Theos-Talk Archives (January 2001 Message tt00108)

Tuesday, January 16, 2001



Dear "Moderator"

While metaphysics can entertain the mind, their application is
important. The whole balance of Nature -- the harmony of
diversities -- reposes on those primary events, beings, records,
principles -- call them anything -- but ultimately in all
questions they come up and show their value as a basis for
ethico-moral choice and actions. They are more than intellectual
gymnastics.

Nature is said to be eternally active and eternally developing
greater wisdom through its eternally active individual components
named the MONADS (indissoluble, permanent foci of SPIRIT-MATTER).
Each Monad advances depending entirely on its own individual
efforts. Actually it is the accumulation of other Monads of
lesser experience that forms the vestures of any one MONAD as it
travels under Karma through the many planes of being. At the
core of our being is a MONAD.

In manifestation they seem to be made up of various general
characteristics and these are called various things like the 7
colors of the rainbow, or the notes of a gamut, the 7 planets,
the 7 "Builders" (cosmocratores) and they may also include
several 10-fold divisions, 12-fold divisions, 49-fold divisions,
etc... each with a specific purpose. Their unity as part of the
WHOLE is evident. Their interaction and cooperation makes for
all the living forms in the Universe -- they are in one place
called the "Living Stars of Eternity."

In our development as we pass from one incarnation to the next,
we acquire greater acuity of perception not only of degrees of
substance/matter but we begin to see the ways in which the laws
of Nature (Karma) work.

As one looks at the S.D. and other Theosophical writings on the
metaphysics of a re-becoming -- of the Karma of a great mass of
beings changing from "sleep" to "waking," it seems that our own
daily awakening parallels, or is analogetic, to the whole
process.

These metaphysics emanate from or rather are described by the
THREE FUNDAMENTALS.


One might try to divide this into 2 parallel columns

========================== ==========================
UNIVERSE	MAN
-------------------------------------------	--------------------
-----------------------


1. POTENTIALITY - ABSOLUTENESS	1 POTENTIAL personal
consciousness

2. KARMA requires reformation of 2. Karma demands reawakening
in a
scattered Monads	a sleeping organized mass

3. Universal Mind (Mahat) reanimates	3. Brain mind is awakened
by Manas
the Master Builders -- Chaos is	Memory is
reawakened -- Plans
turned into COSMOS	are put into place for the day

4. SPIRIT -- MATTER ( Monads)	4. Intelligence and Form are
reconnected
are sent on their karmic paths	Duties are set into motion.

5. Evolution proceeds on the "Chains 5. The Days, list of
work and recreation is
of Planets so that the One	developed so that duties are
carried
CONSCIOUSNESS in every	out and knowledge grows.
MONADIC CENTER grows	Ethico-moral problems develop
in ethico-moral ways	choices and personal progress.

6. A period of rest returns Pralaya	6. The personality grows
tired - Sleep

7. Meditation during sleep on the	7. Meditation during sleep
is conducted
evolutionary period's lessons	on the days events.
Confabulation
Dhyan Chohans, Buddhas with one's HIGHER SELF (ATMA)
continue the process and	leads to understanding and
prepare for the next Manvantara	personal improvement.

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We may then say that we have as

0	ZERO	the ABSOLUTE out of manifestation -- eternal BACKGROUND

1	ONE	unmanifested potential Logos

1	ONE	manifesting Logos -- the CENTRAL SPIRITUAL SUN which is
everywhere

2	TWO	SPIRIT-MATTER The 2 poles of the egg of manifestation
(MONAD)

3	THREE	MAHAT -- UNIVERSAL MIND, PLANNER, BUILDER, OBSERVER,
the ETERNAL WITNESS and THE ETERNAL PILGRIM. (Our INNER,
INDISSOLUBLE, ETERNAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

The Mind in man as a "ray" of Mahat and being medial between
Spirit and Matter, it is directly connected with the ABSOLUTE and
is alone able to perceive all the correlations, and variations of
the interplay of SPIRIT / MATTER during life.


We may also say: ZERO is representative of the ABSOLUTE

ONE represents ATMA (SPIRIT )

TWO represents BUDDHI (PRIMORDIAL MATTER) or the
accumulated Record and memory of all experiences.
WISDOM also called MULAPRAKRITI or "Root Matter."

THREE -- MIND (Manas) a "ray" from the Universal Mind with
direct connections to the ABSOLUTE -- hence it is impartial
and universal.

Thus we have the

ALL (ZERO) indescribable ABSOLUTENESS -- EVER UNCHANGED and
EVER-PRESENT -- KARMA in the abstract

ONE	SPIRIT UNIVERSAL as a POTENTIAL -- KARMA as potential -
harmony, balance

TWO	the MONAD -- SPIRIT/MATTER eternal, ever active, ever
learning and experiencing

THREE	SUPERNAL TRIANGLE of the ABSOLUTE and SPIRIT and MATTER

FOUR	MANIFESTED TRIANGLE to which may be added
MAHAT (universal Mind) The "cube" or "sacred FOUR").

The Lower Quarternary represents the components of the material,
physical evolution.

1. Kama (DESIRES AND PASSIONS),
2. Prana (VITALITY),
3. Astral Body (electro-magnetic lattice work) and
4. Physical body.

I hope this proves helpful,

Dallas


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-----Original Message-----
From: Moderator [mailto:nous@btinternet.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 1:26 PM
To: sd@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-sd] Part 2 - Continuing with the study: vol 1,
p18-19


Having stated that the orthodox anthropomorphise the impersonal
ONE
PRINCIPLE, in both its eternal and periodical aspects, the
passage
continues...

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Hiranyagarbha, Hari, and Sankara -- the three hypostases of the
manifesting
"Spirit of the Supreme Spirit" (by which title Prithivi -- the
Earth --
greets Vishnu in his first Avatar) -- are the purely metaphysical
abstract
qualities of formation, preservation, and destruction, and are
the three
divine Avasthas (lit. hypostases) of that which "does not perish
with
created things" (or Achyuta, a name of Vishnu); whereas the
orthodox
Christian separates his personal creative Deity into the three
personages of
the Trinity, and admits of no higher Deity. The latter, in
Occultism, is the
abstract Triangle; with the orthodox, the perfect Cube. The
creative god or
the aggregate gods are regarded by the Eastern philosopher as
Bhrantidarsanatah -- "false apprehension," something "conceived
of, by
reason of erroneous appearances, as a material form," and
explained as
arising from the illusive conception of the Egotistic personal
and human
Soul (lower fifth principle). It is beautifully expressed in a
new
translation of Vishnu Purana. "That Brahma in its totality has
essentially
the aspect of Prakriti, both evolved and unevolved
(Mulaprakriti), and also
the aspect of Spirit and the aspect of Time. Spirit, O twice
born, is the
leading aspect of the Supreme Brahma.* The next is a twofold
aspect, --
Prakriti, both evolved and unevolved, and is the time last."
Kronos is shown
in the Orphic theogony as being also a generated god or agent.

At this stage of the re-awakening of the Universe, the sacred
symbolism
represents it as a perfect Circle with the (root) point in the
Centre. This
sign was universal, therefore we find it in the Kabala also. The
Western
Kabala, however, now in the hands of Christian mystics, ignores
it
altogether, though it is plainly shown in the Zohar. These
sectarians begin
at the end, and show as the symbol of pregenetic Kosmos this sign
[[diagram]], calling it "the Union of the Rose and Cross," the
great mystery
of occult generation, from whence the name -- Rosicrucians (Rose
Cross)!

(SD I 18-19)
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How would some of our 'older students' in this group put this
into more
plainer language to explain it to a beginner?

...Peter

CUT