Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00106)

Saturday, June 14, 2003

Dear Munise and Friends:


Here are some sources (below) on TRANSITION AGE which may help.

The comments you make are god ones. The whole Theosophical
philosophy, when grasped would alone satisfy these.

Mr. Judge' Theosophy GENERALLY STATED, would be a good beginning.
It is available at http://www.blavatsky.net . Can you secure a
copy ? If not I will send you one.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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TRANSITION AGE



Transition Age or Cycle



"We are the bottom of a cycle and evidently in a transitory
state, Plato divides the intellectual progress of the universe
during every cycle into fertile and barren periods...We are in a
barren period the eighteenth century during which the malignant
fever of skepticism broke out so irrepressibly, has entailed
unbelief as an hereditary disease upon the nineteenth. The
divine intellect is veiled in man; his animal brain alone
philosophizes."	ISIS I 247
[WQJ I 211, LET 71-2, OCEAN 4, 50 55, 126, IS II 366-9]




"...those guardians of the primitive divine revelation, who had
solved every problem that is within the grasp of human intellect
were bound together by a universal freemasonry of science and
philosophy, which formed one unbroken chain around the globe. It
is for philology and psychology to find the end of the thread.
That done, it will then be ascertained that, by relaxing one
single loop of the old religious systems, the chain of mystery
may be disentangled...only ancient religions were in harmony with
nature, and ancient science embraces all that can be known.
Secrets long kept may be revealed...The cycle has almost run its
course; a new one is about to begin, and the future pages of
history may contain full evidence, and convey full proof...
[1897-98]..."	ISIS I 38



"We are now in a transition period, and in the approaching
twentieth century there will be a revival of genuine philosophy,
and the Secret Doctrine will be the basis of the "New
Philosophy." Science today, in the persons of such advanced
students as Keely, Crookes, Lodge, Richardson, and many others,
already treads so close to the borders of the occult philosophy
that it will not be possible to prevent the new age from entering
the occult realm. H.P.B.'s Secret Doctrine is a storehouse of
scientific facts, but this is not its chief value. These facts
are placed, approximately at least, in such relation to the
synthesis of philosophy of occultism as to render comparatively
easy the task of the student who is in search of real knowledge
and to further his progress beyond all preconceptions, provided
he is teachable, is earnest, and intelligent. Nowhere else in
English literature is the Law of Evolution given such sweep and
swing...It follows man in his triple evolution, physical, mental,
and spiritual, throughout the perfect circle of his boundless
life...Man is indeed evolved from lower forms, But which man?
the physical? the psychical? the intellectual? or the spiritual?
The Secret Doctrine points where the lines of evolution and
involution meet; where matter and spirit clasp hands; and where
the rising animal stands face to face with the fallen god; for
all natures meet and mingle in man."	WQJ Articles, I 37-8



"...the Masters have said this is a transition age, and he who
has ears to hear will hear what has been said. We are now
working for the new cycles and centuries. What we do now in this
transition age will be like what the great Dhyan Chohans did in
the transition point--the midway point in evolution--at the time
when all matter and all types were in a transition and fluid
state. They gave the impulse for the new types, which resulted
later in all the vast varieties of nature. [see SD II 735-8]. In
mental development we are now at the same point; and what we do
now in faith and hope for others, and for ourselves, will result
similarly on the plane to which it is all directed. Thus in
other centuries we will come out and go on with it. If we
neglect it now, so much the worse for us then. Hence we are not
working for some definite organization of the new years to come,
but for a change in the Manas and Buddhi of the Race. [see Key,
pp. 205-7, ML 88, 399, Echoes, p. 28; ]
WQJ Letters, p. 70


"Our fourth Round Humanity has its one great cycle, and so have
her races and sub-races. The "curious rush" is due to the double
effect of the former--the beginning of its downward course;--and
of the latter (the small cycle of your "sub-race") running on to
its apex. Remember you belong to the fifth Race, yet you are but
a Western sub-race. Notwithstanding your efforts, what you call
civilization is confined only to the latter and its off-shoots in
America. Radiating around, its deceptive light may seem to throw
its rays on a greater distance than it does in reality.--There is
no "rush" in China [1880-1], and of Japan you make but a
caricature..."	Mahat. Let. p. 149



"If, for generations we have "shut out the world from the
Knowledge of our Knowledge," it is on account of its absolute
unfitness; and if, notwithstanding proofs given, it still
refuses yielding to evidence, then will we at the End of this
cycle retire into solitude and our kingdom of silence once
more...We have offered to exhume the primeval strata of man's
being, his basic nature, and lay bare the wonderful complications
or his inner Self--something never to be achieved by physiology
or even psychology in its ultimate expression--and demonstrate it
scientifically...It is our mission to plunge and bring the pearls
of Truth to the surface...For countless generations hath the
adept builded a fane of imperishable rocks, a giant's Tower of
Infinite Thought, wherein the Titan dwelt, and will yet, if need
be, dwell alone, emerging from it but at the end of every cycle,
to invite the elect of mankind to co-operate with him and help in
his turn enlighten superstitious man. And we will go on in that
periodical work of ours; we will not allow ourselves to be
baffled in our philanthropic attempts until that day when the
foundations of a new continent of thought are so firmly built
that no amount of opposition and ignorant malice guided by the
Brethren of the Shadow will be found to prevail."	M L p. 50-1



"Taking now this globe...its government and evolution proceed
under Manu or man, and from this is the term Manvantara or
"between two Manus." The course of evolution is divided into 4
Yugas...The present age for the West and India is Kali Yuga (the
black age), especially in respect to moral and spiritual
development...Kali--is very rapid, its motion being accelerated
precisely like certain astronomical periods known to-day in
regard to the Moon...The first 5,000 years of Kali Yuga will end
between the years 1897 and 1898. This Yuga began about 3,102
years before the Christian era, at the time of Krishna's death
[18th of February]...at the present time we are in a cycle of
transition, when, as a transition period should indicate,
everything in philosophy, religion and society is changing."
OCEAN p. 125-126



"But as Mind is being evolved more and more as we proceed in our
course along the line of the race development, there can be
perceived underneath in all countries the beginning of the
transition from the animal possessed of the germ of real mind to
the man of mind complete. This day is therefore known to the
Masters, who have given out some of the old truths, as the
"transition period."	Ocean, p. 50



"The Theosophical Society was chosen as the corner-stone, the
foundation of the future religion of humanity. To achieve the
proposed object a greater, wider, and especially a more
benevolent intermingling of the high and the low, of the alpha
and omega of society was determined on."
Great Master's Letter -- quoted in: WQJ Articles, II 218-9;
Letters from the Masters of Wisdom, 1st Series, p. 5;



"...it is one of the tasks of the T.S. to draw together the East
and the West, so that each may supply the qualities lacking in
the other and develop more fraternal feelings among nations so
various, this literary intercourse will, I hope, prove of the
utmost service in Aryanizing the Western thought...After all,
every wish and though I can utter are summed up in this one
sentence, the never-dormant wish of my heart, "Be Theosophists,
work for Theosophy !" Theosophy first, and Theosophy last; for
its practical realization alone can save the Western world from
that selfish and unbrotherly feeling that now divides race from
race, one nation from the other...Theosophy alone can save it
from sinking entirely into that mere luxurious materialism in
which it will decay and putrefy as civilizations have done. In
your hands, brothers, is placed in trust the welfare of the
coming century; and great as is the trust, so great is also the
responsibility."	HPB--"Fourth Message" -- Five Messages, pp.
30-1



"...all you have to do is to continue doing all you can for
others, and at the same time keep up the process of purifying the
mind of old notions and getting the new ideas well fixed, well
grounded and well arranged. Then you will be all the better
able, each day more and more, to help all with whom you may be
thrown...For the deep darkness of the human soul and the mind of
the race are more important than [our] own miseries...Use your
power for the souls and minds of men and you will have cured
many, for many lives to come..."	WQJ Letters, p. 172


"Our duty, these days of trial and transition, is to engage in
propaganda, so as to place theosophy before as many of the race
as possible. To do that, the most common-sense, simple
presentation of theosophy, free from vagueness and bid words, is
the best..."	WQJ Letters, p. 176




Additional References on Transition Age

Isis I 30, 247, 613
SD	I 646
SD	II 135, 180, 300-2, 444, 446, 735-8,



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-----Original Message-----
From: munise
Sent:	Friday, June 13, 2003 12:40 AM
To:
Subject:	Transition Age

Dear Dallas,

Could you please mention/comment on effects of what is meant
here:

"6. This is a "transition age." And it is called that because we
are passing from the cycle of research in the physical into the
research of the sub-physical -- of causes, of energies, of
powers, choices, and the nature of free will."

On probable daily experiences as:

--People will be asking more questions about nature (about
themselves
for example).
--People looking for the depth of living may find nothing.
--People knowing where they are, will need more tolerance and
maturity.
--Daily knowledge may not be that precise.

Thanks

Munise