Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00181)

<<<The word ABSOLUTE, or ABSOLUTENESS means there are no definitions we can set of ay kind. There is no such thing as relation or relativity. It is the "eternal background" and is deliberately
cast as a subject that escapes any attempt at individualized or personalized consciousness to penetrate. It might be called the final refuge of CAUSE, or the abode of the CAUSELESS CAUSE.>>>

Dallas, your words here all suggest ineffability. And I agree with you when Blavatsky's Absolute equates to non-duality. But she also uses the term Absolute to mean nirvana, which is emptiness, and which is also the upper three planes. When used in this latter sense, Absolute is not ineffable, and is very much relative.

Given your take on the word "Absolute" above, I wonder how you would define other terms, like Be-ness, Paramatman, and Parabrahman? Are you suggesting that these all different words for the same thing, or do we have multiple ineffables? 

Jerry S.
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