Theos-Talk Archives (May 2001 Message tt00006)

Friday, May 04, 2001


Der Friends:

If one studies THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY (H.P.B.)or THE OCEAN OF
THEOSOPHY (W.Q.J.) one will discover that the MIND, as a
principle and a faculty, is the PERCEIVER and it uses the
Personality as an organ of perception.

The 5 "Indriya" (senses) of Hindu psychology are divided into 2:

There are the senses of reception of the impressions of:
Knowledge, perception, awareness ( eyes, ears, nose, touch,
etc...) and,

There are the powers of action: Thought, feeling, emotion,
intuition and action on the lowest, the physical plane.

Theosophy views the entire Man as a spiritual being starting with
the "ray" of the Universal SPIRIT, its vehicle is BUDDHI or the
accumulated WISDOM of past experience in previous bodies
(reincarnation, cycles, Karma)

The link between those and our Personality (body, astral body,
vitality and Kama-desires is through the MIND.

The Mind is dual: One half is allied permanently to ATMA-BUDDHI
and is called the HIGHER MIND or BUDDHI-MANAS.

A thread of consciousness unites this HIGHER MIND at each
incarnation with the personality where the Lower Mind in close
connection with KAMA--desire resides.

Here and now, as humans who are awake and active, (not asleep)
we are using the Lower Mind.

The Higher mind can be invoked when we (acting as the higher
aspect of the Lower Mind (Kama-Manas) aspire to put VIRTUES
(universal and impersonal qualities) into consideration and
action.

That is why BROTHERHOOD is the key to self-improvement. It also
points to reincarnation and the common source from which we have
all come, and to which we will return eventually, after a very
long time.

To get a clear view of this refer carefully to KEY and OCEAN.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 8:57 PM
To: sd@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-sd] Re: Mind is a name given....

Where does awareness come in? This seems to say that Mind is the
same as
awareness? Thought, Will, and Feeling give us the ability to be
aware?

B-----a

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> > In our study passage, below, it begins:
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> > 3. . . . UNIVERSAL MIND WAS NOT, FOR THERE WERE NO AH-HI
(celestial
> > beings) TO CONTAIN (hence to manifest) IT (a)
> >
> > (a) "Mind is a name given to the sum of the states of
Consciousness
>grouped
> > under Thought, Will, and Feeling." (SD I 38)
> > =====================
> >

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