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RE: THAT AND THE LAW OF LOVE -- How we 'create' ourselves

Dec 06, 2000 04:22 AM
by dalval14


December 5, 2000

 

DearGene:

 

Sounds interesting.  May I add a fewmore thoughts that you evoked in mine when reading it?

 

 

But the MIND (in incarnation in a physical body, such as we all inhabit) is dual. 

 

1.  Higher -- unified, spiritual, wise, benevolent, virtuous, mindful of Law, etc..  and

 

2.  Lower --  inchoate, selfish, sometimes vicious,  secretive and loves to break the Law if it can remain unseen and “get away with it” , etc…

 

It (the MIND) serves as a bridge (Theosophy says) between the Spiritual and the Material ( the 2 “opposite Poles” of “manifestation.)  1.  On oneside it is linked to the divine and PERMANENT in NATURE.  2.  On theother end it is linked to the privations and limitations of matter and for and a whole education (for its present life-time) to a particular name, race, religion, culture, science and all the limitations and possible errors that have been attached to those (as well as the good things too -- but it takeseffort to impersonalize and universalize concepts.  I think we are trying to do this and adjust our vocabularies.

 

I hope you may agree with me that there has to be a third and an impartial FACTOR: 

 

There is obviously,  and clearly (to me)  the WITNESS, or that which is essential and basic in us, which is the ruler and director of the mind.  The Mind is a wonderful TOOL.  But the “I” within directs and controls its activities.  I recognize that the “wind of desire” can sweep up the unstable mind and “carry it away.” 

 

The problem with DESIRE is that without the mind, it cannot foresee the resultsof its actions.  It is wrapped in its own motives, goals, pleasures and is careless of those of others.  [However, it is also interesting to note that in ordinary statute and law a basic premise is that every human is RESPONSIBLE for their actions, and ipso facto the conquest and control of their MIND and ACTIONS.]

 

While in a body the “Lower mind”  (usually ruled by desire, passion and selfishness) prevails.  But the “Higher Mind” is not entirely excluded -- or we could not be writing about it and seeking it, as we are here and now.

 

The Lower Mind perceives that it is unstable and (following desire and inclination) it is seen to flit from subject to subject.  How does it secure STABILITY, CONTROL, ONE-POINTEDNESS ?  It seeks a discipline that some one may have already established and looks around for traces of a “path.”  Does it not appeal for these more stable condition to its mentor the Higher Mind ? 

 

Mindyou, even if one receives advice “from within”  (conscience, intuition) the Lower mind may not “like it,” and may “reject it.”  Theosophy states that the “Higher Mind” of any human has the same qualities and characteristics to be found in every other -- it is shared.  This is the universal quality of the One Law of Evolution, and it is ruled by the UNIVERSAL AND DEATHLESS SPIRIT.  In this we are all BROTHERS -- and the aim of Theosophy is to make this plain to those who desire to prove that for themselves.

 

Those who consider themselves philosophers or “friends who are seekers for Truth” are usually in such a position.

 

To clear the air, one might engage in the following consideration:

 

 

BEFORE, DURING and AFTER MANIFESTATION there is always the immutable, immeasurable,

                        Background -- called in THEOSOPHY SD terms  ( Vol. 1 )

 

            ABSOLUTE or ABSOLUTENESS, or DARKNESS (no contrasts, no light generator). 

                        THAT which has neither attributes nor limitations, nor may IT have any. [T. Glos  4]

 

                        In Hinduism

 

            PARABRAHM  --  attributeless, Secondless REALITY, impersonal, Nameless,

                        universal PRINCIPLE   [ T. Glos  248 ]

 

            PRABHAVAPYAYA  - whence all things originate andinto which all things resolve at the

                        End of the LIFE-CYCLE.  [ T. Glos. 259 ]

 

            PRAKRITIKA PRALAYA  --  which succeeds the Age of Brahma,then all that exists is

                        Resolved back into its primordial essence.  [ T. Glos  260 ]

 

            This is both the ZERO and the ONE when viewed from the plane of differentiation.  Hence the concept of the TWO ONES  (see SD I p.130 )

 

The Universal KARMIC LAW demands that DIFFERENTIATION and manifestation OCCUR AGAIN, (and then after a restorative rest, they recommence).  This creative and equilibrating factor cannot be eliminated from any concept, or review.  One may call it the inevitable PAST.  It implies that we will always be affected and influenced by all the choices we have made earlier, in this life or in earlier incarnations.  

 

We have left a “trail” of effects on the minute constituents of Nature and now they “follow us.”  We have to carefully free them of any deleterious impressions that we may have placed on them earlier.  In Hindu philosophy these are called the “aggregates”  (Monads of lesser experience, for which we are trustees and tutors) skandhas, samskaras, “little lives,” etc…

 

This implies earlier “Manifestations,” earlier “Differentiations.”   In those we lived and participated and left an impression of our work and management (ethical, moral, factual).  But this like an account carried forward means that our deeds of the past have to be HARMONIZED in the present and the future that is arriving up to us as we live. [ SD I 632 bottom ].

 

HARMONY is the ONE and SUPREME LAW in the ALL   [  SD II 420,  ML 141  SD I 632 ]

 

For our understanding of our current position, in general, a 3-fold evolutionary scheme is sketched in SD I 181-2 

                        SPIRITUAL                   or MONADIC  [ atma-Buddhi conjoined ]

                        INTELLECTUAL             or MANASIC (Mind)

                        PHYSICAL                    or TEMPORARY, ILLUSORY FORMS.

 

Corresponding to each of these are the actual entities who ‘live in’ and are ‘influenced by’ their             temporary sojourn in any set of situations. 

 

Prior to emergence from the ‘sleep’ of a great Maha-Pralaya, the UNIVERSE moved by the conjoined Karma of all the beings that participated in its earlier activities begins to stir, to become aware of the need to “awake” and to “resume”  -- just like a pupil stirs each morning and prepares for School.

[ see SD I 27-29 ]  So every pupil/MONADin Nature begins to stir and prepare to work again in a fresh Manifestation through the path of evolution, and many reincarnations.

 

In the SD  H.P.B. uses the concept of the LOGOS  (word or verbum) as a symbol of that fundamental INTELLIGENCE  that pervades manifestation and all ex-istence.  It implies law, purpose, a plan, intelligence, benevolence, education, and all the many variants in life that are associated with thought and feeling working and living in a “form.”   

 

Situationally, this would include us as well as all MONADS that are rising through the rungs and levels that are provided for individual experience, to the independence of self-consciousness --  that is the human estate.  (Our human condition.) 

 

Passing through the “human estate” (graduating) are MONADS that assume wider and deeper responsibilities based entirely on their mastery of knowledge, law, wisdom, benevolence, charity, virtue, and brotherhood.  [ Names given to this series of “super-men” are “ Elder Brother, initiate, Adept, Master of Wisdom, Buddha, Rishi, Mahatma, etc… A whole host of beings that have vaster duties than ours to occupy their time and attention, although some of them continue to assist mankind in its development.  We owe the SD and Theosophy to the work and benevolence of such beings.  They we revere as our teachers and as Masters of Wisdom and of Compassion.]

 

She speaks of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd LOGOS.  She seems to assign definite functions in time and activity

 

            UNMANIFESTED LOGOS           -  THE IDEAS AND PLANS OF A NEW MANIFESTATION

            MANIFESTING LOGOS              -  THE ACTUAL TRANSITION INTO MANIFESTATION

            MANIFESTED LOGOS               -  THE WHOLE OF MANIFESTATION AS IT NOW IS

 

The 1st Vol. of the SD  deals extensively with these ideas.  Additional information was given by H.P.B. to her pupils which you will find reprintedin a small book titled: TRANSACTIONS OF THE BLAVATSKY LODGE. 

 

There is much to study and think about and if one does this a little at a time, but steadily, the coherence of this vast scheme becomes ever clearer and more reasonable.  In the first instance one cannot “hurry” one’s own progress.  There is usually much to “undo.”  But there are also friends to whom we can entrust our perplexities, and as we advance, we develop our INTUITION and the channel to our own HIGHER MIND and HIGHER SELF (MONAD - ATMA/BUDDHI) can ever be widened.

 

I trust this may prove to be of some help.

 

Dallas

 

W. Dallas TenBroeck

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Carpenter [mailto:ecarpent@co.la.ca.us]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:25 PM
To: dalval14@earthlink.net
Subject: THAT darn LOVE

 

Hi Dallas,

 

Yes.  I'm dealing with a translation of Hwa Yen and small parts.  I'm looking to understanding the first three sets: zero, one and two and their intimate relationships.  This is my primary focus.  Then and only then do I look to the fragmentary and translated portions of what is to me an overcomplicated and hyper-intellectual and out-of-the-reach of ordinary minds philosophy.  I much prefer HPB.  But I'm making my own way.  I sit and rest and become less and less interested in opinions and other distractions.  I'm learning not to clutter my mind.  I love a clear mind even if there is nothing in it!  Especially when there is nothing in it!

 

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DTB      Managing the mind is better than blanking it.  The attractions and distractions of the LOWER MIND need to be controlled (suppressed for a while).  This enables the HIGHER MIND (that deals with universals, ideals, virtues, constructive work, etc..) to do its work.  In either case YOU the WITNESS and the PERCEIVER are inevitably active overseeing the work that the mind does, and YOU are the one controlling its work.  This is the POSITIVE WORK each has to learn to do.  The“blanking the mind” is purely NEGATIVE and produces nothing that is of any future value.

 

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I really shouldn't have used the word it.  I should use the word THAT.  I know.  I sort of like to tease it by being overly informal.  Somehow I don't think it minds.

 

The mind needs integration.  All these infinite states of consciousness need drawing up together into seven states, then three and then just one and then the one fades to nothing.  Love does this.  Love is THAT to which I refer.  Love:  THAT which is beyond words, beyond all possible thought . . . .by definition.  Para Atma.  Group Consciousness.

 

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DTB    Consider your own words and their implications.  LOVE is an emotion.  It merely says I need “this or that” because without it I FEEL incomplete.  Is this an actual necessity?  Does it express what the FREE IMMORTAL SELF needs ? 

 

We need to find out what are our NEEDS vs. what are our “wants.”  [ Maslow has given us a valuable table on these. ]

 

What is the nature of the SELF -- not just the words that others have used, but those which we can apply to IT (within us)  -- we have to perceive its presence within and realize that IT is ONE WITH THE GREAT “ALL.” 

 

Each of us is an IMMORTAL, not separate but an indissoluble part of the ALL.

 

GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS ?  Is it that of the ETERNAL or of the “herd ?”  Secure a grip on understanding the duality of the Mind, and then watch it working in yourself. 

 

The only way anyone can progress is by self-effort.  We teach ourselves.  Even if we adopt the concepts and disciplines that others offer (or sell ?) it is WE (alone) who make decisions as to use and application.  Even the decision to “do nothing” is still a DECISION.  And we MAKE IT.

 

All advances in life are the result of positive actions.  No one ever gains anything from “reliance on others,” no matter how great ethically and morally they may be.  Every man makes himself, gradually but surely into that which he really sets up as his ideal.  Mental visualization follows the CHOICE OF A GOAL.  So we have to be very careful -- which is what Theosophy teaches from one end to the other.  It acts like a mirror and shows us what and how we are.

[see SD II 176:  “Desire first arose in IT, …. “]  Read this most carefully, and also the comments in SD II 578-9.

 

On the importance of the MONAD - (or ATMA/BUDDHI)  (as the indestructible and intelligent building-blocks of all Nature)  --  SD I 613 to 634.

 

 

 Best wishes,

 

Dal     

 

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Gene


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