Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00183)

Dallas offers:


FUNDAMENTALS:

HPB in THE MIND IN NATURE  [LUCIFER, Sept 1896 -- ULT HPB
Articles Vol. 2, p. 220-221] offers a most important and thought
provoking survey of these which we ought to become familiar with.


"Based on...the ancient Mysteries...all without one exception ,
reflect the most important of the once universal beliefs...as an
IMPERSONAL, DIVINE PRINCIPLE, absolute in Nature, and UNKNOWABLE
to the "brain" INTELLECT, or the conditioned and limited man.

To imagine any witness to it in the manifested universe, other
than as UNIVERSAL MIND, the SOUL of the UNIVERSE--is impossible.

That alone which stands as an undying and ceaseless evidence and
proof of that ONE PRINCIPLE, is the presence of an UNDENIABLE
DESIGN in KOSMIC MECHANISM, the birth, growth, death, and
transformation of EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, from the silent and
unreachable stars down to the humble lichen, from an to the
invisible lives, now called microbes.

Hence the universal acceptation of "THOUGHT DIVINE." The Animal
Mundi of all antiquity.

This idea of MAHAT (the great) AKASHA or Brahma's aura of
transformation with the Hindus, of ALAYA, "the DIVINE SOUL of
thought and COMPASSION" of the trans-Himalayan  mystics;  of
Plato's "PERPETUALLY REASONING DIVINITY," is the oldest of all
the doctrines now known to, and believed in, by man...."   --HPB
:  THE  MIND IN NATURE  -  Lucifer Sept. 1896;  ULT HPB's
Articles II 220-221.

Everything relates, finally, to these.  Any question or answer in
theosophy relates to these for its basis.  We ought to make it a
habit of tracing the connections when faced with a puzzle.

Best wishes,



D. T. B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerome Wheeler [mailto:ultinla@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 2:18 PM
To: basic@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-basic] General Question for S.D. Enthusiasts

Usually when three fundamentals are pointed to, it seems to be
assumed that their formal rendition occurs in the SECRET
DOCTRINE, Vol. I,  from pp. 14 thru 17 (or possibly first break
on 18), yet HPB does not actually conclude her presentation until
first break on p. 20.

Is it a lapse to not use these last several pages, or is it our
lack of
clear understanding why all this material is included under
Proposition
(c) --- or what students call "the third fundamental."

I have often wondered if the third is not the most difficult of
all.
It's easy enough to say "life, law, & being" or "deity, cycles,
and
evolution," but then there's the gnawing sensation that you
haven't made
living beings of these sounds-in-the-air.

Godel's theorem probably applies to the third, and perhaps the
first as
well.

The unspeakables in this seeker's brain are so huge that I can
only agree
with the Chinese philosopher Chuang, who said that "the things
that men
do know can in no way be compared, numerically speaking, to the
things
that are unknown."

Yet, despite the rudimentary nature of our understanding, even
that
little justifies their inherent reasonableness and the power they
have to
throw light upon daily problems as they arise.  Their truth
becomes
evident by USE rather than brain-elucidation.





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