Theos-Talk Archives (May 2004 Message tt00148)

May 17 2004

Dear Friend and K

To answer your question about the possibility of change of "dimension"
between "Globes" ( S D I 200 )

Here is a view of the THEOSOPHICAL view of the Globes and the Rounds
as evolution progresses:

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EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS -- Extracts from the Ocean



THEOSOPHY A BODY OF KNOWLEDGE

Theosophy is that ocean of knowledge which spreads from shore to shore
of the evolution of sentient beings; unfathomable in its deepest
parts, it gives the greatest minds their fullest scope, yet, shallow
enough at its shores, it will not overwhelm the understanding of a
child.  

It is Wisdom, for it is the science of sciences. It is therefore
complete in itself and sees no unsolvable mystery anywhere. It throws
the word coincidence out of its vocabulary. It hails the reign of law
in everything and every circumstance. 

The vast array of objects and men are not mere collections of atoms
fortuitously thrown together and thus without law evolving law, but
down to the smallest atom all is soul and spirit ever evolving under
the rule of law which is inherent in the whole. Theosophy teaches
that the course of evolution is the drama of the soul and that nature
exists for no other purpose than the soul's experience. 


SCALES OF INTELLIGENCE -- THE SAGES

There must be beings in the universe whose intelligence is as much
beyond ours as ours exceeds that of a black beetle, and those
possessing such advanced intelligence naturally take an active and
cooperative part in the government of the natural order of things.
They are the active, and wise assistants of Nature, [the UNIVERSE] as
a whole. The Theosophist adds that such Wise Sages are Intelligences
which were once human, and came like all of us from other and previous
worlds. 

The most intelligent being in the universe, man, has never, been
without a friend, but has a line of elder brothers who continually
watch over the progress of the less progressed, preserve the knowledge
gained through aeons of trial and experience, and continually seek for
opportunities of drawing the developing intelligence of the race to
consider the great truths concerning the destiny of the soul. 

We are therefore not appearing for the first time when we come upon
this planet, but have pursued a long, an immeasurable course of
activity and intelligent perception on other systems of globes, some
of which were destroyed ages before the solar system condensed. 


UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION -- ITS RECORDS

This immense reach of the evolutionary system means, that this planet
on which we now are, is the result of the activity and the evolution
of some earlier one that died long ago. It left its energy to be used
in the bringing into existence the earth. Further, the inhabitants of
the Earth, in their turn, came from an older world. They are now
proceeding with their destined work in the “matter” we are familiar
with here. 

The Elder Brothers of the human race, keep the knowledge they have
gained of the laws of nature in all departments, and are ready when
cyclic law permits to use it for the benefit of mankind. They have
always existed as a body, all knowing each other, no matter in what
part of the world they may be, and all working for the race in many
different ways. [see ISIS UNVEILED, Vol. 2, pp. 98-103] 

They have stood by the cradle of nations and they have preserved the
records of it all in places secure from the ravages of either men or
time. They have made minute observations, through trained psychics,
into the unseen realms of nature and of mind, recorded the
observations, and have preserved the record. And, they know what the
ultimate divisions of time are and what are the meaning and the times
of the cycles. 
[ see SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. I, pp. 272-3 ]


CYCLES OF KNOWLEDGE AND EVOLUTION

Under cyclic law, during a dark period, the true philosophy disappears
for a time, but the same law causes it to reappear. It is the
Master's work to preserve the true philosophy, but the help of the
companions is needed to rediscover and promulgate it. 

The periods, when out of the Great Unknown there comes forth the
visible universes, are eternal in their coming and going. These
alternate with equal periods of silence and rest in that Unknown. The
object of these mighty waves is the production of Perfect Man, the
evolution of Soul, and they always witness the increase of the number
of Elder Brothers. The Elder Brothers are the highest product of
evolution through whom alone, in cooperation with the whole human
family, the further regular and workmanlike prosecution of the plans
of the Great Architect of the Universe can be carried on. 


THEOSOPHY DEALS WITH OUR EARTH IN THE UNIVERSE

The teachings of Theosophy deal with our earth, and to all the worlds,
since no part of the universe is outside the single body of laws which
operate upon us. Our globe being one of the solar system is certainly
connected with other planets, but as the great human family has to
remain with its material vehicle -- the earth -- until all the units
of the race which are ready, are perfected, the evolution of that
family is of greater importance to the members of it. 


SEVEN-FOLD NATURE AND MAN -- “ 7 PRINCIPLES”

The universe evolves from the unknown, on seven planes, and in seven
ways in all worlds. And this sevenfold differentiation causes all the
worlds of the universe, and the beings thereon, to have a septenary
constitution. 

The divisions of the sevenfold universe may be laid down roughly as:
The Absolute, Spirit, Mind, Matter, Will, Akasa or AEther, and Life.
In place of "the Absolute" we can use the word “Space.” For “Space”
is that which ever is, and in which all manifestation must take place.


Our knowledge begins with differentiation, and all manifested objects,
beings, or powers are only differentiations of the Great Unknown. 

The most that can be said of the Absolute” is that IT periodically
differentiates itself, and periodically withdraws the differentiated
into itself. As to “the Absolute,” we can do no more than say IT IS.
None of the Great Teachers of the School ascribe qualities to “the
Absolute,” although all qualities exist in It. 

The first differentiation -- speaking metaphysically as to time -- is
Spirit, with which appears Matter and Mind. This is a Unit, and,
called the “Monad.” [ In manifestation, it is a triune Unity,
consisting of: ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS, or, Spirit - Wisdom - Mind] The
Monad is held to be immortal throughout the great life-cycle, whether
Manvantara or Kalpa. It is the basis for human Individuality.

The term “Akasa,” taken from the Sanskrit, is used in place of AEther,
to properly designate that tenuous state of matter which is now
sometimes called “Ether” by modern science. Akasa is produced from
Matter and Spirit.

Will is the force of Spirit in action. And Life (Jiva) is a resultant
of the action of Akasa, moved by Spirit, upon Matter. 

But the Matter here spoken of, has sometimes been called Primordial
Matter. It is called “Mulaprakriti” (or “Root Matter”). And it is
sometimes referred to as “Maha-Buddhi.” [In considering this, one may
think of an “atom” as essentially an eternal, individualized field of
electro-magnetic Force. Physical material is condensed in and around
it by attraction. The formation of worlds, and the reincarnation of
human Souls, may be thought of in similar terms, and patterns.]

The ancient teaching always held, as is now admitted by Science, that
we see or perceive only the phenomena but not the essential nature,
cause or being of Matter. 


UNIVERSAL PLAN OF MANIFESTATION

Mind (the Universal Mind or Mahat) is the intelligent part of the
Cosmos. In the collection of seven differentiations roughly sketched
above, Universal Mind is that in which the Plan of the Cosmos is fixed
or contained. 

This Plan is brought over from a prior period of manifestation, which
added to its ever-increasing perfectness as it proceeds. No limit can
be set to its evolutionary possibilities in perfectness, because, as
there was never any beginning to the periodical manifestations of “the
Absolute,” there never will be an end, but forever the going forth
and withdrawing into the Unknown will go on. 

Wherever a world or system of worlds is evolving there the Plan has
been laid down in Universal Mind, the original force comes from
Spirit, the basis is Matter -- which is in fact invisible -- Life
sustains all the forms, and Akasa is the connecting link between
Matter on one side and Spirit-Mind on the other. 


END OF A CYCLE -- CATACLYSMS - DELUGES

When a world or a system comes to the end of certain great cycles, men
record a cataclysm in history or tradition. These universal traditions
abound, all pointing to early teaching and dim recollection of
periodical destructions and renovations. Just as there are periodical
minor cataclysms or partial destructions, so, the doctrine holds,
there is, as a prototype, the universal evolution and involution. 

Forever the Great Breath goes forth and returns again. As it proceeds
outwards, objects, worlds and men appear; as it recedes all disappear
into the original source. 

This is the waking and the sleeping of the “Great Being;” and is
symbolized as the “Day” and the “Night” of Brahma. It is the
prototype of our days and nights and, of our disappearance at the end
of one short human life, and, it implies our return (through
reincarnation) to take up our unfinished work in a new body, in a new
"day."


HOW OLD IS OUR EARTH?

The real age of the world has long been doubted by Western
investigators.. 

It is admitted that Egyptian civilization flourished many centuries
ago, and there are no living Egyptian schools of ancient learning to
offend modern pride. The inscriptions cut in rocks and written on
papyri or ancient books, obtain a little more credit today than the
living thought and record of the Hindus, Tibetans, Mayans and Chinese,
and it would never do to admit that such ancient, and recently
conquered races, possesses knowledge respecting the age of man and his
world which the “West” still knows nothing of. 

Ever since the ignorant monks and theologians of Asia Minor and Europe
succeeded in imposing the Mosaic account of the genesis of earth and
man upon the coming western evolution, the most learned even of our
scientific men have stood in fear of the years that elapsed since
Adam, or have been warped in thought and perception whenever their
eyes turned to any chronology different from that of the Jews.

But the Master Theosophists know what is to be the resurrection of the
old pyramid builders of the Nile valley, and where the plans of those
ancient master masons have been hidden from the profane eyes until the
cycle should roll round again for their bringing forth. Fate ruled
that the Hindus only should preserve the old ideas among a living
people. 


EVOLUTION RECORDED IN BRAHMANICAL RECORDS

No mind can comprehend the “Infinite and Absolute Unknown,” which IS,
has no beginning and shall have no end; which IS both last and first,
because, whether differentiated or withdrawn into ITSELF, IT ever is.
This is the “God” spoken of as the one around whose pavilion there is
darkness. 

This cosmic and human chronology of the Hindus may still be laughed at
by Scientists, yet they can furnish nothing better and are continually
disagreeing.. Since Theosophy was promulgated, Science has come closer
in their estimates to the figures of the Oriental chronology. The
Brahmanical records of Hindustan, and their doctrine about the days,
nights, years and life of Brahma, who, representing the universe and
the worlds, at once upset the interpretation so long given to the
Mosaic tradition, insofar as time is concerned.  

The Day of Brahma is said to last one thousand years, and his night is
of equal length. This may be construed to be a statement of the
periodical coming forth, for great days and nights of equal length of
the universe of manifested worlds. A Day of Brahma is made up of what
are called Manvantaras -- or period between two men -- fourteen in
number. These include four billion three hundred and twenty million
mortal, each year being a "Day" of Brahma. [4,320,000,000 years long]
And Brahma’s “Night” is of similar duration. 

When this day opens, cosmic evolution, so far as relates to this solar
system, begins and occupies between one and two billions of years in
evolving the very ethereal first matter before the astral kingdoms of
mineral, vegetable, animal and men are possible. 


PLANS AND MATERIAL IN EVOLUTION

In these the, very distant and very silent past, Man could not have
his bodily temple to live in, until all the matter in and about his
world had been found by the Master, the spiritual and eternal Inner
Man. Once found, the plans for working it required to be carried out
in detail, until all the parts should be perfectly ready and fit for
the final structure. 

This is the gradual coming forth of the known and heterogeneous from
the unknown and homogeneous. The ancient Egyptian and Hindu
Theosophists never admitted a creation out of nothing, but ever
strenuously insisted upon evolution, by gradual stages. All the
various powers and potentialities needed, had to be well worked out in
this slow but sure process. At last man is put upon the scene: a
sevenfold being, a miniature of the universe and earth, which are
sevenfold. 

Each of Man’s seven principles is derived from one of the great first
seven divisions. And each relates to a "planet," by analogy, or a
"scene" of evolution; and to a "race" in which that evolution was
carried out. So the first sevenfold differentiation is important to be
borne in mind, since it is the basis of all that follows; just as the
universal evolution is septenary so the evolution of humanity,
sevenfold in its constitution, is carried out upon a septenary Earth.
This is spoken of in Theosophical literature as the Sevenfold
Planetary Chain, and is intimately connected with Man's special
evolution. [see SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. I, pp. 200, 570-574 ; II 596]


CONSOLIDATION OF MATERIALS AND FORMS

This second step takes some three hundred millions of years, and then
still more material processes go forward for the production of the
tangible (physical matter) kingdoms of nature, including man. 

This covers over one and one-half billions of years. 

And the number of solar years included in the present "human" period
is over eighteen millions of years. [SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. I, pp. 150,
footnote]

During all these ages before man’s physical body came into being,
evolution was carrying on the work of perfecting various powers which
are now our possession. This was accomplished by the Ego or Real Man
going through experience in countless conditions of matter, all
different one from the other, and the same plan in general was and is
pursued as prevails in respect to the general evolution of the
universe.

That is, details were first worked out in spheres of being very
ethereal, metaphysical, in fact. Then the next step brought the same
details to be worked out on a plane of matter a little more dense,
until at last it could be done on our present plane of what we miscall
“gross matter.” This is called the “descent of Spirit into Matter.”

When the rough work was completed, when the human “temple” was
erected, many more ages were required for all the servants, and the
councilors to learn their parts, so that man, the Master, might be
able to use the physical temple for its best and highest purposes.
Theosophy alone, inclusive of all systems and every experience, gives
the key, the plan, the doctrine, the truth of these great natural
processes. 

To state it in another way. 

The Plan comes first in the Universal Mind, after which the astral
model or basis is made, and when that astral model is completed, the
whole process is gone over so as to condense the matter, up to the
middle of the Fourth Round. 

In the vast stretch of time which began after the first almost
intangible matter had been gathered and kneaded, the material and
vegetable kingdoms had sole possession here with the Master -- man --
who was hidden from sight, within, carrying forward the plans for the
foundations of the human temple over many ages. 

The stream of Monads begins first to work up the mass of matter in
what are called elemental conditions when all is gaseous or fiery. For
the ancient and true theory is that no evolution is possible without
the “Monads” as the innumerable vivifying agents. In this first stage
there are no animals or vegetables. Next comes the mineral when the
whole mass hardens, the Monads being imprisoned within. Then the first
Monads emerge into vegetable forms which they construct themselves,
and no animals yet appear. Next the first class of Monads emerges from
the vegetable and gradually produce the animal forms. Then, the human
astral and shadowy model is constructed, and we have minerals,
vegetables, animals and future men, for the second and later classes
are still evolving in the lower kingdoms. [S D I 158-9]

Upon this earth and upon the whole chain of Globes of which it is a
part, seven races of men appeared simultaneously, coming over to it
from other globes of an older chain. [ S D I 171- 186] In respect
to this earth -- the fourth of this chain -- these seven races came
simultaneously from another Globe of this chain. This appearance of
seven races together happens in the first and in part of the second
Round of the globes. 

In the second round the seven masses of beings are amalgamated, and
their destiny after that is to slowly differentiate during the
succeeding rounds until at the seventh round the seven first great
races will be once more distinct, as perfect types of the human race
as this period of evolution will allow. 

At the present time the seven races are mixed together, and
representatives of all are in the many so-called races of men as
classified by our present science. The object of this amalgamation and
subsequent differentiation is to give to every race the benefit of the
progress and power of the whole derived from prior progress in other
planets and systems. 

For Nature never does her work in a hasty or undue fashion, but, by
the sure method of mixture, precipitation, and separation, brings
about the greatest perfection. And this method was one known to the
Alchemists, though not fully understood in all its bearings even by
them. But there is no vagueness on the point that seven great ”Races,
or types” have to evolve here on this planet, and that the entire
collection of races has to go seven times round the whole series of
seven Globes. 

When the middle of the Fourth Round is reached no more Monads emerge
into the human stage, and will not until a new planetary mass,
reincarnated from ours, is made. This is the whole process roughly
given, but with many details left out, for in one of the Rounds man
appears before the animals. But this detail need lead to no confusion.


What has become at last “man” is of vastly greater age, for before the
present two sexes appeared, the human creature was sometimes of one
shape and sometimes of another, until the whole plan had been fully
worked out into our present form, function, and capacity. 

This is found referred to in ancient books, where man is said to have
been at one time globular in shape. This was at a time when the
conditions favored such a form, and of course, it was longer ago than
eighteen millions of years. And when this globular form was the rule,
the sexes as we know them, had not differentiated and hence there was
but one sex, or if one prefers, no sex at all. 

Human beings did not appear here in two sexes first. The first were of
no sex, then they altered into hermaphrodite, and lastly separated
into male and female. And this separation into male and female for
human beings was over 18,000,000 years ago. .[ S D I 150 fn]


SENSES OF PERCEPTION AND ACTION	

In these early conditions and states, the senses existed in germ, as
it were, or in idea, until the astral plane which is next to this one
was first arrived at, and then they were concentrated so as to become
the actual senses we now use through the agency of the outer physical
organs. 

These outer organs of sight, touch and hearing, smelling and tasting,
are often mistaken by the unlearned or the thoughtless for the real
organs and senses; but he who stops to think, must see that the
senses are interior, and that their outer organs are but mediators, or
links, between the visible universe and the real perceiver within. 


MONADIC EVOLUTION	

Considering our Earth, the view put forward by Theosophy regarding its
genesis, its evolution and the evolution of the Human, Animal and
other Monads, is quite different from modern ideas, and in some things
contrary to accepted theories.  

We find that the Scientific theories of today are not stable. They
change with each century, while the Theosophical one never alters. It
is the result of age-old and continuous verification by the Elder
Brothers. These have now caused its repromulgation and pointed to its
confirmation in ancient books and traditions. To them, it is a
statement of facts in nature. The modern Scientific theories in an
attempt to speculatively rebuild an unknown past, are, on the
contrary, always doubtful, changeable, and continually altered. There
are continuous attempts to secure proof of these theories, but nothing
has proved conclusive so far.


ROUNDS, GLOBES, RACES

The sevenfold Earth is a living oneness -- a sentient entity -- and
not a mere lump of gross matter. Being an entity of a septenary
nature, there must be six other Globes which roll with it in space. 

This company of seven Globes has been called the "Earth Chain," or,
the "Planetary Chain." To make this concept clear Theosophy states:
The earth is one of seven globes, in respect to man's consciousness
only, because when he functions on one of the seven he perceives it as
a distinct globe and does not see the other six. 

This is in perfect correspondence with man himself who has six other
constituents of which only the gross body is visible to him because he
is now functioning on the physical Earth, or the fourth Globe -- and
his body represents the Earth. We have a statement that these Globes
are united in one mass, each interpenetrating the others, but
differing from each other in substance, and, that this difference of
substance is due to change of center of consciousness. To explain
further: 

The whole seven "Globes" constitute one single mass or Great Globe,
and they all interpenetrate each other. We have to say "Globe,"
because the ultimate shape is globular or spherical. 

In studying the diagrams used in the Secret Doctrine to illustrate the
scheme, one has to pay close attention to the accompanying
explanations and cautions given by H. P. Blavatsky. Both she and her
Adept teachers say, that the seven globes of our chain are in
"coadunition with each other but not in consubstantiality." [Secret
Doctrine, Vol. I, p. 166, 200] This is further enforced by cautions
not to rely on statistics, or plane surface diagrams, but to look at
the metaphysical and spiritual aspect of the theory as stated in
English. 


THE EARTH HAS REINCARNATED

The Earth Chain of seven Globes as thus defined is the direct
reincarnation of a former chain of seven Globes, and that former
family of seven was the Moon chain, the moon itself being the visible
representative of the fourth Globe of the old chain. 

When that former vast entity composed of the Moon and six others, all
united in one mass, reached its limit of life, it died just as any
being dies. Each one of the seven sent its energies into space and
gave similar life or vibration to cosmic dust -- matter, -- and the
total cohesive force of the whole kept the seven energies together. [
see SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. I pp. 152-154, 171-181 ]

This resulted in the evolving of the present Earth Chain of seven
centers of energy or evolution combined in one mass. As the Moon was
the fourth of the old series it is on the same plane of perception as
the Earth, and as we are now confined in our consciousness largely to
Earth, we are only able to see one of the old seven -- our Moon. When
we are functioning on any of the other seven planes of consciousness,
we will perceive the corresponding old corpse as a Moon.


NUMBER OF EGOS INCARNATING IS FIXED

The stream or mass of Egos which evolves on the seven Globes of our
chain is limited in number, yet the actual quantity is enormous. For
though the universe is limitless and infinite, yet in any particular
portion of Cosmos in which manifestation and evolution have begun,
there is a limit to the extent of manifestation and to the number of
Egos engaged therein. 


EVOLUTION PASSING FROM GLOBE TO GLOBE

The whole number of Monads now going through evolution on our Earth
Chain came over from the old seven Globes which I have described. This
mass of Egos has also been called a "life wave," meaning the stream
of Monads. [ see SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. I pp 171-175 ]

The Rounds and Races are all periods of time. The Round is a circling
of the seven centers [Globes] of planetary consciousness. [ S D I
200 ]


“RACES”

The Race, is the racial development on one of those seven. [This has
nothing to do with our modern definition of ethnic “races,” or of the
color of the skin.] “Race” as used in Theosophy is a period of time.

There are seven Races for each Globe, but the total of forty-nine
Races only makes up seven Great Races, (the special septenate of Races
on each Globe or planetary center composing in reality one race of
seven constituents or special peculiarities of function and power). 

As no complete Race could be evolved in a moment on any Globe, the
slow, orderly processes of nature, which allow no jumps, must proceed
by appropriate means. Hence Sub-Races have to be evolved one after the
other before the Perfect Root Race is formed. Then the Root Race
sends off its offshoots while it is declining and preparing for the
advent of the next Great Race. 

Between the end of any great Race and the beginning of another there
is a period of rest, so far as the globe is concerned, for then the
stream of human Egos leaves it for another one of the chain in order
to go on with further evolution of powers and faculties there. 


PERFECTION AND THE END OF EVOLUTION

Each one of the Globes is used by evolutionary law for the development
of seven “Races,” and of senses, faculties and powers appropriate to
that state of matter. (the experience of the whole seven Globes being
needed to make a perfect development in man’s consciousness and
character). 

Upon this earth and upon the whole chain of Globes of which it is a
part seven races of men appeared simultaneously, their destiny is to
slowly differentiate during the succeeding rounds until at the seventh
round the seven first great races will be once more distinct, as
perfect types of the human race as this period of evolution will
allow. At the present time the seven races are mixed together, and
representatives of all are in the many so-called races of men as
classified by our present science. The object of this amalgamation and
subsequent differentiation is to give to every race the benefit of the
progress and power of the whole derived from prior progress in other
planets and systems. For Nature never does her work in a hasty or
undue fashion, but, by the sure method of mixture, precipitation, and
separation, brings about the greatest perfection. 

But when the last, the seventh Race has appeared and fully perfected
itself, in the 7th Round and the 7th Globe, a great dissolution comes
on, similar to that which preceded the birth of the earth's chain.
Then the world disappears as a tangible thing, and so far as the human
ear is concerned there is silence. This, it is said, is the root of
the belief so general, that the world will come to an end, that there
will be a judgment-day, or that there have been in the past, universal
floods, earthquakes, submergences of continents, or fires. 

Subsequent to that, which is our future, the whole mass is
spiritualized with full consciousness and the entire body of globes
raised up to a higher plane of development.



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Best wishes,

Dallas
 
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-----Original Message-----

From: kris
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:57 AM
To: Dallas
Subject: Re: human mind

Hi Dallas.

Concerning to your post, the term Dimension that you used (and many
abuse) has got a recent usage and meaning, refering to other planes
/realities of existence.

In what sense may the terms Dimensions and Globes be synonyms as
quoted for instance in Sinnet´s E.Buddhism and and reminded in SD by
HPB on " . . . the spiritual monads . . . do not fully complete
their mineral existence on Globe A, then complete it on Globe B, and
so on. They pass several times round the whole circle as minerals,
and then again several times round as vegetables, and several times as
animals ..." 

Are the different Globes , different dimensions?