Theos-Talk Archives (August 2007 Message tt00011)

Christina,

It is not my story; it is a passage from Mabel Collins' book "Through 
the Gates of Gold". Please see: 
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gategold/gategold.htm

I think that the word soul is here used in its broad sense as one's 
immaterial part. 

Well, I think that the described approach isn't so easy at all as it 
consists of perpetual striving to overcome our operation in the line 
of less resistance. And it has much to do with our moral evolution. 

But I actually wished to stress that we can and should make greater 
use of our natural resources and to be more in touch with our own 
being.

Warmest regards,
Anton


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "christinaleestemaker" 
<christinaleestemaker@...> wrote:
>
> Anton,
> Which Soul do you mean?
> 
> Higher soul don't need exercise, that is true
> But animal soul do need.
> And most people have not developed their higher soul.
> 
> Than  all have to do with PRANA
> we live in prana and prana in us.
> 
> But one not cultivating him or herself
> can do what he want, he never will 
> reach developement.
> 
> You are right that no one can force the energies and prana 
> in artificial way.Only nature will bring him and uplift him, if he 
is
> ready for.
> 
> In the end of your story you wrote about the seual way, not the 
common
> sexual, so easy it not that
> .
> If it was so easy 
> all can stay living like dogs.
> Happely not
> 
> greetings Christina
> 
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> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anton Rozman" <anton_rozman@>
> wrote:
> >
> > "What has sexual or breathing exercises to do with the spiritual 
> > awakening? To me, it would be a universal joke if after all the 
soul 
> > could be liberated in such an artificial way."
> > 
> > "When all the motions of the body have become perfectly rythmical 
the 
> > body has, as it were, become a gigantic battery of will."
> > 
> > Those who practice prolonged aerobic activity know that during 
this 
> > activity body automatically tends to acquire the most rational 
> > consumption of energy and that this tendency expresses itself in 
the 
> > attunement of all bodily functions with the rhythmical breathing. 
> > This actually means that it tends to acquire its most natural way 
of 
> > functioning which we have distorted or artificialized with our 
> > unnatural way of living.
> > 
> > What is actually breathing? What are its higher aspects? What or 
who 
> > controls it? 
> > 
> > The Secret Doctrine - "The Beginnings of Sentient Life" - says 
that 
> > it is the breath of Lha (Spirit) which gives Life to the Seven - 
> > Dragons of Wisdom. 
> > 
> > Therefore, in my view, breathing is expression of our inner 
> > Intelligence in our sentient life.  We can attune ourselves (or 
> > better our bodies) with this Intelligence if we acquire a 
natural, 
> > rhythmic, circular way of breathing (without any special 
exercises), 
> > when inhale and exhale become uniform movement. If we can achieve 
> > this movement without interference (or with exclusion) of mind 
then 
> > we can enter in the state of Ever-becoming - "eternal, ceaseless 
> > Motion" - in which the creative powers of our Intelligence can 
> > express themselves. With the will of our Intelligence we can for 
the 
> > time being experience, for instance, respectfulness - not just 
> > feeling it but actually becoming respectfulness. 
> > 
> > As regard to the sex, there are, in my opinion, no better words 
to 
> > express the position of sentient experience in our life as those 
in 
> > the M. Collins' book, Through the Gates of Gold:
> > 
> > "The man who chooses the way of effort, and refuses to allow the 
> > sleep of indolence to dull his soul, finds in his pleasures a new 
and 
> > finer joy each time he tastes them, - a something subtle and 
remote 
> > which removes them more and more from the state in which mere 
> > sensuousness is all; this subtle essence is that elixir of life 
which 
> > makes man immortal. He who tastes it and who will not drink 
unless it 
> > is in the cup finds life enlarge and the world grow great before 
his 
> > eager eyes. He recognizes the soul within the woman he loves, and 
> > passion becomes peace; he sees within his thought the finer 
qualities 
> > of spiritual truth, which is beyond the action of our mental 
> > machinery, and then instead of entering on the treadmill of 
> > intellectualisms he rests on the broad back of the eagle of 
intuition 
> > and soars into the fine air where the great poets found their 
> > insight; he sees within his own power of sensation, of pleasure 
in 
> > fresh air and sunshine, in food and wine, in motion and rest, the 
> > possibilities of the subtle man, the thing which dies not either 
with 
> > the body or the brain. The pleasures of art, of music, of light 
and 
> > loveliness, - within these forms, which men repeat till they find 
> > only the forms, he sees the glory of the Gates of Gold, and 
passes 
> > through to find the new life beyond which intoxicates and 
> > strengthens, as the keen mountain air intoxicates and 
strengthens, by 
> > its very vigor. But if he has been pouring, drop by drop, more 
and 
> > more of the elixir of life into his cup, he is strong enough to 
> > breathe this intense air and to live upon it. Then if he die or 
if he 
> > live in physical form, alike he goes on and finds new and finer 
joys, 
> > more perfect and satisfying experiences, with every breath he 
draws 
> > in and gives out."
> > 
> > Warmest regards,
> > Anton
> >
>