Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00471)

D, and All,

We must remember that when These gems of wisdom were written, the "FUTURE" is
NOW.  Therefore, it would be wise for all us theosophical "Chelas" to look for
those "Initiates", "Adepts" and their "Companions" ("You shall know them by
their fruits") who are carrying out the PLAN today (as this New cycle of the
movement begins)--join with them, and add what help, skills and knowledge that
you can.

(But "Beware of Greeks (foreigners) bearing (porters) gifts.;-)

Respectfully,

LHM

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In a message dated 11/24/98 10:59:04 PM, you wrote:

>Nov 24th 1998
>
>ON THE WORK OF FUTURE INITIATES AND ADEPTS
>"It is the profane of previous ages who have degraded the pure
>ideal of cosmic creation...it is the esoteric teachings, and the
>initiates of the Future, whose mission it is, and will be, to
>redeem and ennoble once more the primitive conceptions so sadly
>profaned by its crude and gross application to exoteric dogmas
>and personations by theological and ecclesiastical religionists.
>
>The silent worship of abstract or noumenal Nature, the only
>manifestation, is the one ennobling religion of Humanity."	SD I 381 fn
>
>DESTINY is not FATALISM
>"Connected as the Lipika are with the destiny of every man and
>the birth of every child, whose life is already traced in the
>Astral Light-not fatalistically, but only because the future,
>like the PAST, is ever alive in the PRESENT-they may also be said
>to exercise an influence...at the birth of a child, influence his
>brain-virgin of any impression-in a definite manner..."  SD I 105
>
>TIME and ILLUSION - REALITY (?)
>
>"The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part
>of eternal duration which we call the future, from that part
>which we call the past.  Nothing on earth has real duration, for
>a second;  and the sensations we have of the actuality of the
>division of "time" known as the present comes from the blurring
>of that momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things
>that our senses give us, as those things pass from the region of
>ideals which we call the future, to the region of memories that
>we name the past.
>
>The real person or thing does not consist solely of what is seen
>at any particular moment, but is composed of the sum of all its
>various and changing conditions from its appearance in the
>material form to its disappearance from the earth...Even so of
>persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the
>has-been, out of the future into the past-present momentarily to
>our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as
>they pass through time and space (as matter) on their way from
>one eternity to another:  and those two constitute that
>"duration" in which alone anything has true existence, were our
>sense but able to cognize it there."	It is these "sum totals"
>that exist from eternity in the "future," and pass by degrees
>through mater, to exist for eternity in the "past."	SD I 37
>
>"What is Time, for instance, but the panoramic succession of our
>states of consciousness?...The three periods-the Present, the
>Past, and the Future-are in the esoteric philosophy a compound
>time;  for the three are a composite number only in relation to
>the phenomenal plane, but in the realm of noumena have no
>abstract validity."		SD I 44 & 43
>
>UNIVERSAL PROGRESS

>"The Secret Doctrine teaches the progressive development of
>everything, worlds as well as atoms; and this stupendous
>development has neither conceivable beginning not imaginable end.
>Our Universe" is only one of an infinite number of Universes, all
>of them "sons of Necessity," because links in the great Cosmic
>chain of Universes, each one standing in the relation of an
>effect as regards its predecessor, and being a cause as regards
>its successor...the "Great Breath," which is eternal, and which,
>being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the
>Absolute-Abstract Space and duration being the other two."
>	SD I 43
>

>"The Present is the Child of the Past;  the Future, the begotten
>of the Present..."                SD II 446