Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00094)

Jan 5 2005

Dear CB and friends:

If the environment doesn't suit you then it is better to leave and find one
more congenial where serious exchanges give satisfaction.

Rough and coarse language is a symptom of these days and proves nothing as
far as I can see except a desire to descend to the barn-yard. And what
permanency has that?

Is temporary pleasure worth anything?  

How can one survey the value of one's life so far ?

Try this for interest:

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ALIENS -- VISITORS ?

If aliens visit the earth there ought to be some Karmic (lawful and not
fanciful) connection.

We all tend to view these things materially -- as that is our present
environment. However Karma, which is the vast law of evolution that covers
the Universe, our world, and ourselves, as well as the "life-atoms" and
harmonizes all, ought to be appealed to for some reasonable explanation.

However, and again, the mind which is in effect intra-dimensional (using
imagination and fancy as tools, as well as observation and several kinds of
"perception" on other planes -- like dreams, channeling, fancies, etc...) is
apparently the one aspect of "ourselves" that is a constant. Better still,
Patanjali (an ancient philosopher and sage) called it the ONE
CONSCIOUSNESS, which is the "Real Man" inside each of us.

Karma (Theosophical History law of cause and equal effect) eliminates
physical visitations of entities from Mars, Venus, or extra-terrestrial
planets, etc... unless there is a karmic link with specific individuals on
Earth, and for a specific purpose. If so, then there would be no
possibility of casual or "by chance" witnessing either their approach, work
or departure. Nor would they be specially interested in making contact with
any individual. I realize this will not be a popular view with many
science-fiction addicts (and I am one) or the Ufologists (and I also follow
this as closely as I can).

[ Incidentally, and relative to another string we have been following. Why
should the Sages or "Wise Ones," also called the "Masters of Wisdom" be
specifically interested in any of us, because we are curious about hem and
their powers ? Have we merited such attention?  

What have we done that improves the condition of the earth that they need
spend any time at all on us and our personal affairs ? -- I ask this not to
be derisive, or sarcastic, but to give proportion to the questions that
occasionally fly around. ]

Now what has Theosophy to say on the subject of UFOs and "visitation,"
"contacts with extra-terrestrials, and possession" etc. ?

I ask myself. And in seeking for some explanation I notice that among the
doctrines of Theosophy are those relative to the "Astral Plane" which is
said to contain a number of types of inhabitants. To go into a listing
would be exhausting, as they are covered in ISIS UNVEILED and also in THE
OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY (Chapters 16 and 17).  

I write of a few below.

Apparently there are Astral plane entities may manifest themselves when they
encounter a person whose psychic nature is
sensitive to them. Also they are affected by certain other cyclic and
personal psychic or physiological factors. Generally
we are rarely sensitive to astro-psychic entities (except when we have a
nightmare, or some horrifying dream-experience) .

But these "beings" do not come from outside our Earth, but are in fact a
part of it, being the nightmare-ish and horrifying images that mankind has
created by his fancy or love of the power of selfishness - and then because
of attention and inclination and a selfish desire for amusement and
"excitement" he has fixed there in the "astral Light" that surrounds him,
and forces all of us to share in this to some extent - this sphere of
psychic craziness enshrouds the whole Earth and touches everyone it cab be
said to interpenetrate the Earth.  

Among its denizens are the "shells" - the astral desire-shells of dead
persons, the ghosts, vampires, fairies, imps, lutins, and "kama-rupas," and
to this should be added "nature spirits" of various kinds (known in the past
as gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, undines, fairies, "little people," etc...).

Also, to be included are the desire-corpses or psychic remains of people who
recently died, or of those who led a very passionate and dissipated life
such as incubi, succubae, vampires, lycanthropes, etc. Among these are the
coherent Kama-rupas remains of those who died in the grip of some
overwhelming passion, fear, or anger. [The resent mass killings by the
Indian Ocean tsunami must have provided a sudden wave of these.] 

Some of these are the "astral shells" of suicides, those who have been
murdered, victims of accidents, and executed criminals who die, seeking
revenge.  

Some of these are also said to be living and active "black magicians" -- of
various degrees of power -- by nature vicious, cruel and intensely selfish,
and always seeking to drag the unwary into their 'clutches' as more fuel to
feed their pride, and craving for domination and control.

Sometimes the effect of such contact results, in a person with weak grasp
over their own personality, to be supplanted, shoved aside, or "possessed"
by the stronger "Personality" of a "visitor -- announced or unannounced."
"Obsessions" are those of this nature.

The phenomenon of "multiple personalities" may have its roots in this
condition of mental weakness of control or of passivity. It may be
temporary and occur at various times, or it may even be permanent and the
real tenant of the personality is shoved out for the present incarnation.
But the intelligence that these entities represent is rarely of any benefit
to the subject that is "possessed," or who "witnesses" these beings and
happenings.

Much of this, as I said, is described in the pages of ISIS UNVEILED, and
allusions are made to various aspects of these
teachings in articles that Mme. H. P. Blavatsky wrote. You ought to read it
- it is "on line" at  

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www.phx-ult-lodge.org/

PHOENIX ULT www.phx-ult-lodge.org/

Books "on line"

The SECRET DOCTRINE 
ISIS UNVEILED 
The VOICE OF THE SILENCE 
A MODERN PANARION ( H P B )
FIVE YEARS OF THEOSOPHY
TRANSACTIONS OF THE BLAVATSKY LODGE ( HPB)
(Studies in the 1st vol. of the SECRET DOCTRINE )
KEY TO THEOSOPHY (HPB) & Glossary (H P B)
THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY (HPB)

OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY (Judge)
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AT AN INFORMAL
"OCEAN " CLASS (R C)
POINT OUT THE WAY [Answers to Questions at an 
"Ocean" Class (J G)
ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT (Judge)
EPITOME OF THEOSOPHY (Judge)
PATANJALI'S YOGA SUTRAS (Judge)
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME ( W Q Judge )
THEOSOPHICAL FORUM -- ANSWERS BY ( W Q 
Judge )

BHAGAVAD GITA and BHAGAVAD GITA NOTES
(Judge) (Krishna's teachings)
THE DHAMMAPADA ( Footfalls of the Law ) (Gautama
Buddha's teachings)
THE LIGHT OF ASIA (Gautama Buddha life & teachings)
LIGHT ON THE PATH 

THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT ( 1875 - 1950) 
History

The FRIENDLY PHILOSOPHER (Robert Crosbie)
ETERNAL VERITIES (Robert Crosbie)
       	

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To resume about UFOs etc.....

So while Van Danigen in the 1990s has brought together pictures and
artifacts that apparently show "astronauts" of the past, why not also
consider that civilizations constantly revolve, and that even today, the
inhabitants of isolated societies, meeting or seeing Europeans, airplanes,
steam boats, cars, trains, etc... which were/are entirely new to them, have
carved in bone, stone and wood the likeness of what they have seen.  

Myth and rumor has it that when we were in Atlantean bodies we had a
civilization that outshone the present in terms of material achievement --
so why not space travel and airplanes then -- reputed to work on
anti-gravity (shades of Tesla and Keeley) , and weaponry that employed the
Sun for motive power and energy (Lasers). [I read in today's paper that a
young man in San Diego has designed a practical generator that makes use of
the ocean's ceaseless wave motion to generate usable amounts of electricity
- at no cost to the environment. ]

Who built the Pyramids, carved the Sphinx, laid the floor of Baalbek temple
in Lebanon, built Tiahuanaco, Macchu Piccu, and other incredible things;
like roads that vanish into the ocean at many sites, particularly in the
Islands of the South East Pacific. Who carved and erected the mysterious
statues of Easter Island?  

And in the Cambodian jungles, who first built Ankor Wat and the city of
Ankor Thom ? Why were the Taliban in Afghanistan so interested in
destroying the standing "Buddha" 175 feet high? It, and 4 others of lesser
height nearby were said to have been built several million years ago to
preserve a record of the decrease in size of average humanity as the eras
passed.

A census of ancient and unexplained monuments ought to be taken. Recently in
San Diego a book written by several students of archaeology (Cremo and
Thompson) appeared; it is some 1700 pages long and was issued concerning
artifacts that museums and the archaeological departments of several
Universities retain in their depositories because they cannot account for
the anomalies found in them under the present generally accepted theories of
evolution. Read the books of Charles Fort(1920s) and of Emmanuel Velikovsky
(1940s) if you would like to acquaint yourself with more scientifically
unexplained anomalies.

I do not know how to account for the enormous pictures outlined in stone
rows on the Nasca plateau. Nor can I account for the "lay-lines" that are
said to unify ancient Druid sites of power in England, and Brittany, or, the
placement of the Pyramids and other temples on the Gaza plateau and around
Cairo (which appear to be representations of the main Stars to be seen in
Orion and the two "Dogs" at a period of about 13,000 years ago in time, or
earlier ?). These may be attuned to the Denderah Zodiac, also discovered in
the Nile delta at another ancient temple. 

But there are those who have worked on those things and seem to have derived
possible evidence linking them with earlier planetary, lunar and solar
settings at a remote period of Zodiacal time.

This is an interesting thread to follow, and perhaps there is much more to
add to this than HPB and we have assembled so far.

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does this interest you?

THEOSOPHY also covers two other important aspects of knowledge:

1	The actual record and history of evolution

2	The origin of religions from a single body of WISDOM abut the laws
that rule our universe, the world and ourselves.



And a few more ideas:


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1 BASICS


As we can study it, Theosophy commences with the study of great

principles. This is the safest way to begin all study. They are

few and very clear but they underlie all life.

 
They are in the beginning of The SECRET DOCTRINE : Lets read

together beginning with some points from H P B's Preface:

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ANTIQUITY OF THEOSOPHY

 
The antiquity of Theosophy is made a first impression on us.
 

PAGES FROM A PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD.


An Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made

impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown

process -- is before the writer's eye. [ H P B looks at it.]

 

On the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull black

ground. On the following page, the same disk, but with a central

point. The first, the student knows to represent Kosmos in

Eternity, before the re-awakening of still slumbering Energy, the

emanation of the Word in later systems.

 

The point in the hitherto immaculate Disk, Space and Eternity in

Pralaya, denotes the dawn of differentiation. It is the Point in

the Mundane Egg (see Part II., "The Mundane Egg"), the germ

within the latter which will become the Universe, the ALL, the

boundless, periodical Kosmos, this germ being latent and active,

periodically and by turns.

 

The ONE CIRCLE IS DIVINE UNITY, from which all proceeds, whither

all returns. Its circumference -- a forcibly limited symbol, in

view of the limitation of the human mind -- indicates the

abstract, ever incognisable PRESENCE, and its plane, the

Universal Soul, although the two are one. Only the face of the

Disk being white and the ground all around black, shows clearly

that its plane is the only knowledge, dim and hazy though it

still is, that is attainable by man.

 

It is on this plane that the Manvantaric manifestations begin;

for it is in this SOUL that slumbers, during the Pralaya, the

DIVINE THOUGHT, wherein lies concealed the plan of every future

Cosmogony and Theogony.the term "Divine Thought," like that of

"Universal Mind," must not be regarded as even vaguely shadowing

forth an intellectual process akin to that exhibited by man. .

 

[H P B prefaces her "THREE FUNDAMENTALS" with these introductory

ideas: ]
 

>From the beginning of man's inheritance, from the first

appearance of the architects of the globe he lives in, the

unrevealed Deity was recognized and considered under its only

philosophical aspect -- UNIVERSAL MOTION, THE THRILL OF THE

CREATIVE BREATH IN NATURE.

 

Occultism sums up the "One Existence" thus: "Deity is an arcane,

living (or moving) FIRE, and the eternal witnesses to this unseen

Presence are Light, Heat, Moisture," -- this trinity including,

and being the cause of, every phenomenon in Nature.

 

INTRA-COSMIC MOTION IS ETERNAL AND CEASELESS; COSMIC MOTION (THE

VISIBLE, OR THAT WHICH IS SUBJECT TO PERCEPTION) IS FINITE AND

PERIODICAL.

 

ETERNAL EXISTENCE

 
As an eternal abstraction it is the EVER-PRESENT; as a

manifestation, it is finite both in the coming direction and the

opposite, the two being the alpha and omega of successive

reconstructions. Kosmos -- the NOUMENON -- has nought to do with

the causal relations of the phenomenal World. It is only with

reference to the intra-cosmic soul,

 

THE IDEAL KOSMOS IN THE IMMUTABLE DIVINE THOUGHT, THAT WE MAY

SAY: "IT NEVER HAD A BEGINNING NOR WILL IT HAVE AN END."

 

With regard to its body or Cosmic organization, though it cannot

be said that it had a first, or will ever have a last

construction, yet at each new Manvantara, its organization may be

regarded as the first and the last of its kind, as it evolutes

every time on a higher plane . . . .

 

"The esoteric doctrine teaches, like Buddhism and Brahminism, and

even the Kabala, that

 

THE ONE INFINITE AND UNKNOWN ESSENCE EXISTS FROM ALL ETERNITY,

AND IN REGULAR AND HARMONIOUS SUCCESSIONS IS EITHER PASSIVE OR

ACTIVE.

 

In the poetical phraseology of Manu these conditions are called

the "Days" and the "Nights" of Brahma. The latter is either

"awake" or "asleep." .

 

 

MANY WELL-ORGANIZED CREATORS

 

The Buddhists maintained that THERE IS NO CREATOR, BUT AN

INFINITUDE OF CREATIVE POWERS, which collectively form the one

eternal substance, the essence of which is inscrutable -- hence

not a subject for speculation for any true philosopher.

 

Upon inaugurating an active period, says the Secret Doctrine, an

expansion of this Divine essence from without inwardly and from

within outwardly, occurs IN OBEDIENCE TO ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE

LAW, and the phenomenal or visible universe is the ultimate

result of the long chain of cosmical forces thus progressively

set in motion. . To use a metaphor from the Secret Books, which

will convey the idea still more clearly,

 

AN OUT-BREATHING OF THE 'UNKNOWN ESSENCE' PRODUCES THE WORLD; AND

AN INHALATION CAUSES IT TO DISAPPEAR.

 

This process has been going on from all eternity, and our present

universe is but one of an infinite series, which had no beginning

and will have no end." .

 

 

"GOD"

 

Parabrahm is not "God," because It is not "a God." "It is that

which is supreme, and not supreme .IT IS "SUPREME" AS CAUSE, NOT

SUPREME AS EFFECT. PARABRAHM IS SIMPLY, AS A "SECONDLESS

REALITY," THE ALL-INCLUSIVE KOSMOS -- OR, RATHER, THE INFINITE

COSMIC SPACE -- IN THE HIGHEST SPIRITUAL SENSE, OF COURSE. .

 

[The un-known] "Causeless Cause," is the oldest dogma in

Occultism, millenniums earlier than the Pater-AEther of the

Greeks and Latins. So are the "Force and Matter, as Potencies of

Space, inseparable, and the Unknown revealers of the Unknown."

They are all found in Aryan philosophy .

 

SUMMATION OF MANIFESTATION
 

The OCCULT CATECHISM contains the following questions and

answers:

 
"What is it that ever is?" "Space, the eternal Anupadaka."

 
"What is it that ever was?" "The Germ in the Root."


"What is it that is ever coming and going?" "The Great Breath."
 

"Then, there are three Eternals?"


"No, the three are one. That which ever is, is one, that which

ever was is one, that which is ever being and becoming is also

one: and this is Space."

 

"Explain, oh Lanoo (disciple)." --

 

"The One is an unbroken Circle (ring) with no circumference, for

it is nowhere and everywhere; the One is the boundless plane of

the Circle, manifesting a diameter only during the manvantaric

periods; the One is the indivisible point found nowhere,

perceived everywhere during those periods; it is the Vertical and

the Horizontal, the Father and the Mother, the summit and base of

the Father, the two extremities of the Mother, reaching in

reality nowhere, for the One is the Ring as also the rings that

are within that Ring. Light in darkness and darkness in light:

the 'Breath which is eternal.'

 

It proceeds from without inwardly, when it is everywhere, and

from within outwardly, when it is nowhere -- (i.e., maya, one of

the centres). It expands and contracts (exhalation and

inhalation). When it expands the mother diffuses and scatters;

when it contracts, the mother draws back and ingathers.

 

This produces the periods of Evolution and Dissolution,

Manwantara and Pralaya.

 

The Germ is invisible and fiery; the Root (the plane of the

circle) is cool; but during Evolution and Manwantara her garment

is cold and radiant. Hot Breath is the Father who devours the

progeny of the many-faced Element (heterogeneous); and leaves the

single-faced ones (homogeneous). Cool Breath is the Mother, who

conceives, forms, brings forth, and receives them back into her

bosom, to reform them at the Dawn (of the Day of Brahma, or

Manvantara). . . . ."

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SEVEN COSMICAL ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES

 

For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it

must be stated that OCCULT SCIENCE RECOGNIZES SEVEN COSMICAL

ELEMENTS -- FOUR ENTIRELY PHYSICAL, AND THE FIFTH (ETHER)

SEMI-MATERIAL, as it will become visible in the air towards the

end of our Fourth Round, to reign supreme over the others during

the whole of the Fifth. The remaining two are as yet absolutely

beyond the range of human perception. These latter will, however,

appear as presentments during the 6th and 7th Races of this

Round, and will become known in the 6th and 7th Rounds

respectively..


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SECRET DOCTRINE TREATS OF OUR EARTH ONLY

 

The reader has to bear in mind that THE STANZAS GIVEN TREAT ONLY

OF THE COSMOGONY OF OUR OWN PLANETARY SYSTEM AND WHAT IS VISIBLE

AROUND IT, AFTER A SOLAR PRALAYA. The secret teachings with

regard to the Evolution of the Universal Kosmos cannot be given,

since they could not be understood by the highest minds in this

age.Therefore, that which is given, relates only to our visible

Kosmos, after a "Night of Brahma."


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Before the reader proceeds to the consideration of the Stanzas

from the Book of Dzyan which form the basis of the present work,

           

IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY THAT HE SHOULD BE MADE ACQUAINTED WITH

THE FEW FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTIONS WHICH UNDERLIE AND PERVADE THE

ENTIRE SYSTEM OF THOUGHT TO WHICH HIS ATTENTION IS INVITED.

 

These basic ideas are few in number, and on their clear

apprehension depends the understanding of all that follows;

therefore no apology is required for asking the reader to make

himself familiar with them first, before entering on the perusal

of the work itself. .

 
The Secret Doctrine establishes 


THREE FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS: --

 
1 DEITY -- BE-NESS

 

(a) An OMNIPRESENT, ETERNAL, BOUNDLESS, AND IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLE

ON WHICH ALL SPECULATION IS IMPOSSIBLE, SINCE IT TRANSCENDS THE

POWER OF HUMAN CONCEPTION AND COULD ONLY BE DWARFED BY ANY HUMAN

EXPRESSION OR SIMILITUDE.

 

It is beyond the range and reach of thought -- in the words of

Mandukya, "unthinkable and unspeakable."

 

To render these ideas clearer to the general reader, let him set

out with the postulate that THERE IS ONE ABSOLUTE REALITY WHICH

ANTECEDES ALL MANIFESTED, CONDITIONED, BEING. This Infinite and

Eternal Cause -- dimly formulated in the "Unconscious" and

"Unknowable" of current European philosophy -- is the rootless

root of "all that was, is, or ever shall be." It is of course

devoid of all attributes and is essentially without any relation

to manifested, finite Being. IT IS "BE-NESS" RATHER THAN BEING

(in Sanskrit, Sat), and is beyond all thought or speculation.

 

This "Be-ness" is symbolised in the Secret Doctrine under two

aspects.

 

On the one hand, absolute abstract Space, representing bare

subjectivity, THE ONE THING WHICH NO HUMAN MIND CAN EITHER

EXCLUDE FROM ANY CONCEPTION, OR CONCEIVE OF BY ITSELF.

 

On the other, absolute Abstract Motion representing Unconditioned

Consciousness.

 

Even our Western thinkers have shown that Consciousness is

inconceivable to us apart from change, and motion best symbolises

change, its essential characteristic. This latter aspect of the

one Reality, is also symbolised by the term "The Great Breath," a

symbol sufficiently graphic to need no further elucidation. Thus,

then, the first fundamental axiom of the Secret Doctrine is this

metaphysical ONE ABSOLUTE -- BE-NESS -- symbolised by finite

intelligence as the theological Trinity.

 

It may, however, assist the student if a few further explanations

are given here. .

 

Parabrahm (the ONE REALITY, the ABSOLUTE) is the field of

ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS, i.e., that Essence which is out of all

relation to conditioned existence, and of which conscious

existence is a conditioned symbol.

 

But once that we pass in thought from this (to us) Absolute

Negation, duality supervenes in the contrast of Spirit (or

consciousness) and Matter, Subject and Object.

 

SPIRIT (OR CONSCIOUSNESS) AND MATTER ARE, HOWEVER, TO BE

REGARDED, NOT AS INDEPENDENT REALITIES, BUT AS THE TWO FACETS OR

ASPECTS OF THE ABSOLUTE (PARABRAHM), WHICH CONSTITUTE THE BASIS

OF CONDITIONED BEING WHETHER SUBJECTIVE OR OBJECTIVE.

 

Considering this metaphysical triad as the Root from which

proceeds all manifestation, the great Breath assumes the

character of precosmic Ideation. It is the fons et origo of force

and of all individual consciousness, and SUPPLIES THE GUIDING

INTELLIGENCE in the vast scheme of cosmic Evolution. On the other

hand, precosmic root-substance (Mulaprakriti) is that aspect of

the Absolute which underlies all the objective planes of Nature.

 

Just as PRE-COSMIC IDEATION IS THE ROOT OF ALL INDIVIDUAL

CONSCIOUSNESS, so pre-Cosmic Substance is the substratum of

matter in the various grades of its differentiation.

 

Hence it will be apparent that the contrast of these two aspects

of the Absolute is essential to the existence of the "Manifested

Universe."

 

Apart from Cosmic Substance, Cosmic Ideation could not manifest

as individual consciousness, since it is only through a vehicle

of matter that consciousness wells up as "I am I," a physical

basis being necessary to focus a ray of the Universal Mind at a

certain stage of complexity. Again, apart from Cosmic Ideation,

Cosmic Substance would remain an empty abstraction, and no

emergence of consciousness could ensue.

 

The "Manifested Universe," therefore, is pervaded by duality,

which is, as it were, the very essence of its EX-istence as

"manifestation."

 

But just as the opposite poles of subject and object, spirit and

matter, are but aspects of the One Unity in which they are

synthesized, so, in the manifested Universe, there is "that"

which links spirit to matter, subject to object.

 

This something, at present unknown to Western speculation, is

called by the occultists Fohat. It is the "bridge" by which the

"Ideas" existing in the "Divine Thought" are impressed on Cosmic

substance as the "laws of Nature."

 

Fohat is thus the dynamic energy of Cosmic Ideation; or, regarded

from the other side, it is the intelligent medium, the guiding

power of all manifestation, the "Thought Divine" transmitted and

made manifest through the Dhyan Chohans, the Architects of the

visible World.

 

Thus from Spirit, or Cosmic Ideation, comes our consciousness;

from Cosmic Substance the several vehicles in which that

consciousness is individualised and attains to self -- or

reflective -- consciousness; while Fohat, in its various

manifestations, is the mysterious link between Mind and Matter,

the animating principle electrifying every atom into life.

 

The following SUMMARY will afford a clearer idea to the reader.

 

(1.) The ABSOLUTE; the Parabrahm of the Vedantins or the one

Reality, SAT, which is.both Absolute Being and Non-Being.

 

(2.) The first manifestation, the impersonal, and, in philosophy,

unmanifested Logos, the precursor of the "manifested." This is

the "First Cause," the "Unconscious" of European Pantheists.

 

(3.) Spirit-matter, LIFE; the "Spirit of the Universe," the

Purusha and Prakriti, or the second Logos.

 

(4.) COSMIC IDEATION, MAHAT OR INTELLIGENCE, THE UNIVERSAL

WORLD-SOUL; THE COSMIC NOUMENON OF MATTER, THE BASIS OF THE

INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS IN AND OF NATURE, also called MAHA-BUDDHI.

 

The ONE REALITY; its dual aspects in the conditioned Universe.

 

Further, the Secret Doctrine affirms: --

 
2 LAW -- UNITES ALL BEINGS -- HARMONY

 

(b.) The Eternity of the Universe in toto as a boundless plane;

periodically "the playground of numberless Universes incessantly

manifesting and disappearing," called "the manifesting stars,"

and the "sparks of Eternity." "The Eternity of the Pilgrim" is

like a wink of the Eye of Self-Existence (Book of Dzyan.) "The

appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal

ebb of flux and reflux." (See Part II., "Days and Nights of

Brahma.")

 

"Pilgrim" is the appellation given to our MONAD (the two in one)

during its cycle of incarnations. IT IS THE ONLY IMMORTAL AND

ETERNAL PRINCIPLE IN US, BEING AN INDIVISIBLE PART OF THE

INTEGRAL WHOLE -- THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT, FROM WHICH IT EMANATES,

and into which it is absorbed at the end of the cycle. When it is

said to emanate from the one

 

This second assertion of the Secret Doctrine is the absolute

universality of that law of periodicity, of flux and reflux, ebb

and flow, which physical science has observed and recorded in all

departments of nature. An alternation such as that of Day and

Night, Life and Death, Sleeping and Waking, is a fact so common,

so perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to

comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental

laws of the universe.

 
Moreover, the Secret Doctrine teaches: --

 

3 EVOLUTION -- BECOMING

 

(c) The FUNDAMENTAL IDENTITY OF ALL SOULS WITH THE UNIVERSAL

OVER-SOUL, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root;

and THE OBLIGATORY PILGRIMAGE FOR EVERY SOUL -- A SPARK OF THE

FORMER -- THROUGH THE CYCLE OF INCARNATION (or "Necessity") in

accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law, during the whole term.

 

In other words, no purely spiritual Buddhi (divine Soul) can have

an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which

issued from the pure Essence of the Universal Sixth principle, --

or the OVER-SOUL, -- has

 

(a) passed through every elemental form of the phenomenal world

of that Manvantara, and

 

(b) acquired individuality, first by natural impulse, and then by

self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its Karma),

thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the

lowest to the highest Manas, from mineral and plant, up to the

holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha).

 

THE PIVOTAL DOCTRINE OF THE ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY ADMITS NO

PRIVILEGES OR SPECIAL GIFTS IN MAN, SAVE THOSE WON BY HIS OWN EGO

THROUGH PERSONAL EFFORT AND MERIT THROUGHOUT A LONG SERIES OF

METEMPSYCHOSES AND REINCARNATIONS.

 
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Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cosmic B 
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:34 AM
To: 
Subject: RE: NEW YEAR 4th JANUARY 2005 GREETINGS

Surf "cosmicbrat", for my posts...

I apologize in advance for some of the necessary coarseness in some of my
posts, in those vile coarse, but necessary forums...

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