Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00064)

Brigitte, The quote from HPB that you link with Randolph means well, I think. The problem is in the terminology that she uses. 

<<<"The Monad emerges from its state of spiritual and intellectual unconsciousness; and-gets directly into the plane of Mentality.">>

Blavatsky's very misleading terminology here suggests that the "Monad" is a thing and that it actually comes down onto the mental plane and that it lacks consciousness. None of this is true. What really is going on, is that the Monad sends out a ray or emanation of itself which enters the highest plane, and then this emanates a ray into the second, and then this emanates a ray into the third, and so on to the mental plane. It is the fifth generation ray of the Monad that lacks consciousness on the mental plane, not the Monad itself.

You will not find Blavatsky's 7-plane solar system model anywhere in Buddhism, which uses another model (the three desire, form, and formless realms together with their various subplanes). Are you suggesting that she got her 7-plane model from Randolph?

Jerry S.

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