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Feb 13, 2001 05:38 PM
by dalval14
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February 13, 2001 DearFriend: May we use
that which H.P.B. offers tom us in THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY so as to distinguish between
the weight that Theosophy gives to the terms “Feel” and “Know” or “Think?” Both“Feeling”
(from the psychic nature and plane) and “Thinking” (from the Mind, the THINKER
WITHIN and the plane of Manas (mind) are only TOOLS of the INDIVIDUALITY the
Spiritual EGO which is called in theosophy the MONAD, or ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS. These are the immortal, the deathless part
of ourselves, and this uses the mind to think, to remember, to anticipate and
directs its faculties. It is
affected (as all tools are) by the way in which we have used it. Similarly
the psychic feeling and desire, passionate nature (which is separate from the “ASTRAL
BODY” or “PLANE”) as it is
separate from the plane of MANAS (the Mind) and its faculties. In the S.D.,
H.P.B. gives us an idea of the intricate nature of CONSCIOUSNESS and where the
INDIVIDUAL “I” may live and operate.
(S.D. I 181-2). All
FEELING is said by Theosophy to emerge from our psychic nature or the psychic
plane. It relates to the (orour)
personality -- it is colored by the way WE FEEL concerning things. Even “deeply feeling”may come under
this category. It uses the “astral
plane” to touch and impact our PHYSICAL SENSES and imparts to them its own
coloration. Whenwe
come to thought we are dealing with another “tool” of the INDIVIDUALITY
entirely. The psychic personality
cannot discern the future. The Manasic
(Mind) faculty can extrapolate from memory or present data and paint for itself
alternate “futures.” It basis
itself on memory, and the fact that Nature operates on LAWS which are
universal, impersonal and cover all living creatures in the chain of
evolutionary progress. Manywould
like Nature to be whimsical and lawless sometimes, but such is not the case, nor is it possible to say or pray,
saying “I am sorry” for the consequences to be reversed or “forgotten.” Karma as Law just and true requires
that all choices be carried out to their fruition on the individual (ourselves)
who evolved them. Theosophy
states that all our options affect others. The balancing and harmonizing of disturbed Nature demands
that not only our “little-lives” (monads, skandhas) be redressed, but that any
other being or person affected by our actions be also repaid. The whole
of Nature’s manifestation is an example of a wholeness, a sanity, a disease
free environment. To be brief, one
might say that the VIRTUES are idealized in the LAWS OF NATURE, in KARMA. The ices are those thoughts, feelings,
action which tend to destabilize cooperative and interactive life. I hope
this might be of help. Best
wishes, Dallas ============================ -----Original Message----- Hard to impart to anyone the importance
of deeply "feeling" these supernal |