Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00357)

Jan 22 2004

Re: World Photo Provocative questions


Dear Friends and P II


I have often looked at world maps and have noticed that the
concentration of populations seems to be along the sealine and the great
lakes and rivers.

It seems that the need for water is the most important asset --
certainly for plant growth, and for air renewal and purification.

Another thing to be noticed is that vast and ancient hydraulic works for
the distribution of river water out of the ancient high land masses (
examples: India, China, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia, Iraq, Egypt) and more
recently in Europe and the USA have made for wider areas of agriculture.

The remnants of old civilizations show how much reliance was placed on a
steady source or flow of water. Our present shows greater inclination
to amusement and sadly lacks an early educational focus on the
preservation of essentials. 

No doubt the resulting Karma will show us where we have succeeded or
failed.

Best wishes


Dallas

PS Have a look at this article:


CITIES UNDER CITIES


The theory that the remains of ancient cities exist under those of the
present is not a new one. Dr. Schliemann held it, and working upon the
clues found in Homer unearthed the buried Troy. Some have held it in
respect to London, asserting that St. Paul's stands over the ruins of an
old Pagan temple, and Roman ruins have been excavated in different parts
of England. In India there is a mass of traditions telling of many
modern cities said to stand over ancient ones that lie buried intact
many feet below the present level. 

Lucifer for September (1892) noticed the "find" of an Amorite fortress
sixty feet below the surface, with walls twenty-eight feet thick. It is
well known to those who enjoyed intimate conversations with H. P.
Blavatsky that she frequently gave more detailed and precise statements
about great cities being built on the exact spots where others had stood
long ages ago, and also about those over which only villages stand now. 

And as the constant explorations of the present day - reaching almost to
the North Pole - give promise that perhaps soon the prophecies about
revelations from mother Earth made by her will be fulfilled, I am
emboldened to give the old theory, very likely known to many other
students, to account for this building and rebuilding of cities over
each other after such intervals that there can be no suspicion of
communication between present and past inhabitants.

As man's civilization has traveled around the globe many times, filling
now one country and now another with populous places, creating an
enormous metropolis here and another there, his influence has been left
on nearly every spot upon the earth, and that as well upon lands now
beneath the seas as on those above them. 

If we can imagine the first coming of a population to a place never
before inhabited, the old theory asks us to believe that certain classes
of elementals - called devas generically by the Hindus - are gathered
over the place and present pictures of houses, of occupations of busy
life on every hand, and, as it were, beckon to the men to stay and
build. 

These "fairies," as the Irish call them, at last prevail, and
habitations are erected until a city springs up. During its occupation
the pictures in the astral light are increased and deepened until the
day of desertion arrives, when the genii, demons, elementals, or fairies
have the store of naturally impressed pictures in the ether to add to
their own. These remain during the abandonment of the place, and when
man comes that way again the process is repeated. 

The pictures of buildings and human activity act telepathically upon the
new brains, and the first settlers think they have been independent
thinkers in selecting a place to remain. So they build again and again.
Nature's processes of distributing earth and accumulating it hide from
view the traces of old habitations, giving the spot a virgin appearance
to the new coming people. And thus are not only cities built in
advantageous positions, but also in places less convenient.

Evidence is accessible and plentiful in every country to show that the
winds, the trees, birds, and beasts can in time cover over completely,
while leaving them intact, the remains of roads and buildings once used
and occupied by men. 

In Central America there are vast masses of ruins among which trees of
considerable girth are now growing. In other districts the remains of
well-made roads are sometimes found creeping out from tangled underbrush
and disappearing under a covering of earth. 

At Elephanta near Bombay, and in other places in India, the earth has
been blown gradually under pillars and gateways, rendering entrance
impossible. On the Pacific Coast, in one of the Mexican States, there is
old and new San Blas, the one on the hill, deserted and almost covered
with trees and debris of all sorts which is surely constructing a
covering that will ere long be some feet in thickness. 

So without regard to volcanic eruptions or landslides, which of course
suddenly and forcibly overlay a city, it is quite possible for Nature
through her slower processes to add to thickness of earthy covering at
any place abandoned by man, and the very best illustration of this is in
the coral islands which rise out of the ocean to be soon covered with
earth and trees.

But, our ancient theory says, no process of a mechanical or physical
kind has any power over the pictures impressed in the retentive ether,
nor over those classes of elementals which find their natural work in
presenting pictures of cities and buildings to the receptive brain of
man. if he is materialistic he will recognize these pictures only
subconsciously. 

But the subconscious impressions will translate themselves into acts
just as hypnotized subjects respond to a suggestion they have no memory
of. When, however, these elementals encounter a race of men who are
psychically developed enough to see not only the pictures but also those
entities which present them, it will then result that a conscious choice
will be made, leading to a deliberate selection of one place for
building on and the rejection of another.

I present this interesting old theory without proof except such as can
be obtained by those few persons who are themselves able to see the
devas at work on their own plane.

BRYAN KINNAVAN ( W. Q. JUDGE )
Path, November, 1892

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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil II 
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:22 AM
To: 
Subject: Daydreaming-What if........

Hi all,

While looking at the satellite photos very kindly supplied by Dallas & 
Daniel, I could not help but think what if:-

All the money, effort and resources currently wasted on wars and sham 
politics were put into research and development projects in order to
increase the 
land mass on our planet, perhaps by finding ways to reduce the sea level
and/or 
moving a few mountains.

Imagine vast new agricultural areas producing food, perhaps land bridges
or 
causeways joining countries and continents.

Ah but it is just a daydream, no doubt better brains than mine have
already 
considered the benefits and been crushed by the enormity of the task.
However 
what if?

P II