Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00000)

>> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Reitemeyer" wrote:

> What is that for an idiotic poppycock?
> Fairy tales for hysterical, non-thinking male and female aunts.

It doesn't look like valueable kind of refutation.
Though HPB gave no such teaching, yet the idea about ego acting 
through the thoughtforms doesn't contradict it and may be taken as a 
hypothesis, untill it shall be replaced by a better one.

HPB wrote: "The Devachanee lives its intermediate cycle between two 
incarnations surrounded by everything it had aspired to in vain, and 
in the companionship of everyone it loved on earth. ...
Q. But this is more than simple delusion, it is an existence of insane 
hallucinations!
A. From your standpoint it may be, not so from that of philosophy. 
Besides which, is not our whole terrestrial life filled with such 
delusions?" (Key to Theosophy)

Devachanic existence really is no more an illusion than our earthly 
existence, but most of us would agree that the latter gives us the 
useful experience needed for our evolution.
Now, as according to HPB average devachanic state lasts more that 1000 
years and we pass most of our time there, it is impossible that we 
passed all that time quite in vain. There should be no obsolete parts 
in nature, and devachanees and their thoughtforms, (for the quotation 
suggests the idea of thoughtforms), seem to be exactly such obsolete 
and idle parts, unless we admit that they undergo some evolution.
The proposed idea with ego acting in thoughtform as far as the 
perfectness of the form permits it seems quite reasonable for it 
provides fastest possible evolution for all egos involved, and also 
explains HOW the devachan is not more illusion than a physical life.
Wee see the thoughtforms of our friends according to our ideas about 
them, and their egos can act through them while it conforms our 
notions about them, so they cannot hurt us, yet they can do for us 
anything good that we permit.
The ego in devachan cannot communicate with the earth plane, as HPB 
rightly remarks, but it doesn't interfere it to communicate on its own 
plane - in that extent which its own illusions permit. The 
thoughtforms seem to be the natural filter for this action. We have 
such a filter on the physical plane, it's our body imposed by our 
physical karma, so why there can't be a similar filter created by 
other kind of our karma?

There are no proof for this theory, yet it seems to me quite plausible 
untill the better one will be proposed.