Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00086)

Jan 5 2005

 

INACTIVITY and STASIS

 

Dear Friend:

 

 

Please consider these quotes from SECRET DOCTRINE :

 

I have placed BOLD faces over those passages I think may be relevant.

 

 

"Had not the "sons of Mahat," speaking allegorically, skipped the
intermediate worlds, in their impulse toward intellectual freedom, the
animal man would never have been able to reach upward from this earth, and
attain through self-exertion his ultimate goal. The cyclic pilgrimage would
have to be performed through all the planes of existence half unconsciously,
if not entirely so, as in the case of the animals. It is owing to this
rebellion of intellectual life against the morbid inactivity of pure spirit,
that we are what we are — self-conscious, thinking men, with the
capabilities and attributes of Gods in us, for good as much as for evil.
Hence the REBELS are our saviours. Let the philosopher ponder well over
this, and more than one mystery will become clear to him. It is only by the
attractive force of the contrasts that the two opposites — Spirit and Matter
— can be cemented on Earth, and, smelted in the fire of self-conscious
experience and suffering, find themselves wedded in Eternity. This will
reveal the meaning of many hitherto incomprehensible allegories, foolishly
called "fables." S D II 103

 

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“No spiritual and psychic evolution is possible on earth — the lowest and
most material plane — for one who on that plane, at all events, is
inherently perfect and cannot accumulate either merit or demerit. Man
remaining the pale shadow of the inert, immutable, and motionless
perfection, the one negative and passive attribute of the real I am that I
am, would have been doomed to pass through life on earth as in a heavy
dreamless sleep; hence a failure on this plane. “ S D II 243

 

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“the Fire-Devas, the Rudras, and the Kumaras, the "Virgin-Angels," (to whom
Michael and Gabriel, the Archangels, both belong), the divine "Rebels" —
called by the all-materializing and positive Jews, the Nahash or "Deprived"
— preferred the curse of incarnation and the long cycles of terrestrial
existence and rebirths, to seeing the misery (even if unconscious) of the
beings (evolved as shadows out of their Brethren) through the semi-passive
energy of their too spiritual Creators. If "man's uses of life should be
such as neither to animalize nor to spiritualize, but to humanize Self," *
before he can do so, he must be born human not angelic. Hence, tradition
shows the celestial Yogis offering themselves as voluntary victims in order
to redeem Humanity — created god-like and perfect at first — and to endow
him with human affections and aspirations. To do this they had to give up
their natural status and, descending on our globe, take up their abode on it
for the whole cycle of the Mahayuga, thus exchanging their impersonal
individualities for individual personalities — the bliss of sidereal
existence for the curse of terrestrial life. This voluntary sacrifice of the
Fiery Angels, whose nature was Knowledge and Love, was construed by the
exoteric theologies into a statement that shows "the rebel angels hurled
down from heaven into the darkness of Hell" — our Earth.” S D II 246

 

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“He who bears in mind that the principle MAHAT, or Intellect, the "Universal
Mind" (literally "the great"), which esoteric philosophy explains as the
"manifested Omniscience" — the "first product" of Pradhana (primordial
matter) as Vishnu Purana says, but the first Cosmic aspect of Parabrahm or
the esoteric SAT, the Universal Soul, ‡ as Occultism teaches — is at the
root of SELF-Consciousness, will understand the reason why. The so-called
"Demons" — who are (esoterically) the Self-asserting and (intellectually)
active Principle— are the positive poles of creation, so to say; hence, the
first produced. This is in brief the process as narrated allegorically in
the Puranas.” S D II 58-9

 

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“They have become the independent and free Intelligences, shown in every
Theogony as fighting for that independence and freedom, and hence — in the
ordinary sense — "rebellious to the divine passive law." These are then
those "Flames" (the Agnishwatta) who, as shown in Sloka 13, "remain behind"
instead of going along with the others to create men on Earth. 

 

But the true esoteric meaning is that most of them were destined to
incarnate as the Egos of the forthcoming crop of Mankind. The human Ego is
neither Atman nor Buddhi, but the higher Manas: the intellectual fruition
and the efflorescence of the intellectual self-conscious Egotism — in the
higher spiritual sense. The ancient works refer to it as Karana Sarira on
the plane of Sutratma, which is the golden thread on which, like beads, the
various personalities of this higher Ego are strung. 

 

If the reader were told, as in the semi-esoteric allegories, that these
Beings were returning Nirvanees, from preceding Maha-Manvantaras — ages of
incalculable duration which have rolled away in the Eternity, a still more
incalculable time ago — he would hardly understand the text correctly; while
some Vedantins might say: "This is not so; the Nirvanee can never return";
which is true during the Manvantara he belongs to, and erroneous where
Eternity is concerned. For it is said in the Sacred Slokas: 

 

"The thread of radiance which is imperishable and dissolves only in Nirvana,
re-emerges from it in its integrity on the day when the Great Law calls all
things back into action. . . ." S D II 79-80

 

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Seems that SPIRIT or SPIRITUALITY alone would be pointless.

 

Contrast is always needed.

 

Of what value is NOTHING or EMPTINESS ?

 

Best wishes,

 

 

Dallas

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald 
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:57 PM
To: 
Subject: RE: "conditional reality is empty because ..."

 

Gerald wrote: <<All of conditional reality is empty because it all lacks

permanence.<<

 

It is this lack of permanence that allow for growth and evolution. Anything

that is permanent cannot change over time and therefore cannot grow.

 

 

 



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