Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00192)

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Dear Friend G

H P B indicates in ISIS UNVEILED and traces its evolution.
Considering Jewish exotericism was derived from their Kabala, the
Jewish Kabala was in turn derived from the far more ancient and
widely known “Oriental Kabala:” the wisdom of India and its
rishis.

The Intuition is a most important tool we can each access from
within. It springs, sometimes as a fully developed idea, into
the mind as though we had worked and reasoned it out long before.
Illumination is a form of intuition as I understand it. It opens
the doors of understanding to some problem we were notable to
solve. It has been described as a shaft of light that reveals the
TRUTH of a subject or a situation.

"To crucify before (not against) the sun" is a phrase used of
initia­tion. It comes from Egypt, and primarily from India. The
enigma can be unriddled only by searching for its key in the
Mysteries of Initiation. The initiated adept, who had
successfully passed through all the trials, was attached, not
nailed, but simply tied on a couch in the form of a tau T (in
Egypt) of a Svastika without the four additional prolongations
(thus: [a cross], not [svastika shape] plunged in a deep sleep
(the "Sleep of Siloam" it is called to this day among the
initiates in Asia Minor, in Syria and even higher Egypt). He was
allowed to remain in this state for three days and three nights,
during which time his Spiritual Ego was said to confabulate with
the "gods," descend into Hades, Amenti or Patala (according to
the country), and do works of charity to the invisible be­ings,
whether souls of men or Elemental Spirits; his body remaining
all the time in a temple crypt or subterranean cave. In Egypt it
was placed in the Sarcophagus in the King's Chamber of the
Pyramid of Cheops and carried during the night of the approaching
third day to the entrance of the gal­lery. where at a certain
hour the beams of the rising Sun struck full on the face of the
entranced candidate, who awoke to be initiated by Osiris, and
Thoth the God of Wisdom...[see the bas-reliefs...especially from
the temple of Philoe, represents a scene of initiation.]
SD II 558


"The action of the entire universe is but a detailed
manifestation and example of the action of mind on matter,
governed at the highest point by the action of the universal
Mind. Between the finite human mind of the ordinary uninitiated
individual and this universal mind lie an infinite number of
gradually ascending degrees, and the higher the plane of
con­sciousness the nearer is the approach to the universal mind
which is, as it were, the main-spring of the whole. Although
there are no hard and fast lines in nature yet these various
grades may be marked off into great main divisions; and it is
the successive attainment of these, one after the other that is
represented by the degrees of initiation. When one plane of
existence has been exhausted, there is needed, as it were, a
fresh impulse to enable us to go on higher and this it is that is
supplied at the time of initiation."
"Alpha" Theosophist, June 1886 - [ ULT- T A & N p.
61 ]

Sometimes we do this partially on our own, and at other times, a
word from a friend or a statement, evokes the event of such
illumination. It has also been hinted that there are courses and
studies that teach profound wisdom. In many places it has been
also hinted that the study of Theosophy leads to a preliminary
knowledge of universal law and wisdom (esotericism, occultism),
and the same hints are found to include very strict moral
demands, which begin with Universal Brotherhood and tolerance.

"(intuition)...to grasp in an instant a whole subject, premises
and conclusions, without stopping to reason...where, then is the
sub-conscious mind? channels? I think through the heart and
that the heart is the key to it all and that the brain is only
the servant of the heart...the small dwarf that sits at the
center." WQJ Letters, p. 6

It may be there because : "Every man has a god within, a direct
ray from the Absolute, the celes­tial ray from the One..."
TRANSACTIONS, p. 53 [BLAVATSKY: Collected Works (TPH) Vol. X ]

Perhaps it has to do with the element of the free will in all of
us. Here are some notes from Theosophy on this:

"Every atom is endowed with and moved by intelligence, and is
conscious in its own degree, on its own plane of development.
This is a glimpse of the One Life... selfishness is the curse of
separateness..." WQJ ART I 29

"Free-will can only exist in a man who has both mind and
consciousness, which act and make him perceive things both within
and without himself. Consciousness is a condition of the monad
as a result of embodiment in matter and the dwelling in a
physical form." WQJ ART I 29

"…the one free force acts, helped in this by that portion of its
essence which we call imprisoned force, or material molecules.
The worker within, the inherent force, ever tends to unite with
its parent essence without; and thus, the Mother acting within,
causes the Web to contract; and the Father acting without, to
expand. Science calls this gravitation; Occultists, the work of
the universal Life-Force, which radiates from that Absolute and
Un­knowable FORCE which is outside of all Space and Time. This
is the work of eternal Evolution and involution, or expansion and
contraction. [ Web cooling ]...it begins when the imprisoned
force and intelligence inherent in every atom of differentiated
as well as of homogeneous matter arrives at a point when both
become the slaves of a higher intelligent Force whose mission is
to guide and shape it.

It is the Force which we call the divine Free-Will, represented
by the Dhyani-Buddhas. When the centrepetal and centrifugal
forces of life and being are subjected by the one nameless Force
which brings order in disorder, and establishes harmony in
Chaos--then it begins cooling...Every form, we are told, is built
in accordance with the model traced for it in the Eternity and
reflected in the DIVINE MIND. There are hierarchies of "Builders
of form," and series of forms and degrees, from the highest to
the lowest. While the former are shaped under the guidance of
the "Builders," the gods, "Cosmo­cratores;" the latter are
fashioned by the Elementals or Nature Spirits."
TRANSACTIONS, 128-9 Universal Consciousness and its
7 Differentiations

"...Whenever you are able to attune your consciousness to any of
the sev­en chords of 'Universal Consciousness,' those chords that
run along the sound­ing-board of Kosmos, vibrating from one
Eternity to another; when you have studied thoroughly 'the music
of the Spheres [ the 7 principles of Nature and of man and their
correlations ]," then only will you become quite free to share
your knowledge with those with whom it is safe to do so...Do not
give out the great Truths that are the inheritance of the future
Races, to our present generation. Do not attempt to unveil the
secret of being and non-be­ing to those unable to see the hidden
meaning of Apollo's HEPTACHORD--the lyre of the radiant god, in
each of the seven strings of which dwelleth the Spirit, Soul and
Astral body of the Kosmos, whose shell only has now fallen into
the hands of Modern Science..."
SD I 167

Possibly some of these ideas may prove helpful,

Best wishes,

Dallas


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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:16 AM
To:
Subject: illumination

Were there no inner sight or intuition, the Jews would never
have had their Bible, nor the Christians Jesus. What both Moses
and Jesus gave to the world was the fruit of their intuition or
illumination. What their subsequent elders and teachers allowed
the world to understand was -- dogmatic misrepresentations, too
often blasphemy.
The man who has conquered matter sufficiently to receive the
direct light from his shining Augoeides feels truth
intuitionally; he could not err in his judgment, notwithstanding
all the sophisms suggested by cold reason, for he is ILLUMINATED.
Hence prophecy, vaticination, and the so-called Divine
inspiration are simply the effects of this illumination from
above by our own immortal spirit.




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