Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00480)

HI Dallas and all of you,

Yes Dallas. Yet another of your very long emails. >:-) Smile.

Now I would like anyone at this list to tell me if Theosophy has nothing all
to do with politics ?
Anyone ?
(Try reading link 4 in the below.)
The cube might become a cross unfolded allright.
And the "masters" of the wineyard might get crushed by the cornerstone (i.e.
CUBE), which they deny.

1.
The people behind the Meditaton Room and the story about it:
"Let us now turn to the artifact-for it was Hammarskjöld's artifact. I am
referring to the UN Meditation Room. The existence of the room was a hard
won battle, not by Hammarskjöld who came latter, but by the "Laymen's
Movement For A Christian World." This movement, led by such persons as
Warren Austin, Weymen Huckabee, Mrs. Pearce Drake, Frank P. Graham, Frank
Laubach and J.C. Penny, strove mightily to assure that there would be a
place in the permanent UN for prayer and meditation. The same group had
worked successfully to assure that there would be a moment of prayer at the
beginning and closing of each General Assembly, a tradition which is now
well established."
..... and
"I want to say just a few more words about the Meditation Room. It both
gains and suffers from its position. It is one of the holiest of holies of
the planet, yet it is easily accessible by the public, being located in the
Visitor's Lobby. It is thus, a great open secret. Anyone can go there at any
time. It suffers in that delegates do not use it much precisely because of
its location."
(http://www.aquaac.org/un/sprtatun.html)

2.
The meditation room - as a photo in color and Dag Hammerskjold .
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/dag/meditationroom.htm
Maybe they have Swedish - pagan meetings there. >:-) Smile.

3.
About former General Secretary Dag Hammerskjold it is said, that the
remodelled the Meditation Room of the Unied Nations and --- :
The degree of the intensity of his inner life became apparent publicly after
publication of his spiritual diary, Markings, following his death when his
plane crashed in the Congo. In his briefcase, at the site of the crash,
incidentally were found an English edition of the New Testament and Psalms
which was always with him when he traveled, and a copy of Martin Buber's I
and Thou, which he was translating into Swedish. Buber was a person with
whom he felt a deep relationship."
(http://www.aquaac.org/un/sprtatun.html)

4. United Nations a religious Sect ?
"In other words, the globalist Insiders, recognizing that all societies and
governments ultimately are rooted in religious traditions, have seen the
need for providing a religious foundation for a global society under a
global government. That religion is to be New Age.

Understandably, then, the United Nations is regarded by many of its devotees
as an essentially religious organization. Robert Muller, former UN Assistant
Secretary-General, enthused that "if Christ came back to earth, his first
visit would be to the United Nations to see if his dream of human oneness
and brotherhood had come true." Tourists at the UN may visit the Meditation
Room, a New Age chapel designed by the late UN Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold and maintained by the Lucis Trust.


The UN's Society for Enlightenment and Transformation has brought to the UN
every imaginable species of New Age crank, from "channelers" to UFO
enthusiasts. Its president, Mohammed Ramadan, has said: "As international
civil servants, we often feel our colleagues are here by divine appointment
to serve the world through the United Nations.... Our society's role is to
further this divine service by serving the servers, teaching them and
inspiring them, whether here in the headquarters or in the field." Notes the
Boston Globe: "From a small, basement headquarters at the United Nations,
Ramadan and other spiritual seekers have established several metaphysical
associations with the intention of radiating karmic energy into the upper
reaches of UN headquarters...." ..."
(http://www.petersnet.net/browse/864.htm)

5. Dag Hammerskjold a hidden Alice A. Bailey disciple ???
"In case readers may be wondering what kind of 'spirituality' Dag
Hammarskjöld advocated, a leaflet about the United Nations Meditation Room
written under the direction of Mr. Hammarskjöld stated that the eerie
lodestone altar within it 'is dedicated to the God whom man worships under
many names and in many forms'. [Quoted in R.K. Spenser, The Cult of the
All-Seeing Eye (Christian Book Club of America, 1962), p.9.] We will save
for a later time to show how this syncretistic notion is fundamental to the
development of the New Spirituality, the New World Order and to the
generation of its Occult Millennium here on Earth. In 1973, the U.N.
Secretary-General U Thant -- who was also a mystic -- formed the
organisation 'Planetary Citizens' with a New Age activist called Donald
Keys. This is yet another Non-Governmental Organisation within the U.N.
which is devoted to propagating the New Gnosticism. Since its inception,
this has grown to be a global organisation which is specifically "devoted to
preparing people for the coming of the new culture" [J. Gordon Melton (ed.),
New Age Encyclopedia (Gale Research, Inc., 1990), p.357]. In a revealing
connection, Donald Keys has been actively involved with the New Age Findhorn
Community in Scotland and writes regularly for its magazine 'One Earth'. On
one such occasion, at the beginning of the 1980s, Donald Keys wrote:

"The New Age groups are focussing and entering a new stage -- a world
related stage. They are becoming mature enough to begin to shoulder some of
the load of humanity's burden... The spread of New Age values as a unifying
"yeast" in the human loaf may be the critical ingredient for successful
emergence from the 1980s". [One Earth Image, Magazine of the Findhorn
Foundation, Vol.1, Issue 1, February/ March, 1980, p.1.]"





from
M. Sufilight with peace and love




----- Original Message -----
From: <dalval14@earthlink.net>
To: "AA-B-Study" <study@blavatsky.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: RE: Theos-World The UN sect ! On Theosophy and politics...


> Dec 14 2002
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> The black cube may have many symbolical meanings attached to it.
>
> But what has Theosophical symbology to say ? If one opens the 6 equal
> sides of the cube one has a CROSS This symbol antedates Christianity
> and is to be found used in the most ancient of temples all around the
> world.
>
> Opening The SECRET DOCTRINE one finds written (in part): {Proem}
>
> "An Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable
> to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process -- is before
> the writer's eye.
> On the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull black
> ground.
> The first, the student knows to represent Kosmos in Eternity, before
> the re-awakening of still slumbering Energy, the emanation of the Word
> in later systems.
> On the following page, the same disk, but with a central point.
> The point in the hitherto immaculate Disk, Space and Eternity in
> Pralaya, denotes the dawn of differentiation. It is the Point in the
> Mundane Egg, the germ within the latter which will become the
> Universe, the ALL, the boundless, periodical Kosmos, this germ being
> latent and active, periodically and by turns.
> The one circle is divine Unity, from which all proceeds, whither all
> returns.
> Its circumference -- a forcibly limited symbol, in view of the
> limitation of the human mind -- indicates the abstract, ever
> incognisable PRESENCE, and its plane, the Universal Soul, although the
> two are one.
> Only the face of the Disk being white and the ground all around black,
> shows clearly that its plane is the only knowledge, dim and hazy
> though it still is, that is attainable by man. It is on this plane
> that the Manvantaric manifestations begin; for it is in this SOUL that
> slumbers, during the Pralaya, the Divine Thought, wherein lies
> concealed the plan of every future Cosmogony and Theogony.
> [ NOTE: the term "Divine Thought," like that of "Universal Mind,"
> must not be regarded as even vaguely shadowing forth an intellectual
> process akin to that exhibited by man. The "Unconscious," according to
> von Hartmann, arrived at the vast creative, or rather Evolutionary
> Plan, "by a clairvoyant wisdom superior to all consciousness," which
> in the Vedantic language would mean absolute Wisdom.
> Only those who realize how far Intuition soars above the tardy
> processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception of
> that absolute Wisdom which transcends the ideas of Time and Space.
> Mind, as we know it, is resolvable into states of consciousness, of
> varying duration, intensity, complexity, etc. -- all, in the ultimate,
> resting on sensation, which is again Maya. Sensation, again,
> necessarily postulates limitation.
> The PERSONAL GOD of orthodox Theism perceives, thinks, and is affected
> by emotion; he repents and feels "fierce anger." But the notion of
> such mental states clearly involves the unthinkable postulate of the
> externality of the exciting stimuli, to say nothing of the
> impossibility of ascribing changelessness to a Being whose emotions
> fluctuate with events in the worlds he presides over. The conceptions
> of a Personal God as changeless and infinite are thus unpsychological
> and, what is worse, unphilosophical. ]
> It is the ONE LIFE, eternal, invisible, yet Omnipresent, without
> beginning or end, yet periodical in its regular manifestations,
> between which periods reigns the dark mystery of non-Being;
> unconscious, yet absolute Consciousness; unrealizable, yet the one
> self-existing reality; truly, "a chaos to the sense, a Kosmos to the
> reason."
> Its one absolute attribute, which is ITSELF, eternal, ceaseless
> Motion, is called in esoteric parlance the "Great Breath,"* which is
> the perpetual motion of the universe, in the sense of limitless,
> ever-present SPACE. That which is motionless cannot be Divine. But
> then there is nothing in fact and reality absolutely motionless within
> the universal soul.
> Almost five centuries B.C. Leucippus, maintained that Space was filled
> eternally with atoms actuated by a ceaseless motion, the latter
> generating in due course of time, when those atoms aggregated,
> rotatory motion, through mutual collisions producing lateral
> movements. Epicurus taught the same, adding to the lateral motion of
> the atoms the idea of affinity -- an occult teaching.
> From the beginning of man's inheritance, from the first appearance of
> the architects of the globe he lives in, the unrevealed Deity was
> recognized and considered under its only philosophical aspect --
> universal motion, the thrill of the creative Breath in Nature.
> OCCULTISM sums up the "One Existence" thus: "Deity is an arcane,
> living (or moving) FIRE, and the eternal witnesses to this unseen
> Presence are Light, Heat, Moisture," -- this trinity including, and
> being the cause of, every phenomenon in Nature.
> Intra-Cosmic motion is eternal and ceaseless; cosmic motion (the
> visible, or that which is subject to perception) is finite and
> periodical.
> As an eternal abstraction it is the EVER-PRESENT; as a manifestation,
> it is finite both in the coming direction and the opposite, the two
> being the alpha and omega of successive reconstructions.
> Kosmos -- the NOUMENON -- has nought to do with the causal relations
> of the phenomenal World. It is only with reference to the intra-cosmic
> soul, the ideal Kosmos in the immutable Divine Thought, that we may
> say: "It never had a beginning nor will it have an end."
> With regard to its body or Cosmic organization, though it cannot be
> said that it had a first, or will ever have a last construction, yet
> at each new Manvantara, its organization may be regarded as the first
> and the last of its kind, as it evolutes every time on a higher plane
> . . . .
> THE ESOTERIC DOCTRINE TEACHES, like Buddhism and Brahminism, and even
> the Kabala, that the one infinite and unknown Essence exists from all
> eternity, and in regular and harmonious successions is either passive
> or active.
> In the poetical phraseology of Manu these conditions are called the
> "Days" and the "Nights" of Brahma. The latter is either "awake" or
> "asleep."
> `The Svabhavikas, or philosophers of the oldest school of Buddhism
> (which still exists in Nepal), speculate only upon the active
> condition of this "Essence," which they call Svabhavat, and deem it
> foolish to theorize upon the abstract and "unknowable" power in its
> passive condition. ...The Buddhists maintained that there is no
> Creator, but an infinitude of creative powers, which collectively form
> the one eternal substance, the essence of which is inscrutable --
> hence not a subject for speculation for any true philosopher.
> Upon inaugurating an active period, says the Secret Doctrine, an
> expansion of this Divine essence from without inwardly and from within
> outwardly, occurs in obedience to eternal and immutable law, and the
> phenomenal or visible universe is the ultimate result of the long
> chain of cosmical forces thus progressively set in motion.
> In like manner, when the passive condition is resumed, a contraction
> of the Divine essence takes place, and the previous work of creation
> is gradually and progressively undone. The visible universe becomes
> disintegrated, its material dispersed; and 'darkness' solitary and
> alone, broods once more over the face of the 'deep.'
> To use a Metaphor from the Secret Books, which will convey the idea
> still more clearly, an out-breathing of the 'unknown essence' produces
> the world; and an inhalation causes it to disappear. This process has
> been going on from all eternity, and our present universe is but one
> of an infinite series, which had no beginning and will have no end."
> This passage will be explained, as far as it is possible though, its
> esoteric interpretation may contain a good deal which has hitherto
> remained entirely unknown to the Western student.
> The first illustration being a plain disc the second one in the
> Archaic symbol shows , a disc with a point in it -- the first
> differentiation in the periodical manifestations of the ever-eternal
> nature, sexless and infinite "Aditi in THAT" (Rig Veda), the point in
> the disc, or potential Space within abstract Space. In its third stage
> the point is transformed into a diameter, thus It now symbolises a
> divine immaculate Mother-Nature within the all-embracing absolute
> Infinitude.
> When the diameter line is crossed by a vertical one , it becomes the
> mundane cross. Humanity has reached its third root-race; it is the
> sign for the origin of human life to begin. When the circumference
> disappears and leaves only the it is a sign that the fall of man into
> matter is accomplished, and the FOURTH race begins. The Cross within a
> circle symbolises pure Pantheism; when the Cross was left uninscribed,
> it became phallic. It had the same and yet other meanings as a TAU
> inscribed within a circle or as a "Thor's hammer," the Jaina cross,
> so-called, or simply Svastica within a circle
> By the third symbol -- the circle divided in two by the horizontal
> line of the diameter -- the first manifestation of creative (still
> passive, because feminine) Nature was meant. The first shadowy
> perception of man connected with procreation is feminine, because man
> knows his mother more than his father. Hence female deities were more
> sacred than the male. Nature is therefore feminine, and, to a degree,
> objective and tangible, and the spirit Principle which fructifies it
> is concealed. By adding to the circle with the horizontal line in it,
> a perpendicular line, the tau was formed -- -- -- the oldest form of
> the letter. It was the glyph of the third root-race to the day of its
> symbolical Fall -- i.e., when the separation of sexes by natural
> evolution took place -- when the figure became , the circle, or
> sexless life modified or separated -- a double glyph or symbol. With
> the races of our Fifth Race it became in symbology the sacr', and in
> Hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed races;* then it changed into the
> Egyptian (emblem of life), and still later into the sign of Venus,
> Then comes the Svastica (Thor's hammer, or the "Hermetic Cross" now),
> entirely separated from its Circle, thus becoming purely phallic. The
> esoteric symbol of Kali Yuga is the five-pointed star reversed,
> thus -- the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned
> heavenward, a position every Occultist will recognize as one of the
> "left-hand," and used in ceremonial magic.*
> It is wrong and unjust to regard the Buddhists and Advaitee Occultists
> as atheists. If not all of them philosophers, they are, at any rate,
> all logicians, their objections and arguments being based on strict
> reasoning.
> Indeed, if the Parabrahmam of the Hindus may be taken as a
> representative of the hidden and nameless deities of other nations,
> this absolute Principle will be found to be the prototype from which
> all the others were copied. Parabrahm is not "God," because It is not
> a God. "It is that which is supreme, and not supreme (paravara),"
> explains Mandukya Upanishad (2.28). IT is "Supreme" as CAUSE, not
> supreme as effect. Parabrahm is simply, as a "Secondless Reality," the
> all-inclusive Kosmos -- or, rather, the infinite Cosmic Space -- in
> the highest spiritual sense, of course.
> Brahma (neuter) being the unchanging, pure, free, undecaying supreme
> Root, "the ONE true Existence, Paramarthika," and the absolute Chit
> and Chaitanya (intelligence, consciousness) cannot be a cognizer, "for
> THAT can have no subject of cognition."
> Parabrahm is, in short, the collective aggregate of Kosmos in its
> infinity and eternity, the "THAT" and "THIS" to which distributive
> aggregates can not be applied. "In the beginning THIS was the Self,
> one only" (Aitareya Upanishad); the great Sankaracharya, explains that
> "THIS" referred to the Universe (Jagat); the sense of the words, "In
> the beginning," meaning before the reproduction of the phenomenal
> Universe.
> Therefore, when the Pantheists echo the Upanishads, they do not deny a
> Creator, or rather a collective aggregate of creators, but only
> refuse, very logically, to attribute "creation" and especially
> formation, something finite to an Infinite Principle.
> Since there can be neither two INFINITES nor two ABSOLUTES in a
> Universe supposed to be Boundless, this Self-Existence can hardly be
> conceived of as creating personally. In the sense and perceptions of
> finite "Beings," THAT is Non-"being," in the sense that it is the one
> BE-NESS.
> For, in this ALL lies concealed its coeternal and coeval emanation or
> inherent radiation, which, upon becoming periodically Brahma (the
> male-female Potency) becomes or expands itself into the manifested
> Universe.
> They say that Absolute Unity cannot pass to infinity; for infinity
> presupposes the limitless extension of something, and the duration of
> that "something"; and the One All is like Space -- which is its only
> mental and physical representation on this Earth, or our plane of
> existence -- neither an object of, nor a subject to, perception. If
> one could suppose the Eternal Infinite All, the Omnipresent Unity,
> instead of being in Eternity, becoming through periodical
> manifestation a manifold Universe or a multiple personality, that
> Unity would cease to be one.
> "What is that which was, is, and will be, whether there is a Universe
> or not; whether there be gods or none?" asks the esoteric Senzar
> Catechism. And the answer made is -- SPACE.
> It is not the One Unknown ever-present God in Nature, or Nature in
> abscondito, that is rejected, but the God of human dogma and his
> humanized "Word." In his infinite conceit and inherent pride and
> vanity, man shaped it himself with his sacrilegious hand out of the
> material he found in his own small brain-fabric, and forced it upon
> mankind as a direct revelation from the one. This is precisely what
> has been done by the believers in an anthropomorphic Creator, an
> extracosmic, instead of an intracosmic God.
> The oldest religions of the world -- exoterically, for the esoteric
> root or foundation is one -- are the Indian, the Mazdean, and the
> Egyptian. Then comes the Chaldean... later, comes the Jewish,
> esoterically, as in the Kabala, following in the line of Babylonian
> Magism; exoterically, as in Genesis and the Pentateuch, a collection
> of allegorical legends.
> The Occult Catechism contains the following questions and answers:
> "What is it that ever is?" "Space, the eternal Anupadaka."* "What is
> it that ever was?" "The Germ in the Root." "What is it that is ever
> coming and going?" "The Great Breath." "Then, there are three
> Eternals?" "No, the three are one. That which ever is, is one, that
> which ever was is one, that which is ever being and becoming is also
> one: and this is Space."
> "Explain, oh Lanoo (disciple)." -- "The One is an unbroken Circle
> (ring) with no circumference, for it is nowhere and everywhere; the
> One is the boundless plane of the Circle, manifesting a diameter only
> during the manvantaric periods; the One is the indivisible point found
> nowhere, perceived everywhere during those periods; it is the Vertical
> and the Horizontal, the Father and the Mother, the summit and base of
> the Father, the two extremities of the Mother, reaching in reality
> nowhere, for the One is the Ring as also the rings that are within
> that Ring. Light in darkness and darkness in light: the 'Breath which
> is eternal.' It proceeds from without inwardly, when it is everywhere,
> and from within outwardly, when it is nowhere -- (i.e., maya, one of
> the centres). It expands and contracts (exhalation and inhalation).
> When it expands the mother diffuses and scatters; when it contracts,
> the mother draws back and ingathers. This produces the periods of
> Evolution and Dissolution, Manwantara and Pralaya. The Germ is
> invisible and fiery; the Root (the plane of the circle) is cool; but
> during Evolution and Manwantara her garment is cold and radiant. Hot
> Breath is the Father who devours the progeny of the many-faced Element
> (heterogeneous); and leaves the single-faced ones (homogeneous). Cool
> Breath is the Mother, who conceives, forms, brings forth, and receives
> them back into her bosom, to reform them at the Dawn (of the Day of
> Brahma, or Manvantara). . . . ."
> Esoteric philosophy, regarding as Maya (or the illusion of ignorance)
> every finite thing, must necessarily view in the same light every
> intra-Cosmic planet and body, as being something organized, hence
> finite.
> Follows the THREE FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS
>
>
> H P B: No apology is required for asking the reader to make himself
> familiar with them first...these basic ideas are few in number, and on
> their clear apprehension depends the understanding of all that
> follows...] SD I pp. 14 - 19
>
>
> 1. FIRST FUNDAMENTAL: "Be-ness"
>
>
> 1. the Absolute...both Absolute Being and Non-Being.
>
> 2. First manifestation...unmanifested Logos, the precursor of the
> "manifested"...the "First Cause"...the "Unconscious"
>
> 3. Spirit-matter, Life; the "Spirit of the Universe,"
> Purusha and Prakriti, or the second Logos.
>
> 4. Cosmic Ideation, Mahat or Intelligence, the Universal World-soul;
> the Cosmic Noumenon of Matter, the basis of the intelligent operations
> in and of Nature, also called Maha-Buddhi.
>
> THE ONE REALITY; its dual aspects in the conditioned Universe."
> SD I 16
>
>
> 2. SECOND FUNDAMENTAL: "Becoming"
>
>
> "The Eternity of the Universe in toto as a boundless plane;
> periodically, "the playground of numberless Universes incessantly
> manifesting and disappearing," called the "manifesting stars," and the
> "sparks of Eternity."...The absolute universality of that law of
> periodicity, of flux and reflux, ebb and flow...an alternation...so
> perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to
> comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of
> the universe." SD I 16-17
>
>
> 3. THIRD FUNDAMENTAL: "Being"
>
>
> "The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over Soul,
> the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown root; and the
> obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul--a spark of the former--through
> the Cycle of Incarnation (or "Necessity")...The pivotal doctrine of
> the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man,
> save those won by his own Ego through personal effort and merit
> throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations." SD I
> 17
>
> =================================
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Dallas
>
> ======================
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morten
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 2:40 AM
> To:
> Subject: The UN sect ! On Theosophy and politics...
>
> Hi all of you,
>
> There has been some debate going on about Theosophy and its relation
> to politics.
> Maybe those of you here at Theos-talk who are afraid about the idea
> that Theosophy as such should be involved with politics - ought to
> read the following below, so to - face some facts. (The article has a
> certain Christian twist to it, but that should be of a lesser concern.
> It is the content, which is important.)
>
> And if you would make some comments on it - I could be appreciated.
> What are your views ? Do you care ?
>
> CUT
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