Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00088)

From: "Compiler" <compiler@wisdomworld.org>
> It is this student's understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong and way off
> base, that the teachings tell us that each of us can, in time, if we put in
the
> long and hard and steady effort, with no end to the process and no real top
of
> the heap to be reached in self-development, expand our consciousness to
know
> everything on every plane of this planet, and then expand it to even take
in
> all that here is to know of this solar system, and to expand it still to
take
> in all that there is to know within a cluster of solar systems, and then
even
> of a whole galaxy, and then a cluster of galaxies, and so on with no end in
> sight. If this is possible to each unit...

Mahatma Letter 22 (and another place or two) mentions that even the greatest
adepts and Bodhisattvas have never "penetrated themselves" beyond the solar
system.

There may be an unlimited accretion of knowledge & wisdom within a plane(s)
possible in our future evolution, but the fields or planes which we may know
are probably limited to those types of matter/spirit of which we can be aware
during any manvantara. The notion of unlimited expansion of consciousness
may not even be necessary, considering the hierarchical arrangement of the
universe.

Nicholas