Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00127)

July 13 2002

Theosophy avers there are laws upon laws as everything
arises from some priority. Our minds cannot stretch that
far back and we end saying : reality evades definition.
Yet some "background" appears to serve as a base. why
should we call it "Maya ?" Why not ascribe to it the
designation of "REALITY, and this, our present ever shifting
existence is only the passage of a stable and immortal
CONSCIOUSNESS through the changing panorama of forms and
places -- somewhere there is a comprehensive and a
comprehensible stability. But, WHERE ?

Theosophy says the imperishable and eternal record of all
levels of experience is indelibly impacted and recorded in
the AKASA. Is that not a record of REALITY and of prior
existence and experience?

The string, or chain, or sequence is endless looking
backwards.

Looking forward we have the assurance that logically
reincarnation will continually place our INDIVIDUALITY ( our
CONSCIOUSNESS) into another body (under Karma) and we will
continue our pilgrimage.

So we might conclude that present existence is the result of
an infinity of past experiences in "Mother" NATURE. And her
capacity for adjustment in a search for harmony is infinite.
This is the basis for Karma: Harmony is to be restored.
There is always the adjusting of the WHOLE, for the benefit
of every "part" of that one "whole." In this process the
adjustment educates the "part" into a position where it
becomes a volunteer and a cooperator with Nature -- and so
doing, it becomes wise and powerful.

And that WHOLE remains ever undefinable in the terms of the
"finitudes" of our present intellect and perceptions.

At least, that is how I see it.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mic Forster
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 6:43 PM
To:
Subject: On law ND laws -- a quote from Kant

The following quote was obtained from Parrini (1994)
Kant and Contemporary Epistemology, p. 203:

"By nature, in the empirical sense, we understand the
connection of appearances as regards their existence
according to necessary rules, that is, according to
laws. There are certain laws which first make a nature
possible, and these laws are a priori. Empirical laws
can exist and be discovered only through experience,
and indeed in consequence of those original laws
though which experience itself first became possible."

So if laws originate a priori then how can we
determine whether these laws actually exist or a
merely products of pre-existing laws which were
discovered a priori? Touch of maya in there somewhere,
I am sure.

mic

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