Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00779)

This is a compilation of P.B.Randolph's teachings the way they where 
available in every bookstore in Philadelphia and New York where 
Blavatsky lived, and these teachings where published in the US twenty 
years before Isis, and even much more before the SD. Certainly 
Blavatsky added some more, as she also read other books that have 
already been liste by Coleman (See: 
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/colemansources1895.htm )

But the over all similarithy Blavatsky's over all idea (including 
some of later the teachings of the "Mahatmas" as Steve has shown even 
whole book parts from Randolph where copied in the Mahatma letters) 
and the idea of Randolph, is striking. 
At least Blavatsky had Randolph books because Judge testified to that.

P.B.Randolph wrote:

1.There is a primordial "central, spiritual SUN" which is eternal, 
invisible and divine, and the "AEther," the "astral fire," 
the "astral ocean of invisible fire" permeates the universes and acts 
as the agent of all magical and occult operations .

2. Emanating from the divine Central Sun is the spirit, which is a 
ray of the divine and co eternal with the Sun and yet is in some 
inchoate way distinct and individualized."

3. From the "central, spiritual and Invisible sun" the originally 
bisexual "monad" radiates, thus beginning its vast journey from the 
sun, through myriads of transformations, into birth and 
individualization on its journey back to the sun.'

4. On this journey the monad transmigrates through myriads of forms, 
seeking "individualization" as man the potential stepping off place 
for perpetual progress through the spheres 
above.

5. Man himself is a trinity of Spirit, soul, and body. The spirit is a
ray of the eternal, spiritual Sun and is divine.

6. Man's soul is matter ethereal and as such is mortal. It can be
separated from the body and can move independently of it even
during life. At the same time, the soul is conditionally immortal, 
and it becomes immortal, if at all, when it is joined with the
spirit . The goal of the monad's journey through its transmi
grations is its individualization, the joining of the mortal soul
with the immortal spirit. "Man is also triune: he has his objective, 
physical body; his vitalizing astral body (or soul), the real
man; and these two are brooded over and illuminated by the third the 
sovereign, the immortal spirit. 
When the real man succeeds in merging himself with the latter, 
he becomes an im mortal entity, "

7. Immortality is conditional. If man during life sets his mind on
material things, at death his soul loses 
contact with the immortal spirit and is doomed to roam the confines 
of the material world as an "elementary" until it gradually 
dissolves and is annihilated .

8. If man on earth keeps the spiritual in mind, the soul becomes 
immortal and a "god" and sets out on a vast ascensive journey
through the spheres, a joint creature of Spirit and soul, and at
every stage the soul ("Astral Soul") progressively casts off its
external forms while preserving its individuality and fundamental 
form for "millions of ages." "[The liberated soul Monad, 
exultantly rejoins the mother and father spirit, the radiant 
Augoeides, and the two, merged into one, forever form, with a glory 
proportioned to the spiritual purity of the past earth life, the Adam 
who has completed the circle of necessity, and is freed from the last 
vestige of his physical encasement. Henceforth, growing more and more 
radiant at each step of his upward progress, he mounts the shining 
path that ends at the point from which he started around the GRAND 
CYCLE. (In other trance lectures Randolph spoke of this cycle having 
7 steps or phases)

9. The goal of the vast process is return to the divine Sun. This is 
nirvana, but that state is by no means annihilation. It is rather 
existence in the spirit alone, with the soul " fused" into
the spirit, free at last of matter and external form.

The above is from John Patrick Deveney "Pascal Beverly Randolp,"
every Theosophist should have a copy of this book. A lot can be 
learned from that book about Blavatsky and the origins of modern 
Theosphy, for details see the Amazon listing.
Bri.






--- In theos-talk@y..., Eldon B Tucker <eldon@t...> wrote:
> At 01:03 AM 2/25/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >It is clear from Randolph and Blavatsky's writings that the central
> >Sun is another word for "God" not black holes.
> >
> >Is the claim it would have anything to do with black holes another
> >example of Theosophical pseudo-science ?
> > Bri.
> 
> If you want to know what the standard theosophical literature says
> about the idea of a Central Sun, you can go to the references and
> quote what it says.
> 
> One passage, for instance, from THE SECRET DOCTRINE, I, 240fn, is:
> 
> > This "central sun" of the Occultists, which even Science is
> > obliged to accept astronomically, for it cannot deny the presence
> > in Sidereal Space of a central body in the milky way, a point
> > unseen and mysterious, the ever-hidden centre of attraction of
> > our Sun and system -- this "Sun" is viewed differently by the
> > Occultists of the East. While the Western and Jewish Kabalists
> > (and even some pious modern astronomers) claim that in this sun
> > the God-head is specially present—referring to it the
volitional
> > acts of God -- the Eastern Initiates maintain that, as the
> > supra-divine Essence of the Unknown Absolute is equally in every
> > domain and place, the "Central Sun" is simply the centre of
> > Universal life-Electricity the reservoir within which that divine
> > radiance, already differentiated at the beginning of every
> > creation, is focussed. Though still in a laya, or neutral
> > condition, it is, nevertheless, the one attracting, as also the
> > ever-emitting, life Centre.
> 
> I'm not sure how "pseudo science" relates to black holes. Unlike
> the fundamentalists of traditional religions, like, say, a
> conservative Catholic, who might have bitterly fought the idea
> that the earth is not flat, a good example of a Theosophist would
> be open to freshly rethinking things, considering discoveries of
> modern science with an open mind.
> 
> There is always a degree of uncertainty where metaphysics attempts
> to link up with current science. The science of today is certainly
> different now than it was 125 years ago. And it'll be just as
> different 125 years from now. So any attempt to comment on or
> draw correlations with so-called modern science can only be done
> with partial success. A timeless philosophy needs to be continually
> reexpressed in order to be understood in changing times, and that
> includes what might be said in response to the scientific thinking
> of the time.
> 
> Do you read articles and news items about modern science? Is
> your thinking sufficiently open that it can be changed or 
reconsidered
> in the light of new discoveries? If so, you'd qualify as a
> Theosophist too.
> 
> -- Eldon