Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00219)

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At 01:04 PM 12/18/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>Dec 19th 1998
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>		The SUN - in Nature and in Man
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>	"Every bright sun-god of antiquity--a glorious deity by day, and
>its own opponent and adversary by night, named Dragon of Wisdom,
>because it was supposed to contain the germs of night and
>day--has now been turned into the antithetical shadow of God,
>SUN  GOD (by day)  and  Adversary (by night)  --   Tribal  Gods
>and has become Satan on the sole and unsupported authority of
>despotic human dogma.  After which all these producers of light
>and shadow, all the Sun and Moon Gods, were cursed, and thus the
>one God chosen out of the many, and Satan, were both
>anthropomorphised...History shows in every race and even tribe,
>especially in the Semitic nations, the natural impulse to exalt
>its own tribal deity above all others to the hegemony (508) of
>the god;  and proves that the God of the Israelites was such a
>tribal God, and no more, even though the Christian Church,
>following the lead of the "chosen" people, is pleased to enforce
>the worship of that one particular deity...Jehovah has ever been
>in antiquity only "a god among other Gods," (lxxxii, Psalm)...
>SD II 507-8
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>	"This visible universe of spirit and matter...is but the
>concrete image of the ideal abstraction;  it was built on the
>model of the first divine idea.  Thus our universe existed from
>eternity in a latent state.  The soul animating this purely
>spiritual universe is the central sun, the highest deity itself.
>It was not himself who built the concrete form of his idea, but
>his "first-begotten;"  and as it was constructed on the
>geometrical figure of the dodecahedron [Plato, Timaeus ], the
>first -begotten "was please to employ 12,000 years in its
>creation." 			Isis I 342
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>		Man  --  The Microcosmic Sun.
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>	Man is a "thinking atom" of living eternal substance, a
>microcosm of the Macrocosmic Sun.
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>	"It is the Spiritual evolution of the inner, immortal man that
>forms the fundamental tenet in the Occult Sciences...the One
>Universal Life, independent of matter...and...the individual
>intelligences that animate the various manifestations of this
>Principle...The One Life is closely related to the one law which
>governs the World of Being--Karma."  	SD  I  634
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>"The spirit in man is the only real and permanent part of his
>being;  the rest of his nature being variously
>compounded...everything in man but his spirit is impermanent...
>the Universe being one thing and not diverse, and everything
>within it being connected with the whole and with every other
>thing therein, of which upon the upper plane...there is perfect
>knowledge, no act or thought occurs without each portion of the
>great whole perceiving and noticing it.  Hence all are
>inseparably bound together by the tie of Brotherhood...it is
>taught that there is no creation of worlds...but that their
>appearance is due strictly to evolution,
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>	When the time comes for the Unmanifested to manifest as an
>objective Universe, which it does periodically, it emanates a
>Power or "The First Cause"--so called because it itself is the
>rootless root of that Cause, and called in the East the
>"Causeless Cause."...The projection into time of the influence or
>so-called "breath of Brahma" causes all the worlds and the beings
>upon them to gradually appear.  They remain in manifestation just
>as long as that influence continues to proceed forth in
>evolution.
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>	After long aeons the outbreathing, evolutionary influence
>slackens, and the universe begins to go into obscuration, or
>pralaya, until, the "breath" being fully indrawn, no objects
>remain, because nothing is but Brahm.  Care must be taken by the
>student to make a distinction between Brahm (the impersonal
>Parabrahm) and Brahma the manifested Logos.
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>	This breathing forth is known as a Manvantara, or the
>Manifestation of the world between two Manus...For the purpose of
>a Manvantara two so-called eternal principles are postulated,
>that is, Purusha and Prakriti (or spirit and matter), because
>both are ever present and conjoined in manifestation.
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>	This brings us to the doctrine of Universal Evolution as
>expounded by the Sages of the Wisdom-Religion.  The Spirit, or
>Purusha, they say, proceeds from Brahma through the various forms
>of matter evolved at the same time, beginning in the world of the
>spiritual from the highest and in the material world from the
>lowest form...yet unknown to modern science.  Thus, therefore,
>the mineral, vegetable and animal forms each imprison a spark of
>the Divine, a portion of the indivisible Purusha.
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>	These sparks struggle to "return to the Father," or in other
>words, to secure self-consciousness and at last come into the
>highest form, on Earth, that of man, where alone
>self-consciousness is possible to them.  The period calculated in
>human time, during which this evolution goes on embraces millions
>of ages.  Each spark of divinity has, therefore, millions of ages
>in which to accomplish its mission...all depends upon the
>individual's own will and efforts.
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>	Each particular spirit thus goes through the Manvantara, or
>enters into manifestation for its own enrichment and for that of
>the Whole.
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>	Mahatmas and Rishis are thus gradually evolved during a
>Manvantara, and become after its expiration, planetary spirits,
>who guide the evolution of other future planets.  The planetary
>spirits of our globe are those who in previous manvantaras...made
>the efforts, and became in the course of that long period
>Mahatmas.
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>	This system is thus seen to be based upon the identity of
>Spiritual Being, and, under the name of "Universal Brotherhood,"
>constitutes the basic idea of the T S, whose object is the
>realization of that Brotherhood among men."				WQJ - Epitome pp.
>9 - 12.
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>			The SUN in Man
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>	"Nature," the physical evolutionary Power, could never evolve
>intelligence unaided--she can only create "senseless
>forms,"...The "Lunar Monads" cannot progress, for they have not
>yet had sufficient touch with the forms (182) created by "Nature"
>to allow of their accumulating experiences through its means.  It
>is the Manasa-Dhyanis who fill the gap, and they represent the
>evolutionary power of Intelligence or Mind, the link between
>"Spirit" and "Matter"--in this Round."								SD  I  181-182
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>Offered by Dallas - as thoughts on the 1998 SOLSTICE
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