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Aug 24, 2006 05:53 PM
by W.Dallas TenBroeck
8/24/2006 5:26 PM Thanks for the posting John. Any other interests? Dallas ================================ See this also S U N G O D S ____________________ "Every bright sun-god of antiquity--a glorious deity by day, and its own opponent and adversary by night, named Dragon of Wisdom, because it was supposed to contain the germs of night and day--has now been turned into the antithetical shadow of God, SUN GOD (by day) and Adversary (by night) -- Tribal Gods and has become Satan on the sole and unsupported authority of despotic human dogma. After which all these producers of light and shadow, all the Sun and Moon Gods, were cursed, and thus the one God chosen out of the many, and Satan, were both anthropomorphised...History shows in every race and even tribe, especially in the Semitic nations, the natural impulse to exalt its own tribal deity above all others to the hegemony (508) of the god; and proves that the God of the Israelites was such a tribal God, and no more, even though the Christian Church, following the lead of the "chosen" people, is pleased to enforce the worship of that one particular deity...Jehovah has ever been in antiquity only "a god among other Gods," (lxxxii, Psalm)... SD II 507-8 Slaughtered Sun-Gods Isis II 173 "This visible universe of spirit and matter...is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction; it was built on the model of the first divine idea. Thus our universe existed from eternity in a latent state. The soul animating this purely spiritual universe is the central sun, the highest deity itself. It was not himself who built the concrete form of his idea, but his "first-begotten;" and as it was constructed on the geometrical figure of the dodecahedron [Plato, Timaeus ], the first -begotten "was please to employ 12,000 years in its creation." Isis I 342 Svayambhu (Sk.) A metaphysical and philosophical term, meaning "the spontaneously self-produced" or the "self-existent being." An epithet of Brahma. Svayambhu is also the name of the first Manu." GLOS 315 [see ISIS I xvi, 590, II 39, 391, 443, SD I 52, 375, II 128, 307] MAN -- THE MICROCOSMIC SUN. Man is a "thinking atom" of living eternal substance, a microcosm of the Macrocosmic Sun. "It is the Spiritual evolution of the inner, immortal man that forms the fundamental tenet in the Occult Sciences...the One Universal Life, independent of matter...and...the individual intelligences that animate the various manifestations of this Principle...The One Life is closely related to the one law which governs the World of Being--Karma." SD I 634 In replications of the idea of the Central Sun we find: "...there exists in Nature a triple evolutionary scheme for the formation of the three periodical Upadhis...the Monadic (or spiritual), the intellectual, and the physical evolutions. These are the finite aspects or the reflection on the field of Cosmic Illusion of Atma, the seventh, the One Reality. 1. The Monadic is...concerned with the growth and development into still higher phases of activity of the Monad in conjunction with:-- 2. The Intellectual, represented by the Manasa-Dhyanis(the Solar Devas, or the Agnishwatta Pitris) the "givers of intelligence and consciousness" to man and:-- 3. The Physical, represented by the Chayyas of the lunar Pitris, round which Nature has concreted the present physical body. This body serves as the vehicle for the "growth"...and the transformations through Manas and--owing to the accumulation of experiences--of the finite into the infinite, of the transient into the Eternal and Absolute. Each of these three systems has its own laws, and is ruled and guided by different sets of the highest Dhyanis or "Logoi." Each is represented in the constitution of man, the Microcosm of the great Macrocosm; and it is the union of these three streams in him which makes him the complex being he now is." SD I 181-2 see also SD I 188-189) "The spirit in man is the only real and permanent part of his being; the rest of his nature being variously compounded...everything in man but his spirit is impermanent... the Universe being one thing and not diverse, and everything within it being connected with the whole and with every other thing therein, of which upon the upper plane...there is perfect knowledge, no act or thought occurs without each portion of the great whole perceiving and noticing it. Hence all are inseparably bound together by the tie of Brotherhood...it is taught that there is no creation of worlds...but that their appearance is due strictly to evolution, When the time comes for the Unmanifested to manifest as an objective Universe, which it does periodically, it emanates a Power or "The First Cause"--so called because it itself is the rootless root of that Cause, and called in the East the "Causeless Cause."...The projection into time of the influence or so-called "breath of Brahma" causes all the worlds and the beings upon them to gradually appear. They remain in manifestation just as long as that influence continues to proceed forth in evolution. After long aeons the outbreathing, evolutionary influence slackens, and the universe begins to go into obscuration, or pralaya, until, the "breath" being fully indrawn, no objects remain, because nothing is but Brahm. Care must be taken by the student to make a distinction between Brahm (the impersonal Parabrahm) and Brahma the manifested Logos. This breathing forth is known as a Manvantara, or the Manifestation of the world between two Manus...For the purpose of a Manvantara two so-called eternal principles are postulated, that is, Purusha and Prakriti (or spirit and matter), because both are ever present and conjoined in manifestation. This brings us to the doctrine of Universal Evolution as expounded by the Sages of the Wisdom-Religion. The Spirit, or Purusha, they say, proceeds from Brahma through the various forms of matter evolved at the same time, beginning in the world of the spiritual from the highest and in the material world from the lowest form...yet unknown to modern science. Thus, therefore, the mineral, vegetable and animal forms each imprison a spark of the Divine, a portion of the indivisible Purusha. These sparks struggle to "return to the Father," or in other words, to secure self-consciousness and at last come into the highest form, on Earth, that of man, where alone self-consciousness is possible to them. The period calculated in human time, during which this evolution goes on embraces millions of ages. Each spark of divinity has, therefore, millions of ages in which to accomplish its mission...all depends upon the individual's own will and efforts. Each particular spirit thus goes through the Manvantara, or enters into manifestation for its own enrichment and for that of the Whole. Mahatmas and Rishis are thus gradually evolved during a Manvantara, and become after its expiration, planetary spirits, who guide the evolution of other future planets. The planetary spirits of our globe are those who in previous manvantaras...made the efforts, and became in the course of that long period Mahatmas. This system is thus seen to be based upon the identity of Spiritual Being, and, under the name of "Universal Brotherhood," constitutes the basic idea of the T S, whose object is the realization of that Brotherhood among men." WQJ - Epitome pp. 9 - 12. PERFECTION IN EVOLUTION: THE UNIVERSAL MAN The "Mahatma" is a "great Soul," a man who through evolution and moral purification has mastered all the laws and mysteries of Nature. he knows the Spiritual Central Sun and also is fully aware that a Ray of IT is present in himself, as it is also present in all other beings. In this connection, Mr. Judge wrote: "A visitor from one of the other planets of the solar system who might learn the term Mahatma after arriving here would certainly suppose that the etymology of the word undoubtedly inspired the believers in Mahatmas with the devotion, fearlessness, hope, and energy which such an ideal should arouse in those who have the welfare of the human race at heart...The whole sweep, meaning, and possibility of evolution are contained in the word Mahatma. Maha is "great," Atma is "soul," and both compounded into one mean those great souls who have triumphed before us not because they are made of different stuff and are of some strange family, but just because they are of the human race. Reincarnation, karma, the sevenfold division, retribution, reward, struggle, failure, success, illumination, power, and a vast embracing love for man, all these lie in that single word. The soul emerges from the unknown, begins to work in and with matter, is reborn again and again, makes karma, develops the 6 vehicles for itself, meets retribution for sin and punishment for mistake, grows strong by suffering, succeeds in bursting through the gloom, is enlightened by true illumination, grasps power, retains charity, expands with love for orphaned humanity, and thenceforth helps all others who remain in darkness until all may be raised up to the place with the "Father in Heaven" who is the Higher Self." WQJ Art. II, p. 39-40 THE UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION OF MICROCOSMIC SUNS Theosophical philosophy draws attention to the "scientific atom" which by definition is called a "perpetual motion machine." It is deemed to have originated in an unimaginable past time in Solar bodies and since then has floated through space, aggregating with others and eventually forming the physical forms of all beings, including mankind on our earth. Occult philosophy says: "...every atom of man's body has been evolving by imperceptible gradations, from lower into higher forms, through the cycles--...a Spirit is a Ray, a fraction of the Whole; and the Whole being Omniscient and Infinite, Its fractions must partake, in degree, of the same abstract attributes. Man's "Spirit" must become the drop of the ocean...instead of remaining the body only. He must feel himself not only a part of the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer, but of the Soul of the Three, the Parabrahmam, who is above these and is the vitalizing, energizing and ever-presiding Spirit. He must fully realize the sense of...the "ever still present," in which there is neither past nor future, but one infinite eternity of present...." Modern Panarion, p. 171 "After circling so to say, along the arc of the cycle...when the Spirit-man reaches our "planet" [ Globe--SD I ], which is one of the lowest, having lost at every station some of the ethereal and acquired an increase of material nature, both spirit and matter have become pretty much equilibrized in him. (47) But then he has the Earth's cycle to perform; and, as in the process of involution and evolution downward, matter is ever striving to stifle spirit, when arrived at to the lowest point of his pilgrimage, the once pure Planetary Spirit [ Trans. 23-4 ] will be found dwindled to--what Science agrees to call a primitive or Primordial man--amidst a nature as primordial--speaking geologically, for physical nature keeps pace with the physiological as well as the spiritual man, in her cyclic career. At that point the great Law begins its work of selection. Matter found entirely divorced from spirit is thrown into the still lower worlds--into the sixth "Gate" or "way of rebirth." of the vegetable and mineral worlds, and of the primitive animal forms. From thence, matter ground over in the workshop of nature proceeds soulless back to its Mother Fount; while the Egos purified of their dross are enabled to resume their progress once more onward. It is here, then, that the laggard Egos perish by the millions. It is the solemn moment of the "survival of the fittest," the annihilation of those unfit. It is but matter (or material man) which is compelled by its own weight to descend to the very bottom of the "circle of necessity" to there assume animal form; as to the winner of that race throughout the worlds--the Spiritual Ego, he will ascend from star to star, from one world to another, circling onward to rebecome the once pure planetary Spirit, then higher still, to finally reach its first starting point, and from thence--to merge into mystery. No adept has ever penetrated beyond the veil of primitive Kosmic matter. The highest, the most perfect vision is limited to the universe of Form and Matter." M L p. 46-7 "Occultism tells us that every atom, like the monad of Leibnitz, is a little universe in itself; and that every organ and cell in the human body is endowed with a brain of its own, with memory, therefore, experience and discriminative powers. The idea of Universal Life composed of individual atomic lives is one of the oldest teachings of esoteric philosophy, and the very modern hypothesis of modern science, that of crystalline life, is the first ray from the ancient luminary of knowledge that has reached our scholars...Science divides matter into organic and inorganic bodies, only because it rejects the idea of absolute life and a life-principle as an entity; otherwise it would be the first to see that absolute life cannot produce even a geometrical point, or an atom inorganic in its essence...as a Life-Principle is, and must remain for the intellects of our civilized races for ever a mystery on physical lines..." HPB ARTICLES II 180 "Every Spiritual Individuality has a gigantic evolutionary journey to perform, a tremendous gyratory progress to accomplish. First--at the very beginning of the great Mahamanvanataric rotation, from first to last of the man-bearing "planets," as on each of them, the monad has to pass through the seven successive races of man...up to the present fifth race, or rather variety, and through two more races, before he has done with this one. Each of the 7 races send 7 ramifying branchlets from the Parent Branch: and through each of these in turn man has to evolute before he passes on to the next higher race; and that--seven times...The branchlets typify varying specimens of humanity -- physically and spiritually--and no one of us can miss one single rung of the ladder...when I say "man," I mean a human being of our type. There are other and innumerable manvantaric chains of globes bearing intelligent beings--both in and out of our solar system--the crowns or apexes of evolutionary being in their respective chains, some--physically and intellectually--lower, others immeasurably higher than the man of our chain..." Mahat. Let. 119 "What then is the universe for, and for what final purpose is man the immortal thinker here in evolution? It is all for the experience and emancipation of the soul, for the purpose of raising the entire mass of manifested matter up to the stature, nature, and dignity of conscious god-hood, The great aim is to reach to self-consciousness...by and through the perfecting after transformation, of the whole mass of matter as well as what we now call soul. Nothing is or is to be left out. The aim for present man is his initiation into complete knowledge, and for the other kingdoms below him that they be raised up gradually from stage to stage to be in time initiated also. This is evolution carried to its highest power; it is a magnificent prospect; it makes of man a god, and gives to every part of nature the strength and possibility of being one day the same; there is strength and nobility in it, for by this no man is dwarfed and belittled, for no one is so originally sinful that he cannot rise above all sin...Present religions keep the element of fear..." Ocean p. 60-1 "...until every grain of dust has, by gradual transformation through evolution, become a constituent part of the "living soul" and, until the latter shall reascend the cyclic arc, and finally stand--its own Metatron or Redeeming Spirit--at the foot of the upper step of the spiritual worlds, as at the first hour of its emanation." This covers the concept of Universal evolution and includes all beings without exception." Isis II 420-422 "In the hearts of all, at some time there arises the desire for knowledge. He who thinks his desires will be fulfilled, as the little bird in the nest, who has only to open his mouth to be fed, will very truly be disappointed...The soul develops like the flower in God's sunlight, and unconsciously to the soil in which it grows. Shut out the light and the soil grows damp and sterile, the flower withers or grows pale and sickly. Each and every one is here for a good and wise reason. If we find partially the why we are here, then is there the more reason that we should by intelligent contact with life, seek in it the farther elucidation of the problem. It is not for the study of ourselves so much, as the thought for others that opens the door. The events of life and their causes lead to knowledge. They must be studied when they are manifested in daily life." WQJ Art. II 410-1 Nothing is or is to be left out. The aim for present man is his initiation into complete knowledge, and for the other kingdoms below him that they be raised up gradually from stage to stage to be in time initiated also. This is evolution carried to its highest power; it is a magnificent prospect; it makes of man a god, and gives to every part of nature the strength and possibility of being one day the same; there is strength and nobility in it, for by this no man is dwarfed and belittled, for no one is so originally sinful that he cannot rise above all sin...Present religions keep the element of fear..." Ocean p. 60-1 THE SUN IS A SYMBOL OF UNIVERSAL LIFE: FIRE . On p. 182 HPB Art. II, HPB speaks of the Universal Deity. She calls it also the Thought Divine, and the Universal Vital Principle. With this as a starting point she offers these ideas: "Absolute Life, and the Life principle are entitative during manvantara. (180) They are represented in the S D Vol. I p 120 top by the "Two Ones" and symbolically by the point in the circle. Universal Life includes all that lives, and the atoms - this is one of the oldest esoteric truths.] "In the shoreless ocean of space radiates the central, spiritual, and Invisible sun. The universe is his body, spirit and soul; and after this ideal model are framed all things. These three emanations are the three lives, the three degrees of the gnostic Pleroma, the three "Kabalistic Faces," for the Ancient of the ancient, the body of the aged, the great En-Soph, "has a form and then he has no form." The invisible "assumed a form when he called this universe into existence," says the Sohar, the Book of Splendor. The first light is His soul, the Infinite, Boundless, and Immortal breath; under the efflux of which the universe heaves it mighty bosom, infusing intelligent life throughout creation. The second emanation condenses cometary matter and produces forms within the cosmic circle; sets the countless worlds floating in the electric space, and infuses the unintelligent, blind life-principle into every form. The third, produces the whole universe of physical matter; and as it keeps gradually receding from the Central Divine Light its brightness wanes and it becomes Darkness and the Bad--pure matter, the "gross purgations of the celestial fire" of the Hermetists. [ see diagrams Isis II 264-5 ] When the Central Invisible (the Lord Ferho--Isis II 290 ) saw the efforts of the divine Scintilla, unwilling to be dragged lower down into the degradation of matter, to liberate itself, he permitted it to shoot out from itself a monad, over which, attached to it as by the finest thread, the Divine Scintilla (the soul) had to watch during its ceaseless peregrinations from one form to another. Thus the monad was shot down into the first form of matter and became encased in stone...destined to creep on higher until its physical form became once more the Adam of dust, shaped in the image of the Adam Kadmon...At the birth of the future man, the monad, radiating with all the glory of its immortal parent which watches it from the seventh sphere, becomes senseless. [see Timaeus.] It loses all recollection of the past, and returns to consciousness but gradually, when the instinct of childhood gives way to reason and intelligence. After the separation between the life-principle (astral spirit) and the body takes place, the liberated soul--Monad, exultingly rejoins the mother and father spirit, the radiant Augoeides, and the two, merged into one, forever form, with a glory proportioned to the spiritual purity of the past earth life, the Adam who has completed the circle of necessity, and is freed from the last vestige of his physical encasement. Henceforth, growing more and more radiant at each step of his upward progress, he mounts the shining path that ends at the point from which he started around the GRAND CYCLE." Isis I 302-3 MANVANTARA -- A UNIVERSAL AWAKENING -- SUNS REAPPEAR "Taking now this globe...its government and evolution proceed under Manu or man, and from this is the term Manvantara or "between two Manus." The course of evolution is divided into 4 Yugas...The present age for the West and India is Kali Yuga (the black age), especially in respect to moral and spiritual development...Kali--is very rapid, its motion being accelerated precisely like certain astronomical periods known to-day in regard to the Moon...The first 5,000 years of Kali Yuga will end between the years 1897 and 1898. This Yuga began about 3,102 years before the Christian era, at the time of Krishna's death [18th of February]...at the present time we are in a cycle of transition, when, as a transition period should indicate, everything in philosophy, religion and society is changing." Ocean p. 125-126 "Our knowledge begins with differentiation, and all manifested objects, beings, or powers are only differentiations of the Great Unknown...The first differentiation--speaking metaphysically as to time--is Spirit, with which appears Matter and Mind. Akasa [term used in place of AEther...tenuous state of matter] 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...the real Matter is always invisible ...Primordial Matter...Mulaprakriti...[we see or perceive only the phenomena of matter]...Mind is the intelligent part of the Cosmos, and...is that in which the plan of the Cosmos is fixed or contained...brought over from a prior period of manifestation...no limit can be set to its evolutionary possibilities in perfectness...Because there never was a beginning to the periodical manifestations of the Absolute, there never will be any end..." Ocean 15-16 "...evolution on the Earth, it is stated that the stream of Monads begins first to work up the mass of matter in what are called the elemental conditions when all is gaseous or fiery...no evolution is possible without the Monad as vivifying agent...next comes the mineral, when the whole mass hardens, the Monads being imprisoned within. Then the first Monads emerge into vegetable forms which they construct themselves...the first class of Monads emerges from the vegetable and produces the animal, then the human astral and shadowy model...When the middle of the 4th Round is reached no more Monads emerge into the human stage... "The plan comes first in the universal mind, after which the astral model or basis is made, and when that astral model is completed, the whole process is gone over so as to condense the matter up to the middle of the 4th Round. Subsequent to that, which is our future, the whole mass is spiritualized with full consciousness and the entire body of globes raised up to a higher plane of development...7 great races have to evolve here on this planet, and the entire collection of races has to go 7 times round the whole series of 7 globes. "Human beings did not appear here in two sexes first. The first were of no sex, then they altered into hermaphrodite, and lastly separated into male and female. And this...was over 18,000,000 years ago." Ocean p. 27-28 "...the Tanaim, the sole expounders of the hidden meaning contained in the Bible...no more than any other philosophers had they believed either in spontaneous, limited, or ex nihilo creations...They believed in the eternity and the indestructibility of matter, and hence in many prior creations and destructions of worlds, before our own...Moreover, they believed, again like the Swabhavikas, now termed Atheists, that every thing proceeds (is created) from its own nature and that once that the first impulse is given by that Creative Force inherent in the "Self created substance," or Sephira, everything evolves out of it in the scale of infinite creation. "The indivisible point which has no limit, and cannot be comprehended (for it is absolute), expanded from within, and formed a brightness which served as a garment (a veil) to the indivisible points...Thus, everything originated through a constant upheaving agitation, and thus finally the world originated." --Sohar." Isis II 220 ================================================== -----Original Message----- From: John Gray [mailto:classiccontours@sympatico.ca] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:34 PM To: Subject: Fw: Interesting article An interesting article brought to our attention from an interesting place. Best Wishes to all Laura --------------------------------------------------- POINTS OF AGREEMENT IN ALL RELIGIONS By William Q. Judge [An address delivered April 17, 1894, before the Parliament of Religions at San Francisco, CA] Available at www.blavatsky.net snip .