Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00058)

In a message dated 2/5/99 8:56:32 AM, dport@ozemail.com.au writes:

>Here's a theory:
>
>After passing through all evolutionary forms, re-entering the source and
>starting again (after a manvantara), would a monad start again the process
>at the next evolution - 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.

Here's another theory... 

But, first, is it correct to speak of an "atom" as "having attained the
highest whatever the hell it is we want to call it"?  I thought only a
sentient-human monad could "attain" or achieve anything--"by self devised and
self determined efforts"--after the lighting up of its manas.  Doesn't
theosophy teach that all a monad can do after passing through all evolutionary
forms in one manvantara is continue on to higher forms in the next--in further
fulfillment of its karma?  If so, then how can it start all over as a simple
"atom"?  (Also, are we correct in speaking of an "atom" having a "monad"?  Or,
is the word "monad," in theosophical parlance, relegated only to the higher,
godlike nature of humanity?)

Therefore, If a monad (atma, buddhi, manas), as theosophy posits, is composed
of the higher energies of the consciousness (spiritual-Perusha) field or
"plane", and the body (or atom?) which it inhabits is on the lower energy
physical (material-Prakriti) plane, why would a "nuclear explosion"--which
involves energies only within the matter-energy field (regardless of whether
or not it was attached to an "atom" at the source of the explosion) "destroy
its polarity and obliterate the monad"?  Even an atom at the heart of an
atomic explosion disintegrates only into various smaller energy particles and
radiant energies that remain undiminished in their total energetics (while
still staying within the physical plane).  

Therefore, in such an explosion, why wouldn't only the physical atom
(presuming it had a "monad") or the material body it was part of, be
destroyed--leaving intact the monad, (and, possibly, even the intermediate
lower energy, astral, prana, kama fields, in the case of a "human" monad)?  

In the latter case, If the monad, could not be obliterated, then why couldn't
it remain intact as spiritual field vibrational patterns still connected with
its astral body field?  

Is this what HPB meant when she discussed the problem of sudden accidental
(caused through random action of others, machinery failure, carpet bombing, A-
bombing, etc.) death of the body that leaves the monad stranded in a "Limbo"
state of suspended animation on the astral plane due to its unresolved karma? 

Could this be where the concept and experience of "ghosts" come from?  Or, the
idea of "possession"?  Is this what HPB also meant when she discussed the
possibility, and the serious problems for the monad, of such "undeserved
karma"?  Is such "entrapment" in the astral body state a possibility?  If so,
how can the monad escape and pick up its karma again?  (Or, does it have to
wait until the end of the manvantara while it walks around clanking its
chains, so to speak? :-) 

Can someone give us the references in the SD or other theosophical writings
that speak of these conditions, problems and solutions?

LHM

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