Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00099)

Dear Adelasie and Chris:

May I but in a little?

It occurred to me that some ideas in another post of mine might
be of some help..

The "ASTRAL BODY" is a "tool" or "vehicle" for the consciousness
to act through (see S.D. I 181)

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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Then again on 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 (the "I" in us) 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 IN THE PAST OF OUR LIFE OR IN
PREVIOUS LIVES, AND THUS WE ARE ALWAYS DIRECTORS OF OUR FUTURE.


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turning to S.D. I 274 we find H.P.B. saying:

" 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
[Mind]--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, or "brain-mind") tends to
physicalize and
materialize all things. It takes a deliberate effort of will to
keep it centred between the MATERIAL and the SPIRITUAL poles of
the MONAD.

This may be difficult to understand, but the clue seem to lie in
the concept of the UNBREAKABLE connection between Mind and the
Absolute (from which all comes and in which all bathes).

At either sides are the poles of the MONAD we find 2 POLES (as in
an oval or an egg) :

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
is 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).

One has to agree that the concept of reincarnation (which depends
on the KARMA -- or consequences (good or bad) of our earlier
choices -- gives a basis for all events in our lives.

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 -- or SQUARE.

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. One of the faculties of
the Mind (Manas) is the ability to be detached from the subject
under contemplation (meditation).

Intelligence and consciousness are Manasic faculties. They
enable a perception of every part of the living entity, and its
environment. 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 restrictions of the past (we
imposed by choice on ourselves) have to be understood and then
overcome so that previous errors are not
Ignorantly (or self-importantly) 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..


I hope this might be of help.

Our lives are made up of the sum of our periods of directed or
recipient consciousness. We look either FORWARD, or BACKWARD
(through memories -- which may be accurate or fragmentary) or we
may even be passive (as mediums are) when we allow other
conscious entities to direct and rule our vision. (This last is
dangerous to us.)

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Stewart [mailto:cstewart@taosnet.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:31 PM
To: basic@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-basic] Re: Linga Sharira

Dear Adelaise,

OK if it's not the astral body stretching out into the other
planes to peek
in, what is it that experiences higher consciousness? Or what is
it that is
experiencing this consciousness. I think I'm asking for the name
of the part
that is the experiencier of consciousness. So that when the
lights go on so
to speak, who is seeing higher consciousness? And what is the
process or
method by which the devotee has this moment of awareness.

Chris


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