Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00036)

8/9/2005 11:27 AM

Dear Friends:

Re: "DIAGRAM ON MEDITATION" attributed to HPB


Lets be accurate. HPB did NOT publish or correct this.

[Attributed to notes made by E. T. Sturdy at an Inner Group Meeting, on the
basis of his memory of what HPB said. ]

It reads:

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"H P B MEDITATION DIAGRAM"

>From Christmas Humphries "THE MIDDLE WAY"  
April/June 1942

[Attributed to notes made by E. T. Sturdy at an Inner Group
Meeting.]
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H.P.B.'s Diagram of Meditation


First conceive of UNITY by Expansion in space and infinite in Time.
(Either with or without self-identification.)

	

ACQUISITIONS

Perpetual Presence in imagination in all Space and Time.

Continued attempt at attitude of mind to all existing things, which is
neither love, hate nor indifference.	[ Impersonal Discernment ? ]

The Perception in all embodied beings of Limitation only.

>From this originates a sub-stratum of memory which does not cease in
dreaming or waking. Its manifestation is Courage.	[ ? ]

Different in external activity to each, because in each the capacity alters.

Mentally the same to all. 

Criticism without praise or blame. 


With Memory Of Universality all dread vanishes during the dangers and trials
of life.


Equilibrium and constant Calm. [ F P p. 53 ]

Greater ease in practicing the "virtues," which are really the outcome of
wisdom, 
for benevolence, sympathy, justice, etc., arise from the intuitive
identification of the individual with others, although unknown to the
personality


Note: Acquisition is completed by the conception "I am all Space and Time."
Beyond that. (It cannot be said).



DEPRIVATIONS


Separations and Meetings.
Association with Places.
Times and Forms
The Distinctions
Friend and Foe.
Possessions, Personality, Sensation
Futile longings.
Expectations.
Sad memories.
Broken-heartedness.  
Resulting in absence of anger and bias. (Replaced by Judgement.)
Vanity,
Remorse.
Greed,
Selfishness,
Ambition.
Gluttony.
Lust, etc.

Note: These deprivations are produced by the perpetual imagination - without
self-delusion* - of "I am without;" the recognition of their being the
source of bondage, ignorance and strife. "Deprivation" is completed by the
meditation: "I am without attributes."

* There is no risk of self-delusion if the personality is deliberately
forgotten.


General Note: All the passions and virtues interblend with each other. 

Therefore the diagram gives only general hints.


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[E. T. Sturdy, a member of HPB's Inner Group, gave this diagram to Christmas
Humphreys in 1940 or thereabouts. Christmas Humphreys printed it in The
MIDDLE WAY. 

The CANADIAN THEOSOPHIST reprinted it in March 1943, and 


The THEOSOPHIST reprinted it in January 1968.]   

BLAVATSKY: Collected Works (TPH) Vol. 11 p. 104-6

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DTB
As I understand it, this was issued after private study with HPB and some
other students she selected, and hence, was a matter to be kept PRIVATE.  

The "Diagram on Mediation" is therefore to be looked at with this in mind.

It does not carry the full force of HPB's writings.

In any case, all Theosophical writings have to be checked and re-checked for
accuracy and agreement with other rules, laws and statements relating to the
psychology of Man based on the 7 Principles and the rules and laws relating
to the interplay of SPIRIT and MATTER along the lengthy process of evolution
and eventual involution as the Great Breath ends the period of manvantara.

Is it not a study of the evolution of Consciousness?

It is said that the ONE CONSCIOUSNESS "desired" to know Itself.

This is expressed under "KAMADEVA" in the THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY . pp
170-171:

"Desire first arose in IT that was the primal germ of mind, and which Sages
searching with their intellect, have determined in their heart, to be the
bond which connects Entity with Non-Entity," OR Manas with pure
Atma-Buddhi." [Glos. p. 171; also quoted in S D II 176, 578.] 

In order to do this it imposed self-limitations (kamic-desire-"mirrors").
Thus the innumerable Monads [ATMA-BUDDHI] in the illimitable UNIVERSE came
into being SIMULTANEOUSLY, everywhere. These were not "created" out of
"nothing," since they were the re-embodiments of samskaras under their
individual Karma, from earlier Manvantaras. 

The ONE and the MANY have, and are, both a "root-cause," and a "causeless
cause." The "units" [MONAS] are temporary as to form, but stable as to
being potential and eternal aspects of the ONE ABSOLUTE -- manifesting
through "SPIRIT." They are therefore (as Men-minds") called "the Eternal
Pilgrims." 

Thus we have of the three eternal GUNAS (ATTRIBUTES) :

1	SATTVA or PURE QUIESCENT SPIRIT {Suddha Sattva - Glos. 311} 

2	TAMAS or quiescent stability -- the IDEAL and the periodic and
evanescent "forms" of "inert matter" which reflect aspects of those IDEALS.
[Glos. p. 318]

3	Since we are obviously thinkers and MINDS, the third Guna is RAJA or
differentiated action. It is associated with form and change because it
affords the ability to see, compare, and discriminate -- faculties which are
implied in this. In this Guna we must seek for the ETERNAL CAUSELESS CAUSE
of all motion, cycles, laws and changes.

Best wishes,

Dallas


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-----Original Message-----
From: Odin 
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 5:51 AM
To: 
Subject: : MEDITATION

HPB's meditation diagram can be found reprinted in the book "Helena
Blavatsky"
(Western Esoteric Masters Series) [Paperback] by Nicholas
Goodrick-Clarke (Editor), available on Amazon. 

[Also available on seekerbooks.com at
http://www.seekerbooks.com/prod/9781556434570/index.htm 
- Estela Carson]

On 8/8/05, Joleen D. Du Bois <joleen@wmea-world.org> wrote:
Has anyone "scanned" the diagram into their computer? I would really
appreciate the original form.