Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00385)

In a message dated 11/20/98 9:21:24 PM, Eldon wrote:

>As Monads, we are sparks of the grand flame of divinity,
>transcendent, perfect, unchanging, beyond the space/time of
>any scheme of existence. Were it not so, we couldn't exist
>right now, nor at any moment of time nor in any position
>in space. In our inmost, we are rooted in the Essential
>Nature, the Unknowable, the Grand Source.
>
>There are stages of unfoldment, as we send forth a ray of
>our awareness into a world-scheme, a system of existence.
>Regardless of stage, though, regardless of our participating
>in a scheme of existence, yet we *are*, even though we
>*are not*. That is, there's a form of archetypal, trancsendent
>being, outside of time, in which our essential nature resides,
>unstained by temporal events. There is that *something* to
>us, even though it *does not exist*, e.g. it's not something
>that manifests on the area of life. It's not ourselves on
>higher planes, it's beyond the concept of existing here or
>there or anywhere. It cannot go away or be taken from us,
>since it doesn't exist, it *is not*, yet it does exist, in
>the same sense that 2 + 2 = 4 exists in pure mathematics,
>apart from temporal events and the unfolding of things
>during time.
>
>Coming into particular existence, starting to manifest,
>sending forth a ray of consciousness into the evolutionary
>scheme, we go through various stages of awareness and
>participation in a particular world, place, plane.
>
>The first stage is a general awareness of the color, flavor,
>texture, essential nature of, the Swabhava or unique
>characteristic of ... the world itself. We're not a
>particular being, not with any ties to this or that
>person, just aware that *this world* exists, and what
>it's like. At this point the dewdrop is part of the
>shining sea, but the Monad is aware of *this sea*, of
>*this world-scheme*.
>
>At a later stage, there's a sense of self, a separating
>apart from others, an awareness of "this is me and that
>is you." The dewdrop has separated itself from the shining
>sea. On the gameboard of life -- this particular board --
>we now have a playing piece that represents us. We
>perceive the world and act through that piece.
>
>We benefit from having played the evolutionary game.
>We do grow and change. During a particular game we
>learn certain skills. Perhaps we become trained to
>play more difficult games in the future. But when we
>finish the game, the pieces get put away and what we
>take with us is the general skills and affects upon
>us of the experiences that we've had. There are the
>experiences *as a game player*.
>
>How do we carry these experiences forward, as a karmic
>treasury that spans great periods of evolution, of
>dissolution of the world, pralaya, and its subsequent
>remergence anew, in the next evolutionary period, the
>next manvantara?
>
>My thinking is that there are levels or parts to
>us that transcend existence, that are unmanifest or
>non-existing yet very real and very present behind
>things. The higher part is timeless, and represents
>our essential nature per se. Below it, as a sort of
>veil, is another part, that enters into relation
>with conditioned time, that is subject to growth
>and change and the accumulation of experience. That
>part, even though not *existing* or manifest in the
>sense that we understand it, is real, and the foundation
>of our perceptive ability, the foundation of our
>ability to come into being, one step removed from
>actually doing so. It is eternal in nature, with no
>beginning nor end, but it does not *exist* in the
>sense we typically think of things existing.

Essentially, what you speak of is our "higher consciousness" which, although
we cannot objectively "measure" its constituents, we nevertheless can
experience its causal effects.  Therefore, it must, as HPB has pointed out,
"exist" in some "spiritualized" form or another, capable of interfacing with
and affecting the lower mental and physical fields--possibly as a vibratory
field, in itself, that is of a higher order of frequency than the
electromagnetic fields we can measure, and even higher than the astral-mental
fields that are also beyond the scope of detection by our ordinary sensory or
physical instruments.

However, as noted in the practices of the higher gnana and rajah yogas, and as
explained in the "Voice of the Silence", one can actually attain subjective
awareness of these intermediate and higher fields and "see" their individual
"lights" and hear thier individual "sounds", selectively, as one progresses
along the "path" to enlightenment and finally reaches an understanding of the
"ultimate division of time" or, "isolation"--as Patanjali points out in
his*Yoga Aphorisms*.

Science has now discovered that everything in the universe is in motion,
including the physicist's "vacuum", the Buddhist's "emptiness", and the
theosophical "absolute".  Quantum cosmological physicists speak of it's finest
manifestations  as the "perturbations of the vacuum", and have arrived at a
more or less superficial mathematical proof of their existence.  As HPB said,
there are no "supernatural forces" in the universe, and that all existence can
be explained, including the roots of consciousness--right up to the Absolute
itself--which, being infinite, is beyond all finite human thought.  She also
predicted that even science will, by their own efforts, eventually and
inevitably arrive at this understanding toward the end of this century.

It's obvious, that in order for this present universal manifestation to
"remember", on the monadic level, all its previous experience prior to its
parnishpannic pralaya, and since the pre-cosmic "Absolute" itself is described
as "abstract motion"--this memory information must be contained in such motion
(possibly as energetic holographic interference patterns) which could only be
described as "layers of spin" circling around a "zero-point-instant" or "laya
point" that has no physical dimensions, no time and, therefore, is "empty of
all describable attributes"  This relates to the opening line of
*Cosmogenesis* in the *Book of Dzyan* which reads; "The eternal parent wrapped
in her seven invisible robes slumbered through seven eternities.").

However, as described in the rest of the BOD and the SD commentaries, this
spin eventually expands, "emanates", or "inflates" and steps down rationally
through the "three logoic worlds" until we arrive at our triune existence on
the physical plane as composite beings living in spirit, mind and matter--each
represented by vibrating fields of energy. . . At one extreme, existing in our
measurable space-time continuum of energetic material fields (physical forms,
electromagnetic fields, photonic light, etc.), and at the other extreme,
existing in the near-timeless zero-point vacuum consisting of energetic mental
and consciousness fields (mental images, thought fields, astral light, akashic
light, etc.) that are ALL analogous and corresponding--with each "in
coadunition but not in consubstantiality" with the others, and where, at the
mental-spiritual end, the speed of information transfer is far faster--in
geometric multiples of the speed of physical light--due to their higher
vibrational frequencies.

However, these fields do not extend further than the "atma" or highest
frequency order (finest vibration) spiritual field. . .  Beyond which is the
zero-point itself from which ALL fields emanate.  This non-local point, being
the source and focal point of all spatial (both material and non-material)
dimensions, as well as time, is, as WQJ pointed out, the "hOMe" or "rootless
root" of the "supreme spirit" (the "ALL containment",  dimensionless field,
beyond time and space) which must be, as the Absolute is itself, also beyond
all human thought, comprehension or description--and, as far as we are
concerned, non-existent (physically) and both  immeasurable and unmeasured. .
. Yet, capable of being "experienced" in our ultimate evolution at the close
of the Manvantara, after death in Devachan, or upon momentary attainments of
Satori or Samadhi through long and sustained "sitting" or "walking" yogic
meditational practices.

For a further understanding of this description of the nature of our
subjective fields of consciousness, their relationship with the fields of mind
and brain-body, and the scientific and technological theory (reaching,
logically, consistently, and in it's ultimate simplicity, beyond all
materialistic science) that has evolved out of teachings in the SD--you might
visit the following web sites:

<A HREF="http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics/";>
http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics/</A>
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/einstein.ht
ml">http://members.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/einstein.html
</A>

Best wishes,

LHM