THEOSOPHY teaches the progressive development of everything, “worlds as well as atoms,” according to The Secret Doctrine.
This “stupendous development,” say the ancient sages, “has neither conceivable beginning nor imaginable end.”
To them, our ‘Universe’ is “only one of an infinite number of Universes, all links in the great Cosmic chain of Universes.”
In this view, each individual cosmos, or single human life, is the effect of its predecessor. Under karmic law, “a cause as regards its successor.”
If lifetimes and universes are like schools, then the classrooms are stages of consciousness, pushing us to ever greater self-awareness and spiritual development—only if we are wise enough to pursue that path.
Thus our lives are complex creations, a series of “progressive awakenings,” enhanced drop by drop, by our individual, family, racial, national and global karmas.
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Every person settles into his or her own unique rhythm in which a lifetime meditation reflects a mix of past karma, and present choices.
We are all at slightly differing points on an ascending evolutionary arc, paying off old debts, making new ones—pushing forward or slipping back, and the mind awakens to new realities.
The choices that shape our character each lifetime, are self-chosen—compounded of physical, sensory, emotional, mental, psychic and spiritual energies.
The ancient Egyptian judgement after death, symbolically weighed the individual’s heart against the “feather of truth.”
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The challenges of life, the occult doctrine notes, are the result of our being stuck in a personal plane of consciousness, a world view. Whatever that may be, “both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.”
Weighing the Heart
Then, as our spiritual insight grows, “we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities.”
“…and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached ‘reality’—”
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TODAY is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, which means it’s the longest day of the year in 2011. 
BETWEEN Science and Theology is a bewildered public, fast losing all belief in man’s personal immortality, in a deity of any kind, and rapidly descending to the level of materialism.
WRESTING consciousness from the lords of scientific reductionism, where it has languished for decades, takes an imaginative and fearless investigator.
MAINSTREAM
ELECTRICAL and magnetic signatures are generated, occult teachers say, whenever there is physical touch, the sound of a voice, or even a meaningful look
MOST of us are so preoccupied with future expectations, we fail to see what’s right in front of us.
EMILY BEAR (born August 30, 2001) is a pianist and composer from Rockford, Illinois. Wikipedia notes: 
RULING the Earth is not the god gravity, as taught by modern science, but something much more powerful, and even closer to home.
EASTERN metaphysics proposes the existence of an astral substance, or matrix, patterning the physical world.
ATLANTIS sank beneath the ocean waves before its time, say occult records, due to the depravity of many of its inhabitants. 
EVERY year on what is called White Lotus Day, May 8th theosophists all over the world celebrate, the anniversary of the passing of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society.
