Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00039)

In a message dated 01/04/02 10:18:35 AM, gschueler@earthlink.net writes:

>As far as I know, it was her students who misunderstood what she wrote
>in Isis, and Blavatsky herself never changed her position but rather simply
>clarified it. The "attempt at exegesis" in TUP's printing of Isis is the
>very article that caused me to join the TS many years ago BECAUSE in it
>she rejects reincarnation of ego, which the Gita suggests is exactly what
>happens and for which reason I have never cared for the Gita. The main
>problem, for me, is that while she rejected ego-reincarnation she suggests
>a permanent reality of the Reincarnating Ego or Individuality alias Higher
>Self, and it is this that has led so many of her followers astray. She
>rejects personality while accepting individuality, which simply trades
>one type of self for another.

According to my understanding of Blavatsky's clarification; The reincarnating 
EGO, individuality, or "higher SELF" (linked to atma-buddhi-higher manas, or 
the "human monad," and connected with the skandas) is not the same as the 
personal ego or "lower self" (linked to lower manas-kama-prana-astral body -- 
together, the maker and modifier of individual karma -- which ultimately 
conditions the skandas, or "karmic tendencies"). 

>From a theosophically sound scientific point of view; Since ALL karmic and 
skandic dynamic information is resonantly and inductively linked 
holographically (probably by coenergetic field interference patterns**) on 
both the multidimensional physical/material planes and the 
nonphysical/immaterial planes (of initial universal manifestation), the 
highest of which is the akashic plane, through "coadunate but not 
consubstantial" 'fields of manifest motion' having differing phases or 
orders of magnitude of vibrational patterns** -- which are, in turn, rooted 
in, and reflective of, the unmanifest "eternal motion" (represented by the 
infinite, non-dimensional "spinergy" of the unmanifest "primal origin," 
Parabrahm, or absolute "rootless root," or "beness") -- no dynamic 
holographic information (constituting the effects of individual karma as well 
as the resultant skandas) is ever lost, regardless of whether or not the 
Universe, or (as above, so below) the solar logos, is either *awake* in 
manvantara, or *asleep* in pralaya. 

Thus, in accordance with the theosophical fundamental principles, in spite of 
the exoteric Buddhist misinterpretations (that, apparently, conflates the two 
theosophical higher/lower selves or egos) of the esoteric teachings, the 
"reincarnating ego," or higher SELF, as an "individuality," and its 
associated skandas -- are, in effect, eternal -- at least throughout the 
"Life" of Brahma, and possibly (as well as probably) after its death and 
rebirth... And, it is only the "lower self," as a "personality," that 
disappears after each lifetime with the death of the brain/body and the 
dissolution of the astral body, kama, and the lower manas (or brain-linked 
mentality).

Also, as I interpret the Gita; Krishna refers only to the higher SELF or 
reincarnating EGO as an eternal entity, and infers the dissolution of the 
lower self or personal ego that Arjuna must destroy consciously in order to 
become fully enlightened or spiritually awakened while in the body. Thus, 
there are no discrepancies between theosophy and the Gita. (See: Questions 
and Answers on the Bhagavad Gita, by William Q. Judge and Robert Crosby.)

LHM 
**See: http://tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics/