Theos-Talk Archives (June 2002 Message tt00005)

Saturday, June 01, 2002

Dear John:

You got me. I thought it was a little more generous.

But let all note this is sheer THEORY -- it is HYPOTHESIS.

The figures don't matter, their value does. It's about as near to
infinity in physical terms as we can get. But Theosophy speaks of 7
planes of human life and consciousness, ours being the lowest -- so I
assume we have a lot to learn and far to go. As we are in our true
selves immortals, then there is nothing much to worry over.

Everyone laughed when in the S D II 68-70 H P B gave the figures for
THIS universe saying it was in our years a term of
311 trillion, and 40 billion years. [ 311,040,000,000,000 ]

So it makes little actual difference whether we think of the
Scientific theories and constructs or rely on the wisdom of the Adepts
( as described in S D I 272-3 ). It is an extremely long time.

To me te extraordinary nature of the concept is that if we look at it
in terms of energies, we are constantly bathed in so much and so many
that we might as well be on fire ourselves.

Our local world our planet has norms and the norm temperatures for
"life as we know it" range between about 4 to 500 degrees -- from
extreme cold in the polar regions to the great heat of the
super-heated water rising from vents at the bottom of the oceans, and
life that exists on Sulphur compounds, etc...

What do we know of "life' in regions and planes outside our physical
ken?

Best wishes

Dallas

Dallas

-----Original Message-----
From: John E. Mead
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:17 PM
To: Theosophy Study List
Subject: Re: "advanced" and . . .


----- Original Message -----
From: <dalval14@earthlink.net>
> A few years ago astronomers published an observation made of the
> deepest space that the Hubble telescope provided. As far as they
> could see about 15 to 18 billion, billion light years in time and
> distance there were always more universes. So the whole surface of
> the Universe, UNIVERSE was a mosaic of interlinked stars, and
> galaxies. It would appear that physically at least , the UNIVERSE
is
> like a gigantic and unimaginable SUN -- and we all live inside it.
>

the age of the univers is about 13-15 billion years.
they saw galaxies that formed earlier than expected.... like 12
billion
years old.

is this the observation you are refering to?
if not, then what you say above is a misinterpretation (unless I've
missed
something).

If you want to think of the surface of our current Universe
(cosmologically), it contains only light + and space-time. i.e. if
matter
was on the literal edge, then it has been left-behind by the faster
moving
light.

However, the "collision of 'Branes'" theory (two 4-D space-time
Universes
colliding in a higher dimensional space that creates our current
Universe),
then you may have matter being created on the 'edge'.

just confused by your statement. could you reference the observations
above
that you speak of ? I am curious.

peace -

john e. m.