Theos-Talk Archives (January 2000 Message tt00039)

Jan 12

Dear Mika:

Please allow me to offer some observations that I have gained
from a study of HPB's writings and teachings.  Please also
understand that this is one student's view, and that others may
understand differently.  These ideas are only for consideration
as they may remove some obscurities.

In ISIS HPB sketches the teachings to come and which are later
explained in detail in SD and KEY TO THEOSOPHY.

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 is an expression of the Pythagorean Decade and
is correctly rendered.

This epitomizes Manifestation and subsequent evolution.

the ABSOLUTE is beyond Spirit and is undefinable.  It is the ONE
SOURCE.

It may be symbolized as ZERO  " 0 ".

>From it, in manifestation, come all the NUMBERS which
individually are expressions of various levels of limitation.

For purposes of such consideration

"1" is called SPIRIT (Atma) ;
"2" is called MATTER (Buddhi);
"3" is called MIND (Manas);
"4" is called "Passions and Desires (KAMA);
"5" is called Life Principle (PRANA or JIVA);
"6" is called the Astral Body (electro-magnetic field)  [LINGA
SARIRA] ;  and
"7" is called the Physical body (STHULA SARIRA).
	(see also SD I 157 table,  SD I 242-245, SD II 630-640)

Periodically the Universes emerge into "time and space."  This
occurs under Karma. ( see SD I 27) where the STANZAS of DZYAN
express this.  The rest of Vol. 1 of the SD explains this in
detail.

SD I pp 1- 19 ought to be studied with care.  The "3 Fundamental
Propositions" (pp 14 - 19) are given there and the basis for
symbology outlined pp 4 to 6.

May I put some notes below in your queries?  Note:  these are not
full answers but only some points that I have secured in my own
studies;  and these may be modified by others who have developed
their own understanding of the basic teachings in ISIS and the
SD.

Dallas

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dalval@nwc.net

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-----Original Message-----
From: mika perala [mailto:mikap@dlc.fi]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 1:38 AM
Subject: Isis problems


Hello!

I`m reading Isis Vol.1 and for there`s lot what I don`t
understand,
maybe someone here in a rather quiet list would light up things
for
me?

[[Vol. 1, Pages]] xvi-xvii BEFORE THE VEIL


The mystic Decad 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 is a way of expressing this
idea.

The One is God, the Two, matter; the Three, combining Monad and
Duad,


DTB  	This occurs AFTER Manifestation  begins.
Each Universe opens, develops and closes under the impulsion of
the Law of Karma.
Each "being" (from Atom to Human, to Star) in any Universe is a
MONAD, an immortal entity.
Thus, reincarnation is the basic process by which the SPIRIT in
each of these beings uses many bodily configuration to experience
and learn the Las of Nature (the Universe) at ever expanding
levels of perception.  Every life witnesses and advance in the
wisdom of each Monadic entity.  We are at our core such an
Intelligence.  Our perception is developed from moment to moment
as we determine the refinement of its pursuits.  The MIND is our
tool in this.  Our bodies (and the Brain is part of the physical
body) in each of us, functions and communicates on this plane of
matter.  But the Operator, the Perceiver, the REAL HUMAN is
internal, unitary, and permanent-immortal.  The "bodies" always
change. The Perceiver within does not, hence it records all
changes as "memory."

Each MONAD consists of an immortal unity called Atma-Buddhi or
Spirit and Primordial Matter in indissoluble combination.  Our
INDIVIDUALITY and sense of individual awareness, perception and
consciousness is the result of the MONAD that we are, entering
the "Human Stage" where the MIND and its faculties are developed.
Minerals, plants, animals represent (broadly) stages of Monadic
evolution of a lesser degree, but all will eventually reach the
human "mental stage."

In Manifestation,  the MONAD become a TRIAD of ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS
( see SD II 630-640,  SD I 242-6)  In KEY see pp. 91-2  135-6
175-6.  It is the "immortal Pilgrim" the "Reincarnating Ego."
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and partaking of the nature of both, is the phenomenal world; the
Tetrad, or form of perfection, expresses the emptiness of all;
and
the Decad, or sum of all, involves the entire cosmos. The
universe is the
combination of a thousand elements, and yet the expression of a
single spirit -- a chaos to the sense, a cosmos to the reason.

The whole of this combination of the progression of numbers in
the
idea of creation is Hindu. The Being existing through himself,
Swayambhu
or Swayambhuva, as he is called by some, is one. He emanates from
himself the creative faculty, Brahma or Purusha (the divine
male), and the
one becomes Two; out of this Duad, union of the purely
intellectual
principle  with the principle of matter, evolves a third, which
is Viradj, the phenomenal world.

Mika:
Now, where did that principle of matter (prakriti-if I remember
correctly)came from if  Swayambhu (para-brahman?) +
Brahma(Purusha)
makes two and there was only those two?


DTB	PURUSHA is "spirit" or ATMA.  It emanates into MANIFESTATION
under Karma from the ABSOLUTENESS (or Parabrahm).

Simultaneously the Primordial Matter (PRAKRITI) emanates.

The Homogeneity of the Absolute thus splits (during MANIFESTATION
periods -- or MANVANTARAS and KALPAS) into ATMA (spirit or
Purusha) and BUDDHI (matter or Prakriti).  Together they form the
imperishable, eternal MONAD .  They are an indissoluble UNITY.
Every "Spirit" has a "form" connected with it in manifestation.

In order for the MONADS to contact the material aspect of
evolution and all the Monads of lesser experience, a link or
"bridge" is necessary.  This is the MIND -- MANAS -- or rather at
the initial stage of Manifestation, it is MAHAT or the UNIVERSAL
MIND.

This is indissolubly linked to ATMA-BUDDHI and forms (in
Manifestation) the TRIPLE MONAD.  Our Monad is one of these that
has reached the Mind-stage of development, self-consciousness and
this involves the knowledge of "good and evil."

This knowledge of "good and evil" is, very simply a knowledge of
the LAWS OF NATURE.  The Mind-stage of development gives each
Monad the power of free choice.  It can choose from moment to
moment how it will live its life -- either in cooperation with
Nature's Laws or in opposition.  What follows is Karma, or the
reaction of Nature to those choices.

"Nature" is, for us, all the rest of the many kinds of MONADS
that are in evolution and it includes 3 basic kinds:

1.  those of lesser development which have not yet reached the
Mind-stage (minerals, plants, animals).

2.  those who, like us, are mind-stage Monads, and ,

3.  those MONADS who have learned all that Nature offers in the
way of information and experience:  those are our "Elder
Brothers" and are also called the Adepts, Masters of Wisdom,
Buddhas, Dhyan Chohans, etc...  This is the state and condition
that we will be moving into as we incarnate and learn more
intimately about the operations of Nature.
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 It is out of this invisible and incomprehensible trinity, the
Brahmanic Trimurty, that evolves the
second triad which represents the three faculties -- the
creative, the
conservative, and the transforming. These are typified by Brahma,
Vishnu, and Siva, but are again and ever blended into one.

Mika:
Now, here`s Brahma again but this time as ‘part’ of a second
triad.
What`s the relationship with this ‘Brahma’ to the first Brahma
 the
divine male)?


DTB	In the Primary opening stage of manifestation BRAHMA
represents the whole of the Universe that is manifesting again.
It is the Power that brings every kind of Being (MONAD) into
being again and provides the motive power (under LAW) for its
future evolution.  One could say that the union of ATMA-BUDDHI is
the union of Male-Female, or the Eternal POSITIVE and NEGATIVE
aspects of all Mature and that are characterized by MOTION (the
son) in manifested, and limited time and space.

In Nature the image of Brahma-Vishnu-Siva is given to represent
to the inquiring mind a basis from which to understand those same
Universal Powers and functions in the man himself.  The
mind-principle is the "son," the progeny of Brahma (male) and
Buddhi (female).

In a way we can also say that each of us (a MONAD in
MANIFESTATION) is Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva in our ESSENCE.  We are (as
Brahma) the CREATORS by choice and will of our future.  As we
live in a temporary "form", we, as "Vishnu" preserve it.  When in
old age it is worn out, we as "Siva" destroy and then regenerate
it through the process of reincarnation.

In Man, Brahma-Vishnu-Siva are the same as Atma-Buddhi-Manas.

Brahma (Atma) is the creative power of all things.  This causes
Evolution as the whole of nature demands that Mind be developed
in all its parts so that intelligence may assist in the endless
evolution of INTELLIGENCE -- an intelligence that KNOWS
EVERYTHING.  Such a knowledge alone confers CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
on those MONADS who develop it.  They become the "servants" of
Nature, of Humanity, and of all Life.

We have to realize that NATURE already contains and IS
everything.  We only seek to discover some of its secrets.  Our
Science does this all the time.  It rediscovers that which is
already there.  there is no "novelty" in this, except that the
sense of discovery is always individual and elating.

VISHNU (Buddhi) is the aggregate of forms (Monads of a lesser
experience) that are molded into forms.

SIVA (Manas) is the power to create and destroy, based on
experience, and the power of thought that considers all events
and determines the future aim and progress of this 3-fold entity
as it lives in and through  material forms.  As we know our
bodies constantly change and are under modification every instant
of our lives, but the ONE CONSCIOUSNESS that animates them and
gives them their sense of IDENTITY does not change.  it is
UNITARY -- MONADIC.

Atma-Buddhi-Manas in each of us overlooks and supervises the
material side of our natures which consists of 4 elements (or
principles):

1.  Life energy or PRANA/JIVA;

2.  KAMA or "desires and passions,"

3.  Astral Body or LINGA SARIRA (the elctro magnetic model form
on which the physical atoms and molecules are arranged); and,

4.  the Physical Body.
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Unity, Brahma, or as the Vedas called him, Tridandi, [THREE-FOLD
or DIVINE TRIAD] is the god triply manifested, which gave rise to
the symbolical Aum or the abbreviated Trimurty. It is but under
this trinity, ever active and tangible to all our senses, that
the invisible and unknown Monas can manifest itself to the world
of mortals. When he becomes Sarira, or he who puts on a visible
form, he typifies all the principles of matter, all the germs of
life, he is Purusha, the god of the three visages, or triple
power,  the essence of the Vedic triad.

Mika:
And now we jump to Greek word Monas... HPB says it is Purusha (in
visible form) and is then Brahma?


DTB	Monas is UNITY, ONE also MONAD that is Brahman the
non-manifested.

Then, when manifestation occurs Brahman becomes the more limited
Brahma -- or the power of creation focused in a MONADIC form (or
Buddhi).  Thereafter the rest of "creation" or rather
"reformation" begins and expands through the whole Universe
SIMULTANEOUSLY (this is the source of the idea of the BIG BANG).

To me the source of the words is not important, but the ideas
are.

The whole of the 1st vol. of the SD explains this in detail.  It
needs great patience to disentangle the many threads of
description that come to us from the Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese,
Tibetan, Chaldean, Zoroastrian, Hebrew, Scandinavian, Egyptian,
Greek, Mayan,  etc... sources, legends and myths.

This is what HPB has done in ISIS and the SD.  But it takes great
patience to do this.

Best wishes,

Dallas
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mika perala


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