Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00049)

Monday, August 06, 2001


Dear Steve:

If reincarnation is a fact then we have in the past lived in many
civilizations with various levels of technology, some are said to
be ahead of ours.

In this incarnation we may be limited to what we learn as
children, or observe as we grow up. Possibly some of the old
knowledge "leaks" through into this life and we have a person who
shows signs of genius or is a great inventor. There are many
examples of both kinds which spring to mind covering the last
2/300 years, and particularly the last 125.

If we take the point of view that NATURE has everything in place,
then the laws and facts of existence and cooperation, exist,
perhaps unnoticed and unseen. Our cutting edge Science in many
departments is just cutting through to the places where NATURE
has laid out the program of support to all of us, dull or
learned.

Of course if we disbelieve in our own immortality as a
SPIRIT/SOUL and in WISDOM as being a universal fact. These ideas
will not mean much.

Novelty and invention are always relative to existing theory,
philosophy, grasp of metaphysics, ethics, morality and
cooperation. Competition and deliberate concealment of facts
destroy a civilization, whereas openness, collaboration and
brotherhood build it.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Stubbs [mailto:stevestubbs@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:00 PM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] Alternatives to Darwin

Rampakrash:

There are two arguments that may be of interest in
this connection.

One was made by AR Wallace, a spiritualist and
evolutionary theorist who is quoted by HPB. He says
that according to the Darwin theory, living creatures
should have exactly the cognitive and other gifts
required to live in their environment as they find it.
If this were true, Wallace argues, a person raised in
a pre-technological civilization (I think he used
Australian aboriginal societies as an example) should
be unable to transplant themselves to a technological
society successfully. We know of course that this is
not true, and therefore a fundamental principle of
Darwinism falls to the ground. Wallace argues that
some intelligence knew that man would need more
intelligence in the future and gifted him with more
intelligence than Darwin would predict that he would
have in anticipation of this future need. I am pretty
sure I remember Wallace correctly, but sorry I do not
have a page number for you. Also, I do not claim to
know anything about Darwinism, bit Wallace was a
renowned expert, so I am merely relating his opinions.

Another argument was advanced by Arthur Schopenhauer.
His philosophical theories were all based on the
pre-eminent importance of the will, which is also an
important idea in Theosophy. He pointed to animals
which have horns and antlers and suggested that they
have these appendages because they want them. In
other words, it is the will of these animals,
sustained for generations, which resulted in them
evolving the eay they did. Thus here again you have
intelligence and not mindless forces resulting in
evolution and directing its course. Schopenhauer
seemed to think individual deer were doing this, but
for his theory to make sense, it would have to be some
transcendent being, a sort of group soul of all deer,
which ecerted this will, so that his theory connects
with Theosophy if we are to make it logical.

In ISIS, HPB explained the "mother's marks" women can
impress on their unborn children by saying that the
linga sarira is affected by the will, and that it is
this linga sarira which determines the development of
its dependent principle, the physical boy. That is my
interpretation, anyway. Modern scientists pooh-pooh
the idea of mother's marks, but I know this phenomenon
occurs because I have seen it with my own eyes. Many
years ago I was married to a woman, now long deceased,
who had a radical thyroidectomy. This apparently was
a traumatic experience for her, and when she had a
daughter (after the surgery and before I met her) the
child was born with a birthmark on her throat the
exact size, shape, and position of her mother's
surgical scar. I found it amusing that physicians
were able to look at the evidence which was plainly
visible and deny that it had any significance. If we
accept the reality that these mother's marks do exist
it becomes obvious that intelligence can cause
physical changes in the next generation, and that
Wallace's theory and Schopenhauer's theory may have
considerable merit to them.

SS




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