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RE: Theos-World Digest Number 132

Jun 15, 2001 03:51 AM
by dalval14


Dear Joyce,

This is Dallas.

Did you want to be removed from my mailing list ?

D


I ask since I do not administer the theos-talk


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-----Original Message-----
>From: Joyce Tromblee [mailto:prema@harborside.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:22 PM
>To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World Digest Number 132

Please remove me from your mail list.
Joyce Tromblee
prema@harborside.com

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>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: Theos-World Digest Number 132


There are 7 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Re: [KUNDALINI] Re: Self
>From: "Eugene Carpenter" <Ecarpent@co.la.ca.us>
2. Drukpas & Theosophy
>From: "888" <bhive@alphalink.com.au>
3. RE: [bn-sd] Re: Peter on everything being conscious
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
4. RE: [bn-basic] Re: Linga Sharira
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
5. RE: [bn-basic] Re: Linga Sharira
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
6. RE: [bn-sd] Gene on conciousness GOOD and EVIL -- KARMA
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
7. Kundalini Siddhis and HPB
>From: Martin Leiderman <martinle@mindspring.com>


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:39:17 -0800
>From: "Eugene Carpenter" <Ecarpent@co.la.ca.us>
Subject: Re: [KUNDALINI] Re: Self

And yet . . . .

Love is the oneness and is not dual. Love is the operation of
that beyond
Love.

The Will.

There is that beyond the singularity that asserts that
singularity. And
THAT is Love.

Love is. Love is present now. The Will and it's Shakti, Divine
Understanding, are bound beyond duality and merge with the Love,
the
Oneness, that fuses them eternally.

It is the manifestation of Love that begins and ends that one day
be-with-us
shall two disappear. And that manifestation is the presence, the
laughing
Buddha, when minds free to choose to obey the Law of Oneness of
the
emptiness, or free to choose the mental impressions of
inexperience within
the three worlds, choose I and thou. Love struggling to find
love. Then
shrieking with glee and bliss and joy SEEING . . . FINALLY! The
Eye cannot
see the Eye. The "I" can not see the "I". To see nothing at the
end is to
have found the answer.

Then. The manifestation of love ends. True Love rests for one
more
Eternity.


( )


( ( ) )


( ( ), ( ( ) ) )



zero

one

two


One Eternal Family, three aspects of



Love,
EC


(cooperative resistence) :-)
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>To: "Eugene Carpenter" <ecarpent@co.la.ca.us>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 8:43 AM
Subject: [KUNDALINI] Re: Self


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> >Reply-To: KUNDALINI@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [KUNDALINI] Re: Self
> >
> >Namaste -
> >this may help to clarify the love aspect situation.. this was
written
> >by a person that reached realization on my site.... when this
was
> >written i knew he had reached.... enjoy....
> >Love and Blessings
> >
> >Subject: Re: No More
> >
> >
> >--- In God-Realized@egroups.com, Bodhiavasa@y... wrote:
> >> Namaste Beloved Ganga with deepest thanks,
> >>
> >V: Verse C: Comment
> > This must be prefaced as many that read these words in the
beginning
> >that have thought LOVE is the supreme reality will be rocked
to the
> >core... for the universe which they have held revolves from
love has
> >been seemingly trampled upon.... so please any reading this
reserve
> >judgement on the versus until all has been explained.... This
> >writing is very deep.. the maya realms illusions are
transcended and
> >shattered... But do not think that beyond love is a lonely
emptiness
> >devoid of warmth... For most assuredly it may be stated that
what is
> >beyond is ABOLUTE WHOLENESS.... COMPLETENESS... Where subject
and
> >object have ended only THAT WHICH IS THE ESSENCE FROM WHICH
ALL
> >ARISES IS.... within the Stillness of ALL Potentialities....
now let
> >us proceed to the verse and line....
> >
> >
> >V: Love is the first vibration to arise from emptiness, it is
the
> > original illusion for it is based upon the idea of
seperatness, an
> > energy that flows from and to, its belief is that there is
> > duality, "I" here (the lover) and "YOU" there (the loved)
and
> > immediately "WE" and "TIME" and "SPACE" come into illusive
> > existence.
> >
> >C: Yes very good.... For Love to exist there must be
duality...
> > subject and object... This is why those that are on the
Bhakti
> > path may reach to the edge of Truth... but eventually
subject and
> > object will be transcended... and ALL that remains is One
beyond
> > the One which contains within itself division.... That is
why it
> > is more appropriate to say the Zero... the Zero gives life
and
> > value to all numbers... Yet within itself it is said to be
> > beyond value enumeration...
> > Yes God - time - space - we- etc. all come into existance
as
> > separations (reflections of truth) when the silence and
stillness
> > are moved... movement is maya... movement is shakti -
energy
> > Om is vibration that sustains and moves existance... and
Love is a
> > natural progression of this energy....
> >
> >
> >V: In deep sleep Love cannot BE its ISNESS is NOT and finally
this is
> > seen, Love too must be transcended before that which is
prior is
> > fully rested in. The surrendering or sacrifice of Love is
the
> > egos final death and when it has taken place there are no
others
> > all is
> > Self!
> >C: Let it be explained this so-called sleep is once again not
a
> > sleep of nothingness... it is an awakeness a pristine
awareness
> > yet it is comprised not of the 5 senses what-so-ever... but
> > clearly the awareness is Absolute...
> > Yes when all division ends... what is termed Self
remains...
> > but this Self must be explained... for it is a mis-leading
> > term within itself... for Self would seem for most to
indicate
> > a singular personality... and this is absolutely not the
case...
> > what remains is Essense... Pure Source... Pure light...
That
> > which cannot be divided... pristine Life energy which is
> > beyond any birth or death or any limitational boundaries...
> > there is no such feeling a personality... thus ends the
ideation
> > of ego form... Clearly you remain and yet you are NOT...
The
> > ideation of birth and death end immediately...
> >
> >V: The pain of letting go of this last gem IS the real death
for
> > nothing survives, all dies and arises anew as Nirvana which
is
> > exactly the same one as Samsara which was the illusion of a
love
> > within which loved the without. When Love is dissolved there
is
> > nothing in the body that it is realised within and in the
same
> > instant it is seen that there is nothing to be loved in
anything,
> >all
> > now arises in nothing for no reason other than it does so,
no
> > purpose, no reason , not even Love. Aloneness cannot Love
for it is
> > everywhere it has nowhere to move toward,being all things
everwhere
> > now in this eternal moment.
> >C: Yes when you reach to realization of That Which Is there is
no
> > movement... It is utterly serene singularity which is even
beyond
> > One for there must be something other for One to Exist...
and yes
> > once that Essense is reached then once again movement will
take
> > place and once again maya realms illusions come again into
play..
> > when you are in the moment of absoulute now... there is no
> > judgement - no thought - no mind and simply creation exists
> > as the One beyond any division... You are from that point
> > conscious of the Reality of One... there is no longer the
illusion
> > of duality it has been transcended... and you have gained
what
> > is termed Moksha or liberation... KNOWING absolutely that
maya
> > realm has no more reality in the end other than an extended
> > dream state held and sustained by minds play...
Consiousness in
> > never ending eternal unfolding play... but maya realm
becomes to
> > you empty in nature and thereby forever non-dual..... the
minds
> > illusions shattered....
> >
> >v: Nothing is left and this cannot die, nor
> > is it born ,nor does it exist in time.
> >C: Yes... at the split second of realization it is KNOWN FOR A
FACT
> > that ESSENSE is ever beyond birth and death... that only
the body
> > of form comes and goes but most assuredly you are NOT the
BODY
> > nor the forms illusion of ego centered personality...
clearly the
> > ego you has died and THAT WHICH IS has been born anew....
> >
> >V: Love MUST pass away, it is the
> > final sacrifice.Love is not.Nought remains and all that
appears
> > does
> > so temporarily in this nought, the zero.
> > Bodhi Avasa.
> >C: The illusion of Love is transcended... yet what remains is
beyond
> > that temporal existance and emotion which is termed Love...
> > The final fear of self extinction has been fully entered
into
> > and has been found to be just that an empty illusion... for
> > while it is true the ego personality is at an end what has
been
> > dis-covered is the Great Truth.... That the Essense of Life
is
> > Beyond time and experiential maya realms... that all play
of maya
> > is determined by the conditionings of mind... and no more
of
> > minds illusions remain... When the emptiness of Maya in
known...
> > and the dreamstate is seen... and the Stillness of
Realization is
> > entered into the great cosmic joke is at an end.... the
illusions
> > broken and transended... and life begins... the Eternal Now
> >Unfolds....
> >
> > Love and Blessings (Bodhi Avasa for now you are and are
not
> > you are the emptiness of Being) g.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-
> >
> >
> >
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> >kundalini-unsubscribe@egroups.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:13:34 +1100
>From: "888" <bhive@alphalink.com.au>
Subject: Drukpas & Theosophy

Hello Frank,
>thanks for answer. I see, we are on different planes.

Your reply prompted me to do some internet research on the
subject and as
you can see I have use the current form of "Dugpa" in the subject
line. I
hope our flight schedules now coincide.

>HPB used the term with occult backgriund, wheras you
>use the word with scientific knowledge.

In our search for the truth we should not be a respecter of
personalities
whether they be HPB or Mahatmas, but rather, rely on the facts.
Waddell, a
scholar, claims these theosophists are wrong.
It is an important question because it now becomes a slur against
the
Bhutanese people (who have recently incorporated internet and TV
into their
kingdom.):
http://www.bootan.com/articles/king.htm
http://www.bootan.com/bhutan.htm


>You are simply playing with the words, the gramma etc.
>but that does not alter the meaning.

Not at all.
Here is a site about the Drukpa religion:
http://www.drukpa-kargyud.org/

>For a Theosophist the Dugpas are basicly black magians,
>for others not. What then?

Now they are, but the theosophists original premise may be wrong.

>For some Hitler is a bad person, for others he is a hero.
>But for those who give him bad names it is no misuse fo terms
>as they are subjectively convinst that he was evil.

In the case of Hitler there is evidence.
I'm not saying the Drukpa are not influenced by Indian tantra-
they are;
they do practice magic. So are other Tibetan sects.
It is aspects of the Bhon religion that the Nin ma practice that
is more of
a problem.

There are even a couple of Drukpa mailing lists here at
yahoogroups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMYL/message/24
Maybe they should come on to this list and explain their
position.

>Or, if you like, you can rename the Dupgas as Donald Duck, but
even if they
>are all called Donalds they remain what they are, the unreformed
remnants
>whose direction is to the left hand path.

They may be left hand path as well- let's see what they have to
say for
themselves.
I make a distinction between left hand path and black magician
BTW. Black
Magicians work alone as they are not to be trusted by anyone.

Fraternally,
Bruce









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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:32:07 -0800
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
Subject: RE: [bn-sd] Re: Peter on everything being conscious

February 13, 2001

Dear Friends Arturo, and LMH,


May I break in with a few observations, as


Your questions are very interesting. Have you a "source"
quotation for them?

According to my study of Theosophy let me put in some
observations below in the body of your letter

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
>From: arturo carvajal [mailto:arturo_carvajal@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 8:59 AM
>To: sd@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-sd] Re: Peter on everything being conscious

LMH wrote..

"Doesn't theosophy teach
that the "Mother source" of all universal energy (Kundalini) is
within each
of us?

DTB Where is this said? Kundalini Sakti is mentioned once in
the S.D. (I - 273-4) and not much is given by H.P.B. on it
directly.. There must be a god reason for this. The "yogic"
teachers of India dwell much on this, but why, and what do they
direct the attention of students to? Also they demand fees for
spiritual instruction. That alone ought to be a sign of caution
as SPIRITUAL POWERS are NEVER for SALE. They are only obtained
by the knowledge of, and practice, every moment of the day and
night of VIRTUE.
Theosophy draws the attention of all students to SPIRITUAL PURITY
and not to the attainment of "Powers," which might be abused
psychically for selfish benefit. This does not please all, who,
drawn to the mystic side of Theosophy and Hinduism, decide to
attain powers and then decide on how to use them. If one reads
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE carefully one is able to discern why and
how THEOSOPHY indicates that the harmless Path -- that of SERVICE
and generosity and obeying the LAW of KARMA, are first to be
attained.

Doesn't Raja Yoga meditation, as Patanjali teaches, show us (by
direct
experience) that we can attain all these states of awareness
while still
awake -- even to the experience of "isolation" (or Samhadi) in
the
zero-point itself? Much food for thought (and meditation) here,
I would think."

DTB If one reads carefully PATANJALI'S YOGA-SUTRAS and the Notes
appended to them by Mr. W. Q. Judge, one will be able to grasp
how the "Path of the SPIRITUAL" practice is to be understood and
applied.
NO one will ever be granted real POWER without their first having
attained and proved by trial that they are HARMLESS to all LIFE
and to all other BEINGS. If one looks up the nature and ritual
of INITIATION in the S.D. one will soon find out that the ancient
rites in Egypt, Chaldea and India were based on the firm
acquisition of VIRTUE and never are those "POWERS" granted to
those who retained the slightest part of selfishness and vice,
and selfishness.


The Kingdom of God is within, the Adept Jesus taught long time
ago, and so
the Masters have taught us all this time.

DTB If we desire to be and act as GODS, then the whole UNIVERSE
IS OPEN TO US. But there is this precedent condition: One has
to transform himself or herself into a totally harmless universal
being. One has to become a SERVANT OF KARMA and a servant to the
least Monad or Life-atom. Only this and nothing else will open
the doors to TRUTH and RIGHT LIVELIHOOD -- and so the Buddhas
have always declared.
There has always been in existence one school of disciples who
have undertaken this line of discipline, under the watchful eyes
of the Adepts and the Mahatmas. One need only read carefully
MAHATMA LETTERS as well as H.P.B.'s LETTERS TO Mr. A. P. SINNETT
to realize this is ever the sole criterion that opens doors to
the future of a true disciple of THE LAW.

Kundalini is the sleeping serpent
waiting to be awaked, and it will raise in 33 stepts to the Crown
of Glory
and Awareness, and then we might be able to understand who really
we are, we
are awake forevermore. Our Lord Buddha, after defeating Mara,
understood
what lies behind ilussion. Us, students and Buddha in the making,
we are
still behind the veil. To think otherwise is one more illusion.

DTB Buddha has always defeated the MARA-Tempter of the selfish
personality that resides with SPIRIT side by side as MATTER
within the MONADIC egg. Each one of us has both BUDDHA and MARA
resident in us., But there is a 3rd factor to be recognized:
there is also MANAS the Mind. It is directly related to the
SOURCE OF ALL : the ABSOLUTE. Therefore it is always able to
perceive the interactions of SPIRIT and MATTER outside as well as
inside all beings
During Manifestation we have active :1
1.. a vast sea of MONADS who are learning the LAWS OF NATURE.
2. We have those MONADS like the Buddhas, and the Dhyan
Chohans, and the "Builders" or "Cosmocratores" who have made
themselves "successful" in the fight for the GOAL OF LIFE -- or
Soul Immortality., and
3. We have psycho-mental humanity encased in a sentient form
physically (you and me) who are striving to make of our PSYCHIC
NATURE a well regulated and MENTALLY LOGICAL SPIRITUAL BUDDHA.
We are the Eternal pupils -- the ETERNAL PILGRIMS.
This is what I am getting from a study of Theosophy and THE
SECRET DOCTRINE.
Best wishes,
Dallas
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Thanks LMH for really trying to 'grasp' reality with the
mind..but in my
opinion it will never work, the Way of the Heart taught by HPB
and the
Mahatmas is the way. The Kingdom of God is not in our minds, but
in our
hearts. This does not mean we ought to stop TRYING to understand
Life
Mysteries..no, by all means.
Arturo


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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:32:22 -0800
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
Subject: RE: [bn-basic] Re: Linga Sharira

Dear Chris:

I think you can get the 2 books H.P.B.'s KEY TO THEOSOPHY and
Judge's OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY "on line" off blavatsky.net.

As to a diagram (is that what you want?) I think each student
creates his own. If you work from someone else's diagram you may
pick up their slant. Better to always go to the original if you
can and become a direct (not one of the filtered) students, We
don't know at this level of study how trustworthy the "filters"
are. We have been told that H.P.B. was the MESSENGER from the
ADEPTS. Mr. Judge was her close co-worker and most successful in
spreading a knowledge of theosophy in America.

To verify this one needs only to study their books and realize
how coherent they are. Also one needs to read something of the
History of Theosophy and the T. Movement -- there is a reliable
one based on documents -- titled THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT :
1875 - 1950 It is available through Blavatsky.net as also from
the THEOSOPHY COMPANY, Los Angeles.

In other words trust your own perceptions and do your own work.
If you start in trusting others with no knowledge of their
ability and veracity, you could do a lot of wandering. Study is
inevitable, and can be done slowly daily and definitely only by
one's self.

Beast Wishes

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Stewart [mailto:cstewart@taosnet.com]
>Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:42 PM
>To: basic@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-basic] Re: Linga Sharira

Dear Dallas,

Thank you for your suggestions regarding LInga Sharira. I don't
have Key to
Theosophy or Ocean of Theosophy right now, but I will try to get
some
excerpts online and around the corner look into buying. In the
mean time, is
there maybe a drawing of the model. I gather that someone has
seen all this
and perhaps drew a picture in order to understand what the
teacher saw
inside. And then have a way to sort of fit the pieces of higher
consciousness together. And have some clue what I may be missing
out on.

Is it known when the teacher taught HPB to meditate, what exactly
he told
her to do? I mean I know that the teachers words may not be the
whole story
here, but I just wondered if she revealed what was said to her
about how to
meditate?

Chris


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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:32:31 -0800
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
Subject: RE: [bn-basic] Re: Linga Sharira

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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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:32:42 -0800
>From: dalval14@earthlink.net
Subject: RE: [bn-sd] Gene on conciousness GOOD and EVIL -- KARMA

February 13, 2001


Dear Friend:

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 (or our) 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.

When we 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.

Many would 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

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-----Original Message-----
>From: DNisk98114@aol.com [mailto:DNisk98114@aol.com]
>Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:55 PM
>To: sd@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-sd] Gene on conciousness

Hard to impart to anyone the importance of deeply "feeling" these
supernal
truths about us (see all posts concerning conciousness)
particularly the
grasp of that tenuous state called the astral , but at the same
time
realizing that it MUST precede our physical form and once that is
realized
then we might proceed to the state that is responsible for
forming even the
astral.
Oh if only...... ---




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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:19:14 -0800
>From: Martin Leiderman <martinle@mindspring.com>
>Subject: Kundalini Siddhis and HPB

Regarding Kundalini and "Mother Source" and Siddhis (Powers), I
also offer:

DTB Where is this said? Kundalini Sakti is mentioned once
in
the S.D. (I - 273-4) and not much is given by H.P.B. on it
directly.. There must be a god reason for this.


HPB in the Voice of the Silence gave a lot more information:
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"Let not thy "Heaven-Born," merged in the sea of Maya, break from
the
Universal
Parent (SOUL), but let the fiery power retire into the inmost
chamber, the
chamber of the Heart (23) and the abode of the World's Mother
(24).

Then from the heart that Power shall rise into the sixth, the
middle region,
the place between thine eyes, when it becomes the breath of the
ONE- SOUL,
the
voice which filleth all, thy Master's voice.

Notes:
(23). The inner chamber of the Heart, called in Sanskrit Brahma
poori. The
"fiery power" is Kundalini.

(24). The "Power" and the "World-mother" are names given to
Kundalini - one
of
the mystic "Yogi powers." It is Buddhi considered as an active
instead of a
passive principle (which it is generally, when regarded only as
the vehicle,
or
casket of the Supreme Spirit ATMA). It is an electro-spiritual
force, a
creative power which when aroused into action can as easily kill
as it can
create.
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>>From the above quotes by HPB it is evident that HPB amplified
the knowledge
provided in the SD.
I for one don't think that everything 'good' to know is found in
the SD.
That
sounds cultist.

Also Dallas said about the Powers (Siddhis):
"Theosophy draws the attention of all students to SPIRITUAL
PURITY
and not to the attainment of "Powers, . . ."

But the Voice of the Silence says:

"Follow the wheel of life; follow the wheel of duty to race and
kin, to
friend and foe, and close thy mind to pleasures as to pain.
Exhaust the law
of Karmic retribution. Gain Siddhis for thy future birth.

Lets not be superstitious nor fearful about it. Let be prudent,
courageous
and
wise.




Martin









>
>
>
> Dallas
>
> =================================
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arturo carvajal [mailto:arturo_carvajal@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 8:59 AM
> To: sd@blavatsky.net
> Subject: [bn-sd] Re: Peter on everything being conscious
>
> LMH wrote..
>
> "Doesn't theosophy teach that the "Mother source" of all
universal energy
> (Kundalini) is
> within each of us?
>
> DTB Where is this said? Kundalini Sakti is
mentioned once in
> the S.D. (I - 273-4) and not much is given by H.P.B. on it
> directly.. There must be a god reason for this. The "yogic"
> teachers of India dwell much on this, but why, and what do they
> direct the attention of students to? Also they demand fees for
> spiritual instruction. That alone ought to be a sign of
caution
> as SPIRITUAL POWERS are NEVER for SALE. They are only obtained
> by the knowledge of, and practice, every moment of the day and
> night of VIRTUE.
> Theosophy draws the attention of all students to SPIRITUAL
PURITY
> and not to the attainment of "Powers," which might be abused
> psychically for selfish benefit.



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