Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00667)

  Hi Rudy.
  I had wanted to respond to this message earlier, but Its hard sometimes for me to find Internet access being on the road.  Below is something I wrote after reading the HPB quote you offered.  In simple terms it is my interpretation or restatement of one of the ideas HPB touched on in that quote.  I offer it for comments / questions / corrections.

  The spiritual individuality is the True Man, or Ego, who in this human cycle of manifestation (where Consciousness begins to dominate his other Divine Elements) puts on 'cloaks of personalities' in order to learn from life, and eventually learn to live with the Laws of LIFE and thus attain to a Spiritual Self-Consciousness identified with the ONE LIFE. The unpleasant life is the life of self-isolated consciousness ? that personality that has not begun to re-attain the Spiritual Consciousness where the personality is wedded to the True Man and identifies with the ONE SELF ? which is LIFE and JOY.
  

  LIFE manifests in an "eternal, ceaseless motion" of aspects of LIFE becoming LIFE Itself. Each manifestation journeys from the lowest possible grade of manifestation, which we could imagine an unconscious atom to be, onwards to the highest, of which we could imagine a Universe of Universes. As is the great, so is the small. This manifestation of LIFE in infinite form, and eternal action, is necessary for LIFE to discover its essential Perfection. This is the only attribute of LIFE ? Its eternal, ceaseless motion. Thus, if any unit of LIFEs manifestation (any spark of Divine LIFE) attempted to realize its essential Perfection living only one life, whether the life of a plant or a tree or a sun, it could not ever Know itself to be what it essentially is - LIFE itself. The only perfect realization that one tree could ever know is that it is a Tree.
  

  And so the spark of the Divine LIFE, that is the center of Man's Being, will experience LIFE in all its manifestations by the "the cycle of re-births" - a Law of LIFE - which has its analogy in this human phase of life in the casting off of one personality to put on a new one.
  

  When we find ourselves to have experienced all that can be had of any one manifestation of LIFE, we will have once again come to a Unity with LIFE, but now with Consciousness of THAT - where no longer is the unpleasant illusion of seperatness, but instead the undying Peace and Joy. But of course this is not the end. LIFE is infinite and eternal.
   
  Raul G.

 
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