RE: Theos-World Re: PATHS TO PERFECTION WHERE ? HOW MANY ? WHAT ARE SURE ONES?
Apr 25, 2005 08:03 AM
by W.Dallas TenBroeck
4 25 05
Dear Cass:
The universe is made up of immortal "lie-atoms" -- the MONADS.
Their time-space is eternity in the UNIVERSE and that means they are in one
of these three categories:
1 Sub-human experience (mineral, vegetable, animal intelligence)
2 Human experience with an independent self-conscious mind-faculty
3 Super-human INTELLIGENCE, DISCRIMINATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- the
realm of the MAHATMAS and the Gnanis (DHYAN CHOHANS )
See SECRET DOCTRINE I 610 to 634, paying attention particularly to the
teachings given on pp. 619, 623-4, 627-632.
All are at various levels on their individual pilgrimages towards
perfection.
Dallas
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Cass: See this:
Apl 25 2005
Odin:
Try
The OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY
The KEY TO THEOSOPHY
SECRET DOCTRINE
They cover in many ways all these. But few read them carefully.
There are only a dozen important truths that make all the difference.
1 Every MONAD is an immortal and eternal PILGRIM. The goal is SUBLIME
PERFECTION -- or ALL-KNOWINGNESS.
2 The UNIVERSE is made up of such Monads. There is no "void."
3 The ABSOLUTE exists as an inexplicable and unalterable BACKGROUND to
everything and it is time-exempt. There is no "Personal God."
4 HUMANITY is composed of such MONADS as have attained the level of
INDEPENDENT MIND usage. MAHAT, the Universal Mind has always planned
evolution. Its graduates are the GREAT MAHATMAS, and the Cosmic DHYAN
CHOHANS.
5 LAW rules everything. No exceptions, No hiding places. No
wipe-out.
6 Material forms change constantly as the Monads acquire experience.
Every monad has to undergo the same trials and "succeed" eventually.
7 REINCARNATION is a universal phenomenon. All Monads that have
attained the "Mind-level" undergo this. From it, begins active participation
in the Cosmic Plan and assistance to all else.
8 There is an imperishable record in the Universal as well as the
mundial AKASA of every feeling, thought, and action made by any being since
the beginning of "time."
9 The ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY and the SCIENCE OF OCCULTISM are identically
an expression of the accumulated wisdom of the Universe and this is accessed
only by those who are perfect in VIRTUE.
10 LAW and VIRTUE are synonyms.
11 Self-Sacrifice, service, generosity, assiduity in devotion and
study, are the primary requisites of perfection. "Fearlessness, sincerity,
assiduity in devotion, generosity, self-restraint, piety, and alms-givings,
study, mortification, and rectitude; harmlessness, veracity, and freedom
from anger, resignation, equanimity, and not speaking of the faults of
others, universal compassion, modesty, and mildness; patience, power,
fortitude, and purity, discretion, dignity, unrevengefulness, and freedom
from conceit— these are the marks of him whose virtues are of a godlike
character, O son of Bharata" { Ch 16 GITA .}
12 Those, O son of Pritha, who are born with demoniacal dispositions
are marked by hypocrisy, pride, anger, presumption, harshness of speech, and
ignorance. The destiny of those whose attributes are godlike is final
liberation, while those of demoniacal dispositions, born to the Asuras' lot,
[suffer] continued bondage to mortal birth; { Ch 16 GITA .}
THEOSOPHY says it as it is.
13. The "Personality" needs to realize (using strict logic) its
"self-imposed disciplines," when attuned to the UNIVERSAL PLAN, are the only
"path" for its integral and ultimate "survival."
The "personality" has to "toe the line." No good alternatives anywhere.
Best wishes,
Dallas
-----Original Message-----
From: Odin Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 5:51 AM
To:
Subject: Question
What SINGLE Theosophical teaching is directly & dynamically connected
to ALL the subjects below? (Explain how and why for each one)
1.Adeptship
2.Ancestors
3.Animal Behavior
4.Artistic Ability
5.Brain
6.Clairvoyance
7.Criminal Behavior
8.Cultural and Racial Differences
9.Cycles of Destiny
10.Death
11.Discipleship
12.Disease
13.Divinity
14.Dreams
15.Egyptians
16.Evolution
17.Forces Of Nature
18.Genetics
19.Ghosts
20.God Idea
21.Good And Evil
22.Growth Of Plants
23.Habits
24.Health
25.History
26.Hypnotism
27.Imagination
28.Initiation
29.Kama Loka
30.Magic
31.Mahatmas
32.Mediumship
33.Memory
34.Mind Reading
35.Musical Ability
36.Near Death Experience (NDE)
37.Personality
38.Physical Body
39.Predicting The Future
40.Protection
41.Psychic Powers
42.Recurring Cycles
43.Reincarnation
44.Seership
45.Senses
46.Skandhas
47.Snakes
48.Spiritual Progress
49.The Heart
50.Thought Reading
51.Thought Transference
52.Variety Of Forms In Nature
53.Witchcraft
54.Yogi Powers
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cass Silva
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:39 AM
To: Subject: Re: : PATHS TO PERFECTION WHERE ? HOW MANY ? WHAT ARE SURE
ONES?
These four lower material constituents are transitory and subject to
disintegration in themselves as well as to separation from each other.
When the hour arrives for their separation to begin, the combination can no
longer be kept up, the physical body dies, the atoms of which each of
the four is composed begin to separate from each other, and the whole
collection being disjointed is no longer fit for one as an instrument for
the real man.
But the remnants of the other bodies do not disintegrate, they remain,
waiting as the Dweller on the Threshold
Cass
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