Theos-Talk Archives (May 2004 Message tt00240)

Thanks Odin

Dallas

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Interesting

RELIGIOUS CYCLES


The cyclic emergence of religions, like a spiral


Some thoughts on The Spiral of Religious Emergence


It appears to be correct idea to say that the emergence of one
religion out of another is a cyclic spiral. There is always
similarity and not identity.

Consider that there is always at the base of each religion a
philosophy of life. This philosophy, if true, is not going to vary in
its essentials. Consequently, what we witness in the past are the
spirals in time of a great set of universally diffused IDEAS and their
philosophy -- that always resurfaces and also may seem to be "new" in
"its" time. Whereas it is quite old.

If we wish to identify some of them we could say:  

1. There is a great and unknown source of all.  

2. Since we all share in that single origin we are all BROTHERS. Not
only among humans, but also with everything else in Nature. All are
sharers in the universal divinity.

3. Nature and God are names given to the actuality of our lives and
thought in the present.  

4. A great law of universal fairness, harmony, balance and justice
works at the same rate and pace for everyone, and for all living
things.  

5. Every being is an immortal at its core, which is "spark" or a
"ray" of SPIRIT/MATTER. From the "atom" to the Galaxy, we are all
united.  

6. In mankind we see the emanation of the power of the Mind. it is
conjoined to the faculty of instinct, of feeling, of desire and need.
But the mind having a direct connection with the ONE SOURCE, is able
to distinguish between the essential and fair, and the non-essential
and selfish.  

7. This makes for the difference between "Good, and Evil." Good is
to cooperate with Nature (God's) Laws. Evil is to distort or pervert
them. Nature in her great sensitivity takes note of our motive -- a
combination of our thought and feeling. This brings to us Karma.
Karma is the response from Nature to assist us, always. If we have
chosen well or wrongly, it presents us eventually with the result of
our choices. It is always fair, just and therefore merciful to all.
It assists us to redress our wrong choices, and to benefit from the
good that we do.  

8. The whole of Nature is found to be progressive. Wisdom of the
Mind is the result of a closer study of our own faculties and of the
great Laws that are already active in Nature. Science, for instance,
is the intent and careful study of Nature's workings in all
departments of nature. Nature HAS ALREADY INSTALLED EVERYTHING IN
PLACE FOR OUR PROGRESS. We share this marvelous advantage with every
other being in the World and the Universe. 

9. The final result of Evolution is to become a WISE HUMAN BEING. We
have always had them among us, when we think of the Christs, the
Buddhas, The Rishis, the Prophets, and the Sages of all countries and
all times. They form a great brotherhood. They are the Great
Servants of Mankind. They seek to get us to study our own selves, how
we think, how we feel, how best to act. They always say that we have
to push ourselves forward to ever learn more from the "Book of Life"
that is open before us. We are in our real, core selves, the "Eternal
Pilgrims."

The great Souls, the Mahatmas, Buddhas, Prophets, Christs, Rishis,
etc. whose record of acting in a superior manner and whose words
resound as "truth", can be seen to form one great body of WISE MEN.
They do not die, as Intelligences, but always act from time to time as
the teachers of men. They are a great brotherhood.
[ see ISIS UNVEILED, Vol. 2, pp. 98 - 103 ]

It takes some time for a religion to grow up around a philosophical
reform, and thus, coating it with the "Letter of the Law," it ends in
stifling and choking it. Forcing one aspect of the "Truth" on others,
whether it be words or observances (rites), is useless. Each one has
to have the freedom to make decisions and choose those criteria for
action on their own. No one can learn for another. Each has to do
the learning and the progressing themselves.

People have to realize that the TRUTH is inside themselves -- it is in
all our many hearts. So we have to express it by thinking and acting
as though we were brothers to everything else. If we set up a barrier
of differences, we will lose the fine edge of sensitivity that
perceives in another's religion or philosophy the same basic truths
we were taught in ours. They are not, as basis mutually exclusive,
but reach out at that time and place to embrace the rest and their
earlier sources. 

That is one thing to consider.

Another is the cycle of reincarnation. Mme. Blavatsky in the KEY TO
THEOSOPHY says that this runs between 10 and 15 centuries on the
average.  

Similar kinds of civilizations return, similar knowledge,
architecture, skills, values, and also the lack of these. This is due
to the return of certain average kind of Egos (minds or souls ). The
Soul-mind is an "Immortal Pilgrim." It uses body after body, and one
might say that each incarnation is like a new day in "schools." The
SCHOOL OF LIFE, which for us is the series of our incarnations on our
Earth.

We do not remember our lives as the last person we were. We do return
with the increment in facility in thinking, sensitivity, the desire to
learn, to improve, and such important qualities as honesty,
trustworthiness, diligence, attention, concentration, will, etc. And
since our Karma operates in all ways, our deficits and disabilities
that remain unconquered and undisciplined return with us also. Each
life with the new material form that we assemble out of the old
"skandhas" (or "life-atoms") that we used we renew the struggle
towards becoming a more perfect human being.

Thus everything in theosophical philosophy is viewed as alive,
constantly learning, ceaselessly reincarnating under the great law of
Karma that ever urges every being to evolve into their more perfect
stages of knowledge and wisdom. It states that this is a moral, or
ethical universe and the practice of benevolence, compassion and
brotherhood enables us to comply with this situation. 

We always have opportunities to assist and help our fellow man and
woman. If we neglect those, we are the ones who delay our own
advance. If we harm anyone, for whatever reason, we ask the great and
impartial law of Karma to take note; and, in its always educative
mode, it gives us a situation later on, in which we are the recipients
of the force of our motive in action. This can happen immediately, or
after some days, weeks, or years -- perhaps even in a future
life-time. All our Karma is always mixed in with that of others, so
we have the karma of a family, a race, a religion, or a Nation.
Nothing escapes the scope of Karmic action. This is because
everything is alive and emanates at its source from the same
"god-head" [ the ONE, UNKNOWN SPIRITUAL SOURCE" ] that we all do.

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INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES


A Brief survey of our Modern Science


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DATE	INDIVIDUAL DISCOVERY or INVENTION	

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Euclid GEOMETRY
Ptolemy GEOGRAPHY
Galen	MEDICINE


1,400 to 1,500 AD	

Renaissance in Europe sparked by discovery 
of ancient texts preserved by Arab scholars
through Europe's Dark Ages.


1,500 to 1,600 AD	


1,543	Visalius	First accurate HUMAN ANATOMY
pub.	

Copernicus Theorizes Earth and Planets revolve
around the Sun

1,572	Tycho Brahe observes a SUPER-NOVA -- Celestial 
bodies are not unchanging



1,600 to 1,700 AD


1,609	Galileo observes Moon's craters

1,609	Kepler sets out laws of planetary motion

1,610	Galileo observes Jupiter's satellites

1,614	Napier invents Logarithms (speeds up
computing)

1,628	Harvey describes blood circulation

1,674	Leeuwenhoek compound microscope -- sees 
micro-organisms

1,687	Newton gravity and motion combine Earth and
celestial bodies into dynamic
relations



1,700 to 1,800 AD


1,704	Newton - Theory of optics expose

1,735	Linnaeus Systema Naturae - classification and 
naming organisms

1,752	Franklin	Electricity in Lightning demonstrated

1,774	Priestley	Oxygen discovered Named in 1779 by 
Lavoisier (quantitative Chemistry)

1779	Lavoisier	Named OXYGEN

1,781	Herschel	Uranus discovered

1,795	Hutton Theory of the Earth - Geology begins

1,795	Jenner	Vaccination vs. smallpox



1,800 to 1,900 AD


1,800	Volta	Electric Battery

1,808	Dalton	Atomic Theory of matter

1,818	Berzelius	Atomic Weights table published

1,820	Orsted	Magnetism and Electricity connected

1,831	Faraday	Electric induction demonstrated

1,857	Pasteur	Fermentation caused by microorganisms
leads to Pasteurization

1,859	Spectroscopy suggests stars have 
chemical composition similar to
Earth

1,859	Darwin	The Origin of Species

1,865	Mendel	Genetic laws of Heredity (not included
in
evolution theory till 1,900)

1,884	Maxwell	Electromagnetic equations developed

1,871	Mendeleyev Periodical Table of Elements

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Date	DISCOVERY / INVENTION	NAME

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1,877	Isis Unveiled	H..P.Blavatsky

Telephone	Bell
Electric Lamp	.	.	.	Edison
Phonograph	.	.	.	Edison
D C Current Generation & Motors	Edison

1,877	A C Power Transmission	.	Tesla
A C Motor Development	.Steinmetz & Tesla
High Voltage Transmission .	.	Tesla

1,883	Rayon

1,884	Manganese Steel
Fountain Pen
Trolley, Tram
Steam Turbine
Dirigible	.	.	.Renard & Krebs

1,885	A.C.Transformer	Tesla
Linotype	Mergenthaler

1,887	Radio Waves	.	.	.	Hertz
Monotype	Lanston

1,888	2 Tube Pneumatic Tires	Goodyear
Adding Machine	Burroughs
Daimler Automobile	Daimler
Transparent Photographic Film	Eastman
Induction Motor A.C.	Tesla

1,888	The Secret Doctrine	H.P.Blavatsky

1,889	Cordite Explosive	Abel & Dewar

1,890	Spectro-Heliograph	Hale & Deslandres

1,891	Indurite Explosive	Monroe

1,893	Motion Picture: Kinetoscope	Edison
Parliament of Religions, Chicago

1,894	Submarine - Argonaut	Holland & Lake
Dry Air Blast Furnace
Socialism/Communism Theory	.	Marx / Engels


1,895	Motion Picture Projector
X-RAYS	.	.	.	Roentgen

Wireless	.	.	.	Marconi	
Psychology of Personality	Freud, Brewer
Animal Reflexes	.	.	.Pavlov

1,896	Disc Plow	Deere (?)
Electro-Therapy	.	.	Finsen
Radioactivity	.	.	.	Bequerel

1,897	Atom is not Solid	.	.	Thompson,
Rutherford
Cathode Rays	.	.	.	.Thompson

1,898	Radium .	.	.	Curies

1,899	Wireless in general use
Hague - 1st Moral Conference

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1,900 to PRESENT TIME

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1,900	Quantum Theory	.	Planck & Einstein
Mutation in Plants	.	Van-Vries
Cosmic Rays	.	.	Eitel
1st Airplane Flight	.	Wright brothers
Diesel Motor	.	.	.Diesel
Vacuum Tube for Radio .	.De Forest

1,901	High Speed Steel

1,902	Photograph Transmitted by Wire

1,903	Beta Rays	.	.	.	Rutherford

1,905	Relativity Theory	.	.	Einstein

Quantum Theory.	.	.	Planck

1,909	Synthetic Resin, Backelite

Electron charge Measured	.	Millikan

1,912	Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics (1960s)

1,913	Fixation of Nitrogen .	.	Haber

Electron Movement Theory	Bohr

1,917	Communism - Bolshevism (Russia)	
Lenin, Trotsky

to 1,920 Microworld and Quantum Mechanics adopted

1,918	Sun as a marginal star in Milky Way Galaxy
Shapley

1,919	Theory of Relativity	Einstein	

1,922-5 Dinosaur Eggs first discovered
Tut-Ank-Hamen's Tomb discovered	C

1,923	Theories of acids/bases developed
Tooth decaying germs identified
Vitamin E identified [ 4th vitamin ]

1,923-7 Quantum Mechanics	.	Heisenberg

1,924	Recognition of Stars Beyond our Galaxy

1,925	Behaviorism Founded			
Taung Skull unearthed

1,926	Liquid Propellant first used in Rockets
Urease, the first Enzyme isolated
Wave Mechanics introduced .Schrodinger
X-Ray Mutations in Fruit Flies

1,927	Uncertainty Principle	.	.	Heisenberg

1,928	Penicillin Discovered	.	.	Fleming

Electron Theory	.	.	Dirac

1,929	Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Fields Discovered 

Uniformly Expanding Universe Theory Hubble 

Hydrogen in Deep space-fuel of Stars Russell

1,930	Anti-Particles proposed

Superfluid Liquid Helium discovered

1,930	Freon & Polyvinyl Chloride Invented

Pluto Discovered

1,931	Incompleteness of Arithmetic	.	Godel

1,932-3 Neutron discovered, Electron Research Schrodinger

1,932	Radio emissions detected from deep space Jansky


1,934	Mitochondria isolated

Hormones found to regulate Insect metamorphosis

1,935	Earthquake Strength Scale developed	Richter

Nylon invented

1,936	Radiometric Dating invented

1,937	Computation using a revolving machine

1,938	Theory of Ice Ages advance/recession
due to Earth's Rotation / Wobble

1,939	DDT discovered

Theory of Star Combustion advanced

1,940	Lascaux Cave discovered - Stone-Age Paintings

1,942	Sustained Nuclear Chain Reaction

1,945	Digital computer

1,944	Genes discovered to be made of DNA  
Watson & Crick
(1956)

1,946	Carbon-14 Dating developed

1,949	X-Ray Astronomy began

1,949	Transistors

1,951	Commercial Computer built

Genes transfer in Chromosomes Maize

1,952	Calves from Frozen Serum

1,953	Piltdown Skull exposed as fraud

Polio Vaccine Successfully developed	Salk

Double Helix structure of DNA discovered

REM (rapid eye movement) discovered / dreams

1,955	Artificial Diamonds synthesized

1,956	Atlantic/Pacific mid-Oceanic Ridge 
recognized - Global ?

1,957	Sputnik space vehicle launched

1,958	Porpoises found to use echo-location

1,959	Microchip invented

Bacterial Drug Resistance mechanism discovered

Theory of Innate Grammar Capacity advanced

1,960	Gas discharge Laser

1.960 / 8 Plate Tectonics adopted 

1,960	Chimpanzee Observation commenced	.Goodall

Seafloor spreading hypothesis developed

Laser demonstrated

1,962	Noble Gases yield compounds

Silent Spring published .	.	Carson
	
Brain Hemisphere Differences explored

1,963	Quasar discovered

1,964	Animal Altruism explained Genetically

High-Yield Rice developed - Green Revolution

Fossils of 1.8 million year old Homo-Habilis

Sub-atomic Quarks theory introduced

1,965	Cosmic Microwave Background discovered

1,967	Human Heart transplanted

Pulsars discovered

1,968	Genetic Code explained

1,969	Gene cloned

1,969	reach Moon	Armstrong & Aldrin

1,972	Possible "Black Hole" discovered

"Punctuated Equilibrium" Theory developed

1,973	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance [ MRI ] developed

1,974	Quark Theory proved by Experiments

Chloroflurocarbons recognized as Threat to Ozone layer

1,975	Socio-biology Launched

1,976	Cancer causing Gene Identified

1,977	Voyager I sent out - Photos of Planets

1,977	Hydrothermal Vent colonies discovered on Ocean floor

1,978	4 million old Fossil of Lucy discovered
Leaky

First "Test-Tube Baby" born

1,979	Voyager 1 discovers Volcanic activity on Io
( Moon of Jupiter )

1,980	Gene added to mouse experimentally

Theory of Meteor Impact and Dinosaur wipe-out Alvarez

1,981	AIDS first recognized [ Africa ? ]

1,983-4 HIV isolated

1,985	Buckyball (60 C atoms) discovered
B. Fuller

Antarctic Ozone Hole discovered

1,986	"High-temperature" Super-conductivity discovered

"Acid Rain" proved to damage US Lakes, Forests, Life

1,987	Manic Depression - molecular genetic studies

1,989	Great Walls of Galaxies discovered - "Bubbles"

1,990	Voyager II sent out

1,990	Hubble Telescope into space -- Photos

1,990	"Big Bang" hypothesis

Gene therapy used on humans

1,992	Extra Solar System planets detected
	
Dioxin recognized as a hormone mimicking pollutant
	
Imprint of a Primordial Cosmic Fluctuation noted

1,993-4 Fermat's last Theorem proved

1,994	Mutant Gene detected in Breast Cancer

Genetic Engineering experiments

1,996	Martian Meteorite shows traces of primitive bacteria

Sequencing of Wheat Genome completed

1,997	Cloned Sheep born

2,000	Human Genome Project Catalogue of our Genes


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