Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00244)

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From: "Steve Stubbs" <stevestubbs@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:04 AM
Subject: Theos-World Re: Maya and Beyond


> --- In theos-talk@y..., "M N S" <redrosarian@y...> wrote:
> > It is my understanding that illusion has more of a mental quality
> to
> > it while delusion is the combination of illusion that has both a
> > mental and an emotional quality to it. I'm not sure if this is a
> > theosophical perspective.
>
> It has been awhile since I took psychology 101, but The Great Moon
> Illusion is a perceptual foulup, whereas in the DSM IV the delusional
> disorders (a class of psychiatric disorders) are mental rather than
> perceptual. Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type is the medical
> term for what most lay people call paranoia. (As when Woody Allen
> says that "paranoids have enemies, too.") So in psychology IL-lusion
> and DE-lusion do have different meanings. Maya is usually translated
> as IL-lusion, but I am not sure if the term includes DE-lusions as
> well or not.
>
> Does anyone know?

Maya, esoterically understood refers to the illusion and limitation of Form
or
otherwise the body of physical manifestation and its Karmic limitations. It
is
to do with ones etheric/physical limitations personal and environmental.

It is not the same as the illusion of the mental body as such. Glamour is
the
hindrance of the Astral body. Firstly it is Maya which is cast off as a
hindrance
as one moves along the probationary path.
Secondly the glamour of the astral body is shed and then the illusion of
the Mental body is ascended. They are hinderances as dealt with by
Patenjali.

Psychology needs to deal with the health of the emotional body, with its
under and overactivity as in Bi Polar disorder and the effects the Moon has
upon it, if indeed that is the case. Secondly it needs to deal with the
many
problems associated with the mental body as with paranoia, split
personalities
and the forming of the personality out of the so called split or many
embryonic
ones. Also there is the consequent overstimulations of these bodies to be
cared for and the numerous delusions of power, assumptions and general
obsessions ect. Then there is the dream life but thats way off topic.

Regards
Jeremy