Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00470)

Dec 14 2002

Dear Friends:

some of these quotes from the S D may be found useful to be kept in
mind whole studying it.

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Key Ideas in SD I


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"This work is written for the instruction of students of
occultism." SD I 22


the Oldest Tenets are gathered together into a harmonious and unbroken
whole.
S D I vii


COHERENCY OF THIS "NEW GENESIS"


AIM OF SD

1. Nature is not a "fortuitous concurrence of atoms.
2. Assign to Man his rightful place.
3. Rescues archaic Truths from degradation.
- basis of all Religions.
4. Uncovers their fundamental Unity of origin.
5. Occult side of Nature has never been approached by our
Science.
[ see HPB Art II 48-50 ] S D I VIII



"It is the Spiritual evolution of the inner, immortal man that forms
the fundamental tenet in the Occult Sciences." SD I 634


"Initial existence...is a conscious spiritual quality." SD I
289


"The closer the approach to one's Prototype, "in Heaven," the better
for the mortal whose personality was chosen by his own personal deity
(the seventh principle), as its terrestrial abode. For, with every
effort of will towards purification and unity with that "Self-god,"
one of the lower rays breaks and the spiritual entity of man is drawn
higher and ever higher to th ray that supersedes the first, until,
from ray to ray, the inner man is drawn into the one and highest beam
of the Parent Sun." SD I 638-9



"Devotion" the first and foremost motor in his nature, for it is the
only one that is natural in our heart, which is innate in us...This
feeling of irrepressible, instinctive aspiration in primitive man..."
"The Great Sacrifice" ( I 207-8) SD I 210


"...the first fundamental dogma of Occultism is Universal Unity (or
Homogeneity) under three aspects." SD i 58


"Esoteric Philosophy teaches that every thing lives and is conscious,
but not that all life and consciousness are similar to those of human
or even animal beings. Life we look upon as the one form of
existence." SD I 49


"...circular motion, a fundamental dogma... SD I 116-7


"...a fundamental law in Occultism, that there is no rest or cessation
of motion in Nature..." SD I 97


"Space, however viewed--...is as the "Unknown Causeless Cause," is the
oldest dogma in Occultism." SD I 9


" Nature abhors a vacuum..." SD I 495


"The radical unity of the ultimate essence of each constituent part of
the compounds of Nature--from Star to mineral Atom, from the highest
Dhyan Chohan to the smallest infusoria--this is the one fundamental
law in Occult Science." SD I 120


"There is no "chance" in Nature, wherein everything is mathematically
co-ordinate and mutually related in its units." [see SD I 97 ] SD I
653


"...it is...a fundamental principle of Occult philosophy, the same
homogeneity of matter, and immortality of natural law..." SD I 640


"...perfect analogy, as a fundamental law in Occultism."
SD I 586fn


"The Occultist sees in the manifestation of every force in Nature, the
action of the quality, or the special characteristic of its noumenon,
which noumenon is a distinct and intelligent Individuality on the
other side of the manifested mechanical Universe." SD I 493


"Metaphysically and esoterically there is but One Element in Nature,
and at the root of it is the Deity." SD I 460


"Occult Science has its changeless traditions from prehistoric times.
It may err in particulars; it can never become guilty of a mistake in
questions of Universal laws." SD I 516


"It is on the doctrine of the illusive nature of matter and the
infinite divisibility of the atom, that the whole science of Occultism
is built." SD I 520


"The homogeneous primordial Element is simple and single only on the
terrestrial plane of consciousness and sensation, since matter, after
all, is nothing else than the sequence of our own states of
consciousness, and Spirit an idea of psychic intuition."
SD I 542


"Collectively, men are the handiwork of hosts of various spirits,
distributively, the tabernacles of those hosts, and occasionally, and
singly, the vehicles of some of them." SD I
224


"Draw a deep line in your thought between that ever incognizable
essence, and the, as invisible, yet comprehensible Presence
(Mulaprakriti), or Schekinah, from beyond and through which vibrates
the Sound of the Verbum, and from which evolve the numberless
hierarchies of intelligent Egos, of conscious as of semi-conscious,
perceptive and apperceptive Beings, whose essence is spiritual Force,
whose Substance is the Elements and whose Bodies (when needed) are the
atoms--and our doctrine is there...reality in the manifested world is
composed of a unity of units, so to say, immaterial...and infinite..."
SD I 629



(incomplete - more quotations can be added from time to time)

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Best wishes,

D T B