Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00125)

Katinka,
No, I was not making "Deity" a necessity. But in terms of the 
Radio Host and
the audience and their spectrum of reality, as most are Western oriented, 
the 
postulation of Deity viz Force or Nature was found topically by both the 
Host and
the Listeners that called in to his show. In my opinion the "Seven Fold 
Economy of
Being" of Theosophy ably indicates why the spectrum of paradigms presence 
and
present to Mankind the many advocacy's that include Religion, Deity, Gods, 
Demigods
and all the rest throughout the Millennia. I like Patanjali, and Adwaita 
and find easy
agreement with the assertions and postulates as to the Lower-Higher Mind 
and the 
Realms of same, and also the Postulation as to Non-Mind and beyond. This 
creates
a terrible conflict in the Mind of Humankind since the only means they 
conceptually
can agree to biologically, physically and intellectually is that nothing 
can exist without mind. But the Metaphysics have said and asserted that beyond 
mind there is
found the Formless Realm, and beyond that Pure Being, somewhere I remember 
the
phrase "The Mind is left at the Doorsill." To me at least a concept that 
Beingness in
Original Nature has no need of any additional means such as "mind," an 
originated
instrumentality which serves as a "Via" for the descent. I will probably be 
much
castigated for my remarks but be that as it may at least I state my view. 
To me
whether there be Force, Nature, Deity or whatever, what is having 
perception and
consummate individual agreement about such is the "conditioned mind(s) of 
Mankind."
In my view when Radha passed it was both predictable and utterly 
unavoidable that
the various affinitized groupings of the members gravitated and found each 
other, and
finding common grounds and affinities that were reflexive to the dominant 
elements
of their Seven Fold Economy they then redirected the flow of their common 
energy
and common minded preferences and agreements into new Lodges that would
example the same. So a classic historical pattern of reorganization 
appeared, at least
in my view.

John