Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00321)

Friday, July 27, 2001


Dear Peter:

This is remarkably good and valuable Many thanks

Let me add one or two things:

S D I pp 570 p 575 contains some of the most important
statements abut our capabilities and potentialities and the
linkage to and between the Great Beings who once were Men such as
we are, and are now truly SUPER-MEN

I the KEY TO THEOSOPHY (HPB) it is made clear that Manas is the
link between the HIGHER and the LOWER SELF. These taken together
make up the TWO EGOS in MAN.

H.P.Blavatsky actually seems to make them into 3 distinct
principles At the center is MANAS, pure and uncolored.

In connection with BUDDHI it is Buddhi-N=Manas or the WISE MIND.

But, it also serves as the connecting link between the 2
Manases -- the ANTASKARANA.

The Lower Manas is that aspect of Manas that has been "captured"
by Kama the selfish and ignorant (but cunning and sly) KAMA.
Desire, Passion, the result of VIRTUES being turned into VICES
because they are centred in the selfish personality and have not
yet perceived the inherent UNIVERSALITY and ETERNITY of the
MONAD.

But, they are Monads too. Only they have less experience than
the Monads who are full ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS (our Higher Self the
ETERNAL MONAD with full perception of the UNIVERSE and its
workings.)

With the gradual increments of such wisdom comes responsibility
and hence those Great Beings perform functions on the Cosmic and
the Kosmic planes which we may speculate abut but which or
Kama-Manasic minds (even under the influence of charity,
benevolence and brotherhood) can not yet fully grasp, except as a
logical ideal that demands their existence.,


Does that make sense ?

Dal

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Merriott [mailto:nous@btinternet.com]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 10:23 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World Some thoughts on Mahatmas and Adepts

Friends,

Here are a few thoughts on Mahatmas and Adepts to add to what had
already
been offered.

>From our understanding of Theosophy, particularly of the human
sevenfold
constitution, we can appreciate that the status of a Mahatma
centres
solely around the higher principles of 'Atma-Buddhi-Manas' and
has little to
do with the 'intellectual' capabities and qualities of the
personality.

The Mahatma is one has has blended Manas into the higher
Individuality and
is able to 'take up' and 'give up' the lower four principles at
will.

"The real Mahatma is then not his physical body but that higher
Manas which
is inseperably linked to the Atma and its vehicle (the 6th
principle)"
Collected Writings v6 "Mahatmas and Chelas"

HPB adds that it is impossible to tell whether or not we are in
the presence
of a Mahatma by his physical appearance alone. It is only our
spiritual
intellect (Nous, Buddhi-Manas) raised above the veils of Maya
that is able
to perceive a Mahatma. As to the individual who can do so..

"His vision will be bright and he will see the MAHATMA wherever
he may be,
for, being merged into the sixth and seventh principles, which
are
ubiquitous and omnipresent, the MAHATMAS may be said to be
everywhere"
(ibid)

Subba Row, in his commentary on "The Idyll of the White Lotus"
by Mabel
Collins, makes the following interesting remarks. Below are
extracts, some
of which are qouted in the SD (around pages SD I 574).

"This light of the Logos, which is represented in the story as
the fair
goddes of the sacred flower of Egypt, is the bond of union and
brotherhood
which maintains the chain of spiritual intercourse and sympathy
running
through the long succession of the great hierophants of Egypt and
extending
to all the geat Adepts of this world who derive their influx of
spiritual
life from that same source. It is the Holy Ghost that keeps up
the Apostolic
Succession, or the Guruparampara as the Hindus call it. It is
this spiritual
light which is transmitted from the Guru to the disciple when the
time of
Initiation comes. The so-called "transfer of life" is no other
than the
transmission of this light. And further, the Holy Ghost, which is
as it were
th veil or the body of the Logos, and hence its flesh and blood,
is the
basis of the Holy Communion.

"Every Fraternity of Adepts has this bond of union; and time and
space
cannot tear it asunder. even when there is an apparent break in
the
succession on the physical plane, a neophyte, following the
sacred law and
aspiring towards a higher life, will not be in want of guidance
and advice
when the proper time arrives, though the last Guru may have died
several
thousands of years before he was born.

"Every Buddha meets at his last Initiation all the Great Adepts
who reached
Buddhaship during the preceding ages; similarly every class of
Adepts has
its own bond of spiritual communion whit knits them together into
a properly
organised Fraternity. The only possible and effectual way of
entering into
any such Grotherhood, or partaking of the holy communion, is by
bringing
oneself within the influence of the spiritual light which
radiates from
one's own Logos. I may further point out here. without venturing
into
details, that such communion is only possible between persons
whose souls
derive their life and sustenance from the same divine ray, and
that, as
seven distinct rays radiate from the "Central Spiritual Sun," all
Adepts and
Dhyan Chohans are divisible into seven classes, each of which is
guided,
controlled and overshadowed by one of the seven forms or
manifestations of
the divine wisdom.

"In this connection it is necessary to draw the reader's
attention to
another general law which regulates the circulation of spiritual
life and
energy through the several Adepts who belong to the same
Fraternity. Each
Adept may be conceived of as a centre wherein this spiritual
force is
genreated and stored up, and through which it is utilised and
distributed.
This mysterious energy is a kind of spiritual electrical force,
and its
transmission from one centre to another presents some of the
phenomena
noticed in electrical indiuction. Consequently there is a
tendency towards
the equalisation of the amounts of energy stored up in the
various centres."

...Peter







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