Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00092)

June 17 2040

Dear Mary:

Judge's articles are available through BLAVATSKY.NET and
www.ult-la.org 

It might be a good idea if you like his style and clarity to look at
the titles there. I have considered him my friend for many years. He
and H P B go together closely.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mary W
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:48 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] RE: brief conclusion on Karma CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS
Part I

Dallas: Thanks again for this material from Judge. I appreciate his
gift
for clarity in addressing both the human psyche and the diverse
aspects of
esoteric teachings. One line is particularly timely in view of recent
headlines:

"...there is no doubt cyclic law prevails in regard to nations, that
they
have come back apparently the same, only slightly improved or
degraded, for
there is also a downward cycle included within those that rise.
(Buckle)"

Your idea of the "Karma of a whole past manifestation being carried
forward
in all detail..." certainly rings true. The complexities of our
current
level of globalization and our use of technology make me wonder what
vast
details of karma are at play.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dallas TenBroeck [mailto:dalval14@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:11 PM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] RE: brief conclusion on Karma CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS
Part I



PART I -- RE: brief conclusion on KARMA:

CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS

May 15 2004

Dear Friends and M W:

This too is an interesting aspect of Karma.

It has also occurred to me that every Manvantara ( after the vast
sleep of a Maha Pralaya even ) is evidence of the Karma of a whole
past manifestation being carried forward in all detail -- just as we
daily wake up from our sleep and resume our duties.

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CYCLIC IMPRESSION AND RETURN AND OUR EVOLUTION

Lecture, April 25, 1892, before the convention
By William Q. Judge


Mr. Chairman, Fellow Theosophists, Ladies and Gentlemen:

The title of what I am about to say to you is CYCLIC IMPRESSION AND
RETURN AND OUR EVOLUTION.

Now what is a cycle? It has nothing to do with the word psychic, and I
am sorry to have to say that, because I heard some people this morning
repeat the title as "psychic" instead of "cyclic," seeming to think
perhaps that that was the same thing, or had some relation to it. The
word cyclic is derived from the Greek word Kuklos, or a ring. It has
been turned in the English language into the word cycle, by the
process of saying Kykle, and then cycle. The corresponding word in the
Sanscrit is Kalpa, which has in fact a wider and a deeper meaning;
because cycle in English is a word which covers, is used for, and thus
somewhat confuses, many cycles. It is used for the small cycles, and
the larger cycles, the intermediate cycles and the great ones, whereas
the word Kalpa means and implies only one cycle of a large size, and
the smaller cycles within that are designated by other words.

What is a cycle? It is a circle, a ring. But not properly a ring like
a wedding ring, which runs into itself, but more properly like a screw
thread, which takes the form of a spiral, and thus beginning at the
bottom, turns on itself, and goes up. It is something like the great
Horseshoe Curve in the Pennsylvania Railroad. There you go around the
curve at the lower end; you go down into the horseshoe, and as you
turn the grade rises, so that when you arrive at the opposite side you
have gotten no further than the beginning, but you have risen just the
distance between the two ends of the grade.

But what do we mean by a cycle in Theosophy, in our own investigations
of nature, or man, or civilization, or our own development, our own
origin, our own destiny? We mean by cycles, just what the Egyptians,
the Hindoos and the philosophers of the Middle Ages meant by it; that
is, that there is a periodical return or cycling back, circling back
of something from some place once more. That is why it is called
cycle, inasmuch as it returns upon itself, seemingly; but in the
Theosophical doctrine, and in the ancient doctrines, it is always a
little higher in the sense of perfection or progress. That is to say,
as the Egyptians held, cycles prevail everywhere, things come back
again, events return, history comes back, and so in this century we
have the saying: "History repeats itself."

But where do Theosophists say that cyclic law prevails? We say that it
prevails everywhere. It prevails in every kingdom of nature, in the
animal kingdom, the mineral world, the human world; in history, in the
sky, on the earth. We say that not only do cycles pertain, and
appertain, and obtain in and to the earth and its inhabitants, but
also in what the Hindoos call the three kingdoms of the universe, the
three worlds; that is, that below us, ourselves, and that above.

CUT