Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00135)

Dear Dallas,

If you address a sincere question to me I will answer it. If your
question is a rhetorical one to the gallery, I won't bother.

Your choice,

Paul

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "W.Dallas TenBroeck"
<dalval14@e...> wrote:
> Oct 5 2004
> 
> What has this to do with THEOSOPHY ?
> 
> I am looking for parallels or explanations.
> 
> Dallas
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kpauljohnson [mailto:kpauljohnson@y...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:05 AM
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Theos-World Cayce on Yoga
> 
> 
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Thanks to Perry, Netemara, Leon, Steve, and John for all the good
> information and commentary on shabd yoga and attendant phenomena. 
> Here is an excerpt from a Cayce reading in which he addresses the
> purpose of meditation:
> 
> Thus an entity puts itself, through such an activity, into association
> or in conjunction with all it has *ever* been or may be. For, it
> loosens the physical consciousness to the universal consciousness.
> To allow self in a universal state to be controlled, or to be
> dominated, may become harmful.
> 
> But to know, to feel, to comprehend as to who or as to what is the
> directing influence when the self-consciousness has been released and
> the real ego allowed to rise to expression is to be in that state of
> universal consciousness-- which is indicated in this body here, Edgar
> Cayce, through which there is given this interpretation for [2475].
> 
> So, in analyzing all this-- first study the variations of what has
> been the body-temperament, in thought, in food. For, the
> body-physical becomes that which it assimilates from material nature.
> The body-mental becomes that it assimilates from both the
> physical-mental and the spiritual mental. The soul is *all* that the
> entity is, has been or may be.
> 
> Then, *who* and *what* would the entity have to direct self in such
> experiences? To be loosed without a governor, or a director, may
> easily become harmful. But, as we would give from here, let not such
> a director be that of an entity. Rather so surround self with the
> universal consciousness of the *Christ* as to be directed by that
> influence as may be committed to thee. Thus the entity may use
> constructively that which has been attained.
> 
> But to prevent physical harm, mental harm-- attune self in body, in
> mind, with that influence by which the entity seeks to be directed;
> not haphazardly, not by chance-- but as of old-- choose ye this day
> *whom* ye will serve; the living God within thee, by thee, through
> thee? or those influences of knowledge without wisdom, that would
> enslave or enpower thee with the material things which only gratify
> for the moment?
> 
> Reading 2474-1, Male, 44, 3/27/41
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