Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00144)

Jerry, thanks for your comments below on THE INNER GROUP TEACHINGS 
and also for your quotes from THE SECRET DOCTRINE.

I will try to comment on several things in your posting but at this 
point will comment on just one item that you bring up.

You write:

> 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

Jerry, your summary (with the emphasis on the word ONLY) and the 
extract from HPB are misleading since you did NOT quote enough of the 
paragraph to keep HPB's remarks in context. She actually penned the 
following:

"With these verses -- the 4th Sloka of Stanza VI. -- ends that 
portion of the Stanzas which relates to the Universal Cosmogony after 
the last Mahapralaya or Universal destruction, which, when it comes, 
sweeps out of Space every differentiated thing, Gods as atoms, like 
so many dry leaves. From this verse onwards, 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. . . . "

You left out a very significant part of the paragraph. So it is not 
accurate to write that the "SD ONLY concerns our Earth Planetary 
Chain." 

More later.

Daniel
http://hpb.cc



Jerry wrote:

> 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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