Theos-Talk Archives (May 2007 Message tt00052)

3 Important Mahatma 
Documents on "God"

The following 3 documents by Morya and Koot Hoomi
are INTERRELATED and complement and supplement
one another.

I give below the letter numbers of these 3 documents as given in
the letters of HPB to Sinnett and the first three editions of the 
Mahatma Letters and I also give links to the actual online 
transcriptions of the documents.  [The 4th(chrono) edition assigns 
different letter numbers to these  documents.] 

Document 1:
Appendix II - Cosmological Notes from A. P. Sinnett's MS. Book.
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-aps/bl-ap2.htm

Document 2:
Letter No. 22
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-22.htm

Document 3:
Letter No. 10
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-10.htm

Apparently there is still alot of misunderstanding and
confusion about these 3 documents and the teachings contained
therein.

AFAIK, a detailed and comprehensive commentary has never been
written on these 3 documents.  Mrs. Hanson and Mr. Linton
have contributed some valuable material in their READERS GUIDE but 
there is MUCH MORE that could have been given to clarify what is 
written in these 3 documents.

Furthermore, the material given in the above 3 documents could be
elucidated even more by annotating them with extensive extracts found 
in HPB's SECRET DOCTRINE.

Also one can find alot of relevant and helpful material on the 
various persons, terms and topics covered in these 3 documents in 
various reference works on philosophy, religion and related 
subjects.  Later I may try to list some of these works and give 
examples of what I am referring to.

I give just one example below to illustrate what I am thinking about.

Concerning Spinoza mentioned in Letter No. 10, the Wikipedia gives 
these RELEVANT comments:

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He contended that everything that exists in Nature/Universe is one 
Reality (substance) and there is only one set of rules governing the 
whole of the reality which surrounds us and of which we are part. 
Spinoza argued that God and Nature were two names for the same 
reality, namely the single substance (meaning "to stand beneath" 
rather than "matter") that underlies the universe and of which all 
lesser "entities" are actually modes or modifications, that all 
things are determined by Nature to exist and cause effects, and that 
the complex chain of cause and effect are only understood in part....

Spinoza contended that "Deus sive Natura" ("God or Nature") was a 
being of infinitely many attributes, of which extension and thought 
were two. His account of the nature of reality, then, seems to treat 
the physical and mental worlds as one and the same. The body and the 
mind are both comprised of the universal substance, and no difference 
exists between them. This formulation is a historically significant 
panpsychist solution to the mind-body problem known as neutral 
monism. The consequences of Spinoza's system also envisage a God that 
does not rule over the universe by providence, but a God which itself 
is part of the deterministic system of which everything in nature is 
a part. Thus, God is the natural world and has no personality....

The attraction of Spinoza's philosophy to late eighteenth-century 
Europeans was that it provided an alternative to Materialism, 
Atheism, and Deism. Three of Spinoza's ideas strongly appealed to 
them:

the unity of all that exists; 
the regularity of all that happens; and 
the identity of spirit and nature. 
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Quoted from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinoza

Daniel
http://hpb.cc