Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00442)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Konstantin Zaitzev" 
<kay_ziatz@y...> wrote:
Does that overshadowing just means controlling ?, so the higher 
controls the lower?
That is what I think.
But I never heard that the antahkarana can be broken.
In that way (drugs etc)there should not be the antahkarana at all.
So one should not have that.
> Greetings Christina.
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> 
wrote:
> > I have read the word "overshadow" in a great majority of texts on 
> the process Alice Bailey used to claim her communication with her 
> masters.
> > What is the meaning of this word? Does it mean ' dominate' ?
> > I have always thought that "overshadow" meant chanelling or even 
> mediumnizing...
> 
> It's quite the reverse. The word is probably wrongly selected, as 
too 
> many in the theosophical literature, but it means rather "reflect", 
> i.e. have on oneself more or less weak reflection of the some 
bright 
> light. It is not a full direct comminication, as in a case of a 
medium 
> (or in a case of an avatara), but rather partial influence.
> 
> I think it was Subba Row who has introduced this word into the 
> theosophical literature.
> 
> "Again when I speak of the light of the Logos permeating this 
cosmos 
> and vibrating in various incarnations, it does not necessarily 
follow 
> that a being who has gone to the Logos is incarnated again.
> He has then a well defined spiritual individuality of his own, and 
> though the Logos is Iswara, and its light is the Chaitanyam of the 
> universe, and though the Logos from time to time assimilates with 
its
> own spiritual nature the purified souls of various Mahatmas, and 
also 
> overshadows certain individuals, still the Logos itself never 
suffers 
> and has nothing like Punarjanmam in the proper sense of the word; 
and 
> a man who is absorbed into it becomes an immortal, spiritual being, 
a 
> real Iswara in the cosmos, never to be reborn, and never again to 
be 
> subject to the pains and pleasures of human life." (Philosophy of 
> Bhagavad Gita)
> 
> The "Ishvara" which he uses for Logos here, is the "Lord" or "God" 
of 
> the western theosopists.