Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00125)

<<<<Can you give the page number and edition of THE INNER GROUP TEACHINGS where it is said that each princile is on a plane? Also where does she tell us that atma is the only principle that survives the pralaya? Thanks in advance for the page numbers, etc.
Daniel>>>


Daniel, I used the version of INNER GROUP TEACHINGS that has your historical intro (Compiled by Spierenburg). Look at the bottom of page 19 where she says "Each principle is on a different plane. The Chela must rise to one after another, assimilating each, until the three are one. This is the real root of the Trinity." Obviously she is referring here to uniting atma, buddhi, and manas together to form a unified trinity.

I find this to be a truly wonderful book, filled full with goodies. For example, at the middle of page 18 we find "There is no Prana on the Astral Plane" which verifies that prana and the lower principles are on the etheric plane. And on page 16 we find "The ring Pass-not is at the end of the manifested Universe" which implies that the Abyss is at the top of the fourth or causal planes, which fully agrees with the Qabala. On page 36 we find that "The Silent Watcher is in the fourth Kosmic Plane" which locates Him on the causal plane, probably on the highest subplane. It is filled with golden nuggets like this. This is one of my very favorite books.

And now, by request, some quotes (all from SD Vol I):

Parabrahman is NOT Atma:

"Parabraham is not this or that, it is not even consciousness, as it cannot be related to matter or anything conditioned. It is not Ego nor is it Non-ego, not even Atma, but verily the one source of all manifestations and modes of existence." SD Vol I p 130

The SD ONLY concerns our Earth Planetary Chain:

"the Stanzas are concerned only with our Solar System in general, with the planetary chains therein, inferentially, and with the history of our globe (the 4th and its chain) especially. All the Stanzas and verses which follow in this Book I. refer only to the evolution of, and on, our Earth." SD Vol I p 151

The 7 principles on the planes with atma alone being spiritual:

"The seven are on three material planes and one spiritual plane, answering to the three Upadhis (material bases) and one spiritual vehicle (Vahan) of our seven principles in the human division." Sd Vol I p 153

Many different pralayas exist:

"Occultism divides the periods of Rest (Pralaya) into several kinds; there is the individual pralaya of each Globe, as humanity and life pass on to the next; seven minor Pralayas in each Round; the planetary Pralaya, when seven Rounds are completed; the Solar Pralaya, when the whole system is at an end; and finally the Universal Maha -- or Brahma -- Pralaya at the close of the "Age of Brahma." These are the three chief pralayas or "destruction periods." There are many other minor ones, but with these we are not concerned at present." SD Vol I p 172

The fact and acknowledgment that atma-buddhi is NOT a monad:

"Thus it may be wrong on strictly metaphysical lines to call Atma-Buddhi a MONAD, since in the materialistic view it is dual and therefore compound." SD Vol I p 179

Buddhi-Manas is absorbed into Atma at Praylaya:

"This trinity is one and eternal, the latter being absorbed in the former at the termination of all conditioned and illusive life. The monad, then, can be traced through the course of its pilgrimage and its changes of transitory vehicles only from the incipient stage of the manifested Universe. In Pralaya, or the intermediate period between two manvantaras, it loses its name, as it loses it when the real ONE self of man merges into Brahm in cases of high Samadhi (the Turiya state) or final Nirvana" SD Vol I p 570

Jerry S.

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