From saidevo@yahoo.co.in Wed Feb 01 10:20:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: saidevo@yahoo.co.in X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 34512 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2006 18:20:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m27.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Feb 2006 18:20:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n7a.bullet.scd.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.41) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2006 18:20:50 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys Received: from [66.218.69.5] by n7.bullet.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2006 18:20:18 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.83] by t5.bullet.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2006 18:20:17 -0000 Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:20:16 -0000 To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-compose X-Originating-IP: 66.94.237.41 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 219.65.100.107 From: "saidevotee" Subject: Science and religion in the modern world X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=227523244; y=rXrEbZWlVHyL52TcwZkeOZnpjroZV5BneUyKSOQHBvTkew X-Yahoo-Profile: saidevo Science and Religion are both after the Truth. That is, pure science and pure religion.=20 Religion, specially the Vendanta philosophy of Hinduism has=20 proclaimed eons ago (and at least 7,000 years ago in the=20 researched history of mankind), that the Truth is Brahman or Tat.=20 This Brahman or Tat is both energy and intelligence that manifests=20 as the universe and all its contents.=20 Modern science is already on the way towards a unified theory of=20 everything, and only needs to account for how intelligence fits=20 into this theory. So, pure science and pure religion are both good and necessary=20 for mankind's evolution towards the Truth. Pure science, since it is after the Truth, cannot bother about the=20 repercussions of its revelations. Pure religion, in its essence,=20 is also not bothered about the acceptance or otherwise of the=20 Truth it proclaims. While pure science chooses a materialistic=20 path to the Truth, pure religion chooses a spiritual path. Then why is the clash and strife between religion and science?=20 Actually, the clash and strife is not between pure science and=20 pure religion, but between applied science and applied religion.=20 To be precise, while this clash and strife is rampant in the case=20 of Semitic religions, it is far less marked in the case of Indian=20 religions, which from their origins have fostered the growth of=20 science.=20 For example, the four Upa-Vedas of Hinduism fostered the earliest=20 versions of science and art known to mankind: Ayurveda, which is=20 one of the current international buzzwords, is the science of=20 health. Dhanur veda is the science of weapons and the military.=20 Artha Shastra is political science. And Gandharva veda is the=20 science of music. Thus science has been a way of life and, along=20 with the six darshanas (philosopies) of Hinduism, an accepted path=20 to the Truth in the Indian culture, which is why the name Sanatana=20 Dharma (dharma that is universal), that unfortunately carries the=20 misnomer Hinduism as its name today. So the clash is between the applied sciences and applied religions=20 and among the applied religions themselves. Both of them are bad,=20 to a lesser or a greater extent, and delay the spiritual progress=20 of mankind. Technology, as the face of applied science, breeds desire in=20 common man and greed in the powerful, and in both cases, blunts=20 spirituality in man. As Buddha said, desire is the cause of all=20 miseries in the world. Since science is after all for the welfare=20 of mankind, why don't the countries pool their technological=20 resources and strive to establish a hunger-free and disease-free=20 mankind in all parts of the world, irrespective of creed and=20 color, which are supposedly the bane of applied religions? It is=20 not happening because of the greed (for wealth and power) of the=20 key players--nations, politicians, corporate houses and people=20 who matter. Dogma and rituals, as the face of applied religions, divide=20 mankind even more than the applied sciences. They pamper the ego=20 of their followers: my god and my path are better than yours, or=20 worse, my god needs me to convert you to my path or kill you. When the followers of applied religions unite with mutual=20 understanding, tolerance and help, then will be the time when=20 technology will be cleansed of its ill-effects. But this is not=20 going to happen in the foreseeable future, so the drama of strife=20 goes on, on the stage of this holy earth. Regards, saidevo ------------------------------------------------------------------ From dalval14@earthlink.net Wed Feb 01 17:54:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: dalval14@earthlink.net X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 83735 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 01:54:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.67.35) by m35.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Feb 2006 01:54:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.67) by mta9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 01:54:22 -0000 Received: from [216.175.72.217] (helo=DALLAS) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F4TfN-0007Ma-ER; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:53:46 -0500 To: "'Theosophy Study List'" Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:53:37 -0800 Message-ID: <005501c6279b$7c52e7a0$0a0110ac@DALLAS> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: High In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-ELNK-Trace: c552449649a8b16d1aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec7928bcbf2518f59e9a48b9d85559c9a67a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 209.86.89.67 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 From: "W.Dallas TenBroeck" Reply-To: Subject: RE: Animals and Humans X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=52898573; y=nB6V1Chxg5RXs5jr_2XIgc8FQSsnOeWIifHL4V1XkgCIiA X-Yahoo-Profile: dalval2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 2/1/2006 5:12 PM Some observations: 1 A "form" or "adaptation" does not always signify the level of a resident CONSCIOUSNESS or the INTELLIGENCE that has organized such a form. 2. Atoms, molecules, anatomic and physiological structures are interchangeable over long or short periods. What are the laws that oversee this? 3. What defines the INTELLIGENCE which employs a formative life-energy to devise a "form" for its use ? 4. Are there possibly several levels of evolution? 1 Purpose of EVOLUTION as a whole? A "GRAND PLAN ?" 2 The over-all INTELLIGENCE. [Successive "days and nights" of manifestation ?] 3 Classes of cooperative and interactive INTELLIGENCES ? 4 A DESIGNER -- which may also be a PERCEIVER. 5 Formative (design. plan) of electro-magnetic ? or of "life" force ? 6 Intelligence of cooperative but radically different cells to form "ORGANS?" 7 " of each collaborating cell-form. 8 " of each " molecular form 9 " " atom ? 10 What happens to the result [sum-total] of any one evolutionary period ? Best wishes. Dallas ============================== -----Original Message----- From: Michael Forster Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:52 PM To: Subject: Re: Animals and Humans Hi G and Others, This is a topic I have given much thought to, so I would like to share those thoughts. Creating a heirarchy going from minerals-plants-animals-humans-and so on comes across as a 19th Century classification system 19th Century thinkers could grasp. However it seems as though it was a classification system that should not be taken literally - which many thinkers have since done. On the surface it would seem obvious that a rock is "lower" than a plant, which in turn is lower than an animal etc etc. But if we look at the relative role each physical element plays they are each beautifully adapted and "evolved" to their purpose. The best example I know of this relativity, and something derived from my own personal experience, is the attitude taken towards placental and marsupial mammals. It has been a long held view that marsupial mammals are "lower" on the evolution scale than placental mammals - this view is held mainly due to the fact that placentals seem more intelligent than marsupials. But the fact is to maintain a brain - that is to have intelligence to hunt and avoid being hunted - is biologically very expensive. Marsupials exist in an extremely nutrient and resource poor environment and therefore evolution has selected for organisms that can conserve energy, not expend it. So we find in the fossil record that way back when marsupials and placentals co-existed in a resource poor enviornment, however marsupials won out and placentals became extinct - the placentals were evolutionary "inferior". So this heirarchical concept that exists in theosophy - particularly when it is used with human races - I believe was created to convey a complex idea and their was no initial conceit. However, the literal interpretation of the heirarchy does suggest that humans are being conceitful (or more specifically, Anglo-Saxon humans are being particularly conceitful). Mic ======================================= Gerald Schueler wrote: The following quotes were in a recent post by Dallas, I presume that they are by W Q Judge: "Only the perfected animal can cross the threshold of the next higher, or the human plane, and as he does so there shines upon him the ray from the suprahuman plane. Therefore, as the dawn of humanity illumines the animal plane, and as a guiding star lures the Monad to higher consciousness, so the dawn of divinity illumines the [28] human plane, luring the monad to the supra-human plane of consciousness. " Comment: First of all, I do not believe for one moment that living beings are "perfected" in any way. This kind of word usage is based on the assumption of evolutionary development as observed and interpreted by human beings. In fact, the suggestion that humans are "higher" than animals is itself an unwarrented predjudice. Humans have a more developed manas, but thats about the only real difference. Why does Theosophy suggest that only human beings are lured to higher planes of consciousness? I see this as conceit, a conceit that was especially strong in the atmosphere of HPB's time but that is weak today. "This is neither more nor less than the philosophical and metaphysical aspect of the law of evolution." Comment: The "law of evolution" is a mayavic illusion. It is a conventional reality based on the observations and interpretations of human beings. Evolution does not exist conditionally or ultimately, so where is this "law" that we keep talking about but in our own human mind? "Man has not one principle more than the tiniest insect; he is, however, "the vehicle of a fully developed Monad, self-conscious and deliberately following its own line of progress, whereas in the insect, and even the higher animal, the higher triad of principles is absolutely dormant." The original Monad has, therefore, locked within it the potentiality of divinity. ...." Comment: I see the above as a human predjudice that is based on human conceit. The notion of man's supremacy over animals was commonplace knowledge in HPB's day, and she ran with it as she did with LaPlacian thinking. The suggestion that the higher three principles are dormant in animals and not in humans is such a conceit that I have a hard time discussing it without getting emotional. Atma-buddhi is no more dormant in animals than in people. Manas is more dormant in animals than people, and this fact is the only real difference between an animal and a human being. Lets face it, the three higher principles are just as dormant in Joe Sixpack as they are in most animals. Tibetan Buddhism separates living beings into six realms and orders/ranks them from the "lowest" to the "highest" as hell beings, pretas or hungry ghosts, animals, humans, asauras, amd devas. In this sense animals are separate from humans, and humans are "higher" than animals, and I am sure that this is where HPB got the idea. But this same occult source also teaches that we can reincarnate into any one of these six realms at any time. The "door" that closes to the animal kingdom that HPB talks about is not found anywhere in eastern occultism or magic. It is not a stretch to see where HPB got her "devachan" from. Most human beings after death enter the deva relam as a god and remain there for thousands of years. But some enter the other realms as well. Theosophists tend to think that we all go to devachan and nowhere else. Not so. Just some thoughts. Jerry S. PS My comments here are following Tibetan Buddhism, which HPB borrowed and then added her own elaborations. This shows, I think, the nature of how we make assumptions and interpretations. Whatever the truth of the matter, evolution is a conventional reality and exists only in the minds of human beings. ===================== Dallas offers: HPB in the SECRET DOCTRINE (1888) explains from the first that the book: 'ESOTERIC BUDHISM' was not popular Buddhism, nor was it limited to the esoteric teachings of Gautama Buddha's Occult Metaphysics (this would include Mahayana Buddhism). As grand as the latter where, they were only a part of a much larger and more ancient philosophy called the WISDOM RELIGION which dates back through the "uninterrupted record covering thousands of generations of Seers" to the Divine Instructors in the Third Root Race. (SECRET DOCTRINE, I 272-3) " the records we mean to place before the reader embrace the esoteric tenets of the whole world since the beginning of our humanity, and Buddhistic occultism occupies therein only its legitimate place, and no more. Indeed, the secret portions of the "Dan" or Jan-na" ("Dhyan") of Gautama's metaphysics -- grand as they appear to one unacquainted with the tenets of the Wisdom Religion of antiquity -- are but a very small portion of the whole." SD I xx HPB's views and those of the Masters on what they meant by "Buddhist" and "Buddhism" (Budhi-ism) when applied to themselves and the WISDOM RELIGION are consistent throughout all their writings. Thus what we find in THE SECRET DOCTRINE, and the KEY TO THEOSOPHY is identical to what she wrote in her first great work -- ISIS UNVEILED. (1877) It is also what the Mahatma states in his letters to Mr. A P. Sinnett. In ISIS, HPB says: "We can assert, with entire plausibility, that there is not one of all these sects -- Kabalism, Judaism, and our present Christianity included - but sprung from the two main branches of that one mother-trunk, the once universal religion, which antedated the Vedaic ages -- we speak of that prehistoric Buddhism which merged later into Brahmanism." ISIS II 123 "When we use the term Buddhists, we do not mean to imply by it either the exoteric Buddhism instituted by the followers of Gautama-Buddha, nor the modern Buddhistic religion, but the secret philosophy of Sakyamuni, which in its essence is certainly identical with the ancient wisdom-religion of the sanctuary, the pre-Vedic Brahmanism." (ISIS II 142) This is repeated in the MAHATMA LETTERS to Mr. A. P. SINNETT: "Many prefer to call themselves Buddhists not because the word attaches itself to the ecclesiastical system built upon the basic ideas of our Lord Gautama Buddha's philosophy, but because of the Sanskrit word "Buddhi" -- wisdom, enlightenment; and as a silent protest to the vain rituals and empty ceremonials, which have in too many cases been productive of the greatest calamities." (Mahatma Letter, No 85, -- Barker Ed., p. 298) Brahmanism is far older than the Buddhist Religion of Gautama Buddha. HPB refers to some Brahmans dating the Vedas at 2100 BC. In the SECRET DOCTRINE she states the Rig Veda is tens of thousands of years earlier than Greek Literature, the 'unwritten Vedas' are even earlier. ".the Veda of the earliest Aryans, before it was written, went forth into every nation of the Atlanto-Lemurians, and sowed the first seeds of all the now existing old religions." (SD II 483) So it is not the Buddhist Religion founded around 500 B C that she is referring to in her passage above - that Buddhism "which merged later into Brahmanism", "which antedated the Vedaic ages". She is referring again to the WISDOM RELIGION. As for the term "Buddhist" which is often misunderstood and misused in relation to HPB and the Masters, she wrote in 1877 in ISIS that emphasis on the Sanskrit word "Buddhi" meaning "wisdom, enlightenment" is the key to understanding what HPB and the Masters are referring to. By Buddhism, therefore, we mean that religion signifying literally THE DOCTRINE OF WISDOM, and which by many ages antedates the metaphysical philosophy of Siddhartha Sakyamuni. And, it is identical to what HPB restated some years later in the SECRET DOCTRINE, namely that we need to distinguish: "...the difference between "Buddhism" -- the religious system of ethics preached by the Lord Gautama, and named after his title of Buddha, "the Enlightened" -- and Budha, "Wisdom," or knowledge (Vidya), the faculty of cognizing, from the Sanskrit root "Budh," to know." (SD I xviii) Unfortunately those people who state that HPB and the Masters were Buddhists tend to conveniently ignore those qualifying statements by HPB and the Master himself. Some say HPB must have been a follower of Buddha's ecclesiastical system because she and Olcott took Pansil. But what Olcott says to qualify this event is entirely in agreement with HPB's above published views. DTB [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From compiler@wisdomworld.org Wed Feb 01 21:50:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: compiler@wisdomworld.org X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 92353 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 05:50:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m29.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Feb 2006 05:50:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ams004.useripd.ftl.affinity.com) (216.219.253.138) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 05:50:07 -0000 Received: from [68.33.22.128] ([68.33.22.128]:49925 "EHLO wisdomworld.org") by ams004.ftl.affinity.com with ESMTP id S371512AbWBBFpX (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 00:45:23 -0500 Message-ID: <43E1AABA.FBB47CE6@wisdomworld.org> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:46:18 -0600 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 216.219.253.138 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 From: Compiler Subject: "...ANCIENT NATIONS, PEOPLES, RACES" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=46028585; y=SQs9VG8SB82xZoYQUjhMNgq4zE5RAnimbrmahEbFM-u4wOdwENFv X-Yahoo-Profile: john_compiler_wisdomworld "WHO ARE WE? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE DID WE COME FROM? WHERE ARE WE GOING? ANCIENT NATIONS, PEOPLES, RACES" The following articles and series of articles from THEOSOPHY magazine should prove to be very informative and useful to many readers, especially newcomers to theosophy. All of the headings and links to them are listed in the 9th of 18 sections that is found on the "Additional" articles index page of my WisdomWorld.org web site that is entitled: "WHO ARE WE? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE DID WE COME FROM? WHERE ARE WE GOING? ANCIENT NATIONS, PEOPLES, RACES" They are listed this way (followed by the link to the section): * Antiquity of Man (8-part series) * The Races of Man (6-part series) * The Mystery of Individuality (6-part series plus 1 additional article) * Leaflets From Esoteric History (This 2-part series is listed alphabetically on the Index page of 329 "Collated" articles that this link goes to.) Note: The next 20 articles are also from the same "Collated" articles grouping: * The Hindu Calendar * The Memoirs of Humanity * Leaflets From Aryan History * Ancient Temples * Archaic History * The Aryan Race * The Chaldean Legend * Continents and Races * The Earliest Races * Lore of Central Asia * On Classic Western Ancestry * On Indo-Aryan Origins * Our Divine Ancestors * Our Divine Progenitors * Our Earth's Races * Remnants of the Sub-Races * The Lost Atlantis" * Antecedent Egypt * The Light of Everlasting * Bhumi's Occult Progeny As with the above 20 articles, this one from the "KARMA & REINCARNATION" section is also listed alphabetically on the index page of 329 "Collated" articles: * The Reincarnation of Nations, Races, and Civilizations OK, this is the link to the 9th section on the "Additional" articles index page: http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/index.html#9 ========================================= Dear newcomers to Theosophy: I sincerely do hope that my web site offers a well-rounded overall view of Theosophy and the Theosophical Movement. The 3 main links to everything on it are found below. Please know that I'm only the compiler of all the articles found on my web site; I'm not a scholar; and also that I personally do not like to take part in conversations, even though I do hope that what I present from time to time will help a little in the discussions being carried on by others. So please do not be insulted when I do not respond if someone addresses me, or addresses anything that is found in any of the articles on my web site; I leave that for others to deal with if they want to -- whether pro, con, neutral, friendly or unfriendly. John DeSantis (Compiler) ------- You may find a great deal of the Truth that you are searching for here: WisdomWorld.org web site (Main Page): http://www.wisdomworld.org This is the Index page of the "Introductory", "Setting the Stage" book, which was especially compiled for newcomers to Theosophy: http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting.html The page where "Additional" articles are slowly being added (which contains 18 sections that can each be clicked on at the top of the page in order to go directly down to them, as well as to get the link to any particular section that you may want to use in a posting on a discussion board, or in an e-mail to someone): http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/index.html "PUBLIC & PRIVATE ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FORUM": This next link is to the most updated version of my economic proposal to humanity, a practical project to help our suffering world that I also consider to be Theosophical. In it you will find a new and unique, but mostly unknown, economic system model that might be able to put an end to involuntary poverty on earth. How? It presents a way to fully finance everything of importance that is needed in every nation. Because of this it's well worth pointing to. Please note that, for strategic reasons, of wanting it to have the best chance of being accepted by all peoples worldwide, no matter what their religious, philosophical, and scientific beliefs are, I've put it on a completely different web site; it contains no mention of, or link to, the Theosophy and the Theosophical Movement that is presented on my WisdomWorld.org web site: http://www.PublicAndPrivateEnterprise.org ------- From danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com Thu Feb 02 12:38:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 29458 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 20:38:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m35.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Feb 2006 20:38:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web33408.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.206.140) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 20:38:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 19775 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Feb 2006 20:38:17 -0000 Message-ID: <20060202203817.19773.qmail@web33408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [69.9.23.244] by web33408.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:38:17 PST Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:38:17 -0800 (PST) To: danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: 68.142.206.140 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" Subject: Jesus, His Story in the New Testament Gospels, the Precession of the Equinoxes & the Signs of the Zodiac X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=39205895; y=1pz7Dj6SuoVdl8mUajvFXC4K-pQFyq1H6DsQWOvJ9FA5aQapcqRexG5d X-Yahoo-Profile: danielhcaldwell Jesus, His Story in the New Testament Gospels, the Precession of the Equinoxes & the Signs of the Zodiac See: http://didjesusexist.info/blavatskyjesuszodiac.htm Daniel Blavatsky Study Center http://blavatskyarchives.com From danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com Thu Feb 02 13:35:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 53675 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 21:35:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m34.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Feb 2006 21:35:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web33404.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.206.136) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 21:35:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 27326 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Feb 2006 21:35:24 -0000 Message-ID: <20060202213524.27324.qmail@web33404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [69.9.23.244] by web33404.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:35:24 PST Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:35:24 -0800 (PST) To: danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: 68.142.206.136 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" Subject: Who Will Answer? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=39205895; y=SKiY0Irh6574MOfrSL_IDOi5UDhxZjg2c3b7i49yIkPziFfQ-f6tE74Y X-Yahoo-Profile: danielhcaldwell Who Will Answer? A song made popular in 1967 in the USA by Ed Ames Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah! >From the canyons of the mind, We wander on and stumble blindly Through the often-tangled maze Of starless nights and sunless days, While asking for some kind of clue Or road to lead us to the truth, But who will answer? Side by side two people stand, Together vowing, hand-in-hand That love's imbedded in their hearts, But soon an empty feeling starts To overwhelm their hollow lives, And when they seek the hows and whys, Who will answer? On a strange and distant hill, A young man's lying very still. His arms will never hold his child, Because a bullet running wild Has struck him down. And now we cry, "Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?" But who will answer? High upon a lonely ledge, a figure teeters near the edge, And jeering crowds collect below To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!" But who will ask what led him To his private day of doom, And who will answer? If the soul is darkened By a fear it cannot name, If the mind is baffled When the rules don't fit the game, Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer? Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah! In the rooms of dark and shades, The scent of sandalwood pervades. The colored thoughts in muddled heads Reclining in the rumpled beds Of unmade dreams that can't come true, And when we ask what we should do, Who... Who will answer? 'Neath the spreading mushroom tree, The world revolves in apathy As overhead, a row of specks Roars on, drowned out by discotheques, And if a secret button's pressed Because one man has been outguessed, Who will answer? Is our hope in walnut shells Worn 'round the neck with temple bells, Or deep within some cloistered walls Where hooded figures pray in halls? Or crumbled books on dusty shelves, Or in our stars, or in ourselves, Who will answer? If the soul is darkened By a fear it cannot name, If the mind is baffled When the rules don't fit the game, Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer? Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah! From carlosaveline@hotmail.com Fri Feb 03 09:56:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: carlosaveline@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 23386 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2006 17:56:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m35.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Feb 2006 17:56:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (65.54.224.22) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2006 17:56:28 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:53:57 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 65.54.224.200 by by105fd.bay105.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:53:57 GMT X-Originating-Email: [carlosaveline@hotmail.com] X-Sender: carlosaveline@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <20060202213524.27324.qmail@web33404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:53:57 -0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2006 17:53:57.0334 (UTC) FILETIME=[CE2FDF60:01C628EA] X-Originating-IP: 65.54.224.22 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 From: "carlosaveline cardoso aveline" Subject: RE: Theos-World Who Will Answer? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=214871911 Friends, "Who will answer?" The Voice of the silence will. As long as one doesn't find that Voice and the Peace in one's own heart, it is mos likely useless to look for them elsewhere. Best regards, Carlos Cardoso Aveline >From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" >Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com >To: danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com >Subject: Theos-World Who Will Answer? >Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:35:24 -0800 (PST) > >Who Will Answer? > >A song made popular in 1967 in the >USA by Ed Ames > >Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah! > >>From the canyons of the mind, >We wander on and stumble blindly >Through the often-tangled maze >Of starless nights and sunless days, >While asking for some kind of clue >Or road to lead us to the truth, >But who will answer? > >Side by side two people stand, >Together vowing, hand-in-hand >That love's imbedded in their hearts, >But soon an empty feeling starts >To overwhelm their hollow lives, >And when they seek the hows and whys, >Who will answer? > >On a strange and distant hill, >A young man's lying very still. >His arms will never hold his child, >Because a bullet running wild >Has struck him down. And now we cry, >"Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?" >But who will answer? > >High upon a lonely ledge, >a figure teeters near the edge, >And jeering crowds collect below >To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!" >But who will ask what led him >To his private day of doom, >And who will answer? > >If the soul is darkened >By a fear it cannot name, >If the mind is baffled >When the rules don't fit the game, >Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer? > >Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah! > >In the rooms of dark and shades, >The scent of sandalwood pervades. >The colored thoughts in muddled heads >Reclining in the rumpled beds >Of unmade dreams that can't come true, >And when we ask what we should do, >Who... Who will answer? > >'Neath the spreading mushroom tree, >The world revolves in apathy >As overhead, a row of specks >Roars on, drowned out by discotheques, >And if a secret button's pressed >Because one man has been outguessed, >Who will answer? > >Is our hope in walnut shells >Worn 'round the neck with temple bells, >Or deep within some cloistered walls >Where hooded figures pray in halls? >Or crumbled books on dusty shelves, >Or in our stars, or in ourselves, >Who will answer? > >If the soul is darkened >By a fear it cannot name, >If the mind is baffled >When the rules don't fit the game, >Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer? > >Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah! > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Seja um dos primeiros a testar o novo Windows Live Mail Beta. Acesse http://www.ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d From leonmaurer@aol.com Sat Feb 04 22:57:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: LeonMaurer@aol.com X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 59431 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2006 06:57:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Feb 2006 06:57:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d23.mx.aol.com) (205.188.139.137) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2006 06:57:20 -0000 Received: from LeonMaurer@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id r.19b.44e449bf (3932) for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 01:56:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19b.44e449bf.3116fb7f@aol.com> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 01:55:59 EST To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Thunderbird - Mac OS X sub 310 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Originating-IP: 205.188.139.137 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 From: leonmaurer@aol.com Subject: Re: Theos-World Hello - New comer X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=4099972; y=iVrEXBCn9Ricsx7U9i2oJV2Pb2AzB4hlcQ50QZ05J1SIglbMyfU X-Yahoo-Profile: leonmaurer1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Jacques, Since I have been working at the correlation of cutting edge modern and post modern sciences and technologies for more than 50 years (CGI system design and engineering for digital motion picture 3-D animation and special effects production, etc., with previous background in chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering machinery and process design and manufacturing) I'm sure you would be interested in some of the conclusions I've reached and theoretical approaches taken to devise a new paradigmatic unified field theory explaining, in scientific terms, the genesis of both consciousness and matter -- that not only is consistent with the metaphysics of theosophy, but also with the relativity and quantum theories as they are consolidated by the latest superstring/M-brane, quantum field, and cosmological plasma physics theories. Interestingly, my electrodynamic (coenergetic field) synthesis of all these theories rests solidly on the fundamental laws of cycles and periodicity that is the inherent nature of the abstract motion or "spinergy" (spherical angular momentum) centered in the primal zero-laya point located everywhere in absolute empty space -- as described by HPB in the Secret Doctrine. (Modern physics, as I'm sure you know, speaks of this as the "quantum foam" in the minuscule Planck space or scientific vacuum between the fundamental quantum particles.) Recently, the "Casimir effect" has more or less proven the extremely high energetic of this zero-point space -- which approaches infinite force (i.e., mass-energy) at the zero-point itself. All the rest of these ABC field involutional and evolutionary processes can be deduced by straight forward scientific logic and multidimensional fractal geometry's, while keeping firmly in mind the fundamental laws of electromagnetics and electrodynamics (similar to those of hydrodynamics and thermodynamics) along with their harmonics, holographic (wave interference patterned) information carrying capability... With such wave patterned information most likely transformed from field to field on the interpenetrating hyperspace realms (i.e., coadunate but not consubstantial frequency/energy phase orders) by analogous electrical inductive resonance processes. As HPB clearly indicated in her symbolic occult writings, all this is closely tied in with the chemistry and physiology of the universal genetic code replicated analogously in the DNA molecular structure of all living organisms. To get some background of the rationale behind this theory, and its correspondence with theosophy, so that we can discuss it further, I suggest you look into the following web sites and their associated illustrations. http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/einstein.html http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics/ http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/Invlutionfldmirror2.gif http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/TaiChiFldDiag-figure-2.gif http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/Chakrafielddiag-fig.col.jpg http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/BuddhaBabyGordianKnot.gif (incidentally, the above was drawn automatically during a meditative trance state) http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/invlutionflddiagnotate.gif http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/CyclesofLifetext.gif http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/evolution2.html I am currently looking for collaboration with accredited theoretical scientists in various disciplines, so that papers may be published in peer reviewed scientific journals. Any help along these lines will be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to question anything that might be unclear. Best wishes, Leon In a message dated 1/29/06 7:51:22 PM, jacmahnich@yahoo.com writes: > Hello everybody, > > My first name is Jacques, I am almost 55 now, and a T.S member since 1980. > > I had the opportunity to join this discussion list back in the mid 90' > during one of my stay in US. I am now back to France and ready to share again some > ideas on Theosophical subjects. > > We (together with my spouse Anne-Marie who joined T.S. at the same time than > me) have had 4 children (and 2 grand-children by now). > I am working since 30 years in aerospace industry as an electronic engineer. > > My main topic of interest is the relationships between modern science and > theosophical teachings (a subject HPB spent some time with...). > > Talk to you soon. > > Jacques > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From dalval14@earthlink.net Sun Feb 05 04:45:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: dalval14@earthlink.net X-Apparently-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 54252 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2006 12:45:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Feb 2006 12:45:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.67) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2006 12:45:40 -0000 Received: from [216.175.72.217] (helo=DALLAS) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F5jEK-0004FX-2w; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:43:02 -0500 To: Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 04:42:12 -0800 Message-ID: <011c01c62a51$a70e2f00$0a0110ac@DALLAS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: High In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-ELNK-Trace: c552449649a8b16d1aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79e925af220d771701704e8b307b526216350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 209.86.89.67 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 From: "W.Dallas TenBroeck" Reply-To: Subject: RE: [bn-study] RE: Mystery of Death X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=52898573; y=N0JK30V2nVi-ORkOpDuxiD8Ri2GmtXab-Xqnnm3cUwAJgA X-Yahoo-Profile: dalval2 Psychology -- Theosophical Normal and Abnormal ----- Contents: Accidental Death . 7, 9 Meditation/Trance 21, 23 Anxiety . . . 28 Mental States . . 25 Brain/Mind. . . 2, 24 Mind/Consciousness . 3, 31 Coma . . . 10 Moral States . . . 6=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Consciousness, A Chain 2 Murder, Violent Death . 8 Death . . . 6 Normal States . . 5, 19=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Deep Dreamless Sleep 20 Possession/Obsession . 13 Dreams . . . 19 Psychic Powers . . 30=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Elementals. . . 18 Seance/Mediumship . . 8, 17=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Elementaries . .14, 17 Trance/Meditation . 21, 23=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Emotional States/Moods 26 Turiya/Deep Meditation .23, 27 Evil . . . . 14 Psychology . . . 5, 31=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Insanity . . . 9, 11 Psychology (Abnormal) . 7 Hallucination . . 14 Suicide . . . . 7, 10=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Magicians, Black . 16 Will/Desire/Passion . 29=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Manas/Mind. . . 3 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D = =20 "Every living creature, of whatever description, was, is, or will=20=20=20 become a human being in one or another Manvantara." HPB Trans. 23 = =20 = =20 "...Motion, [is] the one life, or Jivatma..." S D I 50 = =20 = =20 "There must therefore be something eternally persisting, which is=20=20=20 the witness and perceiver of every passing change, itself unchangeable." Gita Notes, p. 23=20=20=20=20=20 "The Self must be recognized as being within, pondered over, and as much as possible understood, if we are to gain any true knowledge."=09 Gita Notes p. 17-24 Preliminary Questions: What is the Ego and its relationship to Personal Consciousness, and how are they related to the physical man who may be insane or in a deep com= a ? [ higher Ego =3D Buddhi-Manas; lower ego =3D Kama-Manas ] What are the Channels of Communication between the Ego, the Astral and the Physical Man? [ higher Ego or Manas per se ] Suggested Considerations: [ Propositions & Argument ] There are several elements to these considerations but the first is that which deals with normal cases--the average good human. The case of insanity and of coma are abnormal states or conditions and require more details, but, always keeping the normal relationships in mind, that Theosophy considers. [ see pp. 9 to 11 ] Normal conditions of consciousness [the "channels of communication"] are viewed by Theosophy in Mr. W. Q. Judge's words as follows: What is the Chain of Consciousness in Man ? "Manas, or the thinker, is the reincarnating being, the immortal who carries the results and values of all the different lives or earth or elsewhere." [ Ocean p. 54 ] "In Manas the thoughts of all lives are stored...the total quantity of life thoughts makes up the stream or thread of a life's mediation...and is stored in Manas." [ Ocean p. 55 ] "This coming into life over and over again cannot be avoided by the ordinary man because Lower Manas is still bound by Desire, which is the preponderating principle at the present period."=20=20 Being so influenced by Desire, Manas is continually deluded while in the body...Each thought makes a physical as well as mental link with the desire in which it is rooted...when the period of rest after death is ended Manas is bound by innumerable electric magnetic threads to earth by reason of the thoughts of the last life, and therefore by desire...The body of the inner man is made of thought..." [ Ocean, pp 58-9 ] Brain and Mind Connection "It is Manas which sees the objects presented to it by the bodily organs and the actual [ astral ] organs within...eye...the whole scene is turned into vibrations in the optic nerve which disappear into the brain, where Manas is enabled to perceive them as ideas... If the connection between Manas and the brain be broken, intelligence will not be manifested unless Manas has by training found out how to project the astral body from the physical and thereby keep up communications with fellow men...Manas, using the astral body, has only to impress an idea upon the other person to make the latter see the idea and translate it into a visible body... " [ Ocean p. 55 ] Mind has Two Aspects "[Manas] its nature becomes dual as soon as it is attached to a body." [ Ocean p. 54 ] 1. Lower Aspect of Manas -- [ Kama linked to Manas ] "...the human brain is a superior organism and Manas uses it to reason from premises to conclusions...This is the lower aspect of the Thinker or Manas...purely intellectual, [and] is nearest to the principle o= f Desire...Intellect alone is cold, heartless, selfish, because it is not lighted up by the two other principles of Buddhi and Atma." [ Ocean p. 54 ] "It is this lower Manas which retains all the impressions of a life-time, and sometimes exhibits them in trances or dreams, delirium, induced states, here and there in normal conditions, and very often at the time of physical death. But it is so occupied with the brain, with memory and with sensation that it usually presents but few recollections out of th= e mass of events that years have brought before it." [ Ocean, p. 56 } "It interferes with the action of Higher Manas because just at the present point of evolution, Desire and all corresponding powers, faculties, and senses are the most highly developed, thus obscuring, as it were, the white light of the spiritual side of Manas..." [ Ocean, p. 56 } "Lower Manas operating through the brain is at once altered into the shape and other characteristics of any object, mental or otherwise...[it has] four peculiarities...the fourth [passivity, and considering naught] signifies sleep when not abnormal, and when abnormal is going towards insanity." [see Patanjali] [ Ocean, p. 56-7 ] "When one falls into a love of self and love of the world, with its pleasures, losing the divine love of God and of the neighbor, he falls from life to death. The higher principles...perish, and he lives only on the natural plane of his faculties. Physically he exists, spiritually he is dead...This spiritual death results from disobedience of the laws of spiritual life...But the spiritually dead have still their delights; they have their intellectual endowments and power, and intense activities. All the animal delights are theirs, and to multitudes of men and women these constitute the highest ideal of human happiness...A high development of the intellectual faculties does not imply spiritual and true life. Many of our greatest scientists are but animate corpses--they have no spiritual sight because their spirits have left them..." Isis I 318-19=20 =09 2. Higher Aspect of Manas [ Manas proper & Buddhi-Manas ] "...the...higher aspect is the intuitional, which knows and does not depend on reason...[and] which has affinity for the spiritual principles [ Atma and Buddhi ] above." [ Ocean p. 54 ] "These [four] mental characteristics all belonging to lower Manas, are those which the Higher Manas, aided by Buddhi and Atma, has to fight an= d conquer. Higher Manas, if able to act, becomes what we sometimes call Genius; if completely master, then one may become a god...Sometimes...we d= o see here and there men who are geniuses or great seers and prophets. In these the Higher powers of Manas are active and the person illuminated...Others...poets...are men in whom Higher Manas now and then sheds a bright ray on the man below, to be soon obscured..."=20=20 "In this higher Trinity, we have the God above each one; this is Atma, and may be called the Higher Self. Next is the spiritual part of the soul called Buddhi, when thoroughly united with Manas this may be called th= e Divine Ego." "The inner Ego, who reincarnates...suffering and enjoying through an immense period of years, is the 5th principle--Manas--not united to Buddhi. This is the permanent individuality which gives to every man the feeling of being himself and not some other...It is this, not our brain, that lifts us above the animal...And when we either wholly , or now and then become consciously united with Buddhi, the Spiritual Soul, we behold God, as it were...This permanent individuality in the present race has therefore been through every sort of experience...the necessity for its continuing to take part in evolution. It has a duty to perform, consisting in raising up to a higher state all the matter concerned in the chain of globes to which the earth belongs..." [ Ocean, pp. 57-8 ] [see SD I 243-6 334 Key 91-2 135-6 175-6]=09=09 "This is precisely what occult philosophy claims; our Ego is a ray of the Universal Mind, individualized for the space of a cosmic life-cycle, during which space of time it gets experience in almost numberless reincarnations or rebirths, after which it returns to its Parent-Source. The Occultist would call the "Higher Ego" the immortal Entity, whose shadow and reflection is the human Manas, the mind limited by its physical senses...In the course of natural evolution our "brain-mind" will be replaced by a finer organism, and helped by the 6th and the 7th senses. Even now, there are pioneer minds who have developed these senses." Theos. Art. & Notes, p. 208=09 "...it is the higher Manas illuminated by Buddhi; the principle of self-consciousness, the "I-am-I"...It is the Karana-Sarira, the immortal man, which passes from one incarnation to another." Trans 63 "There is a sort of conscious telegraphic communication going on incessantly, day and night, between the physical brain and the inner man...the consciousness of the sleeper is not active but passive. The inner man, however, the real Ego, acts independently during the sleep of th= e body...Read "Karmic Visions" [ HPB ART I, 382 ]...and note the description of the real Ego, sitting as a spectator of the life of the hero..." TRANS 64-5=09 "...Buddhi and Atma...These higher principles are entirely inactive on our plane, and the higher Ego (Manas) itself is more or less dormant during the waking of the physical man....So dormant are the Spiritual faculties, because the Ego is so trammeled by matter, that It can hardly give all its attention to man's actions, even should the latter commit sins for which that Ego--when reunited with its lower Manas--will have to suffer conjointly in the future. It is...the impressions projected into the physical man by this Ego which constitute what we call "conscience;" and in proportion as the personality, the lower Soul (or Manas), unites itself to its higher consciousness, or EGO, does the action of the latter upon the life of mortal man become more marked." TRANS 62-3 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Normal and Abnormal Psychology Theosophy recognizes and speaks of several states of consciousness, but of only One Consciousness, which is the Perceiver of all of those events. [ see Gita Notes, pp. 98-100 ] Of these various states we know of: 1. waking consciousness; 2. Waking-dreaming ("lucid dreams" ); 3. dreaming; 4. Deep sleep; 5. trance (or sleep induced either by drugs or anesthetics); 6. meditation (or abstraction, or "brown study," or Samadhi), and=20=20 7. a mysterious state called in the Orient: Turiya, where it is said that the one who experiences this is self-conscious on a Universal plane and "knows everything at once." The key to this state is perfect harmlessness, selflessness, virtue, charity and compassion for all beings ( Gautama the Buddha exemplified this achievement ). "Normal" The "normal states: are of course: 1. waking, 2. dreaming;=20=20 3. deep sleep; 4. meditation or concentration with focused attention on = a chosen subject or object.=20=20 The dreaming and the deep sleep are for us at this stage involuntary.=20=20 Meditation is self-induced and has a number of stages within that broad outline, leading to the Turiya state.=20=20 Trance is blanking the mind and is said to lead to "passivity," madness, insanity, obsession and possession. It is highly dangerous and is to be avoided at all costs. So are drug induced stupors, or "highs."=20=20 Medical anesthesia has dangers associated with it which are not yet fully understood. It is a state of dissociation from physical pain receptors so as to alleviate trauma resulting from pain in the body. This gives us a clue as to the nature of pain. It is the attention directed to the source that attaches the feeling-mind to that and amplifies local sensation to the exclusion of anything else. "Near-death experiences" [ NDE ] may occur at times of operation, stress, accident, and serve to demonstrate that the Real Person is not restricted to the physical body, but it also lives in its own vehicle, and works through the invisible, intangible astral body. "Moral" States -- Causes of Abnormality Considering the possible causes of abnormal psychology, HPB writing in Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2, p. 368, offers the following: "When a man leads [an impure, vicious life] ...the "soul," as a half animal principle, becomes paralyzed, and grows unconscious of its subjectiv= e [ nobler ] half--the Lord--and in proportion to the sensuous development of the brain and nerves, sooner or later, it finally loses sight of its divine mission on earth. Like the Voordalak, or Vampire of the Servian tale, the brain feeds and lives and grows in strength and power at the expense of its spiritual parent. Then the almost half-unconscious soul, now fully intoxicated by the fumes of earthly life, becomes senseless, beyond hope of redemption. It is powerless to discern the splendor of its higher spirit, to hear the warning voice of its "guardian Angel," and its "God." It aims but at the development and fuller comprehension of natural, earthly life; and thus, can discover but the mysteries of physical nature. Its grief and fear, hope and joy, are all closely blended with its terrestrial existence...It begins by becoming virtually dead; it dies at last completely, It is annihilated. Such a catastrophe may sometimes happen long years before the final separation of the life-principle from the body..." Isis II 368-9.=20=20=20 [ see also Isis I, p. 318-9 ] Abnormal Death The first state after the death of the body is named Kama-loka (plane of desire). In this astral state there is a separation of the two general types of memories relative to hope, and desire and passion during life. On one side are the virtues, compassions, loves, selfless thoughts o= f help and for the alleviation for other's sufferings. Ranged against these are the selfish host of passions and dark desires, vices, greeds, ambitions= , etc... This state of kama-loka is a prelude to the second state called Devachan (the plane of the "gods"). To this latter state goes the Ego accompanied by the noble and altruistic half of memory, so that these may b= e reviewed and built into character and capacity in preparation for its rebirth. The selfish, vicious memories coalesce with the astral body, and this, devoid of the life-giving Ego is abandoned at the threshold of Devachan. This process is called "the second death." For this second "corpse" there begins its disintegration and the dispersal of its elements = ( skandhas ) through Nature. The disintegrating mass of passions remains coherent for a relatively short time, proportionate to the strength of the memories centered in selfishness and vice. The condition is then described as follows: "The good and pure sleep a quiet blissful sleep, full of happy visions of earth-life and have no consciousness of being already for ever beyond that life. Those who were neither good nor bad, will sleep a dreamless, still a quiet sleep; while the wicked will in proportion to their grossness suffer the pangs of a nightmare lasting years: their thoughts become living things, their wicked passions-- real substance, and they receive back on their heads all the misery they have heaped upon others. Reality and fact if described would yield a far more terrible Inferno than even Dante had imagined." M L p.123 "Love and Hatred are the only immortal feelings..." M L p. 127 [ In Theosophical Articles and Notes, we are given the clearest review of the various conditions relative to experiences by a number of cases where death is involuntary or abnormal. -- p 239-41] 1. Suicides:-- Though not separated completely from Buddhi and Atma yet there is a vast gulf until the day when they would have normally died. These two: Atma-Buddhi are passive for the intervening time, (to the hour of the last judgment--when the last and final strug-=09 gle between Atma-Buddhi on one hand and Kama-Manas on the other occurs). (Theos. Articles & Notes, p.239-40) Suicide is death brought on voluntarily and with full and deliberate knowledge of its immediate consequences. (240) If, in a fit on insanity a man commits suicide, he falls asleep like any other victim of accident. (240) 2. Accidental Deaths:-- =09=09 The victim, good or bad, is irresponsible for his death. Even if the death by accident were due to past Karma, it is not the direct result of a personal act of the Ego in this life.=20 The Dhyan-Chohans protect the hapless accident victim when it is violently thrust out of its life before it has matured and=20=09 been made ready for the new place in a normal way. (239) In the case of accidental death, the 2 groups of principles (Atma-Buddhi-Manas) and (Astral-Prana-Kama-Lower Manas) attract each other. (239-240) [ Accidental Death - continued ] 1. In the case of good and innocent egos the lower 4 gravitate irresistibly towards Atma-Buddhi, and thus sleep, 1. a dreamless slumber, or=20 2. are surrounded by happy dreams until the hour when death would have normally taken place occurs and the separation between the "higher" and the "lower" principles occurs just before Devachan ("gestation state"). If at that time Atma-Buddhi carrying the essence of Higher Manasic experience proves to have too little for the operation=20 of the process of "Akasic Samadhi" in Devachan the Manasic=20=09 principle will reclothe itself in a new body (the direct=20=09 result of the remaining Karma of the victim) and enter upon a=20=09 new life on earth. [ Quick reincarnation ? ] (240) 3. Seance Room "Spirits":-- The only "visitors" at seance rooms as astral forms are: 1. suicides, and 2. Elementaries -- Kama-lokic remains & "Black=20 Magicians" 3. Executed criminals. No pure Spirits visit any seance room. (240-1) 4. Victims of Vicious Indulgence:-- ( life shortening ) The cause of vice receives punishment. Motive is every, and man is punished in a case of direct responsibility only. Vicious indulgence can cause an earlier death than provided for under the personal karma of that life. (240) =20 5. Murderers - Executed Persons:-- Under the influence of the last violent thoughts and feelings he felt before execution, the executed person will be ever reviewing on the Astral Plane his anger and fear, and will be receiving the impact of the changes made in the lives of others influenced by his acts. (240-1) Those who are vicious, and not insane, are only partly killed on execution. From the Astral Plane they will be affecting all those who are sensitive enough to "feel and receive" them. Especially at spiritualistic seances. There they project scenes of blood and punishment into such weak persons, influencing them to copy. [ They may also "haunt" astrally by attraction the place of their crime or of execution.] (241) At scenes of collective murder, where victims are overwhelmed by a group and killed, the struggle and emotional impact may be reenacted severa= l times a year for many years. (241) [ Ex.: Marathon ] Those sensitive to the Astral images will see this.=09 6. Insanity:-- Suicide and murder can be committed while insane. The period between death of the body and the real death would be passed in sleep.=09 [ see M. Pan. p.481 ] (Theos. Articles & Notes, p. 240 241) Accidental Death [ Explanation of state of consciousness of violent or accidental death victims .] "...In cases of good and innocent Egos...the latter gravitates irresistibly towards the 6th [buddhi] and 7th [atma ], and thus--either slumbers surrounded by happy dreams, or, sleeps a dreamless profound sleep until the hour strikes...The victim whether good or bad is irresponsible fo= r his death, even if his death were due to some action in a previous life or an antecedent birth; was an act...of the Law of Retribution, still, it was not the direct result of an act deliberately committed by the personal ego of that life during which he happened to be killed. Had he been allowed to live longer he may have atoned for his antecedent sins still more effectually: and even now, the Ego having been made to pay off the debt of his maker (the previous Ego) is free from the blows of retributive justice. The Dhyan Chohans who have no hand in the guidance of the living human Ego, protect the helpless victim when it is violently thrust out of its element into a new one, before it is matured and made fit and ready for it. We tel= l you what we know, for we are made to learn it through personal experience..= . Yes; the victims whether good or bad, sleep, to awake but at the hour of the last Judgment, which is that hour of the supreme struggle between the 6th and the 7th, and the 5th and 4th at the threshold of the gestation state. And even after that, when the 6th and 7th carrying off a portion of the 5th have gone into their Akasic Samadhi [devachan ], even then it may happen that the spiritual spoil from the 5th will prove too weak to be reborn (132) in Deva-Chan; in which case it will there and then reclothe itself in a new body, the subjective "Being" created from the Karma of the victim (or no victim, as the case may be) and enter upon a new earth-existence whether upon this or any other planet [read "Globe"]." M L p. 131-2 "What you were taught is the Rule. [Bear always in mind that there are exceptions...] Good and pure "accidents" sleep in the Akasa, ignorant of their change; very wicked and impure--suffer all the tortures of a horrible nightmare. The majority--neither very good nor very bad, the victims of accident or violence (including murder)--some sleep, others become Nature pisachas, and while a small minority may fall victims to mediums and derive a new set of skandhas from the medium who attracts them. Small as their number may be, their fate is to be the most deplored." M L p. 132 Suicide "...suicides and those who are suddenly shot out of life by accident or murder, legal or illegal, pass a term [ in the Kamaloca almost equal to the length life would have been but for the sudden termination. These are not really dead. To bring on a normal death, a factor not recognized by medical science must be present. That is, the principles of the being...have their own term of cohesion, at the natural end of which they separate from each other under their own laws...before that natural end the principles are unable to separate...the normal destruction of the cohesive force cannot be brought about by mechanical processes except in respect to the physical body. Hence a suicide, or person killed in an accident or murdered by man or by order of human law, has not come to the natural termination of the cohesion among the other constituents, and is hurled into the kamaloca state only partly dead. Ther= e the remaining principles have to wait until the actual natural life term is reached, whether it be one month or sixty years."=09 OCEAN p. 105-108 =09 Coma -- Unconsciousness of the Body [& Brain]. "Coma" may result from natural or unnatural causes: accident, a blow to the head which affects brain functions totally or partially, strong emotion, disease, illness, etc... It is an abnormal state and it is difficult to determine whether this is curable or incurable. In any case the Conscious mind is unable to make coherent contact with the physical bod= y instrument. The hiatus thus caused, may be physical, astral, or psycho-mental. We are given almost nothing concerning the nature of the last two reasons. Comatose patients, whose physical body is artificially kept alive, have been known to recover after many days or even years spent in that condition, when bodily functions have been kept supplied with physical life's necessities.=20 What is not always determined is the nature or quality of the personal consciousness that returns to the body in such cases--as to whethe= r the "returning" intelligence is still the same personality that actually returns to animate the body. In some cases--where amnesia of various kinds have been recorded, it may be some other entity that assumes the "mask and memories" of the abandoned body and masquerades thereafter as it, employing its memories. That the personality may be substituted, is one of the situations that Theosophy explains. [see below]. Medical science employing the encephalograph in the case of comatose persons, may detect evidence of brain activity, and when this is undetectable, medical science assumes that the Intelligence, or the Real Person has left the body.=20=20 In some cases the body has been kept alive physically by "heroic measures," using artificial respiration, exercise and nourishment, and stimulating the heart to beat. "Life" of the physical form has been maintained for days, weeks, years in some cases, but when the apparatus is disconnected, deliberately or by accident, (in those cases where the Real Person has left that body) the immediate physical necrosis demonstrates the futility of keeping the physical apparatus alive when the "mind-person" has already "left."=20=20 It also points to the fact that the Consciousness is not dependent on the body except as a vehicle through which it can manifest. Cases of survival and the resumption of intelligent activity and memory after sever brain illness or damage, also show that the Real Person uses the brain as a= n instrument of communication, and intelligence is not solely its product. This demonstrates the significance of a knowledge of the subjective planes and states relating to man's consciousness. =09 "...arcane science teaches that the abandonment of the living body by the soul frequently occurs, and that we encounter every day, in every condition of life, such living corpses. Various causes, among them overpowering fright, grief, despair, a violent attack of sickness, or excessive sensuality may bring this about. The vacant carcass may be entered and inhabited by the astral form of an adept sorcerer, or an elementary (an earth-bound disembodied human soul), or, very rarely, an elemental..." Isis II 589 [ The strange case of Edgar Caycee illustrates the nature of a peculiar physiological/psychological nature which when it went into a trance-sleep, recorded the memories of what its inner Ego [ Buddhi-Manas ] provided as an answer to the problems asked. It must be remembered that Buddhi-Manas is "quasi-omniscient on its own plane." ] Insanity and Idiocy=20 =09 "In insanity, the patient's astral being is either semi-paralyzed, bewildered, and subject to the influence of every passing spirit of any sort, or it has departed forever, and the body is taken possession of by some vampirish entity near its own disintegration, and clinging desperately to earth, whose sensual pleasures it may enjoy for a brief season longer by this expedient." Isis II 589 "Lower Manas operating through the brain is at once altered into the shape and other characteristics of any object, mental or otherwise...[it has] four peculiarities...the fourth [passivity, and considering naught] signifies sleep when not abnormal, and when abnormal is going towards insanity." [ Ocean, p. 56-7 ] Account of a Witness to the Onset of Insanity Mme. Blavatsky narrates in a story titled "A Bewitched Life" the experience of one who, visiting his sister astrally, became a witness to he= r becoming insane. Her husband had died in an accident and the mangled body was brought to their home without warning to her. "...I witness her unprepared reception of the ghastly news...I perceive clearly...to the minutest detail, the sensations and the inner process that takes place in her...the dull thud of the living body falling upon the remains of the dead one. I followed...the sudden thrill and the instantaneous perturbation in the brain that followed it, and watch with attention the worm-like precipitate, and immensely intensified motion of he tubular fibers, the instantaneous change of color in the cephalic extremity of the nervous system, the fibrous nervous matter passing from white to bright red and then to a dark red, bluish hue. I notice the sudden flash o= f a phosphorous-like, brilliant Radiance, its tremor and its sudden extinctio= n followed by darkness--complete darkness in the region of memory--as the Radiance, comparable in its form only to a human shape, oozes out suddenly from the top of the head, expands, loses its form and scatters. And I say to myself: "This is insanity; life-long incurable insanity, for the principle of intelligence is not paralyzed or extinguished temporarily, but has just deserted the tabernacle for ever, ejected from it by the terrible force of the sudden blow...The link between the animal and the divine essence is broken..."=09 [ from H.P.Blavatsky-- "A Bewitched Life" -- The Tell-Tale Picture Gallery, p. 44-5, International Book House, Bombay] The Possible Karma of Idiocy "Let us imagine a boy...not given proper intelligence...an idiot. But instead of being a mild idiot, he possesses great malice which manifest= s itself in his tormenting insects and animals at every opportunity...He has thus hindered many a spirit in its upward march and has beyond doubt inflicted pain and caused a moral discord. This fact of his idiocy is not = a restoration of the discord. Every animal that he tortured had its own particular elemental spirit, and so had every flower that he broke in pieces. What did they know of his idiocy, [being unreasoning things] and what did they feel after the torture but revenge ?...He dies...and after th= e lapse of years is reborn...into a body possessing more than average intelligence. He is no longer an idiot but a sensible active man...What is to be the result of the evil deeds of his previous existence? Are they to go unpunished?...and if compensation comes, in what manner does the law operate on him?...on way...is through the discord produced in the spirits o= f those unthinking beings which he had tortured...But how? In this way. In the agony of their torture these beings turned their eyes upon their torturer, and dying, his spiritual picture through the excess of their pain= , together with that paid and the desire for revenge, were photographed, so t= o speak, upon their spirits--for in no other way could they have a memory of him--and when he became a disembodied spirit they clung to him until he was reincarnated, when they were still with him, like barnacles on a ship. The= y can only see through his eyes, and their revenge consists in precipitating themselves down his glance on any matter he may engage in, thus attaching themselves to it for the purpose of dragging it down to disaster... The ancients taught that the astral light--Akasa-- is projected from the eyes, the thumbs and the palms of the hands. Now as the elementals exist in the astral light, they will be able to see only through those avenues of human organism which are used by the astral light in traveling from the person. The eyes are most convenient...our reincarnated idiot engages in a business...The elementals go with him and throwing themselves upon everything he directs, cause him continued disaster. But one by one they are caught up again out of the orbit of necessity into the orbit of probation in this world, and at last all are gone, whereupon he finds success in all he does. [This is offered] as a possible solution or answer to the question as to what is the rationale of the operation of the Moral Law of Compensation in that particular case..." WQJ--"The Moral Law of Compensation"=20 -- WQJ Articles I 129-131 Possession & Obsession -- Personality substitution, and=20 =09 Multiple personalities=20 A substitution of the consciousness which rules the physical body is a possibility to be considered. Either the personal consciousness is pushe= d aside, or it steps aside to permit the use of its physical body by another entity or entities. In the case of an untrained individual this is involuntary. An Adept does this consciously. ] Such substitution may arise in cases where the person is subject to uncontrollable trances, to somnambulism, to fits of insanity, to the malady of "split personality" ( schizophrenia, and "multiple personalities"). In all such cases Theosophy states that such an individual has in the past opened his psychological gates to such conditions. It is the result of carelessness and inattention earlier in this life, or carried-ove= r Karma from a past life.=20=20 It can also result from curiosity about abnormal states, psychic states, with hypnotism, mesmerism, or with mediums and mediumship, or experimenting with them, and with the psychic world generally--=09 before one is fitted to control that area of experience, and with condition= s of, or the induction of "altered consciousness" in this or earlier lives in one's self or in another (as in hypnotism). This covers a wide area of research, and Mr. Judge in the Ocean of Theosophy, Chapters 16 and 17, pp. 135 - 152 gives us a review of most of the cases in point. He indicates that is some cases (p. 151) that "subject= s are injured for life." [ see Isis I xxx 256-7 276 319 332-3 355 363-4 368-9 374 487-8 490=20 Isis I 493 Isis II 589 Letters, WQJ, p. 258; ] In cases of suicide or mass murder, or of a sudden destructive and uncontrolled change in a person's nature, we may surmise that there has bee= n a usurpation of the Inner Controller. Perhaps an Elementary, or the half dead Kama-rupic remains of an executed murderer has possessed itself for th= e time being of the body of a weaker or passively inclined person. Feelings of despair, anger, revenge, or the taking of drugs, etc... can open inner psychological "doors" to the influence (or "possession") by such entities, and can cause "obsession," for a long or short time, of the bodily instruments of perception and action of another. These are sometimes calle= d cases of involuntary insanity, when the person is not "in control of himself." [ see Transactions, pp. 66, ML 41-2, HPB Art I 298, WQJ I 193 ] Hallucination -- Astral Visions This may be in some cases of psychically sensitive persons an actual power, exercised voluntarily or involuntarily (as in the case of alcohol or drug users, or when a patient has high fever), to see in one or other of th= e several planes of the astral light. Potentially this may lead to "nightmares" [ see HPB I 389-90, II 298, Trans. 72-3, 77-8., Key, pp 125-6, Trans. 27, 96, SD II 370fn ] Mr. Judge in Letters, p. 59 gives an illustration of the actual "organ of sight" being in the astral body. [ see also Mod. Pan. p.481 ] Causes for Abnormal States [In all cases it is selfishness] 1. Evil Doing and Evil Beings: Elementaries, Black Magicians=20 "Elementaries. Properly, the disembodied souls of the depraved; these souls having at some time prior to death separated from themselves their divine spirits, and so lost their chance for immortality; but at the present stage of learning it has been thought best to apply the term to the spooks or phantoms of disembodied persons in general, to those whose temporary habitation is the Kama Loka...Once divorced from their higher triads [ Atma-Buddhi-Manas ] and their bodies, these souls remain in their Kama-rupa envelopes, [ see Glos. 172 ] and are irresistibly drawn to the earth amid elements congenial to their gross natures. Their stay in the Kama Loka varies as to its duration; but ends invariably in disintegration= , dissolving like a column of mist, atom by atom, in the surrounding elements." Glos. p. 112=20 " [Elementary}...disembodied vicious men, who have parted with their divine Spirits, and become as beasts." Mod. Panarion, p. 166 "Vicious Elementals, or Elementaries, are attracted to vicious parents; they bask in their atmosphere, and are thus afforded the chance b= y the vices of the parents, to perpetuate in the child the parental weaknesses. The unintelligent "Elementals" are drawn in unconsciously to themselves, and, in the order of Nature, as component parts of the grosser astral body or soul, determine the temperament..." Mod. Panarion, p. 153-4 "...they are disembodied vicious men who have parted with their divine Spirits and become Elementaries...Here Kunrath applies the term "Elementary" to doomed human souls..." Suppose a drop of water within a capsule remains whole, the drop of water remains isolated; break the envelope, and the drop becomes a part of the ocean, its individual existenc= e has ceased. So it is with the Spirit. So long as its ray is enclosed in its plastic mediator or soul, it has an individual existence. Destroy this capsule, the astral man then becomes an Elementary; this destruction may occur from the consequences of sin, in the most depraved and vicious, and the spirit returns to its original abode--the individualization of man has ceased..." Modern Panarion, p. 155 "...arcane science teaches that the abandonment of the living body by the soul frequently occurs, and that we encounter every day, in every condition of life, such living corpses. Various causes, among them overpowering fright, grief, despair, a violent attack of sickness, or excessive sensuality may bring this about. The vacant carcass may be entered and inhabited by the astral form of an adept sorcerer, or an elementary (an earth-bound disembodied human soul), or, very rarely, an elemental..." Isis II 589 [ see The Ocean of Theosophy, Chapters 16, 17 ] "The doctrine of the possibility of losing one's soul and, hence, individuality...there is another death [than physical death] which is the interruption of the divine order and the destruction of every human element in man's nature, and every possibility of human happiness. This is the spiritual death which takes place before the dissolution of the body...When one falls into a love of self and love of the world, with its pleasures, losing the divine love of God and of the neighbor, he falls from life to death. The higher principles which constitute the essential elements of hi= s humanity perish, and he lives only on the natural plane of his faculties. Physically he exists, spiritually he is dead. To all that pertains to the higher and the only enduring phase of existence he is as much dead as his body becomes dead to all the activities, delights, and sensations of the world when the spirit has left it. This spiritual death results from disobedience of the laws of spiritual life, which is followed by the same penalty as the disobedience o= f the laws of the natural life. But the spiritually dead have still (159) their delights; they have their intellectual endowments, and power, and intense activities. All the animal delights are theirs, and to multitudes of men and women those constitute the highest ideal of human happiness. Th= e tireless pursuit of riches, of the amusements and entertainments of social life; the cultivation of graces of manner, of taste in dress, of social preferment, of scientific distinction, intoxicate and enrapture these dead-alive; but, [these] "are dead in the eyes of the Lord...when measured by the only true and immutable standard..." The presence in one of a highly developed human, intellectual soul (the 5th principle, or Manas), is quite compatible with the absence of Buddhi, or the [ wise ] spiritual soul. Unless the former [ Manas ] evolve= s from and develops under the beneficent and vivifying rays of the latter, it will remain for ever but a direct progeny of the terrestrial, lower principles, sterile in spiritual perceptions; a magnificent luxurious sepulcher, full of the dry bones of the decaying matter within. Many of ou= r greatest scientists are but animated corpses--they have no spiritual sight because their spirits have left them, or, rather, cannot reach them. So we might go through all the ages...and we would find these spiritually dead everywhere..." HPB Articles II 158-9 "The entire annihilation of the personal consciousness, as an exceptional and rare case...The general and almost invariable rule is the merging of the personal into the individual or immortal consciousness of th= e Ego, a transformation or a divine transfiguration, and the entire annihilation only of the lower quaternary. Would you expect the man of flesh, or the temporary personality, his shadow, the "astral," his animal instincts, and even physical life, to survive with the "spiritual Ego" and become sempiternal ? Naturally all this ceases to exist, either at, or soo= n after corporeal death. It becomes in time entirely disintegrated and disappears from view, being annihilated as a whole." Key, 94 Black Magicians -- Evil Choosers "It is only in the case of black magicians or of criminals beyond redemption, criminals who have been such during a long series of lives--tha= t the shining thread, which links the spirit to the personal soul from the moment of the birth of the child, is violently snapped, and the disembodied entity becomes divorced from the personal soul, the latter being annihilate= d without leaving the smallest impression [ memory ] of itself on the former. If that union between the lower, or personal Manas, and the individual reincarnating Ego, has not been effected during life, then the former is left to share the fate of the lower animals, to gradually dissolve into ether, and have its personality annihilated. But even then the Ego remains a distinct being. It (the spiritual Ego) only loses one Devachanic state--after that special, and in that case indeed useless life--as that idealized Personality, and is reincarnated, after enjoying for a short time its freedom as a planetary spirit almost immediately." Key p. 103-4 "If during life the ultimate and desperate effort of the Inner Self (Manas), to unite something of the personality with itself and the high glimmering ray of the divine Buddhi, is thwarted; if this ray is allowed t= o be more and more shut out from the ever-thickening crust of physical brain, the Spiritual Ego or Manas, once free from the body, remains severed entirely from the ethereal relic of the personality; and the latter, or kama-rupa, following its earthly attractions, is drawn into and remains in Hades, which we have called Kama-loka. These are the "withered branches" mentioned by Jesus as being cut off from the Vine. Annihilation, however, is never instantaneous, and may require centuries sometimes for its accomplishment. But there the personality remains along with the remnants of other more fortunate personal Egos, and becomes with them a shell and an Elementary. [ these are the leading stars on the great stage of "materializations."]...it is not they who incarnate..." Key, 190-191 "The personal soul [Kama-Manas] must...be disintegrated into its particles, before it is able to link its purer essence for ever with the immortal spirit [Atma-Buddhi]...In Buddhistic philosophy annihilation means only a dispersal of matter in whatever form or semblance of form it may be. For everything that is temporary, and is, therefore, really an illusion. For in eternity the longest periods of time are as a wink of the eye. So with form....When the Spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, substance or form, and re becomes a Spiritual breath [Sudda Sattwa-- Glos, p. 311 ]; then only does it enter upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana, lasting as long as the cycle of life has lasted--an eternity, truly. And then that Breath, existing in Spirit, is no-thing because it is all; as a form, a semblance, a shape, it is completely annihilated; as absolute Spirit it still is, for it has become Be-ness itself." Key 114 "He who kills or extinguishes in himself the light of Parabrahm, i.e., severs his personal Ego from the Atman, and thus kills the future Devachanee, becomes a "Brahman-killer." Instead of facilitating, through a virtuous life the spiritual aspirations the mutual union of the Buddhi and the Manas, he condemns by his own evil acts every atom of his lower principles to become attracted and drawn, in virtue of the magnetic affinit= y thus created by his passions, into the forming bodies of lower animals or brutes. This is the real meaning of the doctrine of Metempsychosis. It is not that such amalgamation of human particles with animal or even vegetable atoms can carry in it any idea of personal punishment per se, for of course it does not. But it is a cause created, the effects of which may manifest themselves throughout the next rebirths--unless the personality is annihilated. Otherwise from cause to effect, every effort becoming in its turn a cause, they will run along the cycle of rebirths..." HPB Articles II 253-4 [see Isis II 369 ]=09=09=09=09=09 =09 2. Mediumistic Seances attract Elementaries=20 and Kamarupic Shells "In certain cases [seances, mediumship, etc...] to be noted there is an intelligence at work that is wholly and intensely bad, to which every medium is subject, and which will explain why so many of them have succumbe= d to evil, as they have confessed...Definite, coherent entities, human souls bereft of the spiritual tie, now tending down to the worst state of all, avitchi, where annihilation of the personality is the end.=20=20 They are known as black magicians. Having centered the consciousness in the principle kama, preserved intellect, divorced themselves from spirit, they are the only damned beings we know. In life they had human bodies and reached their awful state by persistent lives of evil for its own sake; some of such are already doomed to become what I have described are among us on earth to-day. These are not ordinary shells= , for they have centered their force in kama, thrown out every spark of good thought or aspiration, and have a complete mastery of the astral sphere... [they are classified as shells] because they are such in the sense that the= y are doomed to disintegration consciously as the others are to the same end mechanically only. They may and do last for centuries, gratifying their lusts through any sensitive they can lay hold of where bad thought gives then an opening. They preside at nearly all seances, assuming high names and taking the direction so as to keep the control and continue the delusio= n of the medium, thus enabling themselves to have a convenient channel for their own evil purposes.=20=20 Indeed, with the shells of suicides, of those poor wretches who die at the hand of the law, of drunkards and gluttons, these black magicians living in the astral world hold the field of physical mediumship and are liable to invade the sphere of any medium no matter how good. The door onc= e open, it is open to all.=20=20 This class of shell has lost higher manas, but in the struggle not only after death but as well in life the lower portion of manas which shoul= d have been raised up to godlike excellence was torn away from its lord and now gives this entity intelligence which is devoid of spirit but has power to suffer as it will when its final day shall come." OCEAN p. 105-107 Elementals or Nature Sprites=20 "Existing in the sphere of kama loka, as...also in all parts of the globe and the solar system, are the elementals or nature forces. They are innumerable, and their divisions are almost infinite...they are...the nerve= s of nature. Each class has its own work just as has every natural element or thing...the elementals act under law, but being higher in the scale than gross fire or water their action seems guided by mind. Some of them have a special relation to mental operations and to mental operations and to the action of the astral organs, whether these be joined to a body or not.=20=20 When a medium forms the channel, and also from other natural coordinations, these elementals make an artificial connection with the shel= l of a deceased person, aided by the nervous fluid of the medium and others near, and then the shell is galvanized into an artificial life. Through th= e medium connection is made with the physical and psychical forces of all present. The old impressions of the astral body given up their images to the mind of the medium, the old passions are set on fire. Various messages and reports are then obtained from it, but not one of them is original, not one is from the spirit. By their strangeness...this is mistaken for the work of the spirit, but it is all from the living when it is not the mere picking out from the astral light of the images of what has been in the past."=09 =09 Ocean, p. 104-5 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Normal Psychological States 1. Dreams and Dreaming "In the dream state we lose all knowledge of the objects which while awake we thought real and proceed to suffer and enjoy in that new state. [ see SD I 47 ] In this we find the consciousness applying itself to objects partaking of course of the nature of experiences of the waking condition, but at the same time producing the sensations of pleasure and pain while they last. [ see SD I 56 ] Let us imagine a person's body plunged in a lethargy extending over twenty years and the mind undergoing a pleasant or unpleasant dream, and we have a life just of that sort, altogether differen= t from the life of one awake. For the consciousness of this dreamer the reality of objects known during the waking state is destroyed. But as material existence is a necessary evil and the one is which alone emancipation or salvation can be obtained, it is of the greatest importance and hence Karma which governs it...must be well understood and then be accepted and obeyed." Echoes. pp. 41-42 "Dreams are sometimes the result of brain action automatically proceeding, and are also produced by the transmission into the brain by the real inner person of those senses or ideas high or low which the real perso= n has seen while the body slept. They are then strained into the brain as if floating on the soul as it sinks into the body. These dreams may be of great use, but generally the resumption of bodily activity destroys the meaning, perverts the image, and reduces all to confusion.=20 But the great fact of all dreaming is that some one perceives and feels therein and this is one of the arguments for the inner person's existence. In sleep the inner man communes with higher intelligences, and sometimes succeeds in impressing the brain with what is gained, either a high idea or a prophetic vision, or else fails in consequence of the resistance of the brain fiber. The karma of the person also determines the meaning of a dream, for a kind may dream that which relates to his kingdom, which the same thing dreamed by a citizen relates to nothing of temporal consequence. But, as said by Job: "In dreams and visions of the night man is instructed." Ocean, p. 143-4 [ see also: Trans. 58-79, Trans. 79 -- list: In Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge we find on p. 79 a list of several kinds of dreams: "Prophetic Dreams" [ see Isis I 200-1, HPB Art II 293-6, 475-6 WQJ Letters, pp. 143-4, Trans. 6 69 72 "Allegorical Dreams" [ see HPB Art II 293 ] "Symbolic Dreams" l see Lucifer III p. 290 ] "Dreams sent by Adepts" [ see Trans. 66, 76 ] "Retrospective Dreams" [ see SD II 317 ] "Warning Dreams" [ see HPB Art II 292-3, 366-7, Trans. 72 ] "Confused Dreams" [ see HPB Art II 298 ] "Fancies, chaotic pictures of dreams" [ see HPB art II 293 298] "Day Dreams" [ see WQJ Letters, p. 147-149 ] 2. Dreamless Sleep -- Deep Sleep "Dreamless sleep is one of the seven states of consciousness known in Oriental esotericism. In each of these states a different portion of th= e mind comes into action; or as a Vedantin would express it, the individual is conscious in a different plane of his being. The term "dreamless sleep,= " in this case is applied allegorically to the Universe to express a conditio= n somewhat analogous to that state of consciousness in man, which, not being remembered is a waking state, seems a blank, just as the sleep of the mesmerized subject seems to him an unconscious blank when he returns to his normal condition, although he has been talking and acting as a conscious individual would." SD I 47 "Buddhi the Spiritual soul...because it is the direct cause of Sushupti [deep sleep]...leading to Turiya...the highest state of Samadhi [ Meditation ]...Buddhi becomes a "causal body" in conjunction with Manas the incarnation of the Entity or Ego..." Glossary, p. 74 "Good resolutions are mind-painted pictures of good deeds, fancies, day-dreams, whisperings of the Buddhi to the Manas..." Letters from the Masters of Wisdom (I) p 60-1 [ more details on Dreams will be found: Transaction of the Blavatsky Lodge, pp 58-79. Isis I 158-9 170 179 429 460 476 see Indexes to Judge and HPB Articles, SD, Sleep and Dreams, R. Crosbie, F. P. p. 258, 66-67 Dreams and Karma " " Ans. to Quest. p. 219-221 Dreamless Sleep SD I 38, 47, 266 Because--for Children who ask Why? p. 70... "The Psychology of Dreams" - Theosophy Mag. Vol. 6 "Dreamland and Somnambulism" - Modern Panarion, p. 481 3. Trance and Meditation "The "modifications of the Mind" are:-- Correct Cognition, Misconception, Fancy, Sleep, and Memory." Pat, p. 4 [ Trance & Meditation -- continued ] "The "hindering of the modifications of the Mind" (lower Manas)...is to be effected by means of Exercise and Dispassion. Exercise is the uninterrupted, or repeated effort that the mind (lower manas) shall remain in its unmoved state, (or apply it to any one point to the exclusion of all others.)...This exercise is a firm position observed out of regard for the end in view, and perseveringly adhered to fo= r a long time without intermission. (Q.: Does he devote every moment of his life to it ? A.: No, but to the length of time that has been set apart fo= r the practice.) Dispassion is the having overcome one's desires, (a state of being in which the consciousness is unaffected by passions, desires, and ambitions, which aid in causing modifications of the mind.) Dispassion carried to the utmost, is indifference regarding all else than soul (Higher Manas), and this indifference arises from a knowledge of soul (Higher Manas) as distinguished from all else." Pat, pp. 5, 6, 7. "Meditation or "distinct cognition" is four-fold: Argumentation, Deliberation, Beatitude, Egoism. (excludes every other modification than that pondered on.) Argumentation...pondering in comparison with other things. Deliberation... pondering sources and fields of action of the subtler senses and the mind. Beatitude ... pondering on Higher Manas and abstract Truth. Egoism then becomes a stepping stone to higher degrees of meditation...self-consciousness alone results; does not include the consciousness of the Absolute or the Supreme Soul." Pat. pp 7, 8. "The meditation just described is preceded by the exercise of thought without argumentation. Another sort of meditation is in the shape of the "self-reproduction of thought" after the departure of all objects from the field of the mind (Lower Manas). The meditative state attained by those whose discrimination does not extend to pure Spirit (Atma), depends upon the phenomenal world. In the practice of those who are, or may be, able to discriminate as to pure spirit, their meditation is preceded by Faith, Energy, Intentness (upon a single point), and Discernment, or thorough discrimination of that which is to be known. (In him who has Faith there arises Energy, or perseverance in meditation, and, thus persevering, the memory of past subjects springs up, and his mind becomes absorbed in Intentness, in consequence of the recollection of the subject, and he whose mind is absorbed in meditation arrives at a thorough Discernment of the matter pondered upon.) Patanjali, pp. 8, 9, 10 "The state of abstract meditation may be attained by profound devotedness toward the Supreme Spirit, considered in its comprehensible manifestation as Ishwara. [ A "name" of Krishna--the Higher Self within each man ] This profound devotedness is a pre-eminent means of attaining abstract meditation and its fruits. "Ishwara" is the Spirit in the body.) Patanjali. p. 10 "The 4 steps in Meditation in Indian systems that follow Sanyama are: Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, Turiya=09=20=20=20=20 Gita 123, WQJ Art I 576-7 1. Dharana Dharana ... State in Yoga practice when the mind has to be fixed unflinchingly on some object of meditation. Glos. p. 99 2. Dhyana "Meditation as used by us, is what is called in Sanskrit Dhyana, i.e., want of motion and one-pointedness. The main point is to free the mind from the power of the senses, and to raise a current of thought to the exclusion of all others. "Realizations comes from dwelling on the thing to be realized." W.Q.J. says, "To meditate on the Higher Self is difficult; seek then the Bridge, the Masters. The patient dwelling of the mind on a single thought results in the gaining of wisdom, and it is thus that the true Occultist is developed. Aspiration towards the Higher Self should for= m part of the daily meditation; the raising toward the higher planes of our being, which cannot be found unless they are sought. Earnest and reverent desire for Master's guidance and enlightenment will begin the attunement of the nature to the harmony to which it must one day respond. Concentration on a single point in the Teaching is a road to the philosophy; self-examination , a road to knowledge of oneself. To put oneself in the place of another, to realize his difficulties, and thus be able to help him= , is that faculty--which when extended makes it possible for the Adept to understand the nature of the stone or other form of consciousness." [ Letters 112 ] Meditation is a good beneficent practice leading to a great end. It is also a great destroyer of the personal idea." R C -- F P 93 [see GN. 66, Letters 6-7, Voice 1, 21fn, SD I 572,] 3. Samadhi Samadhi Sam-adha, "self-possession." He who possesses this power is able to exercise an absolute control over all his faculties, physical or mental; it is the highest state of Yoga." Glos. 286 Bodhi or Samadhi - Deep meditation. During this the subject reaches the culmination of spiritual knowledge." SD I xix=20=20 [ see Glos 286, 343] Samadhindriya "Roots"...the agents in producing a highly moral life, leading to sanctity and liberation; when these are reached, the two spiritual roots lying latent in the body (Atma and Buddhi) will send out shoots and blossom...the organ of ecstatic meditation is Raja-Yoga practices." Glos. p. 286 Indriya ... "control of the senses in Yoga practice. Ten external agents: the 5 senses (of perception) Jnana-Indriyas, and the 5 used for action--Karma-Indriyas. Pancha-indriyani means literally and in its occult sense "the 5 roots producing life (eternal)." Glos 155 4. Turiya Turiya ... "A state of the deepest trance--the fourth state of the Taraka Raja Yoga, one that corresponds with Atma, and on this earth with dreamless sleep--a causal condition. [ see Karanopadhi, spiritual awareness= , super-Jagrat ]" Glos. 345 "The Turiya, that beyond the dreamless state, the one above all, a state of high spiritual consciousness." Voice, 6 fn "The three qualities are lower than a state called Turiya, which is a high state capable of being enjoyed even while in this body. Therefore i= n that state, there exists none of the three qualities, but the soul sees the three qualities moving in the ocean of Being beneath. This experience is met with not only after death, but, as I said, it may be enjoyed in the present life, though of course consciously very seldom. But there are thos= e high Yogis who can and do rise up to Nirvana, or Spirit, even consciously, which on the earth. This state is the fourth state, called Turya. There i= s no word in English which will express it. In that state the body is alive, though in deep catalepsy [Self-induced by the Adept.--N. J.] When the Adep= t returns from it he brings back whatever he can of the vast experiences of that Turya state. Of course they are far beyond any expression, and their possibilities can be only dimly perceived by us..." WQJ Letters, p. 28-9 "In the Spirit or Atma all experiences of all forms of life and death are found at once, and he who is one with the Atma knows the whole manifested Universe at once. I have spoken of this condition before as the Turya or fourth state." WQJ Letters p. 58-9 "To meditate on the Higher Self is difficult. Seek then the bridge--the Masters...the Great Workers who are behind us. They are behind us, to my personal knowledge...[and] behind all sincere workers. I know that their desire is that each should listen to the voice of his inner self and not depend too much on outside people...By a dependence of that kind yo= u become at last thoroughly independent, and then the unseen helpers are able to help all the more." WQJ LET. 112 "Outside a certain highly spiritual and elevated state of mind, during which Man is at one with the Universal Mind--he can get nought on earth but relative truth, or truths, from whatsoever philosophy or religion." HPB Art I p. 10 "Ishwara"..."the divine Self perceived or seen by Self," the Atman or seventh principle ridded of its mayavic distinction from its Universal Source--which becomes the object of perception for, and by the individualit= y centered in Buddhi, the sixth principle,--something that only happens in th= e highest state of Samadhi." M L 343 Ecstasy ...the infinite cannot be known by the finite--i.e., sensed by the finite Self--but that the divine essence could be communicated to th= e higher Spiritual Self in a state of ecstasy...Real ecstasy was defined by Plotinus as "the liberation of the mind from its finite consciousness, becoming one and identified with the infinite."...Samadhi...Yogis who facilitate it physically by the greatest abstinence in food and drink, and mentally by an incessant endeavor to purify and elevate the mind." Key, p. 10 Ecstasy: "A psycho-spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance and a beatific state bringing on visions." Glos. p. 109 Communion ... and simultaneous action with our "Father in secret;" and in rare moments of ecstatic bliss, in the mingling of our higher soul with the universal essence, attracted as it is towards its origin and center, a state, called during life Samadhi, and after death Nirvana...We cannot pray to the Absolute,...therefore we try to replace fruitless and useless prayer by meritorious and good-producing actions." Key, p. 70 [ see Tell Tale Picture Gallery, p. 40-3, HPB II 370-3 ] The Brain "We might properly speak, then, of the memory of the end-organ of vision or of hearing, of the memory of the spinal cord and of the different so-called 'centers' of reflex action belonging to the chords of the memory of the medulla oblongata, the cerebellum, etc." This is the essence of Occult teaching...every organ in our body has its own memory. For it is endowed with a consciousness "of its own kind," every cell must of necessity have also a memory of its own kind, as likewise its own psychic and noetic action. Responding to the touch of both a physical and a metaphysical Force, the impulse given by the psychic (or psycho-molecular) Force will act from without within; while that of the noetic (shall we cal= l it Spiritual-dynamical ?) Force works from within without. For, as our bod= y is the covering of the inner "principles," soul, mind, life, etc., so the molecule or the cell is the body in which dwell its principles," the (to ou= r senses and comprehension) immaterial atoms which compose that cell. The cell's activity and behavior are determined by its being propelled either inwardly or outwardly, by the noetic or the psychic Force, the former havin= g no relation to the physical cells proper. Therefore while the latter act under the unavoidable law of the conservation and correlation of physical energy, the atoms--being psycho-spiritual, not physical units--act under laws of their own, just as Professor Ladd's "Unit-Being," which is our "Mind-Ego," does, in his very philosophical and scientific hypothesis. Every human organ and each cell in the latter has a keyboard of its own, like that of a piano, only that it registers and emits sensations instead of sounds. Every key contains the potentiality of good or bad, of producing harmony or disharmony. This depends on the impulse given and the combination produced; on the force of the touch of the artist at work, a "double-faced Unity," indeed...For the whole of man is guided by this double-faced Entity. If the impulse comes from the "Wisdom above," the Force applied being noetic or spiritual, the results will be actions worthy of the divine propeller...It is the function of the physical, lower mind to act upon the physical organs and their cells; but, it is the higher mind alone which can influence the atoms interacting in those cells, which interaction is alone capable of exciting the brain, via the spinal "center" cord, to a mental representation of spiritual ideas far beyond any objects on this material plane. The phenomena of divine consciousness have to be regarded as activities of our mind on another and a higher plane, working through something less substantial than the moving molecules of the brain...=09 Occultism teaches that the liver and the spleen-cells are the most subservient to the action of our "personal" mind, the heart being the organ par excellence through which the "Higher" Ego acts--through the Lower Self.= " HPB-- "Psychic and Noetic Action" -- HPB Art. II 22-3 "...the human brain is simply the canal between two planes--the psycho-spiritual and the material--through which every abstract and metaphysical idea filters from the Manasic down to the lower human consciousness. Therefore the ideas about the infinite and the absolute are not, nor can they be, within our brain capacities. They can be faithfully mirrored only by our Spiritual consciousness, thence to be more of less faintly projected on to the tables of our perceptions on this plane. Thus while the records of even important events are often obliterated from our memory, not the most trifling action of our lives can disappear from the "Soul's" memory, because it is no memory for it, but an ever-present realit= y on the plane which lies outside our conceptions of space and time. "Man is the measure of all things," said Aristotle; and surely he did not mean by man, the form of flesh, bones and muscles ? ... As our world is mostly formed of imperceptible beings which are the real constructors of its continents, so likewise is man. "HPB--Memory in the Dying-- HPB Art. II 378-9 States of Mind=09 "...the plastic power of the imagination is much stronger in some persons than in others. The mind is dual in its potentiality; It is physical and metaphysical. The higher part of the mind is connected with the spiritual soul or Buddhi, the lower with the animal soul, the Kama principle. There are persons who never think with the higher faculties of their mind at all; those who do so are the minority and are thus, in a way, beyond, if not above, the average of human kind. The idiosyncrasy of the person determines in which "principle" of the mind the thinking is done= , as also the faculties of a preceding life, and sometimes the heredity of th= e physical. This is why it is so very difficult for a materialist--the metaphysical portion of whose brain is almost atrophied--to raise himself, or for one who is naturally spiritually minded, to descend to the level of the matter-of-fact vulgar thought...[ Thinking to be developed in the highe= r mind ? ]...Certainly it can be developed, but only with great difficulty, a firm determination, and through much self-sacrifice...This difference depends simply on the innate power of the mind to think on the higher or on the lower plane, with the astral...or with the physical brain. Great intellectual powers are often no proof of, but are the impediments to spiritual and right conceptions...The person who is endowed with this faculty of thinking about even the most trifling things from the higher plane of thought has, by virtue of that gift which he possesses, a plastic power of formation, so to say, in his very imagination...his thought will b= e so far more intense that the thought of an ordinary person, that by his ver= y intensity it obtains the power of creation...thought is an energy. This energy in its action disturbs the atoms of the astral atmosphere around us...the rays of thought have the same potentiality for producing forms in the astral atmosphere as the sun rays have with regard to a lens. Every thought so evolved with energy from the brain, creates nolens volens a shape."=09=09 HPB-- Dialogues -- HPB Art. II 42-3 "...Genius--an abnormal aptitude of mind--that develops and grows, or the physical brain, is vehicle, which becomes...fitter to receive and manifest from within outwardly the innate and divine nature of man's over-soul." HPB-- "Genius" HPB Art. II 119 "Our "memory" is but a general agent, and its "tablets," with their indelible impressions, but a figure of speech; the "brain-tablets" serve only as a upadhi or a vahan (basis or vehicle) for reflecting at a given moment the memory of one or another thing. The records of past events, of every minutest action, and of passing thoughts, in fact, are realty impressed on the imperishable waves of the Astral Light, around us and everywhere, not in the brain alone; and these mental pictures, images, and sounds, pass from these waves via the consciousness of the personal Ego or Mind (the lower Manas) whose grosser essence is astral, into the "cerebral reflectors," so to say, of our brain, whence they are delivered by the psychic to the sensuous consciousness. This at every moment of the day, an= d even during sleep." Theos. Art. & Notes, p. 209 "Occult philosophy reconciles the absurdity of postulating in the manifested Universe an active Mind without an organ, with that worse absurdity, an objective Universe evolved as everything else in it, by blind chance, by giving this Universe an organ of thought, a "brain." The latter= , though not objective to our senses, is none the less existing; it is to be found in the Entity called Kosmos (Adam Kadmon in the Kabalah). As in the Microcosm Man, so in the Macrocosm, or the Universe. Every organ is a sentient entity, and every particle of matter or substance, from the physical molecule up to the spiritual atom, is a cell, a nerve center, whic= h communicates. (see Lucifer, Vol. 7, p. 476fn) Intuition "a projection of our perceptive consciousness, a projection which acts from the subjective to the objective...awakens in us spiritual senses and the power to act; these senses assimilate to themselves the essence of the object or of the action under examination, and represent it to us as it really is, not as it appears to our physical senses and to our cold reason...omniscience." HPB I 428 "...the "Ego" in man is a monad that has gathered to itself innumerable experiences through aeons of time, slowly unfolding its latent potencies through plane after plane of matter. It is hence called the "eternal pilgrim." "The Manasic, or mind principle, is cosmic and universal. It is the creator of all forms, and the basis of all law in nature. Not so with consciousness. Consciousness is a condition of the monad as a result of embodiment in matter and the dwelling in a physical form. Self-consciousness, which from the animal plane looking upward is the beginning of perfection, from the divine plane looking downwards is the perfection of selfishness and the curse of separateness. it is the "world of illusion" that man has created for himself. "Maya is the perceptive faculty of every Ego which considers itself a Unit, separate from and independent of the One Infinite and Eternal Sat or 'be-ness'," (SD I 329) The "eternal pilgrim" must therefore mount higher, and flee from the plane of self-consciousness it has struggled so hard to reach." WQJ ART I 29 Emotional States -- Moods : Causes Mr. Judge wrote of a friend: "I have a friend who is trying to find out all about theosophy, and about a psychic nature, but...is not paying the slightest attention to this subject of the inevitable return upon himself of these impressions which he creates. I discovered he had periods of depression...when he had a despondency that he could not explain...you have had the same despondency maybe seven weeks ago...He examined his diary and his recollection, and he found that he had actual resurgences of despondency about the same distance apart. Well, I said, that explains to me how it is coming back. But what am I to do? Do what the old theosophists taught us; that is, we can only have these good results by producing opposite impressions to bad ones. So, take this occasion of despondency. What he should have done was, that bein= g the return of an old impression, to have compelled himself to feel joyous, even against his will, and if he could not have done that, then to have tried to feel the joy of others...he would have implanted in himself anothe= r impression, that of joy, so that when this thing returned once more, instea= d of being of the same quality and extension, it would have been changed by the impression of joy or elation and the two things coming together would have counteracted each other...this applies to every person who has the blues...You cannot rub it out if it has been coming, but when it cones star= t up something else, start up cheerfulness, be good to some one, then try to relieve some other person who is despondent, and you will have started another impression, which will return at the same time." WQJ Art. I 169-170 Despair: see WQJ Letters 36, 68, 190 Despondency WQJ Letters 35, 90 198-9 Anxiety "By anxiety we exert the constrictive power of egoism, which densifies and perturbs our magnetic sphere, rendering us less permeable to the efflux from above." WQJ LETTERS, p. 12 "All doubts come from the lower nature, and never in any case from the higher nature." WQJ LETTERS p. 28 "All illnesses, diseases, and abnormalities of the body come from astral planes. The physical cannot infect the astral. The occult and the physical must never be mixed up." WQJ LETTERS p. 162 "There may, and there often does come a time when one feels, as you say, like "standing on nothing, in nothing and about to topple over." The center of consciousness has been changed; old landmarks are slipping away, and sometimes black doubt ensues. Doubt and fear belong only to the personal consciousness; the real Perceiver, the Higher Ego has neither. The Gita says, "cast aside all doubts and fight on." You may remember what Judge says in one of the "Letters," likening such conditions to the case of one on a strange path and suddenly surrounded by a fog; the way is obscured, danger may lie in any direction; the thing to do is to stand still and wait, for it is only a fog--and fogs will lift." F P p. 8 "We can look at the very worst that may happen, in (206) the same way as we now look back on what has been. Knowing this, when disturbed, we can say, "Even this will pass away," and wait till the clouds roll by, seeing ourselves in the sunshine and looking at the East of Time. I think that practically all that troubles us is unnecessary, as trouble, but necessary as experience....If we involve ourselves in the Karma of the personal conception, we shall feel despondent, like Arjuna. We are not these relations, but the warriors who will conquer them in order to make friends. Of course we are all links in the chain; what affects one affect= s all, in degree. Each one who endeavors to help others in any real way puts himself in the place where he must take reactions..." F P 205-6 Desire and Will "Will is the exhaustless possession of man of this our plane of consciousness. It divides him from the brute in whom instinctive desire only is active. Desire, in its widest applications, is the one creative force in the Universe. In this sense it is indistinguishable from Will; but we men never know desire under this form while we remain only men. Therefore Will and Desire are here considered as opposed. Thus Will is the offspring of Desire, the God in man; Desire the motive power of the animal life. Most men live in and by desire, mistaking it for will. But he who would achieve must separate will from desire, and make his will the ruler; for desire is unstable and ever changing, while will is steady and constant= . Both will and desire are absolute creators, forming the man himself and his surroundings. But will creates intelligently=09 --desire blindly and unconsciously. The man, therefore, makes himself in the image of his desires, unless he creates himself in the likeness of the Divine, through his will, the child of the light. His task is twofold: to awaken the will, to strengthen it by use and conquest, to make it absolute ruler within his body; and, parallel wit= h this, to purify desire. Knowledge and will are the tools for the accomplishment of this purification." -- HPB Lucifer I p. 96 "When desire is for the purely abstract--when it has lost all trace or tinge of "self"--then it has become pure. The first step towards this purity is to kill out the desire for the things of matter, since these can only be enjoyed by the separated personality. =09 The second is to cease from desiring for oneself even such abstractions as power, knowledge, love, happiness, or fame; for they are but selfishness after all. Life itself teaches these lessons; for all such objects of desire are found Dead Sea fruit in the moment of attainment. This much we learn from experience. Intuitive perceptions seizes on the positive truth that satisfaction is attainable only in the infinite; we will make that conviction on actual fact of consciousness, till at last all desire is centered on the Eternal." -- HPB Lucifer I p 133 "...the Logos or Word is called incarnate wisdom. "Light shining in darkness." The distinction lies between the immovable or eternal immutable All, and the movable Speech or Logos, i.e., the periodical and manifested. It can relate to the universal and the manifested. It can relate to the Universal, and to the individual mind, to Mahat, or to the Higher Manas, or even to the lower, the Kama Manas or Brain-Mind. Because that which is desire, instinctive impulse in the lower, becomes thought in the Higher. The former finds expression in acts, the latter in words. Esoterically, thought is more responsible and punishable than act. But exoterically it i= s the reverse. Therefore, in ordinary human law, an assault is more severely punished than the thought or intention, i.e., the threat, whereas Karmicall= y it is the contrary." TRANS 142 Desire and Passion "This desire for a sentient life shows itself in everything, from an atom to a sun, and is a reflection of the Divine Thought propelled into objective existence, into a law that the Universe should exist...the real cause of that supposed desire, and of all existence, remains for ever hidden, and its first emanations are the most complete abstractions mind ca= n conceive. [which]... must of necessity be postulated as the cause of the material Universe which presents itself to the senses and intellect...It is impossible to conceive of anything without a cause...metaphysical abstractions...are the only conceivable cause of physical concretions." S D I 44-5 "In every purpose of the senses are fixed affection and dislike. A wise man should not fall in the power of these two passions, for they are the enemies of man. ... [ Arjuna asks: why is man propelled to commit offenses against his will and as if constrained by some secret force. Krishna answers] ... "It is lust that instigates him. It is passion, sprun= g from the quality of rajas, (28) insatiable and full of sin. Know this to be the enemy of man on earth... By this-- the constant enemy of the wise man, formed from desire which rageth like fire and is never to be appeased--is discriminative knowledge surrounded. Its empire is over the senses and organs, the thinking principle and the discriminating faculty also; by means of these it cloudeth discrimination and deludeth the Lord of the body...at the very outset restraining thy senses, thou shouldst conquer thi= s sin which is the destroyer of knowledge and of spiritual discernment." GITA, p. 27-8 Psychic Powers "To attempt to acquire the use of the psychic powers for mere curiosity or for selfish ends is also dangerous for the same reasons as in the case of mediumship. As the...present day is selfish to the last degree and built on the personal element, the rules for these powers in the right way have not been given out, but the Masters of Wisdom have said that philosophy and ethics must first be learned and practiced before any development of the other department [psychism] is indulged in... Equally improper is the manner of the scientific schools which...indulge in experiments in hypnotism in which the subjects are injured for life...=20 "The Lodge of the Masters does not care for Science unless it aims to better man's state morally as well as physically, and no aid will be given to Science until she looks at man and life from the moral and spiritual side. For this reason, those who know all about the psychical world, its denizens and laws, are proceeding with a reform in morals and philosophy before any great attention will be accorded to the strange and seductive phenomena possible for the inner powers of man." OCEAN, p. 152 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D THE UNITED LODGE OF THEOSOPHISTS, 245 West 33rd. Street, Los Angeles, Ca., 90007. [ Phone: (213) 847-7422 ] Abnormal Psychology Additional References East and West Psychology - moral states G. Notes 24-5 153 197 Individualism & Egoity . . . S D II 484 Ego is the Real Man & fills gaps in psychology HPB ULT Pamphlet #3, p. 20 & Fathoming the Psychology Sciences Individuality and Personality clear Key, 32-3 Interrelation, Spiritual, psycho. mental SD I 226 East & West psychology Lucifer 3, 347 133 Inner and Outer Voice Isis II 25 Theos. is the exact Science of Psychology. HPB Art I p. 46 Insanity & consciousness between mind & body disrupted Thy Mag 20, 90-2 Ambition and Psychological imbalance Thy. Mag 21, p. 328 Insanity . . . . . . Ocean p. 57 Is II 589 M L 170 173-4 "Protean Soul" Psychic Astral is basis for physical man SD II 728 Astral Double - Plastic - Spleen Key 121 Fifth State Matter . . . SD I 330 SD II 135 Obsession & Possession Isis II 590 Thy 19, p. 125 T M 46-p. 386 Oracles & Obsessions WQJ Art I 483-4 Thst. 3- p. 227-8 Remedy for Obsession Thst I p. 207-8, 399-400 CWB 2- 395-400 Body Soul & Spirit relationship Isis I 291-305 Isis I 371-2 Psychic Embryos, Elementals . . Isis 310-12 Skill in expelling Elementaries . Isis II 194 5 Yrs Thy 54 Soul-death . . .. Isis I 290 319 368-9 589 Necromancy. Evocations, Blood, Revenge Isis II 568-71 Wandering astral form . . . Isis II 588-9 Why Psychic Sensitivity in America . Is II 18-9 Cycles of Psychism - Change of State Is I 274-6 HPB ULT Pamph. # 3m p. 20 Cause of Giddiness . .. . Isis I 500-1 Somnambulism Glos. 305 Is II 23 HPB II 491-4 291-4 378-9 596 5 Yrs. Thy. p. 13 People of the Blue Mountains p. 219 Diktamon plant cures Somnambulism Glos. 102=20=20 ULT Pamph. # XI, p. 9-10; ULT Pamph. # 25 p. 4 Astral current affecting sensitive Echoes 56 Prac. Occ. 196 Incubus, Succubus Glos 154 364 Thy 1- p.425-6 Lucif 3, p. 131 TM Vol 15 - p. 49 V. 24 - p. 94=20=20 Thy 5, p. 489, Thy 1, p. 425 Isis I 356-7 276 xxx 319 368-9 Raja Yoga p. 78-82 Mod. Panarion p. 149-150 79 139 154 219=20 SD I 439fn Pisachas . Glos 254 ML 107, 110, Thy 2, p. 425 Suicides . . ML 109 Glos 336 Nightmare Trans. 77 Anganta Yene Glos 378-9 Magnetic Susceptibility T M 58- p. 133 Immediate reincarnation of idiots & children ML 172 [How Thoughts Influence Another Mind] M. Pan. 481 Dreamland and Somnambulism M. Pan. 482 Addendum [ Some Comments ] Psychology or the Study of Mind and the Desire Nature. A study in the communication between Ego, Astral and Physical=20 ____________ "Mankind, psychically considered is divided into various groups, each of which is connected with one of the Dhyanic groups that first formed psychic man. ( see SD I 213-221 )" SD I 559 _____________ We may say that the Atma (spirit) is considered a "ray" of the Absolute, or the Universal One Self. In manifestation, it serves as an educator to draw ever increasing independence of consciousness out of the myriad life-atoms around it. Those closely associated with the self-consciousness of mankind, are called the skandhas of previous experience and they embody the memory, as well as the Karma, and await the reincarnating Ego at the end of pralaya, at the end of Devachan, and, in daily life, awakening from deep sleep, they serve to again link the immorta= l Real Man to the physical man (personality), where choice, as an educational tool, is now operative. This is the moral context of our lives. This transcends all limitations of birth, education, religion, caste, sex, etc..= . These "life-atoms" are themselves immortal Monads, but of a lesser degree of experience. Thus the Buddhic "skandhas" ( wherein reside all the memory of past experience ) is first assembled as vehicle for the "Ray--the Atma," and serves It as an envelope at that stage. At the next stage, a second class of skandhas envelop it which serve it in its relation to its ability to perceive and to act consciously at the level of intelligence being developed in the material universe.=20=20 [ see SD I 112-21, 221 ] These may be called the Higher Manasic skandhas [ HPB Art. III p. 265 ]. Thus the Higher Triad, or the Real Man (Atma-Buddhi-Manas) enters the evolutionary stage, to resume and continue its duties in the material ( Monads of a lesser degree of experience) assembled by Nature under Karma that is this Manvantara--the fresh Evolutionary plane. [ see SD I 218-9 ] These are Monads that can be called the "fully awake ones." They are the "graduates" from earlier manvantaric cycles. They are called the Manasa. [ The Monads that provide individuality to each human can be calle= d Monads who are occasionally "awake." Those Monads which provide the vehicles of the lower quaternary--described below--may be termed Monads tha= t are "asleep" for the whole of this Manvantara. ] Simultaneously, from the side of the material pole, under the impulse of nature's Law of Karma, the "life-atoms" [ or "sleeping monads" ] that have "returned" from previous manvantaras, progress from the amorphous condition of the "monadic essence" into the condition of separate , animating "force centers." As time passes, ever higher degrees of intelligence are seen to have been developed in the past into degrees that can be broadly classified as, from elementals, minerals, plants, animal--these differences being related to the quality of intelligence resident in those particular forms. Each shows ,in comparison with others = a developing progression in their intelligent capacity and refinement in relation to the rest. [ see SD I 217-221 ] At the mid-way point of the current (or of any ) Manvantaric evolution, comes the time when the monads that animate the "higher animal forms" (those have the highest capacity of instinct in the most refined physical matter so far produced) are "lit-up" with the gift of mind. This animation is achieved by th