Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00002)

Hallo Dallis,
New Year, New Idee's;
Now we started a fresh beginning:
I have not read the whole story yet, because it is too long for me, 
behind the computer.
Personnely I have more on the books, because that is easy to hang 
over and I write in them.So it is a living work for me.
If I see what all of you have studied , like you and Larry and Dirk, 
than I have a long road to go.But Oke Larry is than about 80 years, 
then I have still many years for me.There books are wonderfull and 
very interesting.

Now the beginning of this part. 
They closed the gate in 1879 , yes I know, I think, that is the 
animal gate.
The Human gate will be closed after two periods ( Aquarian and 
Capricornus) 
then we need to be Angles on the planet New Jupiter and than the last 
two periods of ages( on New Venus and New Vulcanus) follows up to the 
end of this Manvantara.
I think it is like that,
Yours sincerely Christina.













-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@e...> 
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> The ACTIVE CYCLE OF WORK -- Does it ever close ? 
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> In regard to the "closing" of a "gate in 1897/98 there was much
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> Now we are asked about the succeeding 100 year cycle which 
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> One of the best way to answer such questions is, perhaps, to look 
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> the original references and then decide what, philosophically, we 
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> The sun never sets, a period of rest never begins without the hope, 
or
> the certainty, that the economy of Great Nature will always bring 
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> renewal, a reawakening. Why should this hope or certainty exist ? 
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> Consider that Nature (the Universe, our World and Solar system) 
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> all, and has provided us with life up to this moment - a life in 
which
> we rejoice (or suffer) depending on our nature and character. 
Also, we
> are endowed with curiosity, and with a desire to find out how and 
why
> things are as they are. What are our powers ? What is our 
particular
> equipment ? How can we use it ? These are all common questions we 
ask
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> In the matter of cycles we find that in a year we go through 
several,
> and some have more vitality than others on the surface. But even 
winter
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form
> the harvest of next Autumn. So there is overt as well as secret 
work
> progressing all the time. We have to investigate and discover its
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> These changes are universal, and when day changes to night and 
activity
> to rest, or Summer becomes Winter we seek to discover the reasons 
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> change. It is so also in the occult cycles of activity and rest. 
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> whether one or the other is presently active, work proceeds. And 
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> this happens the work will still go one. Even during that which is
> night to some, there is activity elsewhere. It is a ceaseless urge 
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> grow, to experience, to learn. The move to progress which is 
innate in
> each one of us, as in all the rest of nature-even to the tiniest 
atom
> continues. It is the beating of the great secret Heart, symbolized 
in
> antiquity by the Central Spiritual SUN - it is an intimation of 
this Sun
> of Life, reflected in our hearts that we note as the innate, 
persistent
> sense of individual immortality - one that leaves its insistent mark
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> In her article THE ESOTERIC CHARACTER OF THE GOSPELS ["Lucifer," 
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> Dec. 1887, Feb. 1888 ] HPB gives (in a footnote) [ ULT 3 Vol. 
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> HPB's Articles, Vol. 3, p. 169 fn ] at the outset an important date
> relating to occult cycles and the ending of the "Age of Pisces - 
and the
> starting of that of Aquarius - a cycle of 2,155 years - not long, 
but
> very occult as the influence of sun and zodiac changes in a subtle 
but
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> HPB predicts that psychologists will thereafter have extra work to 
do as
> the psychic idiosyncrasies of humanity will enter on a great 
change. [
> And that means this present cycle and age. She also refers to this 
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> her FOURTH MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN SECTION IN CONVENTION IN 1891:
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> "The period which we have now reached in the cycle that will close
> between 1897/98 is, and will continue to be one of great conflict 
and
> continued strain. If the T.S. can hold through it, good; if not, 
while
> Theosophy will remain unscathed, the Society will perish-perchance 
most
> ingloriously-and the World will suffer...the critical nature of the
> stage on which we have entered is as well known to the forces that 
fight
> against us as to those that fight on our side. No opportunity will 
be
> lost of sowing dissension, of taking advantage of mistaken and false
> moves, of instilling doubt, of augmenting difficulties, of breathing
> suspicion, so that by any and every means the unity of the Society 
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> be broken and the ranks of our Fellows thinned and thrown into
> disarray..."
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> Reviewing the history of the last years we can decide whether this
> prophecy has been fulfilled or not. How many FTS have honored HPB 
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> the close study and learning of that Theosophy which she and the 
Masters
> of Wisdom jointly presented ? Are the ranks of the Theosophical
> Societies and Associations one pointed, united, wise and active ? 
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> is there much work left to be done ? Each one has to think of these
> things and answer to themselves. Exactly what is/was the work to be
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> Simultaneously there is the ending of the first 5,000 years of Kali 
Yuga
> cycle ( Total time: 432,000 years for that grand cycle ). 427,000 
years
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> In the SECRET DOCTRINE (Vol. I, p. 612) she indicates that the year 
1897
> will witness a large rent being made in the Veil of Nature whereby
> "materialistic science will receive a deathblow." This date has 
passed
> and we have witnessed in the last 100 years a series of great
> discoveries, in physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics 
psychology
> and biochemistry that have revolutionized our concept of the atom 
and
> the molecule and the interaction of forces and energies on the 
subtlest,
> as well as the grandest electro-magnetic scales and ranges of
> measurement. The rediscovery of the "astral body" and the "astral
> plane" whereby all material forms are made to cohere, and especially
> those biochemical mixtures in which intelligent consciousness and 
life
> of a higher character is seen (plants, animals, humans). Science 
has in
> fact already entered the realm of energy that leads to an 
understanding
> of the power of the astral and the Pranic energies that make forms
> possible and given them the life they enjoy as entities with a 
definite
> purpose in the great scheme of things. [ Mr. Judge in the OCEAN OF
> THEOSOPHY speaks of this critical date and gives information on this
> theme on p. 125 of the book. ]
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> The psychological origins and potential achievements of human
> consciousness - and its unknown ranges - have been sensed, vaguely
> sketched, and it remains for a serious and concentrated 
investigation to
> clear away the concept that all this vast interacting group of 
diverse
> molds or model-forms that underlie the many physical forms and keep 
them
> "living" is moved by one central cooperative INTELLIGENCE and many
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> Man's consciousness represents one of the most advanced powers 
focused
> in such a form at this time, and from this condition the doors open 
to
> an understanding of the Universe, its purpose (see SD I 268) and he 
can
> understand what his own duty and responsibility is as he passes 
through
> the successive degrees of initiation that are possible to him - by 
his
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> Writing on this concept Mr. Judge in THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY (p. 4)
> says: this "is an age of transition," when every system of thought,
> science, religion, government, and society is changing, preparing 
for an
> alteration into that state which will permit the race to advance to 
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> point suitable for these elder brothers to introduce their actual
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> Another article speaks of the "precursors of HPB," of the vow taken 
by
> Tsong-Kha-Pa in Tibet to send a mission to the West each hundred 
years.
> And we can trace from that date in the 14th Century, the imprint of 
the
> work of various "Messengers" whose task it was to revive in the 
West the
> memory of the esoteric Wisdom. In the 15th Cent. We had the 
revival in
> Florence of the study of Plato spearheaded by Paschalis, Pico della
> Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino.
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> The next century (16th) saw the work of Giordano Bruno, Paracelsus, 
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> Mesmer. Also the Cambridge Platonists worked then and so did Thomas
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> primitive conceptions so sadly profaned by its crude and gross
> application to exoteric dogmas and personations by theological and
> ecclesiastical religionists. The silent worship of abstract or
> 'noumenal' Nature, the only divine manifestation, is the one 
ennobling
> religion of Humanity." [ SD I 381 fn )
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> Never will I enter into final peace alone.
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> For the redemption of every creature throughout the 
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> HPB speaks to the importance of cycles and dates in her
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> STARS AND NUMBERS Theosophist June 1881 
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> OUR CYCLE AND THE NEXT Lucifer Vol. 4, p. 177 
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> THE CYCLE MOVETH Lucifer March 1890 
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> THE NEW CYCLE 1889 La Revue Theosophique March 1889 
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> WILL MASTERS' HELP BE WITHDRAWN IN 1898 UNTIL 1975 ? 
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> ARE WE DESERTED ? -- Judge PATH, December 1892, 
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> PROPHECIES BY H P BLAVATSKY -- Judge 
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