Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00144)

Christopher,
I enjoyed your post, it is always interesting to see the referencing 
of Blavatsky's
work with more recent disciplines. The Holographic Theorem is a way of 
focus and conceptualizing the problem of Consciousness and it's obscure origins 
and is
stimulating for the purposes of the exercise of our efforts of self 
remembrance and
self recognition. 

The Monad seems to keep popping up across time as one of the principal 
constituents whether Blavatsky, Dee, Paracelsus, or earlier inquirers. One 
source
not widely referenced is this:
The Bruce Codex - The Untitled Document, which scrolling down to # 7 one 
can find
reference to the Monad.
http://www.gnosis.org/library/untitl.htm

It seems to me at least a possibility that the intensive 
"Personifications" found in 
these works which can date back to the 3rd century or earlier are a 
necessary 
"expedient means" and were recognized as such by their authors as they had 
to 
instruct at least some other members of mankind whose minds required that 
there
be in order for the content to be received at all- the Personalization and 
Form with
Structure not equaling "nothingness" in recognition of the design 
limitation inherent
in our common waking consciousness.

Today there are quite a few paths of inquiry taking place by dedicated 
organizations
other than the historical aggregations of religion which inquire on 
Consciousness, one 
is the "IONS" founded by the former astronaut Edgar Mitchell
http://www.noetic.org

another is the "Nonduality Salon"
http://nonduality.com/lrn.htm

Some of the other Nag Hammadhi texts I found especially stimulating in this 
arena
were:
The Trimorphic Protenoia (the triple formed first thought)
http://jdt.uni.edu/tp.html
and
The Thought of Norea Codex IX Nag Hammadhi

When I read these I find much to remind me of Madame Blavatsky, and why 
shouldn't it as fundamentally the "Q's" of Consciousness are beyond 
matter, energy,
space and time? 

John