Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01393)

Carlos,

We could probably express the activity of plants with a different 
word than one which connotates rewards and punishments and decisions 
about personal worth. We could possibly agree that plants have 
consciousness, that everything has, indeed is, consciousness. The 
plant world is ruled by the elementals, who function according to the 
law of their nature, as indeed does every living thing, except 
perhaps mankind. They do not need to make decisions about anything. 
If there is adequate habitat, they flourish, if not, they do not. But 
they grow and bloom according to their ability to do so. Plants do 
not have self-consciiousness, which is to say, they are not conscious 
that they are conscious. The same is true of evey manifestation of 
nature until we come to mankind. Only we, in all creation, know that 
we know, and only we, there for, have the right, and the 
responsibililty, to choose what course to take in our every thought, 
word and deed. We too do best if we function in accord with the law 
of our nature (Unity of all Life, Love, Brotherhood, Altruism, things 
like that) but we frequently choose otherwise, hence the karmic 
tangle we currently find ourselves in. We can learn a lot from the 
plants, who simply live, expressing their gratitude in the beauty and 
healthy environment they so lavishly create for us to live in. 

On 30 Nov 2006 at 10:41, carlosaveline wrote:

> Cass, 
> 
> You said well, your plants do not APPEAR to judge. 
> 
> There are two reasons  why you don't SEE the judgements made by your plants.  
> 
> One is that you did not read and meditate on Plotinus or the "Secret Doctrine" enough.  
> 
> The second is that you do not talk to your plants. 
> 
> I don't do such a talking,  but many women do with good results in plant-growing. My wife, a Taurean, earth-sign,  also communicates with them much better than I, in an objective level.   I share feelings with them in a much more abstract, but equally real, dimension.  You should read the 1980s best-seller book "The Secret Life of Plants". And other works along that line.     
> 
> As we live in a rural property, we can see the energetic difference between city and living, intelligent nature!  
> 
> Besides, and talking more "three-dimensionally",  you would be surprised to see what a tree and other plants can do in order to survive and to get better nourishment.  
> 
> They do not have to think as we do to "get the best alternative" of action.   Yet they get it. 
> 
> From the mineral level, the universe is an alternating process of attraction and rejection, and there is something of judgement, or choice, about that. 
> 
> Carlos. 
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