Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00738)

Dear Cass
References to Be-ness, Being and becoming are well covered in Dallas' 
excellent compilation message number 26794. 
The following passages are particularly germain: 'But the "Breath of 
the One Existence" does not, all the same, apply to the One Causeless 
Cause or the "All Be-ness" (in contradistinction to All-Being, which 
is Brahm�, or the Universe).' SD 1 Stanza 2. 'Nature is never 
stationary during manvantara, as it is ever becoming,� not simply 
being;...'SD 1 Stanza 7.

Regarding references to perceiver and perceived and that whilst not 
separate they can be distinct, Dallas has also posted some 
interesting comments, message number 26843.
Additional passages:
"The cycle of consciousness. It is argued that there cannot be more 
than one object of perception at a time before the soul because soul 
is a unit. Occultism teaches that simultaneously our conscious[ness] 
could receive no less than seven distinct impressions, and even pass 
them into memory. This can be proved by striking at the same time 
seven keys of the scale of an instrument�say a piano. The 7 sounds 
will reach consciousness simultaneously; though the untrained 
consciousness may not be capable of registering them the first 
second, their prolonged vibrations will strike the ear in 7 distinct 
sounds one higher than the other in its pitch. All depends on 
training and attention. Thus the transference of a sensation from any 
organ to consciousness is almost instantaneous if your attention is 
fixed upon it; but if any noise distracts your attention it will take 
a number of seconds before it reaches consciousness. The Occultist 
should train himself to receive and transmit along the line of the 
seven scales of his consciousness every impression or impressions 
simultaneously. He who reduces the intervals of physical time the 
most, has made the most progress.
The names and order of the 7 scales are.
1. Sense-perception;
2. Self-perception (or apperception)
3. Psychic apperception�which carries it to
4. Vital perception.
These are the four lower scales and belong to the psychophysical man. 
The[n] come
5 Manasic discernments;
6. Will perception and
7. Spiritual conscious apperception. 

The special organ of consciousness is of course the brain, and is 
located in the aura of the pineal gland in the living man. During the 
process of mind or thought manifesting to consciousness, constant 
vibrations of light take place. If one could see clairvoyantly in the 
brain of a living man one could almost count (see with the eye) the 
seven shades of the successive scales of light, from the dullest to 
the brightest.
What consciousness is can never be defined psychologically. We can 
analyse and classify its work and effects�we cannot define it, unless 
we postulate an Ego distinct from the body. The septenary scale of 
states of consciousness is reflected in the heart, or rather its 
area,* which vibrates and illumines the seven brains of the heart as 
it does the seven divisions or rays around the pineal gland.
This consc[iousness] shows to us the difference between the nature 
and essence of, say, astral body and Ego. One molecular, invisible 
unless condensed, the other atomic-spiritual. 
Consciousness and Self Consciousness. H P Blavatsky Coll. Writings 
Vol 13

Taking the case cited, the rays of �k�a and their arrangement which 
cause a star to be seen, are present all round the person, and at any 
and every point in the aura the one star exists, but as the perceiver 
is different from the person in front of whom the star exists, he can 
see one star only, and that at the point where his organs of astral 
vision cut the rays of the �k�a. And it is the same with other 
pictures that might exist in the aura of anyone. Each picture exists 
in the entire aura without interfering with any other, and at the 
same time each or any picture is complete at any one spot or point in 
the same aura. Hence two seers may, and often do, see two different 
pictures at the same spot in the astral light.
With other matters in Occultism the same law holds, whether in 
relation to such as are strictly human or otherwise. As, for 
instance, an Ego may be in a state of Devachan at some place in which 
human beings are alive and acting on this plane, and yet not be aware 
of the fact.
It is therefore absolutely necessary for all students in this Degree 
to accustom themselves to this law and make it a part of themselves, 
at the same time not forgetting nor throwing away the knowledge 
gained in respect to other matters and modes of thought. H P 
Blavatsky Coll.Writings Vol 12

The distinctions always lie within the illusory nature of mind 
therefore obviously cannot be "separate" from maya because they are 
maya, as is everything in manifestation.
Sorry don't have time for further elaboration.
Regards
Nigel