Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01301)

Wednesday, April 20, 2005


Thanks dear K for the advice.

Now help me:

I do not type 'ENTERS."

However I work at 150% enlargement due to bad eyesight,

and always in VIEW -- WEB PAGE.

I also "wrap" at the largest number of letters per line.

Possibly that affects the transmission.

I would like the MicroSoft WORD rendition to be a perfect as possible.

The presentation you return to me came out correct here -- so I wonder what
the problem may be. 

Let me have further suggestions please.


Best wishes, 


Dallas
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Of krishtar
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 6:59 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World ASTRAL LIGHT ENTITIES text suggestions


Hi Friend Dallas

Are you fine?

Thanks for the marvelous texts on astral inhabitants/ similars.

One thing that I ought to suggest, if you don´t mind is the following.

Like many, I am used to paste the many texts into MS Word and thus it has
always to be re re-edited because they occupy too many pages in MSword.
MSWord is more pratical for texts than printing directly from Outlook.

My suggestion is that you type your text without many hitting " enters " to
form the paragraphs, only a stop and then the next phrase begins.

This way we can cut and paste into MSWord and select the width of the text
occupying quite less pages and being easier to handle while carrying the
papers here and there.It is more echologically correct...( smiles:-)
I must first thank for these good and welcome contributions to our list and
also apologise for being though impolite...just sugestions...

Krishtar

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: W.Dallas TenBroeck 
To: AA-BNStudy 
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: Theos-World Part IV ASTRAL LIGHT ENTITIES



Part IV ASTRAL LIGHT ENTITIES

   

   

IV

   

   

INTELLECTUALITY and SPIRITUALITY

   

A high development of the intellectual faculties does not imply spiritual
and true life. The presence in one of a highly developed human,
intellectual
soul (the fifth principle, or Manas), is quite compatible with the absence
of Buddhi, or the spiritual soul. Unless the former evolves from and
develops under the beneficent and vivifying rays of the latter, it will
remain for ever but a direct progeny of the terrestrial, lower principles,
sterile in spiritual perceptions; a magnificent, luxurious sepulchre, full
of the dry bones of decaying matter within. Many of our greatest
scientists
are but animate corpses--they have no spiritual sight because their
spirits
have left them, or, rather, cannot reach them. So we might go through all
ages, examine all occupations, weigh all human attainments, and
investigate
all forms of society, and we would find these spiritually dead everywhere.


   

Although Aristotle himself, anticipating the modern physiologists,
regarded
the human mind as a material substance, and ridiculed the hylozoïsts,
nevertheless he fully believed in the existence of a "double" soul, or
soul
plus spirit, as one can see in his De Generat. et Corrupt. (Lib. ii.). He
laughed at Strabo for believing that any particles of matter, per se,
could
have life and intellect in themselves sufficient to fashion by degrees
such
a multiform world as ours. 31

<http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/#FNT31>  

   

   

ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS

   

Aristotle is indebted for the sublime morality of his Nichomachean Ethics
to
a thorough study of the Pythagorean Ethical Fragments; for the latter can
be
easily shown to have been the source at which he gathered his ideas,
though
he might not have sworn "by him who the Tetraktys found." 32
<http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/#FNT32>   

   

But indeed our men of science know nothing certain about Aristotle. His
philosophy is so abstruse that he constantly leaves his reader to supply
by
the imagination the missing links of his logical deductions. Moreover, we
know that before his works ever reached our scholars, who delight in his
seemingly atheistical arguments in support of his doctrine of fate, they
passed through too many hands to have remained immaculate. 

   

>From Theophrastus, his legator, they passed to Neleus, whose heirs kept
them
mouldering in subterranean caves for nearly 150 years; after which, we
learn
that his manuscripts were copied and much augmented by Appelicon of Theos,
who supplied such paragraphs as had become illegible, by conjectures of
his
own, probably many of these drawn from the depths of his inner
consciousness. Our scholars of the nineteenth as anxious to imitate him
practically as they are to throw his inductive method and materialistic
theories at the heads of the Platonists. We invite them to collect facts
as
carefully as he did, instead of denying those they know nothing about. 

   

   

EXPERIENCE AND ASTRAL "SPIRITS"

   

What we have said here and elsewhere of the variety of "spirits" and other
invisible beings evolved in the astral light, and what we now mean to say
of
mediums and the tendency of their mediumship, is not based upon
conjecture,
but upon actual experience and observation.

   

   

H P B THE GREAT TRAVELER

   

There is scarcely one phase of mediumship, of either kind, that we have
not
seen exemplified during the past thirty-five years, in various countries.
India, Tibet, Borneo, Siam, Egypt, Asia Minor, America (North and South),
and other parts of the world, have each displayed to us its peculiar phase
of mediumistic phenomena and magical power. 

   

Our varied experience has fully corroborated the teachings of our Masters
and of The Secret Doctrine, and has taught us two important truths, viz.,
that for the exercise of "mediumship" personal purity and the exercise of
a
trained and indomitable will-power are indispensable; and that
spiritualists
can never assure themselves of the genuineness of mediumistic
manifestations
unless they occur in the light and under such reasonable test conditions
as
would make an attempted fraud instantly noticed. 

   

   

DISEMBODIED HUMAN SPIRITS CAN MANIFEST

   

For fear of being misunderstood, we would remark that while, as a rule,
physical phenomena are produced by the nature-spirits, of their own motion
and under the impulse of the elementaries, still genuine disembodied human
spirits, may, under exceptional circumstances--such as the aspiration of a
pure, loving heart, or under the influence of some intense thought or
unsatisfied desire, at the moment of death--manifest their presence,
either
in dream, or vision, or even bring about their objective appearance--if
very
soon after physical death.

   

Direct writing may be produced in the genuine handwriting of the
"spirit,"
the medium being influenced by a process unknown as much to himself as to
the modern spiritualists, we fear.

   

But what we maintain and shall maintain to the last is, that no genuine
human spirit can materialize, i.e., clothe his monad with an objective
form.


   

Even for the rest it must be a mighty attraction indeed to draw a pure,
disembodied spirit from its radiant, Devachanic state--its home--into the
foul atmosphere from which it escaped upon leaving its earthly body. 

   

When the possible nature of the manifesting intelligences, which science
believes to be a "psychic force," and spiritualists the identical "spirits
of the dead," is better known, then will academicians and believers turn
to
the old philosophers for information. They may in their indomitable pride,
that becomes so often stubbornness and arrogance, do as Dr. Charcot, of
the
Salpêtrière of Paris, has done: deny for years the existence of Mesmerism
and its phenomena, to accept and finally preach it in public
lectures--only
under the assumed name, Hypnotism. 

   

CUT