Theos-Talk Archives (March 2001 Message tt00082)

Saturday, March 10, 2001

 

 

Dear Friend:

 

There are three quick sources for distinguishing the meaning between SPIRIT and SOUL to help you:

 

1.         THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY -- H.P.B.

2.         THE THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY -- H.P.B.  (p. 306)

3.         THE SECRET DOCTRINE -- H.P.B.

 

 

Broadly :

 

SOULIntelligence, mind, vitality, anima, and relates particularly to an Individual EGO (MIND).

 

 

SPIRIT    universal Consciousness -- a homogeneous and unadulterated emanation.  It is formless and immaterial, yet it is said to partake of the most divine, highest, spiritual substance (named in India SUDDHA-SATTVA)  

 

 

SOULand SPIRIT

 

Whenthe human (higher, pure and moral) Mind is indissolubly linked to BUDDHI (Wisdom) it BECOMES a “SPIRIT.”  In the sense that it reaches the stage when it consciously shares in Universal Wisdom at will, at choice. 

 

Further we read:  “…each individual spirit--this individuality lasting only throughout the manvantaric life-cycle -- may be described as a “center of consciousness” a self-sentient and self-conscious center:  a state, not a conditioned individual. “ 

 

Hence the great number of words used in Hindu philosophy to express the quality and nature of the Soul when it is working THROUGH one or other of its VEHICLES.

 

These seem to  be most fundamental explanations.

 

Bestwishes,

 

Dallas

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rodak [mailto:rodakjl@pcola.gulf.net]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 20017:40 PM
To: Theosophy Study List
Cc: Theosophy Study List
Subject: Re: [US] Re: Re: Moral dilemmas

 

. . . . and I wonder, particularly from a theosophical perspective, if there is a distinction between one's "spirit" and one's "soul" or are they two words having,in essence, the same meaning?  Jim Rodak

----- Original Message -----

From: m

To: UniversalSeekers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 6:44 PM

Subject: Re: [US] Re: Re: Moral dilemmas

 

if I remember correctly, Edgar Cayce said in a reading that
the soul enters the body shortly after or just at birth, and not before.
I wonder what HPB might have said about that.

claypotsjaf@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 3/9/2001 8:50:08 AM Central Standard Time,
katinka_hesselink@yahoo.com writes:

> . To the point where it becomes a major
>  preoccupation. As for the relation with abortion: I do think the soul of
>  the child will find another body to live in.
>
When does the soul enter the body?  Before or after birth?

--Claypots

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