Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00377)

May 31st 2000

Dear Friends:

Look on the ultimate as ALL-KNOWINGNESS and ALL-PURPOSEFULNESS IN
ACTION  --


WISDOM which is all knowingness, implies wisdom, discrimination,
and a harmonizing o ones' self with all the rest of the World --
this results in our performing all right and harmless action --
brotherhood.  (1st Object of the TS)


To our present personality this may show itself as a drear
prospect.  That is because our personality thinks that ease and
lack of responsibility is bliss.  Is it really so?  Have we ever
visualized a condition in which we have NOTHING to feel, nothing
to think of, nothing to DO ?

Those who have participated in "sense-deprivation" studies have
partially undergone this (usually for a very brief while) and may
be able to tell of their psychic reactions thereto.  But these
things can also be previewed mentally, if we try to draw on what
we already have experienced and can recall to memory.

Theosophy shows that the ultimate pattern of self-knowledge and
wisdom acquisition is a melding of ones' self into the
environment.

Look at NATURE -- it is a word that indicates that where we are
at present, includes everything.  There are no limits to the
range of our THOUGHTS or our interests and desires -- also,
apparently even physically, we draw constantly on a vast ocean of
physical substance to keep our own bodies alive and this is done
automatically for us by a most intricately sensitive organ,
namely our own physical organism.  At best we can realize that we
are only TENANTS to whom our bodies have been entrusted.  Are we
worthy of the trust, or do we abuse it?

 Cause to effect. And the fact of EXISTENCE as well as the basis
of NON-EXISTENCE ( on a material plane.)  It unites the positions
of the meta-physician (who deals in CAUSES with those of the
physicist and physician who deal in the gross conditions of our
bodies and, interior to that,  their mental and psychic
counterparts, and the harmony, and wisdom of how to maintain a
balance there.

This is "deep" stuff -- but when one is able to pass beyond the
limits of the physical conditions that surround us, we are forced
to look into the "why" and the "wherefore."  CAUSATION and its
various planes of being.

If one has a copy of THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY by Wm. Q. Judge, we
can turn to page 60 and read:   Mr. Judge wrote  ( Chapter 8)

What then is the universe for, and for what final purpose is man
the immortal thinker here in evolution? It is all for the
experience and emancipation of the soul, for the purpose of
raising the entire mass of manifested matter up to the stature,
nature, and dignity of conscious god-hood. The great aim is to
reach self-consciousness; not through a race or a tribe or some
favored nation, but by and through the perfecting, after
transformation, of the whole mass of matter as well as what we
now call soul. Nothing is or is to be left out. The aim for
present man is his initiation into complete knowledge, and for
the other kingdoms below him that they may be raised up gradually
from stage to stage to be in time initiated also. This is
evolution carried to its highest power; it is a magnificent
prospect; it makes of man a god, and gives to every part of
nature the possibility of being one day the same; there is
strength and nobility in it, for by this no man is dwarfed and
belittled, for no one is so originally sinful that he cannot rise
above all sin. Treated from the materialistic position of
Science, evolution takes in but half of life; while the religious
conception of it is a mixture of nonsense and fear. Present
religions keep the element of fear, and at the same time imagine
that an Almighty being can think of no other earth but this and
has to govern this one very imperfectly. But the old theosophical
view makes the universe a vast, complete, and perfect whole.
Now the moment we postulate a double evolution, physical and
spiritual, we have at the same time to admit that it can only be
carried on by reincarnation. This is, in fact, demonstrated by
science. It is shown that the matter of the earth and of all
things physical upon it was at one time either gaseous or molten;
that it cooled; that it altered; that from its alterations and
evolutions at last were produced all the great variety of things
and beings. This, on the physical plane, is transformation or
change from one form to another. The total mass of matter is
about the same as in the beginning of this globe, with a very
minute allowance for some star dust. Hence it must have been
changed over and over again, and thus been physically reformed
and re-embodied. Of course, to be strictly accurate, we cannot
use the word reincarnation, because "incarnate" refers to flesh.
Let us say "re-embodied," and then we see that both for matter
and for man there has been a constant change of form and this is,
broadly speaking, "reincarnation." As to the whole mass of
matter, the doctrine is that it will all be raised to man's
estate when man has gone further on himself. There is no residuum
left after man's final salvation which in a mysterious way is to
be disposed of or done away with in some remote dust-heap of
nature. The true doctrine allows for nothing like that, and at
the same time is not afraid to give the true disposition of what
would seem to be a residuum. It is all worked up into other
states, for as the philosophy declares there is no inorganic
matter whatever but that every atom is alive and has the germ of
self-consciousness, it must follow that one day it will all have
been changed. Thus what is now called human flesh is so much
matter that one day was wholly mineral, later on vegetable, and
now refined into human atoms. At a point of time very far from
now the present vegetable matter will have been raised to the
animal stage and what we now use as our organic or fleshy matter
will have changed by transformation through evolution into
self-conscious thinkers, and so on up the whole scale until the
time shall come when what is now known as mineral matter will
have passed on to the human stage and out into that of thinker.
Then at the coming on of another great period of evolution the
mineral matter of that time will be some which is now passing
through its lower transformations on other planets and in other
systems of worlds. This is perhaps a "fanciful" scheme for the
men of the present day, who are so accustomed to being called
bad, sinful, weak, and utterly foolish from their birth that they
fear to believe the truth about themselves, but for the disciples
of the ancient theosophists it is not impossible or fanciful, but
is logical and vast. And no doubt it will one day be admitted by
everyone when the mind of the western race has broken away from
Mosaic chronology and Mosaic ideas of men and nature. Therefore
as to reincarnation and metempsychosis we say that they are first
to be applied to the whole cosmos and not alone to man. But as
man is the most interesting object to himself, we will consider
in detail its application to him.
This is the most ancient of doctrines and is believed in now by
more human minds than the number of those who do not hold it.

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I hope that this proves helpful to you.

Best wishes, and do ask further questions -- this is a vast and
most soul-satisfying study.



Dallas


D. T. B.


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com
[mailto:owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com]On Behalf Of Free Tibet
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:49 PM
To: theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject: RE: Theos-World RE: Ecstacy

What is the ultimate purpose. There is none. Life is a simple
diversion.

Gita : 'All relationships are wombs of pain, for they have a
beginning and
an end"

nos



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com
> [mailto:owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com]On Behalf Of
dalval2nwc.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 10:57 PM
> To: Theosophy Study List
> Cc: AAA-THEOS-TALK
> Subject: Theos-World RE: Ecstacy
>
>
> May 30th 2000
>
> Dallas observes:
>
> It has always been a mystery t me as to why people should ever
> thing that NON-THINKING and a forced entry (they hope) into the
> realms of SENSATION -- hopefully of BLISS, PLEASURE, and
> IRRESPONSIBILITY  are so valuable as a contrast with our
present
> lives of learning and doing.
>
> Then take extraordinary risks with their slender connection
with
> earth-reality, however onerous.
>
> Even to those who seek a personal spiritual path and goal --
the
> "carrot on the string" -- that is held out is MOKSHA and
> NIRVANA -- both supposed to be a liberation without
> responsibility from "earth-life."   Why is escapism deemed to
be
> more pleasant and useful to endure ?
>
> And does that solve any real problems?
>
> Dallas
>
> D. T. B.
>
>
> =======================================
>
SNIP


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