Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00344)

Jan 21 2004



Dear Friends:



The subject of the mixed Karma of animals (including insects) and
mankind has arisen again.



Here are some quotes from THEOSOPHY sources that may help understand
this relationship.



Best wishes,



Dallas



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A N I M A L S and M E N 





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Spirit - Soul - Body-Form





"...the "Spirit," or the divine portion of the soul is
pre-existent as a distinct being from all eternity."...(106) Both the
human Spirit (or the Individuality), the re-incarnating Spiritual Ego,
and Buddhi, the Spiritual Soul, are pre-existent. But, while the former
exists as a distinct entity, an individualization, the soul exists as
pre-existing breath, an unscient portion of an intelligent whole. Both
were originally formed from the Eternal Ocean of light, but as the
Fire-Philosophers...expressed it, there is a visible as well as
invisible spirit in fire." 


Key 105-6





Nephesh - The Principle of Sentient Life





"...(animals)...These are no less than man, informed with
the same principle of sentient life, the nephesh of the 2nd chapter of
Genesis. The Soul is by no means the Mind, nor can an idiot, bereft of
the latter, be called a "soul-less" being..." 


HPB Articles II 18





Nephesh -- The Animal Soul





"...(the) animal soul (Nephesh of the Hebrew
Kabalist)...the ray which emanates from the Higher Manas or permanent
EGO, and is that "principle" which forms the human mind--in animals
instinct."
Trans. 59





"...man has one "principle" more than the tiniest insect,
but because man is a perfected animal, the vehicle of a fully developed
monad, self-conscious and deliberately following its own line of
progress, whereas in the insect, and even the higher animal, the higher
triad of principles is absolutely dormant."
Trans. 14-15



"A dog that has to exercise its own sagacity to find food,
will sooner develop psychical powers in that direction, than one that
does nothing but eat and sleep, and the individual or differentiated
monad of the former will sooner reach the condition necessary to enter
the human kingdom. The rudiments of hope, patience, faith, fidelity,
confidence, etc., are found in the animal kingdom."
-- HPB Theosophist 5- p. 223 







Difference Between Animals and Men





"The difference between animals and men is this: the
former are ensouled by the "principles" potentially, the latter
actually."
Key 104 







Man's Form is an Animal





"Man...in his outward form, simply an animal, hardly more
perfect than his pithecoid-like ancestor of the 3rd Round. He is a
living body, not a living being, since the realization of existence, the
"Ego-Sum," necessitates self-consciousness, and an animal can only have
direct consciousness, or instinct. The soul, whose body vehicle is the
Astral, ethereo-substantial envelope, could die, and man be still living
on earth--i.e., the soul could free itself from and quit the tabernacle
for various reasons--such as insanity, spiritual and physical depravity,
etc. Therefore that which living men (Initiates) can do, the Dhyanis,
who have no physical body to hamper them, can do still better."



SD I 134-5





Man a Perfected Animal -- Vehicle of a Monad





"...man is a perfected animal, the vehicle of a fully developed monad,
self-conscious and deliberately following its own line of progress,
whereas in the insect, and even the higher animal, the higher triad of
principles is absolutely dormant." 


Trans. 14-15





Lighting up of the Manas (Mind)





"Having passed through all the kingdoms of nature in the
previous three Rounds, his physical frame--one adapted to the thermal
conditions of those early periods--was ready to receive the divine
Pilgrim at the first dawn of human life, i.e., 18,000,000 years ago. It
is only at the (255) mid-point of the 3rd Root-Race that man was endowed
with Manas. Once united the two and then the three made one; for
though the lower animals, from the amoeba to man, received their monads,
in which all the higher qualities are potential, all have to remain
dormant till each reaches its human form, before which stage manas
(mind) has no development in them. In the animals every principle is
paralyzed, and in a fetus-like state, save the 2nd (vital) and the 3rd
(the astral), and the rudiments of the 4th (Kama, which is desire,
instinct) whose intensity and development varies and changes with the
species."
S D II 254-5





"Atma-Buddhi [ Monad ] is dual and Manas is triple;
inasmuch as the former has two aspects, and the latter three, i.e., as a
principle per se, which gravitates, in its higher aspect, to
Atma-Buddhi, and follows, in its lower nature, Kama, the seat of
terrestrial divisions awakening to intelligence; and the third and last
decidedly animal: i.e., Manas succumbs to the temptations of Kama."
Men are made complete only during their third, toward the fourth cycle
(race). They are made "gods" for good or evil, and responsible only
when the two arcs meet (after 3 1/2 Rounds towards the fifth Race).
They are made so by the Nirmanakaya (spiritual or astral remains) of the
Rudra-Kumaras, "cursed to be reborn on earth again; meaning doomed in
their natural turn to reincarnation in the higher ascending arc of the
terrestrial cycle."
SD II 254-5fn





Kama - Center of the Animal Man





"...(d) Kama rupa -- The seat of animal desires and
passions. -- This is the center of the animal man, where lies the line
of demarcation which separates the mortal man from the immortal entity."
Key 91





Higher and Lower Mind Defined





" [ Plato teaches ] ... "when the Soul, psuche, "allies
herself to the Nous (divine spirit or substance), she does everything
aright and felicitously;" but the case is otherwise when she attaches
herself to Anoia, (folly, or the irrational animal Soul). Here, then,
we have Manas (or the Soul in general) in its two aspects: when
attaching itself to Anoia (our Kama rupa, or the "Animal Soul" in
"Esoteric Buddhism," runs towards entire annihilation, as far as the
personal Ego is concerned; when allying itself to the Nous
(Atma-Buddhi) it merges into the immortal, imperishable Ego, and then
its spiritual consciousness of the personal that was, becomes immortal."
Key 93





Animals Reincarnate





[ Animals ] "...they do reincarnate, but that which from
them goes forth to reincarnation is not similar to the reincarnating
principle of the human being. Were we to suppose that the monads now
going through the present animal life were reincarnating in a haphazard
way, then surely law disappears our philosophy tumbles to the ground,
and a reign of terror in the scheme of evolution ensues."
WQJ Art II 486





"In calling the animal "Soulless," it is not depriving the
beast, from the humblest to the highest species, of a "soul." but only
of a conscious surviving Ego-soul, i.e., that principle which survives
after a man, and reincarnates like a man. The animal has an astral
body, that survives the physical body for a short period; but its
(animal) Monad does not reincarnate in the same, but in a higher
species, and has no "Devachan" of course. It has the seeds of all the
human principles in itself, but they are latent."
S D II 196fn





Karma of Animals





"Animals have Karma, or consequence of act, but they have
not man's responsibility. While they seem to suffer and enjoy, it is
all without any self-consciousness, and hence is less in itself and less
lasting in effect. Their karma is bound up with man; and he is the
responsible one and will have to bear the responsibility, although they
feel the burden directly." 


WQJ Art II 566 





"...the effect of Karma upon the animals...(15) the whole
of creation waits upon man and groans that he keeps back the
enlightenment of all. What happens when...you crush out the life of a
common croton bug ? Well, it is destroyed and you forget it. But you
brought it to an untimely end, short though its life would have been.
Imagine this being done at hundreds and thousands of places...Each of
these little creatures had life, and energy; each some degree of
intelligence, The sum total of effects of all these deaths of small
things must be appreciable. If not, then our doctrines are wrong and
there is no wrong in putting our the life of a human being ... [animals]
killed for sport..."
WQJ Art I 14-5





"The brutes unconsciously are aware of the general human
opposition, which in each human being they see focalized."



WQJ Letters 87







Animal Monads -- Their Evolution and Progress





"While it is stated that no more animal monads can enter on
the man-stage, it is not said nor inferred that the incoming supply of
monads for the animal kingdom has stopped. They may still be coming in
from other "worlds" for evolution among the animals of this globe...It
is quite possible also that the animal monads may be carried on to other
members of the earth-chain in advance of man for the purpose of
necessary development, and this would lessen the number of their
appearances here...the animals, however, being devoid of developed
Manas, have no Devachan and must be forced onwards to the next planet in
the chain...as it gives them a chance for development in readiness for
the time when the monads of that kingdom shall begin to rise to a new
human kingdom. They have lost nothing, but, on the contrary, will be
the gainers."
WQJ Art I 103





What is a "Monad" ?





"...a Monad [ Atma-Buddhi ] cannot either progress or
develop, or even be affected by the change of states it passes through.
It is not on this world or plane, and may be compared only to an
indestructible star of divine light and fire, thrown down on to our
(175fn) Earth as a plank of salvation for the personalities in which it
indwells. It is for the latter to cling to it; and thus partaking of
its divine nature, obtain immortality. Left to itself the Monad will
cling to no one; but, like the "plank," be drifted away to another
incarnation by the unresisting current of evolution...the evolution of
the external form or body round the astral is produced by the
terrestrial forces, just as in the case of the lower kingdoms; but the
evolution of the internal or real MAN is purely spiritual. It is now no
more a passage of the impersonal Monad through many and various forms of
matter--endowed at best with instinct and consciousness on quite a
different plane--as in the case of external evolution, but a journey of
the "pilgrim-soul" through various states of not only matter but self
consciousness and self-perception, or perception from apperception."
S D I 174-5fn





Monad -- A Concrete Manifestation of the Universal Energy


at a Particular Level of Evolution





"...the Monadic, or rather Cosmic, Essence...in the
mineral, vegetable and animal, though the same throughout the series of
cycles from the lowest elemental up to the Deva Kingdom, yet differs in
the scale of progression ...the more correct phraseology...would have
been to call it "the Monad manifesting in that form of Prakriti called
the Mineral Kingdom." The atom as represented in the ordinary
scientific hypothesis, is not a particle of something, animated by a
psychic something, destined after aeons to blossom as a man. But it is
a concrete manifestation of the Universal Energy which itself has not
yet become individualized; a sequential manifestation of the one
Universal Monas. The ocean (of matter) the life-impulse reaches the
evolutionary stage of man-birth. The tendency towards segregation into
individual Monads is gradual, and is the higher animals comes almost to
the point."
S D I 178





"...it is our Dhyan-Chohanic essence--the causality of the
primal cause which creates physical man--which is the living, active and
potential matter, pregnant per se with that animal consciousness of a
superior kind, such as is found in the ant or the beaver, which produces
the long series of physiological differentiations...every type in the
visible has its prototype in the invisible Universe..."
S D II 120





Self-Consciousness and The Abyss 


Between the Psychic and the Noetic





"...Self-consciousness belongs alone to man and proceeds
from the SELF, the higher Manas. Only, whereas the psychic element (or
Kama-manas) is common to both the animal and the human being--the far
higher degree of its development in the latter resting merely on the
greater perfection and sensitiveness of his cerebral cells--no
physiologist...will ever be able to solve the mystery of the human mind,
in its highest spiritual manifestation, or in its dual aspect of the
psychic and the noetic (or the manasic)...he would have to admit a lower
(animal), and a higher (or divine) mind in man, or what is known in
Occultism as the "personal" and the "impersonal" (10) Egos. For,
between the psychic and the noetic, between the personality and the
individuality, there exists the same abyss as between a "Jack the
Ripper," and a holy Buddha." HPB Art II 9-10







"Between man and animal--whose Monads (or Jivas) are
fundamentally identical--there is the impassable abyss of Mentality and
Self-consciousness. What is human mind in it higher aspect, whence
comes it, if it is not a portion of the essence--and, in some rare cases
of incarnation, the very essence--of a higher Being: one from a higher
and divine plane? Can man--a god in the animal form--be the product of
Material Nature by evolution alone. even as is the animal, which differs
from man in external shape, but by no means in the materials of its
physical fabric, and is informed by the same, though undeveloped,
Monad--seeing that the intellectual potentialities of the two differ as
the Sun does from the Glow-worm ? And what is it that creates such a
difference, unless man is an animal plus a living god within his
physical shell ?"
S D II 81





Physical Man



"The physical man is as little responsible as a dog or a
mouse. For the bodily form all is over with the death of the body. But
for the real SELF, that which emanated its own shadow, or the lower
thinking personality, that enacted and pulled the wires during the life
of the physical automaton, will have to suffer conjointly with its
factotum and alter ego in the next incarnation."
Trans. 67





Source of the Mind ( Manas )





"...the Manasa Devas who endowed man with the consciousness
of his immortal soul: that consciousness which hinders man "from
foreseeing death," and makes him know he is immortal. ( Fn.: -- The
monad of the animal is as immortal as that of man, yet the brute knows
nothing of this; it lives an animal life of sensation just as the first
human would have lived, when attaining physical development in the Third
Race, had it not been for the Agnishwatta, and the Manasa Pitris.")
[Myth of Prometheus, further explained.]
S D II 525





Latent and Active "Fires" of the Mind





"The doctrine teaches that the only difference between
animals and inanimate objects on earth, between an animal and a human
frame, is that in some the various "fires" are latent, and in others
they are active. The vital fires are in all things and not an atom is
devoid of them. But no animal has the three higher principles awakened
in him; the are simply potential, latent, and thus non-existing. And
so would the animal frames of men be to this day, had they been left as
then came out from the bodies of their Progenitors, whose shadows they
were, to grow, unfold only by the powers and forces immanent in matter."



S D II 267





Human 'Magnetism' -- Pet Animals





"...A Lanoo (disciple) has to dread external living
influence alone (magnetic emanations from living creatures). For this
reason while at one with all, in his inner nature, he must take care to
separate his outer (external) body from every foreign influence; none
must drink out of, or eat in his cup but himself. He must avoid bodily
contact (i.e., being touched or touch) with human, as with animal being.
[No pet animals are permitted and it is forbidden even to touch certain
trees and plants. A disciple has to live, so to say, in his own
atmosphere in order to individualize it for occult purposes.]"
...Occultism is concerned with the inner man who must be strengthened
and freed from the dominion of the physical body and its surroundings,
which must become his servants. Hence the first and chief necessity of
Chelaship is a spirit of absolute unselfishness and devotion to Truth;
then must follow self-knowledge and self-mastery. These are all
important; while outward observance of fixed rules of life is a matter
of secondary moment." 


HPB Art II 94-6



[ Article on "house-pets" and magnetic retardation.] 


Theosophy Mag. Vol. 22, p. 402







Kama-Loka and Astral Forms of Animals





"Still it [ Kama-loca on the astral plane ] exists, and it
is there that the astral eidolons of all beings that have lived, animals
included, await their second death. For the animals it comes with the
disintegration and the entire fading out of their astral particles to
the last."
Key 143





"Seers of modern times have declared that such eidolons or
spooks assume the appearance of beasts or reptiles according to their
dominant forms, having a natural affinity for the lower types, such as
the animal kingdom, gravitated gradually in that direction and were at
last absorbed on the astral plane of animals, for which they furnished
the sidereal particles needed by them as well as by men. But this is no
sense meant that the man himself went into an animal, for before this
result had eventuated, the ego might have already re-entered life with a
new physical and astral body...it must be true that each man [is]
responsible and accountable for the fate of his astral body left behind
at death, since that fate results directly from the man's own acts and
life."
WQJ Art i 105







Respect for Life in Animals





"...the root philosophy of both the Adwaita and Buddhist
scholars is identical, and both have the same respect for animal life,
for both believe that every creature on earth, however small and humble,
"is an immortal portion of the immortal matter"...and that every
creature is subject to Karma." 


S D I 636





Manas - Mind Sets the Human Apart from the Animal





"...you possess the I am I consciousness. Hence...the
consciousness functions in many different planes of experience, and in
each one uses the means or instruments appropriate thereto. And in
order to pass from one plane to another, holding intelligence in each,
the presence of Manas is necessary as one of the integral parts or
powers of the Self, for without Manas we are only of the brute or lower
kingdoms. For one moment consider the brutes who, moving and dwelling
in the mental plane with man, know nothing of our manasic sensations.
It is because Manas is dormant in them; but in you it has begun to
awake, thus enabling you as man to note the effects upon yourself of the
motions of the qualities of nature."
WQJ Forum Ans. 63





Human Egos Limited for Each Manvantaric
Cycle





"The inrush of new Egos ceased at a period long passed.
What can be drawn from this is that the Egos and Monads now involved in
the earth's evolution are restricted from this on to the end of this
Manvantara from coming into the human stage of evolution, with the
exception of those confined in the true anthropoid ape family...(106)
The Egos in lower kingdoms will become men--but not in this
Manvantara--and then will have to begin the next Manvantara to help
those below them."


WQJ Forum Ans. 105-6





Man's Thoughts in the Astral Light Affect Animals





"The animal kingdom is affected by us through the astral
light. We have impressed the latter with pictures of cruelty,
oppression, dominion, and slaughter. [In Christian countries
theological permission is given to kill and dominate animals. Hunting,
wanton killings become a habit.]...if these people could catch
elementals as easily as then can animals, they would kill them for
amusement when they did not want them for use; and, if the elementals
refused to obey, then their death would follow as a punishment. All
this is perceived by the elemental world, without conscience of course;
but, under the laws of action and reaction, we receive back from it
exactly that which we give."


WQJ ART. I 411





Protection and Kindness to Animals





"...the purest as the noblest of all existing systems of
ethics, Buddhism - -inculcates kindness and protection to every living
creature, from animal and bird down to the creeping thing and even the
reptile. Alone, our Western religion stands in its isolation, as a
monument to the most gigantic human selfishness ever evolved by human
brain, without one word in favor of, or for the protection of the poor
animal." HPB Art II 328









Man's Animal Nature -- Its Discipline and
Elevation





[ Read Through the Gates of Gold -- by M.C. -- pp 79-84 ]





Man's and Nature's Life-Atoms -- Their
Interaction



[ Read SD II 671 - 3 ; SD II 513 ]





Man: Focal Point of Nature's Laboratory





"Those atoms [ Skandhas ] fly from all of us at every
instant. They seek their appropriate center; that which is similar to
the character of him who evolves them. We absorb from our fellows
whatever is like unto us. it is thus that man reincarnates if the lower
kingdoms. He is lord of nature, the key, the focus, the highest
concentrator of Nature's laboratory. And the atom he condemns to fall
thus to beasts will return to him in some future life for his detriment
or his sorrow. But he, as immortal man, cannot fall. That which falls
is the lower, the personal, the atomic. He is the brother and teacher
of all below him. See that you do not hinder and delay all nature by
your failure in virtue." WQJ Art I 111





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----Original Message-----
From: L.R. Andrews [mailto:liberty722980@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:39 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] cockroaches



Thanks for the recent replies to my inquiry about treating mice with
compassion. Now, how about cockroaches, especially the kinds one finds
revolting, and which one fears? Would a thorough study of such creatures
help eliminate the revulsion and the desire to destroy them without
mercy?



Thanks and best wishes,



L.R.

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