Theos-Talk Archives (August 2007 Message tt00012)

Hi Anton,
Do you know "Yoke "is the word called for Universal Self.


That you mentioned a story of Mabel Collens I understood, but I was
referring to your own writing in this.

By the way thanks for giving that book on line here, for I was looking
and could not find it anywhere.

If I have time I should like to read.
Friendly Greeings Christina











--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anton Rozman" <anton_rozman@...>
wrote:
>
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- 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
> > >
> >
>