Theos-Talk Archives (April 2001 Message tt00100)

Dear M and friends,


The LINKING is instantaneous, ALWAYS. Nature abhors a vacuum.
No one is ever totally isolated. Our movements on whatever
"plane" of perception or of action instantaneously establishes a
change in balance of the whole Universe -- but, also every other
individual does the same.-- so the results are generally of a
mixed character, a con-joined result rather than an immediate
response of an isolated character. But to use a ridiculous
illustration: If you put your finger in boiling water YOU get a
blister and pain RIGHT NOW. If you secretly steal from another
the results and proof may not show up for a long time, but
ultimately they will and will have to be balanced so that the
harmony of Nature (which we distorted) will continue to work.

Karma is very simply the Law of Reciprocity. The whole of Nature
operates on that principle. Nothing is exempt from it. Since
Mankind has reached the stage of "free-thinking" his decisions
either enhance or detract from and therefore, delay Nature's
purposes,

No action (desire, thought, feeling, motion) occurs without the
WILL generating a force. Man's mind being free, (this condition
is the testing stage Nature has devised to determine if a
thinking individual is worthy of going forward to not. Will he
assist or delay?

These Forces on the mental and the emotional planes, that each
human generates, are either in harmony with Nature's intentions
or they hinder and distort them. One thing to grasp and that is
Nature
S Laws are immutable. They are not devised for us alone. We are
only a part of the picture. Nature in her spread and assistance
has to arrange for the progress of millions of other sentient
beings besides the humans.

There is no "escape" from Nature and her laws and works. But the
opportunity to be of assistance or be of hindrance is a matter of
free choice.

Does this sound like slavery? It does to the desire principle
which does not care to pay attention to those effects that it
generates and which may be of harm to other beings. Nature cares
for those. And because of its charity and generosity for ALL ,
it curbs any immoderate proclivities of the passions of mankind.

In this is to be found an important principle. Every "vice" is
an exaggerated "virtue." The lesson to be learned and the
psychological attitude to voluntarily assume is, in brief,
"brotherhood" and the application is "harmlessness to all that
lives."

If one is able to study Nature we can determine which of her Laws
is in operation. We choose to make that study or not. If we do
not we remain ignorant, if we study we grow wise. The entirety
of Nature is far older than we are, and we are fully dependent on
its bounty for our present existence. The problem with all of us
is DESIRE, EMOTION AND PASSION. These tend to isolate each
human. Further, they lack (without the mind) any capacity to
anticipate results into a future, a present that will become ours
when the whole of our account is summed.

The "link" is instantaneous and inevitable. The quality of the
link depends on our MOTIVES.

The thing to realize is that every action is always accompanied
by a moral content: the reason why we did it.

Unfortunately our western religion s and education do not explain
this important factor.

Best wishes,

Dallas

Now with this information see if you can answer your own
question. I am not sure that I understand it.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Mauri [mailto:mhart@idirect.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 3:54 AM
To: basic@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-basic] re: Karma/Linking


RE:

[bn-basic] RE: Karma/linking?
Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:57:20 -0700
From:
dalval14@earthlink.net


Dallas wrote:

<<<<We can attach a number of additional
questions to that: What do I know, Why am I
here? Where shall I go? Do I have any powers
that I can freely use? And perhaps several
thousand more.

But what is the use if no conclusions or common
ground is developed?>>>>
==============

"Common-ground conclusions" seem less
theosophically relevant to me than insights
elicited from self-devised/self-sufficient efforts. I
suspect that forms of overt dependance on
other's efforts/insights would sooner or later lead
one to various forms of "dark nights of the soul."

As for the subject of "Karma/linking?" in my
previous post, I seemed to have failed (?) to
communicate one of my concerns about that
when, for example, I wrote:

<<<I tend to suspect that aspects of ("free") will
create links (in some will-related manner)
between various levels of recognition. Would
that go toward explaining, for example, the
motivation ("linking", in a sense?) of the Great
Sacrifice, Maha Chohans, Chohans, Rishis,
Mahatmas, etc.?>>>

In the preceding paragraph, I was "linking"
various "recognitions" in the sense of equating
those with individuals, as if individuals were
"recognitions" that have will-based
link-motivational aspects with other individuals so
that, on Higher levels of recognition (as per the
Great Sacrifice, Maha Chohans, Chohans,
Rishis, Mahatmas, etc.?) those will-based
individual Links (would?) be the primary means
by which "extra-Karmic" (?) Higher Recognitions
would maintain their "interest" with
comparatively less-advanced Humanity? Or
could there be some form of Higher Karma
(Karma beyond karma, in a sense?), rather than
just will-based motivation, that might have some
role in Higher Recognitions?

Incidentally, I seem to like to speculate about
these things on my own, first, rather than just go
to the literature first. Seems as if that kind of
effort has some sort of theosophically relevant
meaning for me. The frequent question marks
indicate that those are subjects that I need to read
up on, they indicate my current interests as well
as being rhetorical questions, and are not to be
taken literally as questions to others,
necessarily---although I appreciate the various
thoughtful responses.

Something like that?
Mauri


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