that is
missing in our general education, which tends to separate us from
one another and from the rest of mankind by over emphasizing
differences instead of similarities and brotherhood.

The easiest way to assure ones-self of these matters is to read
again THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY or the OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY.  It is all
there.

Dallas

> From: "Leon Maurer" <leonmaurer@aol.com>
> Sent:	Thursday, November 19, 1998 2:23 AM
> Subject: Re: axioms vs subjective views

In a message dated 11/19/98 1:41:33 AM, Darren wrote:

>All things that exist, all animals, all humans, the earth, the
elements,
>the cosmos, the unseen - all are one.
>
>This is not my subjective view but an axiom.
>
>Agreed or Not Agreed?

Agreed.  An "axiom" means that that statement is a fundamental
truth.   But
then, if that is "not (your) subjective view", then what is the
apparently
*untruthful* view that you do hold?  And, how does it govern your
actions or
your ideas--which must, inevitably, be wrong?

Do you really think about what you say?  Or, do you just "shoot
from the hip"?

Leon