Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00241)

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March 7 2004

Dear Friends and C:

In regard to the evolutionary scheme of the universe and our Earth we
need to study the first volume of the SECRET DOCTRINE . It is laid out
clearly there, starting with the first principles and purpose of
manifestation and evolution.

Let see if we can find something that offers an overview of this :


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THE EARTH CHAIN OF GLOBES


The Editor has handed me a communication from a reader upon this subject
which I insert here, as it on the one hand shows a very common defect of
students-inaccuracy of reading, thought, and reference, and on the other
will serve as a question which arises in other minds. It reads:

"Please state in reference to the Earth Chain of Globes whether it is
meant to be conveyed on page 159 of S. D. Vol. I that the "seven globes
from the 1st to the 7th proceed in seven Rounds," that each globe
revolves seven times around the World Chain with its own particular
development [say the Mineral Kingdom], before the next in order [say the
Vegetable Kingdom] appears on Globe A? Or does the Mineral Kingdom only
go once around the World Chain from I to 7? In Esoteric Buddhism, page
91, it is stated that the several kingdoms pass "several times around
the whole circle as minerals, and then again several times as
vegetables," but there is no distinct statement of this in S.D."-

Yours, IGNOTUS.

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ANSWER


Inaccuracies like those in the foregoing are not uncommon. They are
constant and all-pervading. It is probably the fault of modern
education, accentuated by the reading of a vast amount of superficial
literature such as is poured out day by day. Any close observer can
detect the want of attention displayed in metaphysical studies in
contrast with the particular care given to matters of business and
practical affairs of life. All those who are studying Theosophy ought to
make themselves aware of this national defect, and therefore give the
strictest attention to what they read upon metaphysics and devote less
attention to the amount of such reading than to thinking upon what is
read.

In the first place, the Secret Doctrine does not say on the page quoted,
nor anywhere else, what "Ignotus" writes. Instead of reading as quoted,
the passage is:

"I. Everything in the metaphysical as in the physical Universe is
septenary. [p. 158] . . . THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE PROCEEDS ON THESE SEVEN
GLOBES OR BODIES from the first to the seventh in Seven Rounds or Seven
Cycles [p. 159]."

I insert in [CAPITAL LETTERS]... the omitted words, the word proceeds
having been put out of its place by "Ignotus." The error makes a
completely new scheme, one unphilosophical and certainly not given out
by the Masters. But though some may wonder why I notice such a false
assumption, it is right to take it up because it must have arisen
through carelessness, yet of such a sort as might perpetuate an
important error. It follows from the restoration of the passage that the
Globes do not "revolve around the world chain." The supposition of the
correspondent is not peculiar among the many hurried ones made by
superficial readers. He first assumed that the various globes of the
Earth-Chain revolved, in some way which he did not stop to formulate, in
seven rounds-I presume in some imaginary orbit of their own-in what he
called the "world chain," and then he went on adapting the rest of the
evolutionary theory to this primary assumption. 

By reading the Secret Doctrine and the former articles on this subject
in the PATH, the point in question will be made clear. Evolution of the
monad, which produces and underlies all other evolutions, proceeds on
the seven planetary bodies of any chain of evolution. These seven places
or spheres for such evolution represent different states of
consciousness, and hence, as written in the Secret Doctrine and
attempted to be shown in these articles, they may and do interpenetrate
each other with beings on each. Therefore all such words as "round,"
"around," "chain," and the like must be examined metaphysically and not
be allowed to give the mind a false notion such as is sure to arise if
they are construed in the material way and from their materialistic
derivation. "To go around" the seven globes does not mean that one
passes necessarily from one place to another, but indicates a change
from one condition to another, just as we might say that a man "went the
whole round of sensations."

As to the other questions raised, Esoteric Buddhism is right in saying
that the monads pass several times around the globes as minerals and
vegetables, but wisely does not make the number and order very definite.
In the Secret Doctrine one of the Masters writes that at the second
round the order of the appearance of the human kingdom alters, but the
letter goes no farther on that point except to say, as is very
definitely put in the Secret Doctrine on p. 159, para. 4;

The Life Cycle . . . arrived on our Earth at the commencement of the
Fourth in the present series of life-cycles and races. Man is the first
form that appears thereon, being preceded only by the mineral and
vegetable kingdoms-even the latter having to develop and continue its
further evolution through man.

This states quite distinctly (a) that after the second round the order
alters, and (b) that in the fourth round, instead of animals appearing
as the first moving forms for the monads to inhabit, the human form
comes first, preceded by mineral and vegetable, and followed by the
brute-animal.

This change always comes on at any fourth round, or else we never could
have evolutionary perfection. Other monads come originally from other
spheres of evolution. In a new one such as this the preliminary process
and order of mineral, plant, animal, human must be followed. But having
in two or three rounds perfected itself in the task, the monad brings
out 'the human form at the turning point, so that man as the model,
means, guide, and savior may be able to intelligently raise up not only
humanity but as well every other kingdom below the human. 

This is all made very clear and positive by repeated statement and
explanation in the Secret Doctrine, and it is a matter for surprise that
so many Theosophists do not understand it.

For fear that the present may be misunderstood I will add. Although the
order of appearance of the human form alters as stated, this does not
mean that the whole number of natural kingdoms does not make the
sevenfold pilgrimage. They all make it, and in every round up to and
including the seventh there are present in the chain of globes
elemental, mineral, vegetable, animal, and human forms constituting
those kingdoms, but of course the minerals and vegetables of the seventh
round and race will be a very different sort from those of the present.

But as what a Master has said hereon is far better than my weak words, I
will refer to that. Thus:

Nature consciously prefers that matter should be indestructible under
organic rather than inorganic forms, and works slowly but incessantly
towards the realization of this object-the evolution of conscious life
out of inert material.

WILLIAM BREHON
Path, April, 1893


KALI YUGA AND THE COMING RACE


(i) How many years are there in Kali Yuga? (2) Will the sixth sub-race
begin very soon, that is, will it be at the end of the cycle of the
first five thousand years of Kali Yuga? (3) Cannot a person of the fifth
race come near where the sixth race shall live?

(ii) Kali Yuga is said by the Brahmins and by the Secret Doctrine to be
432,000 years long. We will have to accept the calculation for the
present.]

(2) Many thousands of years will pass before the next race will be here,
and you will have died several times over before that, and also it is
probable you will be one of that race unless you go to some other
planet. You have made the error of sup-posing that the end of the cycle
in 1898 is the end of the race. It is not. It is but a minor cycle,
though quite important in its way. Hence-

(3) As we, including you, will be members of the new race in all
probability if we take advantage of our opportunities, there is no
profit in the question or its answer, for the sixth race not being due
for so many centuries, and you being eligible for membership in it,
there is no sequence. When the sixth race has fully come, many
degenerate examples of the bodies of the fifth will be here with it and
among it, but no special place will be kept for its development.

Path, January, 1895

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A survey of the total evolutionary process is sent in Part 2


Best wishes,


Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: chris
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:20 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: Multiperpectivalists Unite!

:
> March 7th 2004
> 

Hallo Dallis, I hope I can make it clear ;

The 7 principles; right, but I also learned that the whole spinnery 
from upside down will be One Ultimate or Ultra atom combines with 7
principles its level 
completed goes farther with a new aspect from all of that; even in 7 
principles with the link to the other level within the Ultra Atom.
So the way down till we are now, humans on earth; 

We have to go back(in consciousness) to the higher levels and from 
earth to another planet(Nw Jupiter) and then, evolutionairy as 
angels, archangels( on the planet Nw Venus after) and so on Vulcanus 
and after that the Manvantara will be finished .At least for the 
human beings.

Continuously to create within the seven principles and then to 
combine with the Ultra atom or spirit( maybe you call that the 
zeropoint) to go over in a next level>

That is what I learned in my first lessons on theosophy.
I think it is great to know that.

And in that greatness we need to help and to give others the insight 
in that truth.

What do you think the Insight and Intuitive Buddhi light comes from?
That comes to us( because we came out of it) to bring the whole 
family , also that principles are doing ,up to the higher level(s)

so we all are in the lift (upgrowing).Animals, humans all of them.

Chris


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Please proceed to Part 2 for a further more comprehensive survey