Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00351)

In a message dated 11/19/98 1:37:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, dalval@nwc.net
writes:

<< 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 is a better scenario than the "dew drop slips into the shining
sea" stuff , i.e., the Monad emerges from a sort of cosmic soup and
then struggles though the lower kingdoms finally to emerge as
individualized self-consciousness.  Finally after, aeons of more
struggle and self-effort the Monad becomes liberated from the
lower worlds only to slip back into the cosmic soup again !
What a bummer !  This is why I'm a qualified non-dualist and
not a monist.

Augoeides