Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00055)

December 5, 2001

Dear Tony:

I think Karma is about as absolute as the ABSOLUTE -- an
indistinguishable part of IT.

It is possible that in periods of non-manifestation there are the
resting (sleeping) Monads -- in which case the necessary
"vehicles for Karma" are in abeyance for the time being, but as
The SECRET DOCTRINE (Vol. i) suggests, they are ready to reenter
manvantara (and objective, material forms) when Karma demands
their presence, or re-emergence. H.P.Blavatsky stats this in her
brief article ISIS UNVEILED AND THE VISISHTADVAITA (H P B
Articles III p. 265; BLAVATSKY: Collected Works (TPH) Vol. 7
p. 50 )

In fact, to be purely logical. It is impossible to have an
absolutely total PRALAYA. Always somewhere there is MANVANTARA.
Its like the YANG / YIN symbol -- always together at every point.
Also a good symbol for the MONAD in manifestation.

Cadeuceus is another good symbol because with the 2 intertwined
serpents is the third -- a straight line -- and that I think is
MIND and is directly related to the ABSOLUTENESS.

Consequently every factor of manifestation is concurrent with
non-manifestation -- there can be no ABSOLUTES here. -- except,
dimly in the remote distance there is still the CAUSELESS CAUSE
and the ROOTLESS ROOT -- also I suppose -- the TIMELESS TIME.


Hope this helps,

Dal

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony [mailto:alpha@dircon.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:06 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: Theos-World RE: [bn-study] RE: Karma an important
Law of Nature

Dear Dallas

Just to take the first Aphorism:

(1) There is no Karma unless there is a being to make it or feel
its effects.

Is this actually the case?

After the 15 number Manvantara...Pralaya...then the next
Manvantara. Isn't
that Karma? Isn't karma's "abode" the Absolute. IT ART ITSELF
LAW ("Key
to Theosophy, page 65) And on this same page regarding the
Absolute: ". . .
as it is absolute existence, and *Be-ness*, not a Being."

In the Glossary ("Key to Theosophy") ". . . Karma neither
punishes nor
rewards; it is simply *the one* Universal LAW which guides
unerringly . . ."

Why the need for a being (as per the aphorism)? Be-ness IS.
Without
karma, how could there ever be a being?

Tony



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