Re: Theos-World Re: Does theosophy impugn NASA's moon landing in 1969?
Jan 04, 2008 03:11 PM
by Cass Silva
I suppose if the moon is decaying it is still partly solid, although I take Frank's interesting point about how a solid can land on an etherial object.
Cass
Richard Semock <semockr@hotmail.com> wrote:
I almost believe that the moon is a kama-rupic phantom as Gottfried
says at least thats easier to swallow than green cheese. Also, G de
P's statement couched as it is in TS lore is easier to believe than
those dozen or so Apollo missions that landed on that phantom tide-
producing body.
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Reitemeyer" <dzyan@...>
wrote:
>
> 1. "Walking [on the moon] was quite easy!"
> - Buzz Aldrin, interview by Aron Ranen: "Did We Go?"
> http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=R9pQ1gWzs40&feature=related
>
>
> 2. "What we see when we look up into the starry spaces is the
astral body,
> the kama-rupa of the physical moon that was, aeons and aeons ago,
which
> physical body is now disintegrated into impalpable cosmic dust. We
perceive
> this kama-rupic phantom, because our physical earth is one subplane
higher
> than that on which the physical body of the moon was. Were our
scientists by
> some magic to be transported to the moon, even though they would be
able to
> see it almost as clearly as they see our earth, I do not believe
they would
> find it easy to walk about on its surface, for it is not quite hard
enough
> for easy walking."
>
> - Gottfried de Purucker in an E.S. lecture in the Temple of Peace
at Point
> Loma around 1927. According to his chela W. Emmett Small printed
first after
> the stenographic report in question- and answer-form, then in July
1936 as
> 12-part "Esoteric Instructions", republished as 12-part "Esoteric
> Teachings", see: http://www.wisdomtraditions.com/esoterict.html and
again in
> 1976 new edited as "Fountain-Source of Occultism", see:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/fso/fso7b.htm#moon.
>
> Compare also two diagrams of Helena Blavatsky in her "The Secret
Doctrine"
> about the "Planetary Division" and "The Earth Chain":
>
> Diagram 1 in [[Vol. 1, Page]] 153:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08.htm
>
> Diagram II in [[Vol. 1, Page]] 172:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.htm
>
> Frank
>
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