Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00329)

Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
>
> The study of the narrative given in very great detail in SECRET DOCTRINE
> Vol. 2 requires careful and detailed study.  Brenda has done a splendid job
> summarizing some of the details as I read her postings.  I feel that what
> HPB states early in Vol. 1, p. 181 as to the 3 streams of evolutionary
> progress that merge in humanity is important to grasp at the changes in 1.
> Form; 2. psychology (the conflict for dominance between our emotional and
> our mental natures), and, 3. the Egoic-Spiritual (or "Monadic" ( as the
> study of the experiences that the ATMA-BUDDHIC Monad seems to "supervise
> without interference" (as the HIGHER SELF) in each human.
>
> A review of the INDEX to the SD (not included in the back of Vol. 2 (but a
> separate book) gives greater detail and framing from which any aspect of
> these studies may be pursued.  But then it becomes very lengthy and
> difficult to give an accurate summary of.
>
> The best summary I know of is to be found in THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY by
> W.Q.Judge and is covered in a few pages.  See Chapters 2 and 3 covering the
> "Earth chain of Globes," and chapters 14 and 15 covering cycles of time and
> Evolution in general.  About 40 to 50 small pages, intensely packed and
> fully correlatable to the SD.  In even shorter compass, he covers the same
> ground in sections of the small book ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT (about 50
> pages), and even briefer in AN EPITOME OF THEOSOPHY which was originally
> published as a "Theosophical Tract," and received wide circulation in the
> early days of the Ts in America  (c. 1886-1896).

Have you read all those books? Do you want to get in on the disscussion
(in your own words and understanding) or do you just want to be
librarian?

Mark
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