Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00054)

Feb 5th 1999

Dallas would like to comment on the "theory" below:

Dear friends:

This is offered as a result of thinking over Darren's questions
for a couple of days.



	D. Porter
Sent:	Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:00 PM
To:	theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject:	Theos-World Emptiness, Evolution and being torn asunder
by a NUCLEAR reaction or How I learnt to love necessity.

Here's a theory:

After passing through all evolutionary forms,

DALLAS:  It far more than passing through "forms."  How about the
emotional and the mental progress, and the moral one ?  Those too
have to be satisfied for a successful conclusion to the School of
our total Earth experience.  Don't they ?


re-entering the source and starting again (after a manvantara),

DALLAS:	Theosophy states that the MONAD does not loose its
identity as a result of passing through the extensive time of
"sleep" called a PRALAYA  (opposite of a manvantara).   HPB
states this in a number of places.

It re-merges into the conditions of a fresh Manvantara which is
the karmic result of the previous one. And in effect, takes up
its "pilgrimage" at the point where it went to sleep.  Apparently
the processes of sleeping and passing through the Pralaya period
of "rest" are very similar.


would a monad start again the process at the next evolution -

DALLAS	Under the just law of KARMA how could it do anything else.
It is not manipulated except by itself and the choices it makes.


and having attained the highest whatever the hell it is we want
to call it - get the chance to be an atom that is torn asunder by
a nuclear process, thus annihilating that monad - for the monad
that is at the centre of a nuclear explosion - it would literally
be obliteration. It's polarity destroyed. Does now the essence of
that atom
only exist as an infinite wave vibration continuing through
infinity.

DALLAS	This is quite speculative and entirely based on concepts
that stem from our present condition of matter and the
perceptions we derive from living in it.

Why presume that the rest of Nature (or the Universe) is exactly
the same as the kind of matter we are living in ?  Do we
thoroughly know all we can about our kind of matter?

What causes the aggregation of atoms to form molecules and cells
?  What are the individual differences of atoms, molecules,
cells, caused by ?  How does a human acquire a body and then
sustain it though life ?

How does human desire and thought impinge on the structure that
underlies the arrangement of atoms ?  [ Ex.:  bio-feed-back ]

Why assume a nuclear explosion, and even so, why expect that the
"essence" of an atom, would be totally destroyed.  No doubt, the
present form, or the kind of form it may be living in then, may
be altered, or dispersed.  [ Is the ATOM  a physical something
  -- so far all experiments in nuclear physics that I have read
about (I see weekly reports on all scientific fronts) show that
it is assumed to be composed of a series of forces arranged in
definite patters with vibratory rates and inter-actions all their
own and quite distinctive, each from the other. ]  But are the
components or the patterns destroyed, or assumed to be destroyed
?  What law of nature would demand such an arbitrary fate ?  Are
we (as forms) destroyed when we go to sleep, or does the physical
body enter an automatic-control condition where the life
sustaining monitors guide and control the animating organs while
the conscious person is on another plane of perception - say,
dreams ?

If we are still quite uncertain about the immortality of the Ego,
and the process of reincarnation, and if we have yet to perceive
the necessity for ethical and moral considerations as a basis for
universal ecology and the protection of all beings, then how can
we take only one aspect of a potential condition and speculate on
it ?

I realize these are a series of questions designed to draw
attention to the far wider range of cause and effect that
surrounds any change, however vast, or supposedly "final."

Why do we suppose that Nature as a whole is lawless, chaotic and
is to be dominated by us, humans who still are children in the
matter of knowing what and how the whole of our surroundings
operate ?

Should we not start and catalog what we do know?  And what are
the laws that Theosophy puts forward for us to consider ?

Some of these seem to me to be:

Universality of cause and effect.  Human brotherhood and the
solidarity and cooperative existence of all the components of
nature, Karma.  Reincarnation of the immortal Ego.  Potential
"perfection"  (or all-knowingness) for the Human thinker.  The
balance of freedom of choice and inherent responsibilities.
These to me represent some of the fundamental concepts to be
understood and mastered.

Do these not probe into the causes of our being and the reason
for things being the
"way they are ?"

 Best wishes,

Dallas

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I haven't said this very well, but hopefully you'll get the
drift.
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