Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00731)

May 28 2005

Dear Krishtar:

Here are the divisions. I would assume that "cyberspace" being derived from
a material and physical necessity of communication, would be associated with
that particularly.

The "Nidanas" or chain of causes pertains to this

Best wishes,

Dallas
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Septenary Universe



"...the teaching about the Septenary constitution of the sidereal bodies and
of the macrocosm--from which the septenary division of the microcosm, or
Man--has until now been among the most esoteric. In olden times if used to
be divulged only at the Initiation and along with the most sacred figures of
the cycles...the key to their teaching is furnished by Atma-Vidya...for
outside of metaphysics no occult philosophy, no esotericism is possible."
SD I 168-9



"...the number seven, as well as the doctrine of the septenary constitution
of man, was pre-eminent in all the secret systems. It plays as important a
part in Western Kabala as in Eastern Occultism."	SD I 241  



"The universe evolves from the unknown, into which no man or mind, however
high, can inquire, on seven planes or in seven ways or methods in all
worlds, and this seven-fold differentiation causes all the worlds of the
universe and the beings thereon to have a septenary constitution...the
little worlds and the great are copies of the whole, and the minutest insect
as well as the most highly developed being are replicas in little or in
great of the vast inclusive original.


The divisions of the sevenfold universe may be laid down roughly as:

The Absolute, [or Space--that which ever is and in which all manifestation
must take place...we can do no more than say It Is. None of the great
teachers of the School ascribe qualities to the Absolute although all
qualities exist in It.]

Spirit, Mind, Matter, Will, Akasa or AEther, [ Akasa is used in place of
AEther because English...has no word to properly designate that tenuous
state of matter], and Life.

Our knowledge begins with differentiation, and all manifested objects,
beings, or powers are only differentiations of the Great Unknown. The most
that can be said is that the Absolute periodically differentiates itself,
and periodically withdraws the differentiation into itself.

The first differentiation--speaking metaphorically 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...Mulaprakriti ...we see or perceive only the
phenomena but not the essential nature, body or being of matter.

Mind is the intelligent part of the Cosmos, and in the collection of seven
differentiations above roughly sketched.

This plan was brought over from a prior period of manifestation which added
to its ever increasing perfectness, and no limit can be set to its
evolutionary possibilities in perfectness. Because there was never any
beginning to the periodical manifestations of the Absolute, there will never
be any end, but forever the going forth and withdrawing into the Unknown
will go on." Ocean, pp. 14-15



"Enquirer. But who is it that creates each time the Universe?

Theosophist.	No one creates it. Science would call the process
evolution...we, Occultists and Theosophists, see in it the only universal
and eternal reality casting a periodical reflection of itself on the
infinite Spatial depths. This reflection which you regard as the objective
material universe, we consider as a temporary illusion and nothing else.
That alone which is eternal is real...the universe passes out of its
homogeneous subjectivity on to the first pane of manifestation, of which
planes there are seven, we are taught. With each plane it becomes more
dense and material until it reaches this, our plane...our Solar system (like
every other such system in the millions of others in Cosmos) and even our
Earth, has its own programme of manifestations differing from the respective
programmes of all others."	
Key to Theosophy pp. 84-5



"Enquirer.	I understand you describe our earth as forming a part of a
chain or earths?

Theosophist.	We do. But the other six "earths" or "globes," are not on
the same plane of objectivity as our earth is; therefore we cannot see
them...It is only that their material density, weight, or fabric are
entirely different from those of our earth and the other known planets; but
they are (to us) on an entirely different layer of space, so to speak; a
layer not to be perceived or felt by our physical senses...by "layer" is
that plane of infinite space which by its nature cannot fall under our
ordinary waking perceptions, whether mental or physical; but which exists
in nature outside of our normal mentality or consciousness, outside of our
three dimensional space, and outside of our division of time. Each of the
seven fundamental planes (or layers) in space...has its own objectivity and
subjectivity, its own space and time, its own consciousness and set of
senses. [ Like a different set of sense used in our "dream-life."]...

Our philosophy teaches us that, as there are seven fundamental forces in
nature, and seven planes of being, so there are seven states of
consciousness in which man can live, think, remember and have his being...in
waking and dreaming [we have good proof of the fact]."	Key to
Theosophy, pp. 88-90



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Table from Secret Doctrine Vol. II, p. 596


Correspondence of the 7 Cosmic and 7 Human "principles."


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Human aspects or	Cosmic aspects or
Principles	Principles
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TRIPLE ASPECT OF THE DEITY


1.	Universal Spirit (Atma)	The Unmanifested Logos

2.	Spiritual Soul (Buddhi)	Universal (latent) Ideation
(see Fnote p. 597)

3.	Human Soul, Mind (Manas)	Universal (or Cosmic) active
Intelligence


SPIRIT OF THE EARTH


4.	Animal Soul (Kama-Rupa)	Cosmic Chaotic energy

5.	Astral Body (Linga-Sarira)	Astral Ideation, reflecting 
terrestrial things.

6.	Life Essence (Prana)	Life Essence or Energy

7.	Body (Sthula Sarira)	The Earth.

[ from: SD II 596]



Sevenfold Man


"We find...two distinct beings in man; the spiritual and the physical, the
man who thinks, and the man who records as much of these thoughts as he is
able to assimilate.

Therefore we divide him into two distinct natures: the upper or the
spiritual being, composed of three "principles" or aspects; and the lower
or the physical quaternary, composed of four--in all seven."	Key,
p. 90

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Table From: Secret Doctrine I p. 157

Seven-fold Man and His Vehicles in States of Consciousness


"...Atma-Bodha or "Knowledge of Soul," [a treatise by
Shankaracharya]...speaks distinctly of seven principles in man (see verse
14). They are called therein the five sheaths (Panchakosha) in which is
enclosed the divine monad--the Atman and Buddhi, the seventh and sixth
principles, or the individual soul when made distinct...from the supreme
soul--Parabrahman. The first sheath, called Ananda-maya--the sheath of
"supreme bliss"--is the Manas of fifth principle of the Occultists, when
united with Buddhi; the second sheath is Vijnana-maya Kosha, the case or
envelope of "self-delusion," the Manas when self-deluded into the belief of
the personal "I" or Ego, with its vehicle. The third is Mano-maya sheath,
composed of illusionary "mind" associated with the organs of action and
will, is the Kama Rupa and the Linga Sharira combined, producing an illusive
"I" or Mayavi Rupa. The fourth sheath is called Prana-maya, illusionary
"life," our second life principle or Jiva, wherein resides life, the
"breathing" sheath. The fifth Kosha is called Anna-maya, or the sheath
supported by food--our gross material body. All these sheaths produce other
smaller sheaths, or six attributes or qualities each, the seventh being
always the root-sheath; and the Atman or spirit passing through all these
subtle ethereal bodies like a thread, is called the "thread-soul" or
Sutratman." - HPB	Five Years of Theosophy p. 126



"[There is a dual set of "principles": the spiritual, or those which belong
to the imperishable Ego; and the material, or those principles which make
up the ever-changing bodies or the series of personalities of that Ego.

Let us fix permanent names to those, and say that:--

1.	Atma, the "Higher Self," is neither your Spirit nor mine, but like
sunlight shines on all. It is the universally diffused "divine principle,"
and is inseparable from its one and absolute Meta-Spirit, as the sunbeam is
inseparable from sunlight.

2.	Buddhi (the spiritual soul) is only its vehicle. Neither each
separately, nor the two collectively, are of any more use to the body of
man, than sunlight and its beams are for a mass of granite buried in the
earth, unless the divine Duad is assimilated by, and reflected in, some
consciousness. Neither Atma nor Buddhi are ever reached by Karma, because
the former is the highest aspect of Karma, its universal working agent of
ITSELF in one aspect, and the other is unconscious on this plane. This
consciousness or mind is

3.	Manas,(*) the derivation or product in a reflected form of Ahamkara,
"the conception of "I," or Ego-ship, and Taijasi (the radiant). This is the
real Individuality or the divine man. It is this Ego which--having
originally incarnated in the senseless human form animated by, but
unconscious (since it had no consciousness) of, the presence in itself of
the dual monad--made of that human-like form a real man. It is that Ego,
that "Causal Body," which overshadows every personality Karma forces it to
incarnate into; and this Ego which is held responsible for all the sins
committed through, and in, every new body or personality--the evanescent
masks which hide the true Individual through the long series of rebirths.

(*)	Mahat or the "Universal Mind" is the source of Manas. The latter is
Mahat, i.e., mind, in man. Manas is also called Kshetrajna, "embodied
spirit," because it is...the Manasa-putra, or "Sons of the Universal Mind,"
who created, or rather produced, the thinking man, "manu" by incarnating in
the third Race mankind [Lemurian] in our Round.	It is Manasa, therefore,
which is the real incarnating and permanent Spiritual Ego, the
Individuality, and our various and numberless personalities only its
external masks."
Key to Theosophy, pp. 135-6



"To avoid henceforth...misapprehensions, I propose to translate literally
from the Occult Eastern terms their equivalents in English, and offer these
for future use.

The HIGHER SELF is Atma, the inseparable ray of the Universal and
ONE SELF. It is the God above, more than
within, us. Happy is the man who succeeds in 
saturating his inner Ego with it!

The SPIRITUAL divine Ego is the Spiritual soul or Buddhi, in 
close union with Manas, the mind-principle,
without which it is no Ego at all, but only
the Atmic Vehicle.

The Inner, or Higher "Ego" is Manas, the "Fifth" Principle,...
independently of Buddhi. The Mind-Principle 	
is only the Spiritual Ego when merged into 	
one with Buddhi,--no materialist being sup-
posed to have in him such an Ego, however
great his intellectual capacities. It is 
the permanent Individuality or the 
"Reincarnating Ego."

The Lower or Personal "Ego" is the physical man in conjunction 
with his lower Self, i.e., animal instincts,
passions, desires, etc. It is called the 
"false personality," and consists of the
lower Manas combined with Kama-rupa, and
operating through the Physical body and its
phantom or "double."


The remaining "Principle" 

"Prana," or "Life, is strictly speaking,
the radiating force or energy of Atma-- as 
the Universal Life and the One Self,--Its
lower or rather (in its effects) more 
physical, because manifesting, aspect.  

Prana, Life permeates the whole being of the 
objective Universe; and is called a "principle
only because it is an indispensable
factor and the deus ex machina of the living
man."	Key to Theosophy pp. 175-6

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-----Original Message-----
From: Of krishtar
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:36 PM
To: 
Subject: internet & astral plane

People, may someone just answer this question ?
The email below I posted to the group exactly one month ago.
Only now the message has arrived!
How come? Where has it been in all these days?
In the internet astral world?
Does the 7- fold universe also may be applied to the cyberspace?(smile)

Krishtar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: krishtar 
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: Theos-World facsimile and reproduction prints - differences