Theos-Talk Archives (September 2002 Message tt00020)

Sept 2 2002

Re: Polar Shifts and Antiquity

Dear Friends:

Usually our approach to considerations about our earth, its
geology and archaeology tend to limit themselves to the
PRESENT PHYSICAL APPEARANCE of rocks, strata, and their
estimated movements over short or long ages.

In The SECRET DOCTRINE, does the matter of change always
mean the physical? It is said that the "matter" used in the
earlier Rounds, Globes was of a different nature from the
physical we see and deal with daily. This ought to make us
cautious.

ASTRAL is mentioned. We know little about that, except that
is said to electro-magnetic, and form the basis ( a kind of
lattice work of force fields ?) for the arrangement of the
physical molecules and cells into forms we now so easily
identify with our waking consciousness. We are also told
that "elementals (forces of nature) live in the astral, and
depraved human souls called "elementaries" also inhabit that
state or condition of substance -- associated closely with
their "kama-rupas" (bodies of desire).

And behind the "astral" there is the plane, substance and
state of the "LIFE-FORCES" (PRANA and JIVA), on which very
little is said. ]

Then behind that is the KAMA RUPA (or the "form" of the
desire-principle") and in one place H P B calls it the
grossest and densest of all (S D I 260). Curious. Makes
one wonder.

Ascending the scale we come to the planning -- the MANAS --
the "thought-producer" -- and beyond that the MONAD (
ATMA/BUDDHI).

Earlier in The SECRET DOCTRINE, H P B writes, quoting the
Master (S D I 166 center of page -- Mr. Judge refers to this
in his article THE EARTH CHAIN OF GLOBES Judge Articles I
p. 214...) who was writing to Mr. A. P. Sinnett that the
"globes" and their 7-fold nature and substance made them
coadunitional with our Earth, but not consubstantial. In
other words, they shared the "space" but, being on different
planes of action and nature, their SUBSTANCE was different,
and we in our present state of consciousness - physical --
could not perceive those. There is a curious and important
statement made concerning this in the S D I 527fn "...all
the suns are the Kama rupa of akasa an so is ours. It is
only when regarded as an individual entity in his own
Kingdom that Surya (the sun) is the 7th principle of the
great body of MATTER."

I mention these points because they indicate that all our
considerations should not be relegated solely to the
PHYSICAL SIDE OF THINGS. We have much to seek for, and to
learn concerning the CAUSATIVE aspect of our physical
artifacts. This includes: polar shifts, inversions,
continental movements and their appearances and
disappearances in the present as in the past..

We need to discover more about the "pole shifts." Much can
be discovered and uncovered by going to the INDEX to the S D
and tracing what has been taught concerning these ancient
historical places and events of our own past, when as
spiritual souls, Eternal Pilgrims -- we lived in the bodies
provided to us by our Karma at those times. We are in
effect reviewing in The SECRET DOCTRINE our own history.

As I recall the sidereal (SUN) year covers a period of some
25,868 years. This marks the secular circular movement of
the polar orientation as it describes a vast circle in the
northern sky constellations. Any good fundamental text book
on astronomy gives these details.

Change in earth's axis is mentioned in S D II 360.

In the past 60 years there has been noticed quite a change,
a kind of wandering in the location of the magnetic pole.
As an example, in older US cities when the streets and
avenues were first laid out 18th and 19th Centuries, they
followed the magnetic lines then current. Today the compass
shows a different orientation. Finally, when the actual
axis of rotation of the Earth was located in the early part
of last century (20th), the layout of roads and streets was
changed to that axis (of rotation) and the magnetic axis was
discarded as a standard. Los Angeles shows this graphically
around the Western center of the older section of the city.
The orientation of Alvarado and Hoover avenues mark the
change clearly. It shows approximately 18 degrees variance.

Polar inversions occurred 3 times says the S D -- S D II
353, 360, 368,432-2, 436.

Question: are these physical inversions or are they
magnetic? The 4th time there was a movement of substance, a
change, was in the Atlantis cycle S D II 350, 785-6. Is
physical or astral substance meant, or both ?

H P B speaks in one place concerning ancient fossils that
some represent astral fossils from an earlier Round (3rd).
They were caught in the more recent re-consolidation of the
Earth's substance out of the astral and into the physical,
and now form a part of the geological evidence of the
antiquity of evolution. [ S D I 455, II 68fn, 684, 712,
730-1, ]

The "circle" described by our wobbly revolutions seems to
cover a circle of about 22.5 degrees. Each zodiacal "sign"
has a cycle of 2155 years ( 25,686 /12 -- SECRET DOCTRINE
I 314, 439fn; II 330, 332, 357, 770 ).

It is called a "heavenly measure" S D II 363. Also S D
I 439fn, II 770,

The present one will end about 16,000 years hence (S D II
331).

S D II 785-6 speaks of these changes. Also S D II 332,
356-8, 431,

In The SECRET DOCTRINE we find reference to the periodical
rising and sinking of continents: S D II 325-353,
144,255, 307, 400fn, 762fn, 603, 787fn.

The remnants of the older continents overlap S D II 433fn.

The older got "sucked under" :-- S D II 330, 332-3.

The age of the various continents is estimated: S D II
606fn.

Their sequence is give in S D II p 8.

The first continent was called THE IMPERISHABLE SACRED LAND
and is now "concealed."
(S D II 6, 372fn, 606fn.

The second is named the Hyperborean. (S D II 7, 11-12,
274, 606fn.)

The third was re-named Lemuria, S D I 439; II 10,
316fn, 324-6, 329, 336, 371-2,

The Fourth Atlantis: S D I 369; II 314, 395fn, 762,
787fn,

The fifth is America and parts of Europe and Asia Minor
SECRET DOCTRINE II 8, 327, 392-402,

Well this is a lot to review,

Best wishes,

Dallas

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