Theos-Talk Archives (December 2000 Message tt00061)

December 21, 2000

Solstice and Seasons greetings. Bonne Annee !

Many thanks Jeremy.


Those are so valuable -- the VOICE ought to be read and pondered
over daily.

[SAT / ASAT see S.D. II 449-50 544 597fn 626; also S.D. I 48
56 89fn ]

HARMONY	see S.D. II 420; ISIS II 430-1; ML 141; S.D. I 632
643 ]

Are not all these injunctions aimed at awakening the higher
aspect of the LOWER MANAS ?

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Condick

Subject: Three Halls


Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.

For: --

When to himself his form appears unreal, as do on waking all the
forms he sees in dreams;
When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the ONE-the
inner sound which kills the outer.
Then only, not till then, shall he forsake the region of Asat,
the false, to come unto the realm of Sat, the true.

Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and
fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

Before the Soul can hear, the image (man) has to become as deaf
to roarings as to whispers, to cries of bellowing elephants as to
the silvery buzzing of the golden fire-fly.

Before the soul can comprehend and may remember, she must unto
the Silent Speaker be united just as the form to which the clay
is modelled, is first united with the potter's mind. For then
the soul will hear, and will remember. And then to the inner ear
will speak-


THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE


And say: --

If thy soul smiles while bathing in the Sunlight of thy Life; if
thy soul sings within her chrysalis of flesh and matter; if thy
soul weeps inside her castle of illusion; if thy soul struggles
to break the silver thread that binds her to the MASTER; know, O
Disciple, thy Soul is of the earth.

When to the World's turmoil thy budding soul lends ear; when to
the roaring voice of the great illusion thy Soul responds when
frightened at the sight of the hot tears of pain, when deafened
by the cries of distress, thy soul withdraws like the shy turtle
within the carapace of SELFHOOD, learn, O Disciple, of her Silent
"God," thy Soul is an unworthy shrine.

When waxing stronger, thy Soul glides forth from her secure
retreat: and breaking loose from the protecting shrine, extends
her silver thread and rushes onward; when beholding her image on
the waves of Space she whispers, "This is I,"-declare, O
Disciple, that thy soul is caught in the webs of delusion.
This Earth, Disciple, is the Hall of Sorrow, wherein are set
along the Path of dire probations, traps to ensnare thy EGO by
the delusion called "Great Heresy".

This earth, O ignorant Disciple, is but the dismal entrance
leading to the twilight that precedes the valley of true
light-that light which no wind can extinguish, that light which
burns without a wick or fuel.
Saith the Great Law: -- "In order to become the KNOWER of ALL
SELF thou hast first of SELF to be the knower." To reach the
knowledge of that SELF, thou hast to give up Self to Non-Self,
Being to Non-Being, and then thou canst repose between the wings
of the GREAT BIRD. Aye, sweet is rest between the wings of that
which is not born, nor dies, but is the AUM throughout eternal
ages.

Bestride the Bird of Life, if thou would'st know.

Give up thy life, if thou would'st live.

Three Halls, O weary pilgrim, lead to the end of toils. Three
Halls, O conqueror of Mara, will bring thee through three states
into the fourth and thence into the seven worlds, the worlds of
Rest Eternal.
If thou would'st learn their names, then hearken, and remember.

The name of the first Hall is IGNORANCE-Avidya.

It is the Hall in which thou saw'st the light, in which thou
livest and shalt die.
The name of Hall the second is the Hall of Learning. In it thy
Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a
serpent coiled.
H.P.Blavatsky	VOICE OF THE SILENCE (pp. 2 ...)


<<<<<Consciousness is one, yet produces the varied forms of the
many>>>>>

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"The Cycles of Matter will be succeeded by cycles of Spirituality
and a fully developed mind. On the law of parallel history and
races, the majority of the future mankind will be composed of
glorious Adepts. Humanity is the child of cyclic Destiny, and
not one of its Units can escape its unconscious mission, or get
rid of the burden of its co-operative work with nature. Thus
will mankind, race after race, perform its appointed cycle
pilgrimage...." H.P.B. S.D. II 446