Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00223)

Mic wrote: <<Yes the bush will regenerate; yes Clements 
succession will kick in and in 5 years time (if that) the only
evidence of there having ever been a fire will be
buried deep in the soil profile; and yes my friends
aren't truly gone but they are just enjoying their
hard earned rest before the next incarnation. But the
thought will always be with me that these plants are
not the ones that I fell in love with. These plants
are just imposters vying for my attention. Perhaps one
day I will be able to accept them and call them friends too.>>

Leon, if you read that post . . . well, there's another way that 
one might opt to define maya: In other words (?), in relation to 
change? (No end of other ways to define maya, eh? So no 
wonder you, Leon, tend to shy away from the word?) But the 
point is, as far as I can see, the maya of the esoteric tradition 
(or is there a preference for "The Esoteric Tradition" . . .) has 
"maya" referring to that which is dualistic in essence in a 
"Fundamental enough" sense that doesn't lend itself to the kind 
of comparisons that might be called, in this 
dualistic/mainstream world, "scientific" by any 
materialistic/dualistic stretch of the imagination. That kind 
of definition, as I see it, makes for a "maya" that's Fundamentally 
different enough to warrant a unique word for it. For Gerald's 
definition of maya, please see: << Maya & Existence 
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:13:46 -0800 on Theos-1


Speculatively,
Mauri