Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00084)

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In a message dated 4/6/99 4:33:29 PM, schuelergerald@optec-hq.optec.army.mil 
writes:

>>>Are we to call it the MONAD ?  Are we to call it the Higher EGO
>(Higher Manas or Buddhi-Manas) ?<<
>
>Yes. This is, by definition, the only true monad - an individual
>indivisible non-aggragate unit. All others are expressions of it,
>and not true monads because they are divisible into components.
>The term "higher Ego" or higher self can mean many things,
>and is usually used loosely to refer to the Reincarnating Ego.
>Buddhi-Manas is the "spiritual monad" and is a ray or expression
>of the divine monad.  G de P uses the term human monad,
>but this not even close to an indivisble unit and I am not
>sure what it refers to anyway other than maybe the personality.
>The term human monad implies that every human being
>has an inner solid and substantial self, which is simply
>not so. So, I don't like that term and seldom use it.

This is a very loose interpretation of the Monad or One Unity (which is also 
triune)--relating to the complete triple cycle loop of fundamental *spin* 
that must pass twice through its center point and once around its 
circumference in 
order to be a complete and endless field having no beginning and no end.  
(Ref: the nature of cyclic fields in my previous posts, as well as at:  
http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics/ and 
http://members.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html

Therefore the Monad is the first triple field of consciousness that arises 
from the Absolute All at the beginning of the Great Cycle of "Existence" and 
"Experience."  All analogous and corresponding *reflections* of that great 
field--as the universe spins on down through it seven stages of 
manifestation--are also "Monads"--defined as; *Individualities* that are also 
*unities*.

On the human stage, therefore, the Monad is the first integral triple cycle 
reflected down from the initial Universal consciousness field or Great Self 
of All.  Therefore the individualized Human Self or Monad is the integrally 
linked triple fields of Atma-Buddhi-Manas centered above and around the 
zero-point of Human Self awareness where all lifetime's experiences are 
garnered and their karma rooted. (See Chakrafield diagram at: 
http://members.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html) 

To say that there is no self is also a loose "Westernized" interpretation of 
the Buddhist teachings.  When asked if there was or was not a self, Buddha, 
recognizing the paradoxical quandary he would put his students in, refused to 
answer.  Of course, as we think in the West--some Buddhists argue that if 
there is no answer whether something exists or not, it must, therefore, not 
exist at all.  The real question is whether we are referring to the temporary 
lower self, or the permanent higher Self.

However, there can be no question, from a subjective point of view that at 
least, such a higher Self does exist, since it has equivalent causative and 
creative powers comparable to the Self of All (or Adi Buddha).  Just because 
we can't sense it, or measure it, (although we certainly can "experience" it) 
doesn't mean 
that it can't exist.  How can a root field emanating from its center 
point--through which causative action occurs--not exist?  This presumption of 
non-existence due to non-measurability, is endemic to both Western scientific 
thinking and Westernized, or exoteric Buddhist thinking.  HPB teaches that on 
whatever plane of consciousness one is on, everything on that plane is 
literally "experienced" as "real"--including, I imagine, the experience of 
the self and the Self (and, perhaps, even the SELF).  Is there not a Cosmic 
SELF awareness (Brahm), an overall Human Kingdom Self awareness (Manu), as 
well as an individual self awareness (Me)? 

Of course, such a Monad or higher Self has no relation to the "personality" 
or lower self--which is strictly a self created illusion (although, 
nevertheless, still existent--at least as a *cause* of karma).  Thus, the 
teaching that Gerry promulgates claiming that "self image" is the key to 
"personal" mental health, could be confused as only applying to the lower 
mind and self-image.  Personal mental health with relation to the "material" 
world is one thing (that psychiatrists are concerned with).  Individual 
mental health with relation to the "real" world is another thing (that 
theosophists are concerned with).  But, I'm sure Gerry will agree that a 
synthesis of both higher and lower selves is a desired and worthwhile 
possibility.

I think it important that before we form opinions on the nature of the monad, 
karma, or the will, we first, come to a semantically clear understanding of 
the distinction between the self awareness, the self consciousness, the 
individual (higher) Self, and the personal (lower) self, including their 
integral relationships to all the fundamental principles--(through at least 
their triple, quadruple and septenary evolutionary aspects). 

Anybody willing to tackle this for starters (in chart form perhaps), using 
references to the teachings of HPB and the Masters, would be doing all 
theosophists (as well as open-minded scientists now studying "consciousness") 
a great service.  It's a worthwhile goal that when all scientists can accept 
the fundamental truths of theosophy, integrate, karma, monads, rebirth, 
consciousness and awareness, and synthesize them with their empirical 
objective truths--then, it will be relatively easy to fulfill the first 
object of the Theosophical Movement--since most ordinary people already 
believe that scientists know what they are talking about.  

Best wishes,

LHM


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