Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00102)

Feb 17th

I will be glad to try, and must caution you that any explanation
I might offer is of course limited to the views that I have
generated through my own study - as anyone else will also say,
and they therefore may not agree with others as you already
observe.

But first help me in telling me what the "G V Model" is and where
can I see it.

Your inquiry is quite general, and I cannot claim to understand
the Western Kabala as modified by those who christianized it.  I
can say something about the left hand side of the diagram, but
little about the right hand (Kabalistic) side.

Dal

=====================================

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com
[mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com] On Behalf Of
Gerald Schueler
Sent:	Wednesday, February 17, 1999 8:19 AM
Subject:	Theos-World Help is in the SD. Or is it?

>>The whole scheme is laid out in the SECRET DOCTRINE starting at
about
p. 153 and on p. 200 is a diagram that helps to explain what is
said up
to then, but all the intervening pages ought to be read as they
are
relevant.>>

Dallas, this is a purely personal observation here, and I know
that you
mean well, but I have discovered that there is not even a handful
of
Theosophists who understand the figure on page 200, which
compares HPB's
GV Model with the Tree of Life, and hardly any two who will agree
with
each other on the "whole scheme."  My experience in conversations
with
others is that "helps to explain" is more often than not an
"obscure to
hide."  This subject was discussed years ago on theos-l, and no
two of
us agreed on anything. I am convinced that discussions on this
convoluted subject are a waste of time, because without personal
experience in both the Tree of Life and the GV Globes, mentation
(alias
logic and reason) leads to nothing but confusion.

This is, or should be, a point of major concern for all
Theosophists.
Judge predicts that the GV Model will become the "cornerstone" of
a new
Western Occultism, so he at least thought it was of vital
importance.
However, few Theosophists understand it, or even care. Several
Theosophists commented on theos-l that the Tree of Life was
better
anyway. I think that a good explanation of the GV Model is
essential if
Theosophy is to live very long, but all of my attempts to explain
it
have come to naught, and even Quest rejected an articel and a
proposed
book on the subject.

Jerry S.















-- THEOSOPHY WORLD -- Theosophical Talk --
theos-talk@theosophy.com

Letters to the Editor, and discussion of theosophical ideas and
teachings. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message consisting
of
"subscribe" or "unsubscribe" to theos-talk-request@theosophy.com.


-- THEOSOPHY WORLD -- Theosophical Talk -- theos-talk@theosophy.com

Letters to the Editor, and discussion of theosophical ideas and
teachings. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message consisting of
"subscribe" or "unsubscribe" to theos-talk-request@theosophy.com.