Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00601)

>> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Reitemeyer" wrote:

> Do you mean that while HPB associated dzyan with dhyana and zen it 
> automatically excludes any additions?

I would think that it excludes "zion" for it seems to have quite 
different meaning from dhyana & zen.

>> HPB also always emphasized superiority of eastern school over 
hebrew.

> Where? Why?

For example, in Transactions of Blavatsky Lodge, first discussion, 
when she speaks about the first differenciation, she says that notion 
about Ain-Soph is materialized distortion of it.

Also in Key to Theosophy she shows the difference detween teachings:

"The most substantial difference between them and us is this. While we 
believe with the Neo-Platonists and the Eastern teachings that the 
spirit (Atma) never descends hypostatically into the living man, but 
only showers more or less its radiance on the inner man (the psychic 
and spiritual compound of the astral principles), the Cabalists 
maintain that the human Spirit, detaching itself from the ocean of 
light and Universal Spirit, enters man's Soul, where it remains 
throughout life imprisoned in the astral capsule."