Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00623)

Dear Cass
Another passage of interest perhaps from the Key.
"ENQUIRER. It follows, then, that there is, de facto, no man, but all 
is Spirit? 
THEOSOPHIST. You are mistaken. It thus follows that the union of 
Spirit with matter is but temporary; or, to put it more clearly, 
since Spirit and matter are one, being the two opposite poles of the 
universal manifested substance -- that Spirit loses its right to the 
name so long as the smallest particle and atom of its manifesting 
substance still clings to any form, the result of differentiation. To 
believe otherwise is blind faith. 
ENQUIRER. Thus it is on knowledge, not on faith, that you assert that 
the permanent principle, the Spirit, simply makes a transit through 
matter? 
THEOSOPHIST. I would put it otherwise and say -- we assert that the 
appearance of the permanent and one principle, Spirit, as matter is 
transient, and, therefore, no better than an illusion. 

Regards
Nigel


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@y...> wrote:
> "The first differentiation - speaking metaphysically as to time - 
is Spirit, with which appears Matter and Mind. Akasa is produced 
from Matter and Spirit, Will is the force of Spirit in action and 
Life is a resultant of the action of Akasa, moved by Spirit, upon 
Matter.
> But the Matter here spoken of is not that which is vulgarly known 
as such. It is the real Matter which is always invisible and has 
sometimes been called Primordial Matter. In the Brahmanical system 
it is denominated Mulaprakriti. The ancient teaching always held, 
as is now admitted by Science, that we see or perceive only the 
phenomena but not the essential nature, body or being of matter." 
Oceans of Theosophy P15
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> "Life or energy is what we may call Parabrahman; the substance side 
or vehicular side is mulaprakriti. Wipe out mulaprakriti, if it were 
possible, which it is not, and you would have pure consciousness, 
pure energy; and that again is not possible, because energy and 
matter are two sides of the same thing as are force and substance. 
Our body is fundamentally mulaprakriti, root-substance, fundamental 
essence, manifesting in form. So is everything else - a star, a bit 
of wood, a stone, a beast, a bit of thistledown floating in the air. 
Its essence is mulaprakriti; and out in the abysmal spaces is 
mulaprakriti, but also Parabrahman. P.91 Fountain source of occultism.
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> Can anyone give me their interpretation of meaning here?
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> Cass
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