Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01646)

Let me rephrase the question, which was raised in regard to an article, on how science is now mixing human genetic material with vegetable material. "Crossing," as it is called" by HPB

as was the case when our ancestors (ourselves, in fact, as Atlanteans) mixed the human kingdom with the animal kingdom produced hybrids (of different anotomical make up).
"How then can Occultism insist that a portion of the Fourth Race humanity begot young ones from females of another, only semi-human, if not quite an animal, race, the hybrids resulting from which union not only bred freely but produced the ancestors of the modern anthropoid apes? HPB

I am wondering what is happening at an etheric level. "The Pitris shoot out from their ethereal bodies, still more ethereal and shadowy similitudes of themselves, or what we should now call "doubles" or "astral forms" in their own likeness. This furnishes the Monad with its first dwelling (in the Fourth Round on Globe D - our earth) and blind matter with a model around and upon which to build henceforth."HPB 1/248

The word "astral" is apt to cause confusion for some people. "Ethereal" has been suggested as being a preferable word, and is used in place of "astral" by many writers. P120 The Divine Plan.

My question related to what impact human genetic material would have upon the vegetable kingdom which in principle houses the monad in the becoming. I was trying to draw an analogy between the crossing of the human kingdom with the semi-human, not quite human race, and the crossing again of the human kingdom with the vegetable kingdom, and what effect this would have in the astral counterpart. "the birth of the astral before the physical body: the former being a model for the latter." HPB 1/128. The offspring represents the characteristics which have been transmitted to it by its parent, because the parent has reached a certain degree of evolutionary development on the ladder of life. P79 The Divine Plan.

I was applying the Doctrine of Essential Identity, the Doctrine of Continuous change, The Law of self enfoldment to my query.

I have presumed that, as this occurs in regard to our physical body, so it would occur in regard to the vegetable astral form. As I was unsure of this, the question posed, was, what effect would this have on the etheric/astral form.

I am not a scholar, but seek to understand the inherent meaning in the words of HPB.

Cass
















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