Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00302)

Oct 19 

Dear R:

It sounds good. Behind all forms stands need and purpose. These cause
useful structures to be built. They are altered by thought and
considerations of necessity.  

But the whole Universe and each of us is party to a united spirit of life
that is ever on-going. (Call it karma individual and collective.) 

In effect the "brain" is caused to exist by the immortal mind of every human
being in life-action -- as a needed bridge for the Mind to operate and live
(sense, observe and direct) in a world of needed experience in limited
physical forms.

When the forms wear out, through long use, then there is reincarnation and a
continued living, as an outcome of all the preceding ones. {Like a "day"
in and endless "School" of experience, with a supreme graduation at the end
of the effort for each "student (mind).}

The field of emotions, desires, passions are NOT part of the mind although
they tend to associate cognitive and rational faculties in developing their
selfish and personal aims and goals. If carefully analysed they will seem
to ultimately destroy (because of gross exaggeration) the life-form in which
they dwell. Hence THEOSOPHY states they have to be mastered understood and
controlled by the superior force: the Mind and the Will.   

To the Real Self -- the Real Human, the mind, the will and the desires are
inferiors and are its "tools." They are not to be abused but studied and
used wisely. THEOSOPHY advocates a careful study of ethics and morality as
evidence of harmony and justice in the Universe in every one of its many
departments -- all are interactive and interdependent. Cooperation and
"brotherhood" may be said to be the essence of life everywhere. 


In THEOSOPHY we seem to place it this way:

1	SPIRIT UNIVERSAL or DEITY (analogy: space) -- is everywhere and is
immeasurable in time and dimensions. [The Universe of many dimensions.] We
may call it the ONE REALITY -- or the ABSOLUTE -- and it is, as an "eternal
background," never definable in any way. Yet by logic it exists. All of
us, of any size or age, are a part of IT.  

2	Law (karma) rules (in general and in detail) all living things.
Interactions are universal and regulated by necessity, and a goal exists
that is common for all. [Sometimes designated "universal
self-consciousness."] 

3	The evolution of intelligent and immortal mind-components is the
basis for all substances and forms. The Mind if carefully sought for, will
be found to be all powerful (as "will"), but it has no physical dimensions.

4	The goal for all (without any exceptions) is to secure for each a
true view of the Universal SELF and its objective: PERFECTION IN LIVING --
individually, and as a whole. This is expressed in a word: brotherhood --
in action, thought and desire. 

Metaphysics indeed underlie all physics. Universal morality is the one key
to unravel the seeming mysteries of real psychology. No one is totally
isolated. Selfishness is the one great error. 

Best wishes,

Dallas

PS	Sounds strange, or perhaps not. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rosalie 
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 7:33 AM
To: 
Subject: : Re: brain vs mind

I'll give this a try:

1. All is Mind, so the body is mind.

2. I think that Spirit and Mind may be equivalent. No one owns it. It is
All.

It seems we may look at "my mind" and "my spirit" as that part of mind /
spirit that we are most closely associated with, in the context of us as
monad, as spirit, as mind, or as incarnated person, etc. Those aspects,
those parts of reality that we are dealing with on any level, we claim as
"mine", but they really are collective.

3. The Absolute is unchanging.

I think we get ourselves into a logic trap if we assume It as changeable.

rt

-----Original Message-----
From: Gopi Chari [mailto:ekcvv@j...]
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 6:22 PM
To: study@b...
Subject: [bn-study] Re: SV: Re: brain vs mind


At least three questions jump up from the last discussion:

1. Is mind definitely not part of the physical body, if so, is 'where is
it?' an appropriate question?
2. Who owns the 'Spirit'? If the answer is 'mine' then 'who is this being
referred to as my'?
3. Is Absolute evolving? Can we know?

Gopi

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