Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00282)

Dec. 17 2003

Solstice 2003 -- Global Change - a consideration


SEASONS GREETING TO ALL.


Dear Friends:


As our Earth's cycle comes, with the approaching Winter Solstice (Dec.
21st) to a point of balance, so might our thoughts take a position of
balance.  

Soon Janus, the God of January in the new year named 2004, who has two
faces -- one looking back and then other forward -- will begin his
reign. What will he tell us? What do we already know? What will be
our agenda for the coming 365 / 6 days of living?


Apocalyptic prophecies crop up every once in a while. Usually they
relate to anticipated future conditions of the earth and its many
inhabiting entities, including humans. Will we be overwhelmed by
Universal catastrophes? Will we survive? What kind of preparations
ought we to take? 

Some say: Nothing is clear. Should we fear? Can ignorance be
dispelled?

It relates, usually, to possible physical changes, and potential
world-sweeping cataclysmic results. A number of books have been written
with this theme and methods of assuring the survival of scientific
knowledge have been suggested.

What has THEOSOPHY as theory / doctrine done and offered?  

1.	It has suggested that the Intelligence (The MIND-SPIRIT) in
each human survives the dispersal and death of its present and past
"forms."

2.	It has suggested that knowledge includes a moral responsibility
-- a factor which would prevent mismanagement of such knowledge --
abuses leading to tyranny, war, poverty, selfishness and oppression. In
other words "evil," as an abuse of power, ought to be curtailed as soon
as recognized.

3.	It has posited (as an aspect of soul survival), the
reincarnation of "Intelligence." We have lived many times on earth.
The records of antiquity are our doings when we were last on Earth. [It
can be shown that the basic literature of every religion posits
reincarnation --the return or revolution of souls -- as a fact.] 

4.	It has minimized the importance of the physical vehicle. It has
shown that this material vehicle (our physical body) is in reality a
very dense mass of interactive force-fields. It is in constant motion,
and changes gradually between birth and old-age.

5.	It has further suggested that physical matter, in all its
complexity, reflects to our senses (which perceive physical vibratory
changes of various levels and kinds -- color, sound, taste, smell, touch
-- and soon to come 'clairvoyance' as "astral matter' becomes
perceptible to us) the impact of beings around us who also live their
own lives, as we do.

6.	It posits fine but stronger force-fields (astral matter ?) that
underlie physical matter just as atoms underlie molecules, cells, and
the complexity of innumerable kinds of materials -- the whole being
harmonized into the living Planet. An individual life-force, a
Mind-intelligence, and an immortal SPIRIT are the shown to underlie our
astral and physical bodies. The SPIRIT IN MAN, and it ways of living,
are considered to be of primary importance.

7.	Is it possible that there already exists a group, a hierarchy, a
brotherhood of academics, students, investigators, care-takers, that
quietly, behind the scenes, work to preserve and protect wisdom and
applications consistent with the real needs of mankind and the Earth?
[If, historically, tyrants and oppressive conditions last for a
relatively short period, then, is it not of value to assist such work?
Should we assist in the preservation and application of such knowledge
of the true needs of mankind and his environment? Where can we find
such wisdom?]

If we are able to observe our planet and its evident cooperative and
life-supporting trends, then, should we not wonder about who or what
defines this harmonizing. Is that not of very great importance? Is
this not where scientific recording and the perpetuation of such records
(new or old) is of great importance?

How long has it been going on? Who, or what benefits from that
activity?  
What is its purpose? 

Is there an "IDEAL" form and many variants?  

And, so on.


Finally we might ask: -- if physical matter is constantly dissociating
as well as aggregating (molecularly and atomically) what are the rules
and laws of this endless process? Why does this occur? What is gained?

If physical cataclysms erase (or mutilate and abbreviate) the records of
earlier civilizations and the knowledge developed there, and then, why
is there, seemingly, a cyclic period of between 5 and 10 thousand years
of recurring ignorance and primitivism. Is this limited to one section
of the Earth or is it world-wide?  

We know that earlier when the areas we now name Europe and America were
"barbarous," in the East (Asia) there were a succession of civilizations
and areas in which science found refuge and continuity, and they exist
even today, remote form, and disinterested in our mere physical
advances. They have considered ecological, intellectual and moral
advances to be superior to the analysis and construction of material
forms. To some it is unpleasant to acknowledge this possible historical
debt.

How does THEOSOPHY look at Matter? Just as one might look at a series
of minute high-speed fans, atomically and sub-atomically. Gross mater
is unable to penetrate certain limits, but recognizes that finer forces
can do so. These reactions are then measured. But then one has to
recognize that "Intelligence" makes these observations and records.

Is not the presence of this "intelligence" (either as a whole, or as
individuals -- say, human scientists ?) of greater importance than the
forms themselves?  

In terms of the recording of knowledge, are not mathematics, chemistry,
physics, engineering, electronics, etc... (and their language) of
greater importance than physical artifacts (which by analysis might
suggest those sciences already existed in an antiquity that produced and
developed (or retransmitted still older evidence) ?

These are almost too many questions, but a new year looming is perhaps a
good place to ask them.


Let us view three important ideas:

1	Deity, "god," is held to be omnipresent and is universal.
Spirit.

2	Law rules everything, time, space, chaos, cosmos...

3	Every being (man included) embodies a "ray" of the ONE SPIRIT.

Brotherhood is a fact in nature.



Best wishes for 2004

>From both of us


Val & Dal


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