Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00816)

Where is your Biographical evidence reg. Randolph that he would have 
read the Puranas. Doe you read every book in the world ?

Have you at least read a biography of Randolph that you can make such 
claims ?

Bri


Randolph didn't menton the Puranas it is doubtfull he ever heard about 
them. Deveney who wrote a Dr. Thesis about Randolph, didn't mention 
anything about "Puranas" and researched Randolph and his sources 
verry toroughly.Randolph learned Mesmerism Cagliostro type 
occultism that time, wich rather points to a Caballistic background for 
his sources.

Brendan French recently completed a Dr. thesis about the Theosophical 
Masters clearly prooving the western hermetic roots of Blavatsky's 
system.

Similar Blavatskys system of Globes and rounds is also for a majority 
Lurian Caballah plus also has the Hermetic Poimandres as ultimae 
source. Jacob Boehme and other early Theosophists that Blavatsky read.
She eve calls Boehme a "Nirmankaya." 

I am talking about the ROOT of her system 1876-78, Blavatsky 
borrowing from the Puranas was in the SD 1888.
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Bri.
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The originator of the specific term "central Sun", is P.B.Randolph 
Blavatsky had his books and clearly borrowed from him, or and from the 
sources Randolph was insoired by.

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.

P.B.Randolph trance teachings basicly statet (published in a dozen
books 
in the 1850-60's USA):

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.