Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00423)

Only when the mind is free of desire to achieve
something to get a result, consequently free of fear
can reach a complete state of quietness and silence.
Only them it’s possible to access what Plato says as
the eternal and abstract ideals. But for the mind to
be free of desire has to be identified with it’s
higher principles.

“Thus assuredly Sense-Perception,
Discursive-Reasoning; and all our ordinary mentation
are foreign to the Soul: for sensation is a receiving-
whether of an Ideal-Form or of an impassive body- and
reasoning and all ordinary mental action deal with
sensation.” Plotinus

How to be unidentified with the senses of perception?
Through meditation? If the process of meditation is
moved by desire to achieve such stage, the very
process is condemned before even to begin. So which
inner movement would make possible the higher
principles to be reflected through the lower?

Plotinus mentions that the first virtue that one has
to develop is purification. Purification in which
level? Apparently in the discourse of Plotinus, the
purification of the mind, that would be reflected into
the emotions and consequently reflected as well in the
physical body as a consequence of self control and
self knowledge.

There is an obvious blending between body, emotion and
mind we could see it technically as separate elements.
In this sense the body the emotions and the thoughts
are no more than facets of the sense perceptions that
one acquires into life.

But if the higher principles are pure as Plato,
Plotinus and Blavatsky mentioned, and within it
contains all the wisdom and it’s united with the
eternal what is the purpose of the manifestation of
life in the physical plane?

That question may constitute one of the human
tragedies because there is no answer. 

What is the purpose of the manifestation of life in
the world of form? Some theosophists are going easy to
give an answer, EVOLUTION! 

So what would be the nature of Atma and Buddhi? 

Erica Letzerich


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Erica Letzerich
ICQ- 16621711 
"The Truth will set you free, but first will make you miserable"








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