Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00231)

Hi. You are acting as if I have done something terrible by expressing my
perspective, but this is what enquiry is about. There is nothing to fear.
Only learning can occur and the shedding of false ideas. You, Herm and Reed
shouldn't be so disturbed that someone expresses views and ideas contrary to
your own. This can only be an opening. So what if someone "misinterprets"
Madame Blavatsky's writings? It is all the more opportunity to discuss and
clarify what she was saying and for learning to occur.

I do not know anything about you, Herm, except that you have written only
four messages the entire time I have been on Theos-talk and all four were to
me, so I guess we can at least assume that something about my material is
inspiring you to participate. See below.

----- Original Message -----
From: <LeonMaurer@aol.com>
To: <study@blavatsky.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 2:19 PM
Subject: [bn-study] RE: REINCARNATION SUPPORTED -- Ocean Ch. .10


> In light of Reed's comments, I thought the members of bn-study might be
> interested in this commentary to Wry's letter picked up from Theos-talk.
>
> Lenny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dalval14@e...>
> To: <study@b...>
> 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.
> >
> cut
>
> <<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.>>
>
> Herm:
> Do you really understand what Blavatsky's purpose was, other than what she
> constantly reiterated in her books and their introductions? I've read (and
> listened to) every word she ever wrote, and I have never heard her say or
> even
> imply that she was trying to set up a new religion or "replace
Christianity."

Wry: I have never said that she was trying to set up a new religion, but
sometimes, judging by the responses of certain people I have encountered on
theosophy lists, though not all, it seems that some may have turned it into
such. As far as "replace Christianity" goes, maybe this is overstated, or
maybe not. Bring your own salt. I believe some people get the gist of what
I intended to say, though the words may not have been perfect. In my
opinion, she was bringing a new perspective, an Eastern perspective to the
West. In any case, just because she didn't say so, does not mean it is true
or not true.


> How
> can you assume that what she was or Dalval is talking about is the
> "immortality of the personality"?


Wry: I have not and do not assume this, and what has led you to think I
have? Give the words and I will clarify. Of course she did not mean this.

>(Have you read all of her teachings? If
> so, have
> you found any inconsistencies or "time dependencies"?)

Wry: I have not read all of her teachings. What doi you mean by "time
dependencies?" Please explain as I genuinely do not understand. Her whole
teaching was obviously interconnected to the surrounding causes and
conditions at the time in which it was being given, and also connected to
her aim, which we can probably only speculate about, which would have to
have been connected to and tempered by these conditions.

>. Of course, HPB never
> taught that, nor can it be true -- since it's obvious that the physical
body
> and
> the personality it assumes (and changes continually) doesn't remain after
> death. All that does are the skandas and the individual higher Self that
is
> destined to reincarnate again and again until Nirvana or the next stage of
> universal
> consciousness is reached.

Wry: It may be something like this, though it is questionable that what you
call the skandas remain.

> (If one doesn't annihilate oneself eventually, by
> becoming an "absolute materialist" or "hungry ghost"). Your materialistic
> arguments, concerns and disagreements with theosophical principles, appear
to
> be
> leading in that direction.

Wry: There are different densities of material and they interconnect. This
is the key to everything. The spirit is also material, but a more subtle
form of material. There is nothing bad or good about material. It is being
trapped in gross material that is undesirable.The way out of the maze is by
constantly refining and refining until there is no more discrepancy or a
purified monad (objectivity; the clear light.) At this point there is a glip
(I have coined a word), and the subtle winds enter and come to rest in the
heart. Then there is, as Jerry has suggested, a perfect monad, and one
cannot know if it is one or many, as it is perfect objectivity, i.e. the
clear light. Maybe there is something outside watching this. Maybe not.
Maybe it is something else. Why don't you find out. In major doing is true
"self" expression, not fantasizing about past or future lives, which is off
the track.
.
>
> The whole purpose of theosophy is to teach that the only reality is that
> eternal higher Self, who must learn to eliminate the ignorance and control
> the
> actions of the lower, temporary animal selves it joins with and inhabits
on
> materialization.

Wry: And this is not a bad idea, but, in my opinion, the attempt to approach
it this way is a conceptual approach and therefore will not necessary lead
to the result intended.

> Your concept of a "duality" between the understanding of
> the
> difference between the lower and higher self is a primitive interpretation
of
> HPB's occult teachings.


Wry: No, it is your concept that is of the duality. The idea that everything
is one does not make you one. As I have said several times in messages, if
there is a continuity of this awareness from point A toi point B to point C,
a plane is established and material functions under fewer laws. Itr has to
do with breath. but I will not go into this now.

>There is no inherent separation between anything in
> the
> universe... Although, the nature of the different fields of consciousness
> give
> the illusion of duality's. One must see the "dependently arising" trinity
of
> the All, or each manifest Monad (as a unity), to understand the
fundamental
> duality within it. Thus, the fundamental duality on the manifest planes
is
> that
> between spirit and matter.

Wry: You have made a big intellectualization above. Again, spirit is a form
of material. What else do you think it is? It is just not the gross material
that people get caught up or stuck in.


>(But, they are both aspects of the same unmanifest
> Absolute reality.) To deny this, is the most "deadly and insidious" way
to
> force ignorant people to worship their body and their personality, and
ignore
> their spirit -- which is, essentially, their conscience.


Wry: First of all, you are not only talking gibberish in the words above,
but functioning from a premise that I have said something I have not. Please
explain to me how you have gotten this out of my words. Also, I do not know
where you get the idea that conscience is spirit, though I would be
interested in you explaining this further.

>
> Wry: 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
>
> Herm: Well, that's a long enough "eternity" for my higher individual
> self-awareness,

Wry: I would agree, and for me, too, though I would like to live forever
just as much as the next person.

> since I expect to have many many self-chosen rebirths (some,
> maybe
> more than "human" or homo sapien) before that inevitable transformation
into
> a
> higher state of cosmic consciousness. Knowing that, is what makes it easy
> for
> us to face the welcome and inevitable, periodic "deaths" on this
> "personality"
> level of existence.

Wry: The above sounds like a belief. If this is what comforts you, you will
have to pay the price.

> So, hold the poppycock, and worry about your own
> attainment of "manhood" -- which, if you are not careful, and continue
> speaking as a
> "materialist," might make you lose the innocence of being a child in
spirit
> while a "man" in body (or "wombman," if that's what you are:).

Wry: I do not believe you have put too many ideas in your message. What
thought looks at an image it has projected, a process of mesmerization
occurs. I am sorry, but this is what I have found out by deep and lengthy
investigation. When this happens, the oscillation frequency of both the
mind, emotions and body function at a lag. This is a very important idea.
You can investigate for yourselves, any of you, and you will find out. There
may be something that is not material, call it the void, the stillness,
obliteration, the place beyond thought or whatever, but when you think about
it, it is not it. Period. Why do I have to tell you this. All the levels are
here now. You must make the effort now to become free from material, as
sensient creatures are suffering and there is great urgency. I do not
believe you have understood my words, but I know there are a few on here who
do. If it is not material and you THINK of it or about it, it becomes
material. You cannot create a "God" out of the void. That is backwards and
will put you into a deep sleep. When we are awake we will be on the cutting
edge of the void and will find out what two swords means. Sincerely, Wry
p.s. I have already gone into the personality and how it functions
mechanically and associatively. Telling it an idea will not work. If it did,
theosophy would have many more members by now. All these words, material,
spirit etc. have associate meanings to you. When something does not
correspond to what you think you know, you will not listen. The lower
personality does not transform in the way you think it does. That is the
taking of a pill, be it a drug or a palatable idea. Without a sense of
urgengy, which you obviously don't have, humanity may be doomed. You have
one life to do this in. I am Buddhist. I subscribe to the idea of karma and
reincarnation, but don't worry about that. Do not think about it. Your time
is in this life, the precious human rebirth, which is very rare. Do not
waste it in a dream.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Hermes
>
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