Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00227)

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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:20 PM
Subject: [bn-study] RE: REINCARNATION SUPPORTED -- Ocean Ch. .10


cut> To lose sight of immortality and purpose is to submit to
> "Ahankara" or the sense of "Lower-self-ishness. One then places
> the personality ahead of the SELF -- the ATMAN.
>
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Wry: And to try to hold this in sight creates and reinforces duality in the
most deadly, insiduous way. The personality wants to be "immortal" and will
hold to this idea, thereby being bonded to the sense of "Lower-
self-ishness"
with no way out. Maybe by this means, there can be a certain kind of
spiritual progression, but it will always be stopped short by the device of
the image of oneself being immortal. This is the last thing to ever tell
ignorant people of personality. The proper approach is to reinforce and
hammer in the idea of the inevitabitity of death. This alone will spur
people to make the appropriate efforts. Of course, if the time appropriate
aim of her teachings was to replace Christianity with a different
perspective, then it makes sense that she would speak of immortality in this
way. It was an interesting experiment, but methods are always being refined
and though the ultimate aim might be the same, the means is always being
adjusted to satisfy the conditions for its accomplishments.

As far as the possibility of actual "immortality," because of the way a
"monad" is formed interdependently in relationship to the physical body and
its position on earth in relationship to the sun, it is unlikely that a
human being could achieve an individual existence past the life of the solar
system. Whoever you are, if you are hooked on donkey corn, ponder this idea
and feel the sorrow that will make you a man and not a child. Sincerely, Wry
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