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Oct 22, 2000 11:09 AM
by Dallas Tenbroeck
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As Iread
the literature the Spiritual Soul of the REAL MAN (ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS) reincarnates under Karma. It is the eternal Pilgrim (Monad)and
is imperishable. As we
currently live our lives from moment to moment we make choices. These choices are either harmonious or
disharmonious in regard to Nature, which is a vast KARMIC envelope from which
none is exempt, nor can anyone escape from it and its restrictions. The
vehicle used by it (the Reincarnating Ego) for this purpose is also assembled
by Karma -- an aspect of the great law that sees to providing the right
“skandhas” at the correct time (of incarnation) to those who under Karma are
destined to provide the “new” home
(actually reassembled from old material which is also imperishable) It seems
to me that abortion is an external intervention (on the physical plane) that
terminates the life of the incoming assembly of Ego and Body (vehicle) along
with all the intermediary links (related to the intervening “principles.” The motive
for an abortion alters according to need.
If the forthcoming child body is a threat to the mother’s life, then a
decision to remove it may be made, and so on in various degrees -- but, allare
motives, and will bear their Karmic consequences. It seems
to me that in the KEY TO THEOSOPHY (HPB) as also in other places in the
Literature attention to the details of this situation is described. I think we ought to refer to thatso
that we at least know what the Theosophical arguments are. Best
wishes, Dallas D. T. B. -----Original
Message----- In HPB's
article Theories about Reincarnation and Spirits she
gives a reason why abortion works against the spiritual evolution of the
soul within the aborted form. Those aborted bodies will
be, of course, about 50% female. ***************** "Reincarnation
i.e., the appearance of thesame
individual, or rather of his astral monad,
twice on the same planet isnot
a rule in nature, it is an exception, like the teratological phenomenon of a
two-headed infant. It is preceded by a violation
of the laws of harmony of nature, and happens only when the latter seeking to restore its disturbed equilibrium, violently throws back into
earth-life the astral monad which had been tossed out of the circle of
necessity by crime or accident. Thus in cases of abortion, of
infants dying before a certain age, and of congenital and incurable idiocy,
nature's original design to produce a perfect human being, has been
interrupted. Therefore, while the gross matter of each of these several
entities is suffered to disperse itself at death, through the vast realm of
being, the immortal spirit and astral monad
of the individual--the latter having been set apart to animate a
frame and the former to shed its divine light on the corporeal organization--must try a second time to carry out the purposeof
the creative intelligence. (Isis
I, 351.) Here the
"astral monad" or body of the deceased personality--say of John or
Thomas--is meant. It is that which, in the teachings of the Esoteric philosophy
of Hinduism, is known under its name of bhoot;
in the Greek philosophy is called the simulacrum or umbra, and
in all other philosophies worthy of the name is said, as taught
in the former, to disappear after a certain period more or less prolonged in Kama-loka--the Limbus of the Roman
Catholics, or Hades of the
Greeks. It is "a
violation of the laws of harmony of nature," though it be so decreed by
those of Karma--every time that
the astral monad, or the simulacrum of
the personality--of John or Thomas--instead of running down to the end of its
natural period of time in a body--finds itself (a) violently thrown out of it
by whether early death or accident; or (b) is compelled in consequence of its
unfinished task to re-appear (i.e., the same
astral body wedded to the same immortal monad) on earth again, in order
to complete the unfinished task. Thus "it must try a
second time to carry out the purpose of creative intelligence" or law." Fare TheeWell, Nicholas
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