Re: Theos-World Re: Wed Nov 8 Thought for the Day - Peace and Joy
Nov 11, 2006 07:50 PM
by Rodolfo Don
Hi Raul,
Unfortunately I cannot understand what you are saying. Could you send
me a single subject in a small paragraph ? Do you know Pepe Guitar ?
We had him around Theos-talk for a while.
R. Don
Theosophy: Its creed is Loyalty to Truth, and its ritual 'To honour
every truth by use.'
H. P. Blavatsky - from The Key to Theosophy
On Nov 11, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Raul Giraud wrote:
>
> 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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