Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00092)

February 12, 2001


Dear Moderator

Re: # 6 : Inward impulse or will produces outward word or
act.

S.D. I p. 274- 6

'The Universe is worked and guided from within outward. ... we
have no right to say no consciousness exists there ... There is
no such thing as either "dead" or "blind" matter, as there is no
"Blind" or "Unconscious Law."
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DTB

Earlier in the S.D. (I - 268) we find HPB declaring:

"...the Universe, which manifests periodically, for purposes of
the collective progress of the countless lives, the outbreathing
of the ONE LIFE; in order that through the Ever-Becoming, every
COSMIC ATOM in this infinite Universe, passing from the formless
and the intangible, through the mixed natures of
semi-terrestrial, down to matter in full generation, and then
BACK AGAIN, reascending at each new period higher and nearer the
final goal; that each atom, we say, may reach through individual
merits and efforts that plane where it rebecomes the one
unconditioned ALL." S.D. I 268

We find H.P.B. later on, on that page (I-268), describing the
Pilgrimage of the MONAD -- it is a concise and beautiful summary
of the purpose of OUR LIVES.



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S.D. I 274

"...every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or
mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by
internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or
mind. As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's
external body can take place unless provoked by an inward
impulse..."

DTB	Everyone knows that it is THEY who have generated the CHOICE
as what their actions will be. There may be also the effects of
training in early life, and heredity trends passed down from
ancestors, parents, etc...that affect and reside in the
PERSONALITY, but those are considered every time a choice is
made. WE MAKE THOSE CHANGES AND DIRECT OUR FUTURE.



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S.D. I 274

" The whole Kosmos is guided, controlled and animated by almost
endless series of Hierarchies of sentient Beings, each having a
mission to perform, [ whether called Dhyan Chohans,
"Messengers" ] are agents of Karmic and Cosmic Laws."

DTB	In S.D. I 181, H.P.B. gives us a view of the triple
evolutionary scheme of 3 vestures or forms into which the HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS is able to work. It does this as an on-going
process even though the physical basis is replaced time after
time. The ONE CONSCIOUSNESS of every human is linked to the ONE
as well as to every other.

She states these three vehicles or bodies, are

1. the Spiritual (or MONADIC),

2. the Intellectual (or MANASIC), and

3. the Physical (or the ASTRAL MODEL, electro-magnetic, as a
permanent shape for the physical molecules and metaphysical atoms
to adhere to), are "inextricably interwoven and interblended at
every point," and that they serve " for "growth," of the lowest
to the highest through " the transformations through Manas--owing
to the accumulation of experiences--of the FINITE into the
INFINITE, of the TRANSIENT into the ETERNAL and ABSOLUTE."

Our embodied Mind (lower Manas) tends to physicalize and
materialize all things. It takes a deliberate effort of will to
keep it centred between the physical and the spiritual poles of
the MONAD.

This may be difficult to understand, but the clue seem to lie in
the concept of the absolute connection between Mind and the
Absolute from which all comes and in which all bathes.. At either
sides are the poles of the MONAD: 1. ATMA (a "ray" of Universal
Spirit) and, 2. BUDDHI (the ultimate essence of Matter, pure and
depersonalized, and this includes the MEMORY of every
experience -- the universal AKASIC medium drawn from all Monads
id the source of this universality. Thus we may see that the
apparent duality of the MONAD (Spirit/Matter) is in reality
during periods of manifestation is in reality a TRINITY (of
ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS).

But looking deeper one sees that the eternal background of the
ABSOLUTE cannot be excluded, and therefore this ETERNAL ENTITY is
a compound of ABSOLUTENESS- ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS) or the Divine
Tetragrammaton .

In the MONAD (composed of the polar opposites SPIRIT and MATTER),
there also is that which is able to contemplate both as well as
their many intricate, composite relationships, memories and forms
That is the MANASIC or Mind principle.

Intelligence and consciousness are Manasic faculties. They
enable a perception of every part of the living entity. They can
deal with memory, contemplate the future effect of words and
deeds, and understand the vast LAWS of NATURE (KARMA), so that
the future in terms of anticipated results is at Mind's control..
For man-mind to be "creative" the restriction of the past have to
be understood and then overcome so that previous errors are not
ignorantly repeated.

For this reason it is said in the quote given that the Adept (the
Man of stable and controlled MIND) is able to keep his two
vehicles (Spiritual and Physical) SEPARATE.

When one is wise with the knowledge made instantly available it
cannot be ignorant. The VOICE OF BUDDHI --of the CONSCIENCE and
MEMORY speaks always before the embodied mind chooses. Thus
error and the breaking of Nature's Laws is always a deliberate
act, and not one of ignorance at all..


This is how I understand it,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Moderator [mailto:nous@btinternet.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 12:11 PM
To: sd@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-sd] The Universe is worked and guided from within
outwards. SD I 274 - 276

Friends,

Here is summary item number 6 our series. This is a longer
passage than I
usually post as it did not seem to easily divide up into parts
for a
separate posting. If you have anything to add on our previous
theme of
"everything is conscious", feel free to do so.

Your comments and questions on this next passage are welcome.

...Peter

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(6.) The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. As
above so it
is below, as in heaven so on earth; and man -- the microcosm and
miniature
copy of the macrocosm -- is the living witness to this Universal
Law, and to
the mode of its action. We see that every external motion, act,
gesture,
whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced
and preceded
by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or
mind. As no
outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can
take place
unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the
three
functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

The whole Kosmos is guided, controlled, and animated by almost
endless
series of Hierarchies of sentient Beings, each having a mission
to perform,
and who -- whether we give to them one name or another, and call
them
Dhyan-Chohans or Angels -- are "messengers" in the sense only
that they are
the agents of Karmic and Cosmic Laws.

They vary infinitely in their respective degrees of consciousness
and
intelligence; and to call them all pure Spirits without any of
the earthly
alloy "which time is wont to prey upon" is only to indulge in
poetical
fancy.

For each of these Beings either was, or prepares to become, a
man, if not in
the present, then in a past or a coming cycle (Manvantara).
[ This quote is continued to S.D. I 276 ]

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