Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
Jan 23, 2009 06:23 AM
by christinaleestemaker
Aha I think I have it
Time=past and future, the finite horizontal way.A beginning and an
end.
While the infinite,eternal now is the vertical way with no end and no
beginning, because it is spinary into.
Christina
-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "christinaleestemaker"
<christinaleestemaker@...> wrote:
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Martin <Mvandertak@> wrote:
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> > Christina:
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> "there is only an ETERNAL Now, while to uninitiated mortals time
is
> past or future as related to their finite existence on this
material
> speck of dirt. "
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> That were the word of Koot Hoomi in letter 6.I think what he is
> meaning in that way.Past and future are related to finite and
> material speck of dirt which UNINITIATE mortals make or have made
of
> it.
> Christina
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> > Zakk, Jerry and others are discussing this and nother matters
very
> extensively. By their intellectual approach you may understand the
> mind has to go through an intellectual state, driven by the power
of
> instinct, to reach pure Intuïtion, which doesn't need words or
form.
> Like Ideas have no need of words or form. However as soon as the
> Ideas reach a world and its inhabitants, they need form and words
to
> be understood by them and to be realised.
> > This realisation is like a piece of music, it comes and it dies
> out. Illusion yes, beautifull when in perfect harmony, noise at its
> worst.
> > It is eternal Law which causes Ideas to appear in any world to be
> realised and maintained if the effect improves life of the
> inhabitants, who are 'crystalised' music as well.
> > Above Ideas is the Cosmic Will, the Will to create and in
Pralaya,
> the Will to destroy.
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> > To call the earth a speck of dirt is very disrespectfull for the
> composition of music, made by the Dzyan Chohans. Of course earth's
> music could improve, but tell me how many of you are musicians?
> > A 'Brotherhood of Humanity' is a piece of music, which is written
> but not finished. The earth needs to be worked upon to be a good
> instrument to reflect the harmonious tunes of the Human Soul. As
long
> as we do not understand, all is music, we will be in trouble, every
> time...trillions of years or merely a 100 years in this Kali Yuga?
> > As for phenomena, music stirs the soul, need I say more?
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> > --- On Fri, 1/23/09, christinaleestemaker
> <christinaleestemaker@> wrote:
> > From: christinaleestemaker <christinaleestemaker@>
> > Subject: Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
> > To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 7:43 AM
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> > This is what I have found over the finite and
infinite
> in Mahatma
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> > letter 6 on internet.
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> > Plato was right: ideas rule the world; and, as men's minds will
> >
> > receive new ideas, laying aside the old and effete, the world
will
> >
> > advance: mighty revolutions will spring from them; creeds and
even
> >
> > powers will crumble before their onward march crushed by the
> >
> > irresistible force. It will be just as impossible to resist their
> >
> > influx, when the time comes, as to stay the progress of the tide.
> But
> >
> > all this will come gradually on, and before it comes we have a
duty
> >
> > set before us; that of sweeping away as much as possible the
dross
> >
> > left to us by our pious forefathers. New ideas have to be planted
> on
> >
> > clean places, for these ideas touch upon the most momentous
> subjects.
> >
> > It is not physical phenomena but these universal ideas that we
> study,
> >
> > as to comprehend the former, we have to first understand the
> latter.
> >
> > They touch man's true position in the universe, in relation to
his
> >
> > previous and future births; his origin and ultimate destiny; the
> >
> > relation of the mortal to the immortal; of the temporary to the
> >
> > eternal; of the finite to the infinite; ideas larger, grander,
more
> >
> > comprehensive, recognising the universal reign of Immutable Law,
> >
> > unchanging and unchangeable in regard to which there is only an
> >
> > ETERNAL Now, while to uninitiated mortals time is past or future
as
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> > related to their finite existence on this material speck of dirt.
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> > This is what we study and what many have solved.
> >
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> > And now it is your province to decide which will you have: the
> >
> > highest philosophy or simple exhibitions of occult powers. Of
> course
> >
> > this is by far not the last word between us and -- you will have
> time
> >
> > to think it over. The Chiefs want a "Brotherhood of Humanity," a
> real
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> > Universal Fraternity started; an institution which would make
> itself
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> > known throughout the world and arrest the attention of the
highest
> >
> > minds. I will send you my Essay. Will you be my co-worker and
> >
> > patiently wait for minor phenomena? I think I foresee the answer.
> At
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> > all events the holy lamp of spiritual light burning in you
(however
> >
> > dimly) there is hope for you, and -- for me, also. Yes; put
> yourself
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> > in search after natives if there are no English people to be had.
> But
> >
> > think you, the spirit and power of persecution gone from this
> >
> > enlightened age? Time will prove. Meanwhile, being human I have
to
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> > rest. I took no sleep for over 60 hours.
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> > Ever yours truly,
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> > KOOT' HOOMI.
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> > And few sight over Collected writings, perhaps she have written
> more
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> > in secret doctrine and key to theosophy, but I will let it for
now:
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> > HPB.Collected writings IV
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> > Page 536
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> >
> > vehicles, if preferred, as to facilitate the manifestation of his
> >
> > individuality in its original nature.
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> > My own inference is that Advaita and this coincide, the former
> >
> > considering that Jivan is Parabrahm, modified by the latter into
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> > "Jivan is a part only of Parabrahm."
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> > We believe not. A true esoteric Vedantic Advaitee would say: Aham
> eva
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> > Parambrahm, "I am also Parabrahm." In its external manifestation
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> > Jivan may be regarded as a distinct individuality? the latter a
> maya;
> >
> > in its essence or nature Jivan is?Parabrahm, the consciousness of
> the
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> > Paramatma manifesting through, and existing solely in, the
> aggregated
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> > Jivans viewed collectively. A creek in the shore of the ocean is
> one,
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> > so long only as the land it stretches upon is not redeemed.
Forced
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> > back, its water becomes the ocean.
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> > Considered in this manner, there is one Infinite, made up of
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> > numberless infinites.
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> > We are at a loss to know what our learned brother can mean by
Jivan
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> > being "dependent" on the whole, unless "inseparable from" is
meant.
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> > If the whole is "all-pervading" and "infinite," all its parts
must
> be
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> > indivisibly linked together. The idea of separation involves the
> >
> > possibility of a vacuum?a portion of space or time where the
whole
> is
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> > supposed to be absent from some given point. Hence the absurdity
of
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> > speaking of the parts of one Infinite being also infinite. To
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> > illustrate geometrically, suppose there is an infinite line,
which
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> > has neither a beginning nor end. Its parts cannot also be
infinite,
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> > for when you say "parts," they must have a beginning and end; or,
> in
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> > other words, they must be finite, either at one or the other end,
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> > which is as evident a fallacy as to speak of an immortal soul
which
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> > was at some time created?thus implying a beginning to that which,
> if
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> > the word has any sense, is eternal.
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> > Jiva, Iswara and Maya are considered to be real, all the three in
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> > this light, i.e., as long as anything has existence, it is real
or
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> > true, although that existence may not last forever. The Advaitee
> says
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> > that only that which is immutable is true, and all things
temporary
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> > and liable to change are illusionary; whereas the
> Viśishtadvaite e
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> > says that as immutability is real in the eternity, so mutability
is
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> > also real for the time being, and so long as there is no change.
My
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> > own inference is that all the difficulty here lies in the words,
> but
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> > that the idea is one.
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> > Collected writings VIII
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> > Page 88
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> > unknown principle called Parabrahman, Âdi-Buddha, the "One and
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> > Eternal Wisdom."
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> > If there is a still greater absurdity than to speak of a cruel
God:
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> > it is to admit that God, the Great, Absolute Whole, could ever
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> > interfere in terrestrial or human affairs. The infinite cannot
> >
> > associate with the finite; the unconditioned ignores the
> conditioned
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> > and the limited. The absolute "Intelligence- Wisdom" cannot act
in
> the
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> > restricted space of a small globe. It is omnipresent and latent
in
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> > the Kosmos, infinite as itself. We find its only truly active
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> > manifestation in humanity as a whole, composed as it is of stray
> >
> > sparks, finite in their objective duration, eternal in their
> essence,
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> > issuing from that Hearth without beginning or end. Therefore, the
> >
> > only God whom we should serve is Humanity, and our only cult
should
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> > be the love of our fellow man. Doing evil towards him, we wound
God
> >
> > and make him suffer. When we deny our brotherly duties and refuse
> to
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> > consider a pagan as well as a European as our brother, we deny
God.
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> > This is our religion and our dogmas.
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> > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, "christinaleestemak er"
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> > <christinaleestemak er@> wrote:
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> > > Yes Cass, but than( after that trillion of years) we may hope
> that
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> > > the infinite have taken place over the finite.
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> > > Christina
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> > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@ >
> wrote:
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> > > > Within a cycle there is Christina - Each Manvantara has its
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> > Pralaya
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> > > - so one could argue that infinity resides in pre-pralaya and
all
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> > > else that is a result of it is still finite - even if we are
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> > > about trillions of our years.
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> > > > Cass
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> > > > --- On Fri, 23/1/09, christinaleestemake r
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> > > <christinaleestemak er@> wrote:
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> > > > From: christinaleestemake r <christinaleestemak er@>
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> > > > Subject: 1. Maya . 2.Re: Theos-World Re: Our latest news:
> America
> >
> > > run on guns!!!
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> > > > To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
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> > > > Received: Friday, 23 January, 2009, 8:16 AM
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> > > > As I understand well, if it is to be measured it is finite
> (Maya)
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> > > > for that it is not the alpha and omega the infinite, what is
> the
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> > > > reality,which is not to be measured for there is no beginning
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> > > > end.
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> > > > Christina
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> > > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, Jayananda Hiranandani
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> > > > <professorjaya@ ...> wrote:
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> > > > > The root of word maya, is ma (a is long as in father). It
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> > > > measure, which makes it finite. In Sindhi, (an Indo-Aryan
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> > > > with many Sanskrit words, perhaps 70 per cent), the word for
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> > > > is mapa (first a is long as in father, the second is short as
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> > > > > Â
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> > > > > Jayananda H. Hiranandani
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> > > > > --- On Thu, 1/22/09, christinaleestemake r
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> > > > <christinaleestemak er@> wrote:
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> > > > > From: christinaleestemake r <christinaleestemak er@>
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> > > > > Subject: Theos-World Re: Our latest news: America run on
> guns!!!
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> > > > > To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
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> > > > > Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 10:59 AM
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> > > > > Mistake need to read for infinite -- FINITE=Maya
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> > > > > Infinite is NOT
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> > > > > Christina
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> > > > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, "christinaleestemak er"
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> > > > > <christinaleestemak er@> wrote:
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> > > > > > Don't worry Adalasie and others.
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> > > > > > All what is infinite is MAYA.
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> > > > > > But I am glad I don't live in America. ( 70 % of the
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> > Americans
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> > > > > > bought a gun (nov-dec and jan) accept the ones already
have
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> > one.
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> > > > > > I don't think they use it for hunting on hares!
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> > > > > > PS Here it is forbidden to have a gun, only policeman may
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> > > > > > only use in vital threat
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