Theos-Talk Archives (December 2000 Message tt00050)

December 12, 2000


Is the purpose of Evolution to add to the number of SPIRITUAL
BEINGS ?


Dear Compiler, and Friends:

As I gather from Theosophy, SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE (The WISDOM OF
THE AGES) is the starting point for all evolutionary effort. The
Spiritual side of Nature seems well organized. The Material (or
form-side) seems at first to be chaotic. The Metaphysical
explanations offered concerning "manifestation" (or, the
interaction of spirit and matter) appear to start from this
duality.

As a third (less prominent) but, nevertheless ineradicable
factor, is the ABSOLUTE background to everything. It generally
passes unnoticed, Yet it has to be considered an ever-present
factor. It is the ever-undefinable SOURCE of both Spirit and
Matter. From it emerges a faculty of observation, of witnessing,
of being able to balance and evaluate all the many levels and
kinds of spirit/matter interactions. From and in this are the
records of the pathways of experience, these record the
activities and the results of the inter-action of all beings. It
therefore serves as what we may call in general: the "Laws" of
the Universe."

In each being one may perceive a level of "consciousness" that
relates to the stage of evolution it is in. "Consciousness"
seems to be a general term meaning an awareness (more or less
focused and directed) of environment, and of the potential
results of choice and decision making in regard to one's position
in that.)

Out of the MONADIC ESSENCE [SPIRIT and PRIMORDIAL MATTER
CONJOINED] emerge because of eternal law [KARMA ] individualized
MONADS. Spiritual knowledge has to be universally and
impartially applied or it ceases to be wisdom and turns into
sorcery because of the isolationist and selfish motive of the one
who knows a truth, but refuses to use it impartially.

This is a difficult concept for many humans still in our present
position as lower-Manasic beings, to grasp. It is a concept that
raises our motives to the level of being, acting and thinking as
higher-Manasic beings ought, and, which we are already in
potential. We as a race are on the knife-edge of decision. We
determine our motives. Shall they be broadly for the benefit of
humanity and the world, or shall they be confined to the small
personal "we" that some of us consider so important, that all
else does not matter ? To assist we are reminded that the MONAD
is an immortal being, and all experience accrues to it. Hence
our present personality has value on as one stage among many in a
learning process that does not end.

MONADS with full experience of the Evolutionary process and which
have transcended the bonds of ignorance (Mahatmas, Buddhas,
Dhyan-Chohans, Adepts of various levels, etc...) serve the
purposes of law (Karma) by acting as its (Nature's)
coordinators -- they serve as the cosmocratores and the builders
at each Manvantaric dawn, and as "evolution" progresses they
become (or a portion of their membership becomes) the teachers,
guides and instructors of mankind. [ It might be an interesting
exercise at this point in time to ask ourselves why we tend to
rebel at the idea of any Law that might govern us, or might
hinder the "freedom of expression" which "we" hold so dear. Why
does this happen psychologically?

Mankind, may be said to consist of those MONADS which are
entering the difficult period of self--instruction whereby they
become first (lower) self-conscious, then (higher) SELF-conscious
and then UNIVERSALLY-SELF-CONSCIOUS -- these 3 grades being the
natural development of understanding in regard to the lawful
actions of all beings and the CAUSES for the existence of the LAW
and the many laws of the UNIVERSAL LAW OF PROGRESS which we call
in general: KARMA. As a principle it is always recognized in
occultism that the free-will of any human ought never to be
interfered with. No coercion, no blind belief. No creeds or
dogmas. All progress is by self-induced and self-devised ways
and means. We are always teaching ourselves. We determine our
rate of progress in self-education.

FOHAT is defined as "divine and intelligent electricity."
Inasmuch as all "matter" basically can be resolved into atoms and
sub-atomic constituents with enormous electro-magnetic strength
at those ultra-small levels, the question arises : How and with
what sense of order do they draw together, aggregate to form
molecules, react under certain circumstances, if they are not
internally and externally regulated by intelligence(s) of their
own kind of being? And would that not be also ELECTRO-MAGNETIC
of a kind and type that belonged to a universal set of Laws ?

I am not too clear on the answers to these questions and perhaps
you have some ideas.

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Compiler [mailto:compiler@wisdomworld.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 6:57 AM
To: sd@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-sd] Re: The First Fundamental
Proposition...continued.

Peter,

I sure could use some help with this particular way that I am
thinking:
According to the last paragraph that you quoted (from page 16 in
the SD), which
folows this one, I get the impression, right or wrong as it may
be, that
"Fohat" is the guiding force inherent in thought, a force that
drives atoms to
run up into forms on every plane, no matter how subtle? If so,
even though it
says, I think, that it is the thought of very advanced Adepts,
known also as
"Dhyan Chohans", who are at the forefront of evolution, guiding
every period of
manifestation, are each and every one of us who are not adepts at
any level
yet, also impressing atoms with the guiding energy ("Fohat"???)
of our thoughts
so that we too are each somewhat responsible for the forms that
they run up
into? Am I in any way thinking correctly here?

Compiler
(John DeSantis)
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> This something, at present unknown to Western speculation, is
called by the
> occultists Fohat. It is the "bridge" by which the "Ideas"
existing in the
> "Divine Thought" are impressed on Cosmic substance as the "laws
of Nature."
> Fohat is thus the dynamic energy of Cosmic Ideation; or,
regarded from the
> other side, it is the intelligent medium, the guiding power of
all
> manifestation, the "Thought Divine" transmitted and made
manifest through
> the Dhyan Chohans,* the Architects of the visible World. Thus
from Spirit,
> or Cosmic Ideation, comes our consciousness; from Cosmic
Substance the
> several vehicles in which that consciousness is individualised
and attains
> to self -- or reflective -- consciousness; while Fohat, in its
various
> manifestations, is the mysterious link between Mind and Matter,
the
> animating principle electrifying every atom into life.
> (SD I 15-16)
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>
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