The Red Book

Reprinted from The Red Book by C. G. Jung (c) Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung.

THOSE attracted to Theosophy and to Occultism are becoming every day more numerous. With every inquiry lies the potency and promise of genuine spiritual development.

The Masters of Wisdom in every age set up no barriers against any one’s approach. Their works and lives are not limited to adepts, saints, and the “purest of heart.”

The humblest searcher would not be made to feel discouraged by the sense of his own shortcomings, or by the perception of the difficulties at every step on his journey of self-realization.

This week we feature the work and life of one of the humblest and fearless of searchers, the renowned writer-artist-occultist-psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. The exhibit of his Red Book at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City ends January 25, 2010. Read more »

Buddha’s Big Fish

Buddha'sfaceCHOOSING Theosophical principles of Universal Unity and Harmony over brutality, the country of Bhutan has a developed “a unique way of judging the development of its society,” says the Humane Society International.

Bhutan accomplishes this, the Society reports, “by measuring its GNH (Gross National Happiness), rather than the more conventional GNP (Gross National Product).”

“In Bhutan the concept of GNH is based on the premise that, for human society, true progress takes place when material and spiritual advancement occur side by side, complementing and reinforcing each other.” Read more »

Roerich’s Shambhala

Nicholas RoerichOVER 120 years ago, it was Helena Blavatsky who introduced the legacy of Shambhala to Western seekers, otherwise it might have remained hidden in the domain of a few scholars. “Shambhala” means “source of happiness” in Sanskrit — “a place of peace and tranquility.”

James Hilton in 1933 further popularized the idea of Shambhala in his novel Lost Horizon about the mythical kingdom “Shangri-la.” Movies based on the novel in 1937, 1942, and 1952 introduced the “Shambhala” ideal to more people around the world than HPB might have ever imagined.

“Shamballa is the indispensable site where the spiritual world unites with the material one.”

-Nicholas & Helena Roerich

Google “Shambhala” today and you’ll get over a million hits of pages that explore the Buddhist legendary paradise that intrigues so many people now. Some endeavor to find its physical location — others seek it within themselves. Read more »

Sins of the Father

scroogeTHOUSANDS of honest employees in the Enron scandal revealed in 2001, paid dearly for the misdeeds at the top of their corporate leadership.

Maybe most of the non-managerial staff were “innocent” — possibly, others knew what was going on and remained silent.

Either way the lesson is clear: No one is safe working for a company that has lost its moral compass. But, whether or not this is fair, is not the issue.

A Puzzle

Such crimes trigger broader questions: “whose Karma is it anyway?” And: ” how can such behaviors be prevented in the future?”

If Exodus (34:6-7) was right, then “the children and the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations” will be revisiting the same transgression.

Can events suffered by one generation really affect future generationsis there no Karmic relief? Are we to be forever haunted by the specter of an Ebenezer Scrooge? Read more »

Orbs of Influence

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DEJA VU is an awakened familiar reminiscence of place, or in the case of meeting a stranger, an uncanny feeling of recognition.

We have an unmistakable sense of prior knowing that person or place — though the encounter is seemingly, in this life,  for “the first time.”

Invisible entities called “elementals” or “elementaries” in Theosophy, can be thought of as “orbs of influence,” in the sense that such hidden entities attach to and manifest hidden patterns of intention.

They are attracted to, mirror and preserve fields of information — reflecting the  influences, beneficent or maleficent, of persons, places and things. The Greeks called them Muses.

Similarly, “sacred space” and “spirit of place” are ideas that, for man, refer to a lingering spiritual resonance of certain locations. Read more »

A Modern Mesmer

HandsMESMEROMANIA is how the Paris press reported it. Parisians including the wife of King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette, were in love with a man by the name of Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815).

Mesmer was rich, in part because he married a rich widow but also because he became a successful Viennese physician.

He lived on a well-appointed estate and hosted the then young twelve-year-old musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart was introduced to Benjamin Franklin’s invention, the “Armonica,” by Mesmer, (who used it to ‘mesmerize’ his patients). The young Mozart composed a musical piece for Mesmer’s “Glass Armonica,” and later wrote a solo armonica piece, and a larger quintet for armonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello.

The Glass Armonica

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Mesmer was the darling of Parisian Elite Society in the 1780’s, a confidant of the super rich and super powerful.

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All over Paris, people were throwing themselves under trees Mesmer had ‘mesmerized.’ They would flail, convulse, scream and claim healing. Mesmer said he had a healing power in his hands, which he called “Animal Magnetism.”

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Mesmer practicing

Mysticism vs Scientism

This era was a period of questioning. Later historians would call it the age of enlightenment (18th century). This began a period where scientific method, as we know it today, was begun.

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Anton Mesmer

Science was not yet a specialized profession, and the term Scientist was not coined until 1833. Mysticism was gradually replaced with materialistic reductionism — or what Charles Tart terms “scientism.”

Today, hands-on-healing and Mesmerism, now called “bioenergy” healing, is enjoying a renaissance of interest and investigation.

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Zdenko Domančić

Zdenko Domančić

Domančić Bioenergy

The method of Domančić Bioenergy was developed over 30 years ago.

Curiously, Zdenko Domančić bears an uncanny likeness to Mesmer.

Its practitioners say:

“It is unique in its simplicity and effectiveness, scientifically validated and practiced all over the world. It restores health of adults and children, when other means fail.”

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The energetic body field or astral field, “has been known for ages to those who see with the inner eye,” W. Q. Judge wrote, and “will one day be discovered and admitted by science.” Mesmer was only a rediscoverer, H. P. Blavatsky declared.

Further, Judge says that mesmeric phenomena and be produced by “any healthy man or woman … if they will only try.”

Energy healing is not to be confused with activities of the “Higher Self” he says, adding:

“The grosser the operator the better, for thus there is more of the mesmeric force.”

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This healing art, William Q. Judge wrote in his article Mesmerism, “long antedates the days of Anton Mesmer,” and was known by many different names — though its methods and results were recognizably similar, he says.

“… sometimes the person operated on was seen to follow the hand of the operator, as if drawn like iron filings to a magnet. These are all used today by various operators.”

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Distance Healing

(See post: Mind Reading Mind)

“In 1639, one hundred years before Mesmer,” Judge explains, “a book was published in Europe upon the use of mesmerism in the cure of wounds, and bore the title, The Sympathetical Powder of Edricius Mohynus of Eburo.”

“These cures, it was said, could be effected at a distance from the wound by reason of the virtue or directive faculty between that and the wound.”

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix)

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A Subtle Form of Matter

“THE great question mooted,” Judge continues, “is whether there is or there is not any actual fluid thrown off by the mesmerizer. Many deny it, and nearly all hypnotizers refuse to admit it. H. P. Blavatsky declares there is such a fluid, and those who can see into the plane to which it belongs assert its existence as a subtle form of matter.

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“This fluid is composed in part of the astral substance around everyone, and in part of the physical atoms in a finely divided state. By some this astral substance is called aura. But that word is indefinite, as there are many sorts of aura and many degrees of its expression.

“This aura, then, is thrown off by the mesmerizer upon his subject,” Judge says, “and is received by the latter in a department of his inner constitution — never described by any Western experimenters, because they know nothing of it.”

Modern Mesmer: Zdenko Domančić

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Since 1993 Zdenko Domančić has been teaching his method at the Bioenergy Clinic in Slovenia – the largest center of this type in Europe. Thousands of people come there from all over the world for group therapy.

Over the years, Domančić has healed over million people, having received spectacular results in every classified disease.

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The success of the method (validated by scientists and medical commissions) has been reported in cases of diabetes, Parkinson’s, gangrene, Alzheimer and many other. The President of Slovenia awarded Domančić for his work.

Domančić takes part in research on HIV/AIDS at the Stanford University and in research on on cancer at the Institute of Oncology in Lubljana. Among his students and patients are among others: medical doctors, health workers, veterinarians and scientists.

The Olympic Sports Representation of Slovenia is treated at his clinic. The therapy can be practiced individually, in group sessions and by distance. It is very effective also in treatment of animals.

Chi, Qi, Prana, Akasa

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Theosophy of Healing

by William Q. Judge

W. Q. Judge

“It is easy enough for all proper purposes to mesmerize a subject by following what is already publicly known,” Mr. Judge says, and that

“By means of certain nerve points located near the skin the whole system of nerves may be altered in an instant, even by a slight breath from the mouth at a distance of eight feet from the subject.”

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“The skin includes the mucous, all membranes in the body, the arterial coats, and so on. The flesh takes in the nerves, the animal cells so-called, and the muscles. The bones stand alone.

“The blood has its cells, the corpuscles, and the fluid they float in.

“The organs, such as the liver, the spleen, the lungs, include skin, blood, and mucous. Each of these divisions and all of their subdivisions [of the Astral Body] have their own peculiar impressions and recollections, and all, together with the coördinator the brain, make up the man as he is on the visible plane.”

Healer: Stipe Domancic, son of Zdenko

Healer: Stipe Domancic, son of Zdenko

“These all have to do with the phenomena of mesmerism,” Judge writes, “although there are those who may think it not possible that mucous membrane or skin can give us any knowledge.

“But it is nevertheless the fact, for the sensations of every part of the body each affect cognition, and [especially] the experiences of the skin cells.”

H . P. Blavatsky on Mesmer

H. P. Blavatsky

H. P. Blavatsky

The Theosophical Glossary, by H. P. Blavatsky, gives this explanation of Mesmer:

“The famous physician who rediscovered and applied practically that magnetic fluid in man which was called animal magnetism and since then Mesmerism. He was born in Schwaben, in 1734 and died in 1815.

“He was an initiated member of the Brotherhoods of the Fratres Lucis and of Lukshoor (or Luxor), or the Egyptian Branch of’ the latter.

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Luxor

“It was the Council of “Luxor” which selected him — according to the orders of the “Great Brotherhood”— to act in the 18th century as their usual pioneer —  sent in the last quarter of every century to enlighten a small portion of the Western nations in occult lore.

“It was St. Germain who supervised the development of events in this case — and later Cagliostro was commissioned to help, but having made a series of mistakes, more or less fatal, he was recalled.

“Of these three men who were at first regarded as quacks, Mesmer is already vindicated. The justification of the two others will follow in the next century.

Panoramic view from the Askleipion on Kos

Panoramic view from the Askleipion on Kos

Mesmer founded the “Order of Universal Harmony” in 1783, in which presumably only animal magnetism was taught, but which in reality expounded the tenets of Hippocrates, the methods of the ancient Asclepieia, the Temples of Healing, and many other occult sciences.

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Holy Heretics

crocus_snow1IN ANY age, when doctrine becomes dogma, and when fanaticism compels lip service to exclusive group beliefs, the ideas of Theosophy seem buried and forgotten.

We discover, however, that this is never entirely the case.

The insurgencies of dogma and prejudice are like the frozen snows which hide the promise of spring. But seeds survive beneath the snow — and even during the darkest centuries of Western history, there was heat and warmth enough under the surface to allow some of these seeds to germinate.

In a sense, then, the history of the relationship between “heretics” and the “renaissance” is the history of every age.

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“We do not mean to take upon ourselves to defend the sects which inundated Europe at the eleventh century,” Helena Blavatsky wrote in Isis Unveiled (p. 326), “and which brought to light the most wonderful creeds. We limit our defense….

“…to those Christian sects whose theories were usually grouped under the generic name of Gnosticism. The Gnostics [who] appeared immediately after the alleged crucifixion, and lasted till they were nearly exterminated under the rigorous execution of the Constantinian law.”

Gnostic Mystery Schools
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“Had not the Christians burdened themselves with the Revelations of a little nation, and accepted the Jehovah of Moses, the Gnostic ideas would never have been termed heresies,” Blavatsky wrote.

“Once relieved of their dogmatic exaggerations the world would have had a religious system based on pure Platonic philosophy, and surely something would then have been gained.” – (Isis Unveiled, p. 155.)

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Gnostic gospels of Nag Hamadi

The Lost Gnosis

(Prof. Elaine Pagels)

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The Turning-Point

THE days of Constantine were the last turning-point in history, the period of the Supreme struggle that ended in the Western world throttling the old religions in favor of the new one, built on their bodies.

“This period, beginning with Buddha and Pythagoras at the one end and the Neo-Platonists and Gnostics at the other, is the only focus left in History wherein converge for the last time the bright rays of light streaming from the æons of time gone by, unobscured by the hand of bigotry and fanaticism.” (Secret Doctrine I, Introductory)

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The Suppression

THE history of the Albigenses may be said to be written in blood. At first the church was content to condemn their errors at various councils (1165, 1176, 1178, 1179), but as their practical opposition to Rome became stronger, more decided measures were taken. Innocent III had scarcely ascended the papal throne when he sent legates to Toulouse (1198) to endeavor to suppress the sect.

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Under the Roman Empire

The bloody war of extermination which followed has scarcely a parallel in history. As town after town was taken, the inhabitants were put to the sword ecclesiastics who were in the army especially distinguished themselves by a bloodthirsty ferocity. without distinction of age or sex, and the numerous

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The establishment of an Inquisition at Languedoc in 1229 accelerated the exterminating process, and a few years later, according to some historians, the sect was all but extinct. (Britannica, 9th Ed., “Albigenses”)

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The Inquisition

NOT only were all Christians made to feel that it was their highest duty to aid in the exterminations of heretics, but they were taught that they must denounce them to the authorities, regardless of all consideration, human or divine. No tie of kindred served as an excuse for concealing heresy.

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The son must denounce the father, and the husband was guilty if he did not deliver his wife to a frightful death.

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Every human bond was severed by the guilt of heresy — children were taught to desert their parents, and even the sacrament of matrimony could not unite an orthodox wife to a misbelieving husband.

No pledge was to remain unbroken. (Britannica, 11th Ed., “Heresy”)

One Mother-Trunk

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“We can assert, with entire plausibility, that there is not one of all these sects — Kabalism, Judaism, and our present Christianity included,” writes H. P. Blavatsky (Isis Unveiled 2:123):

“— but sprung from the two main branches of that one mother-trunk, the once universal religion, which antedated the Vedic ages — we speak of that prehistoric Buddhism which later merged into Brahmanism.”

Cracking the Gnostic Code

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Gnosis means spiritual knowledge while Gnosticism was an ancient pre-Christian form of esoteric wisdom. The speaker, John Algeo, refers to Gnostic texts translated by the 19th century Theosophist G. R. S. Mead, Mme. Blavatsky’s Secretary — and shows how the Gnostics coded their wisdom.

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ….

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“The world is not prepared yet to understand

… the philosophy of Occult Science – let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world … and that there are hidden powers in man …” (HPB Letters)

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“Races of men differ in spiritual ‘gifts

… as in color, stature, or any other external quality — among some peoples seership naturally prevails, among others mediumship.” (Isis Unveiled)

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Psychism, with all its allurements and all its dangers

… is necessarily developing among you, and you must beware lest the Psychic outruns the [mental] and spiritual development. Psychic capacities held perfectly under control, checked and directed by the [mind] principle, are valuable aids in development. But these capacities running riot, controlling instead of being controlled, using instead of being used, lead the student into the most dangerous delusions and the certainty of moral destruction.”
(To the American Conventions)

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“The acquisition of the highest knowledge and power

… require not only many years of the severest study …. and an audacity bent by no peril, but also as many years of retreat in comparative solitude, and association with but students pursuing the same object, in a locality where nature itself preserves like the neophyte an absolute and unbroken stillness, if not silence!” -  (H. P. Blavatsky)

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Free Hugs

HuggingKidsWE were inspired to update our last post after reading Helena Blavatsky’s words about true kindness — described as the “absence of every ill-feeling , selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings.”

The alchemy of these happiness charged ethics is easily seen when the power of goodwill is the primary ingredient in our everyday mix of feelings, thoughts and deeds.

Blavatsky writes:

“He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill — and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.”

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And, concerning our motives, her spiritual Master wrote:

“The practical value of good motives is best seen when they take the form of deeds…”

In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effect of the “Free Hugs campaign” became phenomenal:

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Your Health is At Risk

Hugs make us and others happy. Conversely, research shows that unhappy people:

♥ Have a greater risk of heart disease, strokes, hypertension, infections, and Type 2 diabetes.
Release more of the stress hormone cortisol.
Have a higher heart rate and may be at higher risk for heart attacks.
Are 65% more likely to get a cold.
Are less likely to find a spouse.
Live nine years fewer than their happy counterparts.

So… when you are happy, it’s always a win-win. You are likely to live longer — and you are more emotionally and physically healthy, creative, energetic, compassionate, and successful!

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Ethical Alchemy

spiritawakenedTHE perennial philosophy assures us that compassion is far from a gushy sentimentalism, or an intellectual idea.

More than a gut feeling, it is rather a universal, non-sectarian, non-dual energy — the primal oneness undertone of Life.

The Voice of the Silence declares it to be foundational heart energy, “the LAW of LAWS.”

We already share, as humanity, the core values of caring for others less fortunate. Rooting for the underdog comes naturally to us.

But, the prefix ‘com’ (with: together: jointly) raises com-passion to a level far above the acquisitive passion of the selfish and greedy — and the evil desire that dries up the Earth’s human and natural resources for individual and corporate profiteering.

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New Voices

“There is an urgent need for a new focus,” the global coalition Charter for Compassion seeks to remind the world — and to bring together “voices from all cultures and religions.”

The realization of universal brotherhood was championed by H. P. Blavatsky throughout her life, and is the First Object of the Theosophical Society. (Thoughts That Count)

There is, Blavatsky notes:

“A great psychic and spiritual change now taking place in the realm of the human soul.”

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Free Hugs Campaign

“Sometimes, a hug is all what we need,” says The Free Hugs Campaign. “Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.”

In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal.

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Concerning our motives, in Letter 7, Helena Blavatsky’s Master wrote:

“The practical value of good motives is best seen when they take the form of deeds…”

“As this symbol of human hope spread across the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign BANNED. What we then witness is the true spirit of humanity come together in what can only be described as awe inspiring:”

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“KINDNESS, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill — and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.” - H. P. Blavatsky

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Mme. Helena Blavatsky

Confucius and Plato, belonged psychically, mentally and spiritually to the higher planes of evolution,” Blavatsky maintained, and “Gautama Buddha —Wisdom incarnate — was still higher and greater.”

She saw that the seeds of a future Spiritual Evolution lay imprisoned alive in the heart of humanity. That growth was temporarily stifled in the Twentieth Century with the rise of wars, industrial greed, social strife, bigotry, crime and prejudice.

An indigenous materialism, strongly encamped in fundamentalist science and religion, still weaves a dark cloud that hovers precipitously over any Movement promoting change. Self-interest protects the status quo.

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The Golden Rule

Now, despite it all, social reformer Karen Armstrong sees evidence of a vitalizing “ethical alchemy” on the rise.

The Charter for Compassion speaks to the Ideal in straight-forward, practical terms, as did H. P. Blavatsky, who wrote “… the essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him.”

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The Charter brings together the voices of people from all religions. “It seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same,” but “they all share the core principle of compassion, and the Golden Rule.”

“The Charter seeks to change the conversation around religion, and will be a clarion call to the world.”

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Karen Armstrong

Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion’s role in the 21st century: “Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good?” She reviews the catalysts that can drive the world’s faiths to rediscover the Golden Rule. Join the world at charterforcompassion.com to write the Charter for Compassion.

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Spiritual Rights of Man

“Whoever feels his heart beating in unison with the great heart of humanity, whoever feels his interests at one with those who are poorer and less fortunate than himself,” Blavatsky wrote in The New Cycle

“Whoever, man or woman, is ever ready to lend a helping hand to those who suffer, whoever is fully conscious of the real meaning of ‘Egoism,’ is a Theosophist by birth and by right.”

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The sea change in humanity that Blavatsky foresaw “is quite remarkable” she said. It is a call to spiritual awakening which may be realized, finally, in our own Century. “Verily the Spirit in man,” she declared in her own time,

“so long hidden out of public sight has at last awakened. It now asserts itself and is loudly re-demanding its unrecognized yet ever legitimate rights. It refuses to be any longer trampled under the brutal foot of Materialism, speculated upon by the Churches.”

Peter Russell: The Global Brain

(Excerpt)

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In words that are sorely needed today, she continues:

“Take advantage of, and profit by, the ‘tidal wave’ which is now happily overpowering half of Humanity,” she said, and “speak to the awakening Spirit of Humanity, to the human Spirit and the Spirit in man, these three in One and the One in All.”

Her soaring prose, however, bore a cautionary footnote. “But woe to the XXth century,” she warned, “if the now reigning school of thought prevails, for Spirit would once more be made captive and silenced till the end of the now coming age.”

THE-BEHEADING

The Twentieth Century indeed found humanity held hostage—by two world wars and threats of war, and by suffering, disease, poverty — culminating today in a reign of terror, remembered only in the Medieval Dark Ages of burnings and beheadings.

Activating deep yearnings of the Soul for peace and harmony, is all that can save us from extinction.

Attitudes and Limitations

The tidal wave of deeper souls,
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares,
Out of all meaner cares.

LONGFELLOW

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“To a large extent, the way we think determines who we are and what happens to us.”

“We cannot harbor poisonous thoughts without their effects visibly showing in our lives. If we dwell on our inadequacy and ineffectiveness, for example, circumstances will prove us correct because we will invite self-defeating events to us.

“On the other hand, replacing destructive thoughts with hope-filled, optimistic ones brings peaceful and confidence-producing circumstances to us. We will radiate competence and joy.”

Story of Compassion: Samia Shoaib, Pakistan

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“We would be wise, therefore, to take the advice of twentieth century author Orison Swett Marden:

‘Stoutly determine not to harbor anything in the mind which you do not wish to become real in your life. Shun poisoned thoughts, ideas which depress and make you unhappy, as instinctively as you avoid physical danger of any find – replace all these with cheerful, hopeful, optimistic thoughts.

‘Today I will make it a habit to continually replace pessimistic thoughts with optimistic ones. I will dwell on what is uplifting so that I may increase my courage and confidence as well as better my circumstances.’

[Above are excerpts from the book The Reflecting Pond, by Liane Cordes]

The Reflecting Pond is a collection of meditations that takes one subject at a time and covers it in depth. Whether we have a concern about self-acceptance, fear, friendship, or love, there is a chapter full of understanding thoughts. Used as an extra dose of support on specific issues, this book will help us think through day-to-day living problems.

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Insights and Similarities

“The second objective of the Theosophical Society is the study of the world’s religions, philosophies, and sciences,” writes David Pratt. And, “Blavatsky played a pioneering role in introducing the west to the sacred traditions of the east”:-

“She also provided insights into the deeper meaning of myth, allegory, and symbolism. When stripped of their later dogmatic accretions, the world’s religions are found to have more similarities than differences: they recognize that our essential self is fundamentally identical with the Universal Self…

“They advocate the golden rule of universal love; and they speak of enlightened teachers Krishna, Buddha, Christ, etc. who have appeared on earth at different times and restated some of the fundamental spiritual values.”

The Gnostic Code

Excerpt from a talk by John Algeo of The Theosophical Society explaining how religion became a hindrance to humanity’s spiritual evolution instead of a healing force.

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The Tidal Wave

by H. P. Blavatsky

(Excerpts)

TODAY, the Spirit in man has returned like King Lear, from seeming insanity to its senses – and, raising its voice, it now speaks in those authoritative tones to which the men of old have listened in reverential silence through incalculable ages, until deafened by the din and roar of civilization and culture, they could hear it no longer. . . .

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Look around you and behold! Think of what you see and hear, and draw therefrom your conclusions.

The age of crass materialism, of Soul insanity and blindness, is swiftly passing away.

A death struggle between Mysticism and Materialism is no longer at hand, but is already raging. And the party which will win the day at this supreme hour will become the master of the situation and of the future – i.e., it will become the autocrat and sole disposer of the millions of men already born and to be born, up to the latter end of the XXth century.

And facing the hitherto domineering flood which is still steadily carrying off into unknown abysses the fragments from the wreck of the dethroned, cast down Human Spirit, they now command:

“So far hast thou come – but thou shalt go no further!”

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Amid all this external discord and disorganisation of social harmony; amid confusion and the weak and cowardly hesitations of the masses, tied down to the narrow frames of routine, propriety and cant – amid that late dead calm of public thought that had exiled from literature every reference to Soul and Spirit and their divine working during the whole of the middle period of our century – we hear a sound arising.

Like a clear, definite, far-reaching note of promise, the voice of the great human Soul proclaims, in no longer timid tones, the rise and almost the resurrection of the human Spirit in the masses.

It is now awakening in the foremost representatives of thought and learning – it speaks in the lowest as in the highest, and stimulates them all to action. The renovated, life-giving Spirit in man is boldly freeing itself from the dark fetters of the hitherto all-capturing animal life and matter.

Declan Galbraith: “Tell Me Why”

Declan was born on December 19, 1991 in ENGLAND, of Scottish AND Irish origin. More about him and his songs, can be found on his official website: http://www.declan-galbraith.co.uk/

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The New Cycle

by H. P. Blavatsky

(Excerpts)

WHOEVER feels his heart beating in unison with the great heart of humanity,

WHOEVER feels his interests at one with those who are poorer and less fortunate than himself –

WHOEVER, man or woman, is ever ready to lend a helping hand to those who suffer,

WHOEVER is fully conscious of the real meaning of “Egoism,” is a Theosophist by birth and by right.

If it is objected that in it the atheist rubs elbows with the deist, and the materialist with the idealist, we answer: “What of it?”

What matters the passing form if the goal pursued is the same Eternal Essence, whether that Essence appear to human perception under the guise of a Substance, of an immaterial Breath, or of a No-thing!

Let us admit the PRESENCE, whether called Personal God or Universal Substance, and let us admit a cause, since we all see effects.

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In the final analysis, the greatest of materialists, as well as the most transcendental of philosophers, admits the omnipresence of an impalpable Proteus, omnipotent in its ubiquity throughout all kingdoms of nature, including man – a Proteus indivisible in its essence, without form and yet manifesting itself in all forms—

Which is here, there, everywhere and nowhere, which is the All and the Nothing, which is all things and always One, Universal Essence which binds, limits and contains everything, and which everything contains.

Not only humanity– even though consisting of thousands of races – but all that lives and vegetates, all that in one word is, is made up of the same essence and substance, is animated by the same spirit, and that, therefore, there is solidarity throughout nature, on the physical as well as on the moral plane.

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We have already said in the Theosophist:

“Born in the United States of America, the Theosophical Society was constituted on the model of its mother country. The latter, as we know, omits the name of God from its constitution, lest, said the Fathers of the Republic, this word someday afford the pretext for a State religion – for they wanted to grant absolute equality in its laws to all religions so that all would support the State and all in their turn would be protected.”

The Theosophical Society was established on this beautiful model.

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Telepathy Effect

eyeEMBARRASSMENT can be, well, embarrassing — especially if you are a person who tends to blush publicly. A hint of a reproof, or an admiring stare might do it — and some would redden-up getting caught shoplifting a penny candy.

A display of chocolates in a store window might also get our blood pumping. We see them, we buy them, we eat them — all the while knowing they are bad for our teeth. Nothing paranormal about it you say.

“Sow a thought, reap an act” is a familiar mantra (Thoughts that Count), and it all begs the mysterious mechanism of just how thought energy can speak to the nervous system, and then − in milliseconds − cause a response in the physical body.

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The act of reaching for your toothbrush in the morning, for example, models a puzzle for all intention-response activity.

How does an intentionally cognitive, apparently intangible request to “reach for the toothbrush,” for example, energize the nerves and muscles in our arm and hand to perform this apparently telekinetic feat — a daily routine we all take for granted? (See: The God Effect)

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Is she telepathic?

Psychic and Spiritual Mysteries

Renaissance polymath, Dr. Edi Bilimoria, in The Snake and the Rope, referring to seemingly ‘paranormal’ events, notes that

“… none of the above processes are miracles or supernatural.”

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H. P. Blavatsky spoke about our personal responsibility for the well-being and development of everything we touch. Our world is affected by us, by the quality of our actions, thoughts, and emotions.

“The earnest Occultist and Theosophist,” she writes in The Last Song of the Swan:

“…sees and recognizes psychic and spiritual mysteries and profound secrets of nature in every flying particle of dust, as much as in the giant manifestations of human nature.”

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Many fields of scientific research confirm Blavatsky’s Writings on Occult science and Meta-Physics, Dr. Bilimoria observes:

“The revelation of hitherto guarded facts about the inner workings of nature has spurred major research in a number of areas in science. As Blavatsky tells us, the truths inspired by such as Kepler, Leibnitz, Gassendi and Swedenborg have never found a fair hearing. But now science is beginning to take note. Indeed the Mahatmas have affirmed that ‘modern science is our best ally‘.”

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Microtubules

And, “it is interesting,” Dr. Bilimoria continues, “how closely the latest experiments and theories in quantum physics on the nature of light and matter appear to mirror the fundamental esoteric tenets, chiefly regarding the role of consciousness.”

Microtubules: Thinking Cells

Next, view an interesting video clip describing the investigations on consciousness inside cells by Professor Stuart Hammeroff and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose.

Research continues on what are called “microtubules” in brain cells, which are actually tiny complex computers that organize cell activity.

Neuron cells

Neuron cells

Our immune cells are “thinking cells” and our immune systems is now considered by Science to be part of the body’s omnipresent nervous system.

These “microtubules” inside cells and neurons are information processing structures which appear to function as quantum computers.

Might these tiny structures be finely tuned nets which trap thought signals from the mind, and transmit them to the rest of the body?

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Missing Link

If, as Blavatsky says, psychologists will never understand consciousness, or locate its origin by studying the moving molecules of the brain, yet we are obviously conscious — so how does the immaterial consciousness of the soul, get into the material body?

And, what facilitating mechanism enables this conscious, all-seeing Soul to enter the physical structures of the brain?

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Studying Theosophy it is important to connect all the dots. Elsewhere Blavatsky says that the astral body (biofield) is the missing link to understanding the process. (See: Somewhere Out There)

(Excerpt from “The Living Matrix”)

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A memory verse from The Eternal Verities VII:64, a standard text at Theosophy Schools for children, reads: “Thoughts are the seeds of Karma.”

We “sow” a thought, but how does it get from the realm of the mind into the soil of matter?

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Intelligence exists throughout Nature and all her kingdoms are conscious, according to Theosophy, including plants (Peeling the Onion).

Plants are self-aware, it has been discovered, and warn each other of danger (ScienceDaily June, 2009).

Sir Roger Penrose:
The Problem of Consciousness

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More interestingly, Science now understands that cells communicate with one another, even at relatively long distances throughout the body (Mind Reading Mind.)

But without any obvious signs of thought, speech, cell phones or email, how do these tiny organisms accomplish their long-distance information sharing?

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Our brains are particularly addicted to networking among it’s cells and neurons. And most neuroscientists now agree that memory isn’t located in this or that particular sector as expected, but occurs holistically across the entire brain.

Conventional scientists think it must be due to chemical action — but others believe there is a much better explanation:

Subtle Body Fields

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The presence of biofields, outlined above, provides the most logical explanation for both characteristics. In Psychic and Noetic Action, H. P. Blavatsky explains the natural randomness of cells, much like today’s quantum non-locality and superpositioning of atoms.

Blavatsky says that occult science…

“.. regards every atom as an ‘independent entity’ and every cell as a ‘conscious unit.’ It explains that no sooner do such atoms group to form cells, [they] become endowed with consciousness, each of its own kind, and with free will to act within the limits of law.  … memory has no seat, no special organ of its own in the human brain, but it has seats in every organ of the body.”

The Amazing Brain – Juggling Act

(Why do we enjoy this so much?!)

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Free-Wheeling Cells

Surprisingly, our brains are not as orderly as we thought — our brains actually thrive on randomness. An article in NewScientist explains the emerging concept:

“In reality, your brain operates on the edge of chaos. … Neuroscientists have long suspected as much. Only recently, however, have they come up with proof that brains work this way. Now they are trying to work out why.”

On the Edge of Chaos

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The kinds of thoughts that count, then, have their basis in one fundamental idea: Universal unity and causation. Without a recognition of this, nothing else can be understood.

The Summing Up section of The Secret Doctrine notes that universal unity is a fact in Nature — And, “The fundamental Law is of the system is:

“… the One homogeneous divine substance-principle, the one radical cause.” (SD 1:273)

Perhaps this is why, as Biologist Rupert Sheldrake proves:

“Dogs know when their owners are coming home.”

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Blavatsky writes in Isis Unveiled 1:207:

“Everything lives and perishes through magnetism one thing affects another one, even at great distances … and may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.”

Telephone Telepathy

We loved this video clip so much, we decided to run it again! (See: The God Effect 2)

The renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents his recent findings, powerfully suggesting that part of us extends beyond our bodies, to make direct connection with the world around us. The video (filmed for television) stars the  famous Nolan sisters.

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Visceral Knowing

space-walk-workingTHE EPIPHANY for astronaut Edgar Mitchell occurred when he looked out the window of his spacecraft at the Earth, Moon and Sun, and at the infinitely vast star systems. Suddenly it came to him that the molecules and cells of our bodies must have had their origin in those faraway stars.

It was at that moment an overwhelming realization of the interconnectedness of all life dawned on him. It was a life-altering flash of intuition—which resulted not in “intellectual knowledge,” he says, but “a visceral knowing.”

“It was accompanied by a very blissful feeling that I had never experienced before.”

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Transpersonal Experience

It is sometimes called the “Overview Effect.” Dr. Mitchell describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness.

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“Something Unknown is Doing we Don’t Know What”

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THE BUDDHA was reportedly called by Freud, “the greatest psychologist of all time.” The awakened Indian Sage, with his teaching about the dynamic, formative power of thoughts, may also rank as our greatest healer.

The essential key to Buddha’s outlook is revealed in the opening verse of the Dhammapada:

“ALL that we are is the result of what we have thought: all that we are is founded on our thoughts and formed of our thoughts.”

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The veridical stature of Buddha’s words are a confirmed by anyone familiar with recent scientific evidence revealing the potent interaction between our heart, thought, and body fields.  (Also see: Somewhere Out There)

Fields of Knowing

(Excerpt from “The Living Matrix”)

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This regenerative teaching of the Masters of Theosophy — the spirit-body connection modulated by bio-fields — is critical to understanding the integral nature of personal  development—and is recognized as the keystone of physical, mental and emotional health.

Without this awakening Altruism cannot manifest, and H. P. Blavatsky called Altruism “an integral part of self-development” (also see: The Caring Spirit.)

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In one of the most significant verses of The Voice of the Silence, that Blavatsky translated from The Book of the Golden Precepts, one finds a simple but profound description of the process.

The practice of Buddha’s heart doctrine, encapsulated here, is almost too simple a truth for Western minds to fully grasp!—declaring:

“Self-Knowledge is of loving deeds the child.”

The acquirement of self-knowledge, in Sanskrit terms, means effecting the union of “Buddhi-Manas,” or Spirit-Mind. A new human emerges out of this self-initiated alchemical compound of higher consciousnesses—what Theosophy calls the synthesis of the ‘head’ and the ‘heart.’

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It is a state of holistic awareness that we experience at times when we have a ‘gut feeling’ or an intuitive flash — much as did astronaut Edgar Mitchell looking out from the vantage of his spaceship.

For the advanced Masters of Life, the Self-Awakened state is not just an “aha” moment—however transformative — but an ever-present, continuous state of Selflessness—the antithesis of Selfishness — and is both the end and result of the practice of loving deeds.

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“Are we so wrong then, in maintaining that modern civilization with its Spirit of Speculation is the very Genius of Destruction,” Blavatsky asks — “and as such, what better words can be addressed to it than this definition of Burke:”

A Spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

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“Civilization has tolled their eleventh hour. It has rung the death-knell of the old arts, and the last decade of our century is summoning the world to the funeral of all that was grand, genuine, and original in the old civilizations.” - H. P. Blavatsky

ENQUIRER: How, then, should Theosophical principles be applied so that social co-operation may be promoted and true efforts for social amelioration be carried on?

BLAVATSKY: Let me briefly remind you what these principles are — universal Unity and Causation; Human Solidarity; the Law of Karma; Re-incarnation. These are the four links of the golden chain which should bind humanity into one family, one universal Brotherhood.

“There is a source above the everyday thinking that can allow human beings to unite.” - Orland Bishop

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Awakening

When asked by a traveling monk, who approached him on a dusty road: “How are you different from us?”— The Buddha replied simply:

“I am a man awake.”

Peace of mind in times of stress

Peace of mind in times of stress

The symphonic relationships of consciousnesses, pictured above from a student’s vision, are “controllable by the perfected human will,” Blavatsky wrote.

The great Masters all declared “Thoughts are things,” a fact accepted by  all Adepts down through the ages, of whatever degree.

Blavatsky also wrote in her article “Kosmic Mind:”

“…cells are now being recognised as individual organisms and – quien sabe – will perhaps be recognized some day as an independent race of thinkers inhabiting the globe called man! It really looks like it.”

Stem Cells

Stem Cells

In the following film clip, Deepak Chopra explains to his class how “Immune Cells are Thinking Cells,” and describes how body and consciousness interact—and why perception is reality. We live in a “tangled hierarchy” of reality, he says, created by the “ultimate and supreme genius”—our conscious awareness.

Our Thinking Cells

with Deepak Chopra, M.D.

“Consciousness simultaneously differentiates into different aspects of reality, behavior, biology, moods, emotions, and feelings, cognition, social interactions, environment, and how I interact with the forces of nature.”

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Getting to Carnegie Hall

On the question of self-development and achieving perfection, Advaita Vedanta (non-duality) teacher Francis Lucille writes:

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“The understanding that ‘Awareness/consciousness is all that is’ is all that is needed, provided this understanding is absolutely experiential and is not confined to the realm of thought.”

If earning a gig at a prestigious concert hall, demands of an aspiring musician’s steady and regular practice, and an intimate knowledge of his instrument, how can the acquirement of spiritual gifts require any less?

As important as good intentions are, failure is notoriously paved with them.

A theosophical Master was adamant in his assertion that “motives are vapours, as attenuated as the atmospheric moisture.” Just as when we feed steam into an engine, he says:

“The practical value of good motives is best seen when they take the form of deeds.”

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What Kind of Deeds?

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer

In Plato’s Republic even a group of thieves knows how to harness group energy. So an intimate acquaintance with our motives and intentions is a test of spirituality that must be ever-present.

The consummate theosophical explorer, B. P. Wadia, wrote:

“The mind can salvage the debris of vanquished passions and put them to use by transmuting cruelty into kindness, selfishness into selflessness, and avarice into altruism.”

“The way to ascertain this is to ask yourself,” Francis Lucille writes, ‘Am I perfectly satisfied? Has the goal been reached or is there still a sense of lack?’” The question is only between you and yourself,” he notes, and “in most cases, the answer will be ‘no.’” This doesn’t invalidate our efforts, it only means

“there are still levels of resistance that have not been dissolved by it.”

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Encouragingly, Francis Lucille says “don’t call off the search yet, but keep investigating until you are fully satisfied.” Like learning to master a musical instrument, mastering our human instrument:

“may take some time and the assistance of a teacher may be required. Life will provide whatever events are needed to reach the goal, provided the desire for it stays alive. How couldn’t it?”

Global Mind

(Excerpt from “Something Unknown is Doing we Don’t Know What”)

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“In sociology, as in all branches of true science, the law of universal causation holds good,” Theosophy teaches. “But this causation,” Blavatsky wrote, “necessarily implies, as its logical outcome, that human solidarity on which it so strongly insists.”

In her Key to Theosophy, H. P. Blavatsky wrote:

“If the action of one reacts on the lives of all, and this is the true scientific idea, then it is only by all men becoming brothers and all women sisters, and by all practising in their daily lives true brotherhood and true sisterhood, that the real human solidarity, which lies at the root of the elevation of the race, can ever be attained.”

“Theosophy is the brotherhood of man.” -Gandhi

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Transforming Consciousness

Eckhart Tolle

We should be opening more to what wants to happen on this planet, Eckhart Tolle says, but it can only be realized through each individual person. Each new realization helps others to shift in consciousness, which is necessary at this time. The question for humanity is to either shift and evolve together, or perish together.

Writes Blavatsky:

“Old arts and artistic creations, everything original and unique will very soon disappear. Already national dresses and time-honoured customs, and everything beautiful, artistic, and worth preservation is fast disappearing from view. At no distant day, alas, the best relics of the past will perhaps be found only in museums in sorry, solitary, and be-ticketed samples preserved under glass!”

“The real source of H. P. Blavatsky’s influence is to be found in The Secret Doctrine. It is one of the most exciting and stimulating books written for the last hundred years.”

[George Russell (AE), Irish author and editor]

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“Such is the work and the unavoidable result of our modern civilization. Skin-deep in reality in its visible effects, in the “blessings” it is alleged to have given to the world, its roots are rotten to the core.

“It is to its progress that selfishness and materialism, the greatest curses of the nations, are due — and the latter will most surely lead to the annihilation of art and of the appreciation of the truly harmonious and beautiful.”

H. P. BlavatskyCivilization, the Death of Art and Beauty

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Redwoods are living giants — among Earth’s largest and longest-lived trees,” writes Christine Nyholm (Cable TV Examiner). “Some tower higher than 350 feet, or taller than the Statue of Liberty; some may have been seedlings when Jesus was born. These natural legends house secret-garden worlds high up in their canopies and shroud centuries-old mysteries.”

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The Ethnosphere

“Even if we can’t always achieve our ideal, acting ‘as if’ in positive ways, sets patterns of behavior change. We strengthen our own changes, and those of others, every time we are thoughtful before we act.”     - Helena Kerekhazi, MS, N.R.N.P.

“Beliefs are dying out, divine life is mocked at — art and genius, truth and justice are daily sacrificed to the insatiable mammon of the age — money grubbing. The artificial replaces everywhere the real, the false substitutes the true. Not a sunny valley, not a shadowy grove left immaculate on the bosom of mother nature.

“This, added to the frantic endeavor to destroy Nature in every direction, and also every vestige of older civilizations — far superior to our own in arts, godliness, and the appreciation of the grandiose and harmonious — must result in such national calamities.”

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So Far So Near

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Particle detector - © CERN

ADULTS periodically have to remind their children “you can’t have your cake and eat it too”— it’s a parental stock-in-trade.

But for physicists studying quantum entanglement, it’s pig heaven—because for them electrons can be in two places at once.

Everything changes at the sub-atomic level where, to Science’s limited perception, atoms are mostly just “empty” space. It’s a seductive place, it seems, where one can free-fall into the unknown fields of an inexplicable universe.

Near-Death experiences (NDEs) can be seductive too, and life changing—but there’s more to come on this subject later.

God is Hiding

Some think of this invisible field as the ultimate “god-space.” Dubbed the “God particle” by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, the Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle which, like divinity, dark matter and dark energy, are all pervading—but still undetectable.

Debris of particles © CERN

Debris of particles © CERN

Same Problem, Different Particle

albert-einsteinEinstein said it best:

“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.”

With huge atom smashers like CERN and Fermilab, scientists around the world race to find this clandestine particle. Hey, just maybe the mother of matter is hiding somewhere other than in a man-made machine? Ya think?

The ancient teaching as given in The Secret Doctrine:

The “Parent Space” is the eternal, ever present cause of all — the incomprehensible deity, whose “invisible robes” are the mystic root of all matter, and of the Universe.

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… the “Robes” stand for the noumenon of undifferentiated Cosmic Matter. It is not matter as we know it, but the spiritual essence of matter, and is co-eternal and even one with Space in its abstract sense.

The Hindus call it Mulaprakriti, and say that it is the primordial substance, which is the basis or vehicle of every phenomenon, whether physical, mental or psychic.

CERN the world's largest particle physics laboratory

CERN the world's largest particle physics laboratory

The materialistic-reductionist scale of CERN’s projects are more expensive, and more unbelievable, than a top Hollywood sci-fi. The international center hopes to recreate the “Big Bang” they assert created the universe.

Self-described as “the world’s biggest machine,” the LHC is out to discover in the process of “how energy became matter“— (as if energy-matter are somehow distinct realities!)

"Beam me up Scotty"

"Beam me up Scotty"

The LHC will be smashing particles together at the speed of light, then examining the “debris” hoping to find “the smallest building blocks that make up the universe.”

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Higher States of Being

In the previous post, A Fiery Life, it was shown that a biological version of an attractive force (bio-gravity?) clearly exists, but, mysteriously, no magnetism was detected when these so-called “human magnets” were tested.

Question: When are we going to stop violently beating-up on atoms and particles, trying to extract their secrets—we know nothing about these kingdoms, and for all we know they are conscious entities in their own right?

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Consciousness is Everywhere

Everything manifested has its origin in a universal mind or consciousness. This is the “one absolute Reality” spoken of in The Secret Doctrine, “which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being.”

Says Occult Science:

“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.”

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“We men must remember,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote, “that because we do not perceive any signs — which we can recognise — of consciousness, say, in stones, we have no right to say that no consciousness exists there.”

And further:

“There is no such thing as either ‘dead’ or ‘blind’ matter, as there is no ‘Blind’ or ‘Unconscious’ Law.

These find no place among the conceptions of Occult philosophy. The latter never stops at surface appearances, and for it the noumenal essences have more reality than their objective counterparts.”

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Tunnel of light

In the recent post, Everyday One, we noted this Reality is described by H. P. Blavatsky as an “Infinite and Eternal Cause—the rootless root of ‘all that was, is, or ever shall be.’” It is not a personal god, she says:

“It is ‘Be-ness’ rather than Being.”

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Pam Reynolds

Pam Reynolds

The direct conscious experience of God, or “Be-ness,” which is reported by experienced Eastern meditators, monks and yogis, is a rare event for Westerners—but Near-Death experiences (NDEs) are experienced by many “ordinary” persons.

It took a life-threatening aneurysm, and risky surgery in which her heart was stopped and the blood drained out of her brain and body.

As the surgery began, Pam Reynolds had a powerful near-death (NDE) experience of the be-ness state. The extraordinary event provided incontrovertible scientific evidence for the existence of mind outside the brain. Pam’s case, probably the ultimate in human superpositioning—was like “having one’s cake” come true.

Pam’s NDE: Chapt. 1 -”The Aneurysm”

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“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

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“Be-ness”

“The Theosophists are the first to recognize the intrinsic value of science. But when its high priests resolve consciousness into a secretion from the grey matter of the brainand everything else in nature into a mode of motion.

We protest against the doctrine as being unphilosophical, self-contradictoryand simply absurd from a scientific point of viewas much and even more than from the occult aspect of the esoteric knowledge.” - H. P. Blavatsky

At one point in her NDE, Pam recalls her realization that she is “standing in the breath of God,” perhaps the quintessential state Be-ness.

Theosophical pioneer Helena Blavatsky sided with Lao-Tze who taught “The Tao which can be expressed in words is not the eternal Tao,” and she also rejected the personal god idea. Instead, Blavatsky coined the term “Be-ness,” in The Secret Doctrine, to describe the Absolute.

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“There is one absolute Reality which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being,” she writes. “This Infinite and Eternal Cause — is the rootless root of  ‘all that was, is, or ever shall be.’

“It is of course devoid of all attributes and is essentially without any relation to manifested, finite Being. It is ‘Be-ness’ rather than Being (in Sanskrit, Sat), and is beyond all thought or speculation.”

“Bee-ness”

Who better than bees to understand “be-ness?” Because each individual insect is one with nature, and with each other, bees never lose their way! The results of their unusual bee-ness seems, well, bee-utiful. Enjoy this out-of-hive (OOH) experience!

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“I used to believe that we must choose between science and reason on one hand, and spirituality on the other … Now I consider this a false choice.” -Larry Dossey, M.D.

“Scientists using only materialistic methods are in no position to deny out of hand the possibility of such higher states of consciousness.”

What else might they discover along the way? Maybe what they are imagining is Leibniz’s “Monad,” and will undoubtedly find that the atom’s spiritual source is not directly detectable in the electromagnetic spectrum. Bluefurlight

What’s “missing” is the esoteric doctrine of Occult Science. And that Science asserts, notes Blavatsky, that

“every atom in the Universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it, and, like the Monads of Leibnitz, is a Universe in itself, and for itself. — It is an atom and an angel.”

When are we going to ‘get it’—that we exist in a living multiverse, superpositioned in a superhologram—and each dimension has its own population of beings and states of matter and consciousness?

And in each of those other states or worlds, as Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine:

“… atoms enter into new forms of existence, undreamt of, and incognizable to, physical Science.”

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albert-einstein“A person experiences life as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

-Albert Einstein

Pam’s NDE, Chapt. 2 – “The Breath of God”

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“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

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How was Pam able to keep from losing contact with her all but lifeless bodily form during hours of brain surgery? And when, during the time she entered spiritual realms, and confabulated with people she once knew now living in the light, and then stood in the “breath of God,” how was she able find her way back?

The fact is, according to Theosophy, none of us “go” anywhere—we are at all times, each of us, safely tucked in our individual “Monadic Field.” All experiences, in or out-of-body, occur within our field, even “breathing God,” which is only a finer layer or state of consciousness in that field. We die into our field, and are reincarnated from it into another baby body.

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The Omnipresent Reality

“The evolution of the God-idea proceeds apace with man’s own intellectual evolution.”

-H. P. Blavatsky

“The fundamental Law in that system, the central point from which all emerged, around and toward which all gravitates, and upon which is hung the philosophy of the rest, is the One homogeneous divine Substance-Principle, the one radical cause.”

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It is called “Substance-Principle,” for it becomes “substance” on the plane of the manifested Universe, an illusion, while it remains a “principle” in the beginningless and endless abstract, visible and invisible Space.

It is the omnipresent Reality: impersonal, because it contains all and everything. Its impersonality is the fundamental conception of the System. It is latent in every atom in the Universe, and is the Universe itself.

Pioneering medical geneticist, who once headed the Human Genome Project, Francis S. Collins wrote “The Language of God” in which he argues that we should look to our biology for God not invisible particles. He proposes that our complex DNA code is a script written by God.

Pam’s NDE, Chapt. 3 – The Scientific Evidence

Excerpt from the BBCs
“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

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In Science and the Akashic Field, philosopher and scientist Ervin Laszlo believes this mystery space is the ancient “Akashic Field,” proposing the oneness of creation in an “Integral Theory of Everything.

Says The Voice of the Silence:

“Before thou standest on the threshold of the Path [of wisdom], before thou crossest the foremost Gate, thou hast to merge the two into the One and sacrifice the personal to SELF impersonal..”

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Microtubules

Some neuroscientists believe that our physical consciousness is hidden (received) somewhere in cells of the brain, and computed somehow by the tiny microtubules (SEE ABOVE) which form the substratum of cellular architecture.

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

-William James

A Deepened Life

In sociology, as in all branches of true science, the law of universal causation holds good. But this causation necessarily implies, as its logical outcome, that human solidarity on which Theosophy so strongly insists.

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“If the action of one reacts on the lives of all, and this is the true scientific idea, then it is only by all men becoming brothers and all women sisters, and by all practising in their daily lives true brotherhood and true sisterhood, that the real human solidarity, which lies at the root of the elevation of the race, can ever be attained.” - H. P. Blavatsky

Confessed ruthless entrepreneur and financier, Gordon Allen, experienced the “god-space”when he had an NDE. Previously, any spiritual experience he might have reported would have been selling God as a brand name to members of his church of mammon. After his NDE, he went from “CEO of The Year” to selfless “Tycoon of the Decade.”

Gordon Allen’s NDE – A Changed Life

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“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

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pim_van_lommel“That the mind is located in the brain is just a hypothesis.
It’s never been proven.”

-Pim van Lommel, M.D.

“Accounts of NDEs, shared by the people who experienced them, are analyzed by researchers and skeptics alike, providing a balanced look at a theory of mind that, at least in scientific circles, has previously been all but unthinkable.” (Near-Death.com)

Occult Scientific Methods

Why, as ancient seers have done, do we not look with spiritual eyes into the living universe for answers? Here’s how The Secret Doctrine describes the scientific methods of exploration in prior, more enlightened periods of evolution:

“The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: But such is the mysterious power of Occult symbolism, that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets to marshal, to set down and explain…are all recorded on a few pages of geometrical signs and glyphs.”

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No need for man-made atom smashers.

This knowledge is not the “fancy of one or several isolated individuals,” she says, but rather “is the uninterrupted record covering thousands of generations of Seers.”

“The flashing gaze of those seers has penetrated into the very kernel of matter, and recorded the soul of things there.  But modern science believes not in the “soul of things,” and hence will reject the whole system of ancient cosmogony.”

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They tested and verified, from their own experiences, the oral traditions of earlier teachers, she says. And for ages these “Wise Men” (rescued from the sinking Atlantis,) “passed their lives in learning, not teaching.”

“No vision of one adept was accepted till it was checked and confirmed by the visions — so obtained as to stand as independent evidence — of other adepts, and by centuries of experiences.”

How did they do so? It is answered: by checking, testing, and verifying in every department of nature the traditions of old,” by visions of great adepts. These Adepts were “men who have developed and perfected their physical, mental, psychic, and spiritual organisations to the utmost possible degree.”

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“The body of the Yogi becomes as one formed of the wind; as “a cloud from which limbs have sprouted out,” after which — “he [the Yogi] beholds the things beyond the seas and stars; he hears the language of the Devas and comprehends it, and perceives what is passing in the mind of the ant.”

-The Voice of the Silence

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A Fiery Life

solarwind4UNDERPINNING the universe is not gravity as taught today, but an electric vital power, according to Theosophy.

Notwithstanding, physicists are still stuck on gravity to support their “standard model”—that the weakest of forces rules the entire universe—about which, admittedly, they know not much.

Gravity is mathematically incompatible with the quantum laws that govern subatomic particles, and that “leaves 95 percent of the universe unexplained” writes Dennis Overbye in the NY Times.

“For all its intimacy, it is a mystery…”

This may be because the “law” of gravity, as proposed by the standard model of Science, “is only half of a law,” as W. Q. Judge explains in his Ocean of Theosophy:-

“The Oriental sage admits gravity, if one wishes to adopt the term—but the real term is attraction, the other half of the law being expressed by the word repulsion, and both being governed by the great laws of electrical force.”

The mystery of ‘levitation’ is explained by this definition of gravity, Judge says, because “weight and stability depend on polarity, and when the polarity of an object is altered in respect to the earth immediately underneath it, then the object may rise.”

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A Capitol Levitation

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Polarity

The word ‘polarity’ of course refers to the idea that something has ‘poles’—the fundamental property of both magnetism and electricity. Again on gravity H. P. Blavatsky asks:

“How can Science presume to know anything certain of it?”

“How can it maintain its position and its hypotheses against those of the Occultists, who see in gravity only sympathy and antipathy, or attraction and repulsion, caused by physical polarity on our terrestrial plane, and by spiritual causes outside of its influence?”

Living in an electromagnetic universe seems to involve some smart adjustments to allow a “normal” life for the majority of us. For magnetic mystery man Aurel Raileanu, a Romanian hospital worker, it was found that “just about anything will stick to him like glue”—a glitch in his fine-tuning for which there is apparently no reset button.

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Known as The Human Magnet, “his ability totally defies the laws of physics,” Dr. Carol Cooper says, “and of biology to boot.”

Aurel, a physical therapist who helps people to recover after accidents, was not deterred that the experts couldn’t detect any magnetism. He said: “I think these findings just add to the mystery.” A reasonable idea since, if normal gravity is not directly detectable, why would its variations be? You decide.

Magnetman Gets Tested

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Nature’s Human Magnets

“If any of us now-a-days ventures to relate some weird experience or seemingly incomprehensible phenomenon,” H. P. Blavatsky comments in Nature’s Human Magnets, “the scientist cries ‘I have unravelled all Nature’s skein, and the thing is impossible—this is no age for miracles!’”

In the article she goes on to recount several “weird” experiences with a young Russian orphan girl, Pelagueya, and quotes from the St. Petersburg Gazette:

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“the young lady seems to have concentrated in her extremities a phenomenal abundance of magnetic aura—thanks to which, she communicates instantaneously to the objects surrounding her hitherto unheard and unseen phenomenal motions.”

Blavatsky tells of a magnetic mystery boy in America “whose system appears to be also abnormally charged with vital magnetism:”

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“Metal articles of light weight attach themselves to his hand so that considerable force is required to remove them. Knives, pins, needles, buttons, etc., enough to cover his hand, will thus attach themselves so firmly that they cannot be shaken off. Still more, the attraction is so strong that a common coalscuttle can be lifted by it…”

“There is nothing whatever of supernatural in the cases,” she comments, and “Why this happens is, we conceive, quite capable of explanation, but as this would take us too far afield in the less commonly known region of occult science.”

Magnet Man

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In Malaysia, Liew Thow Lin is known as the Human Magnet. He can make metal objects, weighing up to 2kg, stick to his skin and he is a scientific mystery because there is no trace of a magnetic field around his body. Scientists say his skin is also normal and there is no explanation for his unusual talent.

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Magnet Girl

“Despite exceptional abilities, Jelena Momciloc (8) from Zeljus, Serbia, lives like a normal child,” reports Karmen Horvat. “She has the unusual ability to attract objects like a real magnet and sees her ability as some sort of a game. However, her hands are not like glue for just metal, but all objects! She attracts metal, wooden and plastic objects and she can even lift smaller chairs by touching them with her palm.”

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The Ubiquity of Electromagnetism

Everything we do know on earth, not just our appliances, but all beings and creatures make use of electrical and magnet impulses to function.

Not only our hearts and brains, but the entire human body with its trillions of cells and bacteria is electrified by nerves and neurons (see The Inner Ruler).

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Birds navigate using their own internal magnetic compasses, reports the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

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Plants, too, can read our human electric thought fields.

(See Cleve Backster on bio-communication).

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And it has been shown that even minerals are internally electrified—a stone struck on stone, as any child knows, with a little effort will ignite a summer night’s campfire. That small spark, Occult Science teaches, has a much larger origin—the Sun. And it says that “the Sun is the store-house of Vital Force, which is the Noumenon of Electricity:-

… it is from its mysterious, never-to-be-fathomed depths, that issue those life currents which thrill through Space, as through the organisms of every living thing on Earth.”

(See: Journey to the Heart)

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Photons

Computers do not use gravity either—except, like us, they depend on its attractive side to keep their feet firmly planted. But to function, computers rely instead on electrically potent silicon (quartz) chips.

The operation of early radios depended on quartz crystals.

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Ducretet crystal radio, 1923

Silicon is the second most common element in the Earth’s crust—and suggests the probability that our terrestrial home, for all its earthiness, is electric to the core—a giant magnet with its north and south “poles.”

The Earth is also a living organism, Theosophy maintains, just as much as man and the other beings who live on it—and their cells resonate with electromagnetic potentials evidenced by bio-fields.

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The electro-vital force acts simultaneously on the cosmic, global and human levels. “On the Cosmic, it underlies the constructive power that carries out the assemblage of everything,” Blavatsky says, “from the planetary system down to the glow-worm and simple daisy.”

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Now it has been discovered, with the use of specially designed equipment, that every one of our trillions of cells emits light in the form of subtle photons. Another evidence of an omnipresent electric ocean in which everything is bathed. It turns out we are as bio-luminescent in our own way as lightning bugs, and brother to the creatures living ten-thousand leagues under the sea.

Our Cells Emit Light

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix)

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“The Great Protean Magician”

“Light is the first begotten, and the first emanation of the Supreme, and Light is Life…both are electricity—the life-principle, the anima mundi, pervading the universe, the electric vivifier of all things.

“Light is the great Protean magician, and under the Divine Will of the architect, its multifarious, omnipotent waves gave birth to every form as well as to every living being.

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“From its swelling, electric bosom, springs matter and spirit. Within its beams lie the beginnings of all physical and chemical action, and of all cosmic and spiritual phenomena.

“It vitalizes and disorganizes—it gives life and produces death, and from its primordial point gradually emerged into existence the myriads of worlds, visible and invisible celestial bodies.”

-H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (1:258)

Humans Glow in Visible Light

“The human body literally glows,” reports LiveScience for July 22, 2009, “emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal.”

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An even more dramatic example of this energetic electrical field, called by Blavatsky the aura or “astral” (star-like) body, is from the work of the Russian electrical engineer, Semyon Kirlian who discovered and photographed the bio-field surrounding plant leaves, and even human subjects. The astral was described by W. Q. Judge as the “design body”:

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“…looking for words to describe the inner body the only ones found in English were the ‘astral body.’ This term comes near to the real fact, since the substance of this form is derived from cosmic matter or star matter, roughly speaking. But the old Sanskrit word describes it exactly—Linga Sarira, the design body.”

Kirlian’s discovery was documented in detail in The God Effect 3 — A video in the post dramatizes his research work:

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A Psychic Entity

A prescient question is posed in The Secret Doctrine: “Why might not psychic natures be enshrined in indestructible flint and platinum?”

“’Entity’ may be thought a strange term to use in the case of a globe,” wrote Blavatsky, “but the ancient philosophers, who saw in the earth a huge ‘animal,’ were wiser in their generation than our modern geologists are in theirs.”

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“But this only shows how admirably the occult philosophy fits everything in Nature, and how much more logical are its tenets than the lifeless hypothetical speculations of physical science.”

The Earth Breathes

We might as well add earthquakes and weather to the list of electromagnetically driven phenomena, but of course, this might still be too controversial for our gravity glued science.

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Sunspot cycles and weather

An interesting discovery: Sun Induces Strange ‘Breathing’ of Earth’s Atmosphere

Confirming The Secret Doctrine teaching:

“The universe (our world in this case) breathes, just as man and every living creature, plant, and even mineral does upon the earthand as our globe itself breathes every twenty-four hours.

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“There is a regular circulation of the vital fluid throughout our system, of which the Sun is the heart — the same as the circulation of the blood in the human body — the Sun contracting rhythmically as the human heart does.

“Only, instead of performing the round in a second or so, it takes the solar blood ten of its years, and a whole year to pass through its auricles and ventricles before it washes the lungs and passes thence to the great veins and arteries of the system.

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“This, Science will not deny, since Astronomy knows of the fixed cycle of eleven years when the number of solar spots increases, which is due to the contraction of the Solar heart.”

The Electric Universe

“From the smallest particle to the largest galactic formation, a web of electrical circuitry connects and unifies all of nature, organizing galaxies, energizing stars, giving birth to planets and, on our own world, controlling weather and animating biological organisms.

“There are no isolated islands in an electric universe”.

-David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, Thunderbolts of the Gods

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The Fiery Wind

For years, scientists have observed unstructured silicate particles in space, but could not pinpoint the origin of a recent observation of the wide presence of crystalline silicates (electrical carrier) or their role in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Where does all this electricity come from, and what is it really? Blavatsky explains the teachings of Occult Science:

“…there is no gravitation in the Newtonian sense, but only magnetic attraction and repulsion. It is by their magnetism that the planets of the solar system have their motions regulated in their respective orbits by the still more powerful magnetism of the sun, not by their weight or gravitation.”

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“This subject, being so very mystical, is therefore the most difficult to explain in all its details and bearings—since the whole mystery of evolutionary creation is contained in it,” she says—”In the Esoteric doctrine it is used figuratively”:-

“The ‘fiery Wind’ is the incandescent Cosmic dust which only follows magnetically, as the iron filings follow the magnet, the directing thought of the “Creative Forces.” Yet, this cosmic dust is something more—for every atom in the Universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it, and is, like the Monads of Leibnitz, a Universe in itself, and for itself. It is an atom and an angel.”

Electrified Cosmic Dust

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Blavatsky calls this fiery wind the “transcendental binding Unity of all Cosmic Energies, on the unseen as on the manifested planes.” The action of this cosmic energy, she says, “resembles on an immense scale, a living Force created by will.”

Several quotes from The Secret Doctrine (SD), only add to the difficulties for standard-model Science:

“It is on the doctrine of the illusive nature of matter, and the infinite divisibility of the atom, that the whole science of Occultism is built. It opens limitless horizons to substance informed by the divine breath of its soul in every possible state of tenuity, states still undreamt of by the most spiritually disposed chemists and physicists.” (SD 1:520)

“Force or energy is a quality—but every quality must belong to a something, or a somebody.” (SD 1:509)

“[Forces] are only the effects of causes generated by Powers, substantial, yet supersenuous, and beyond any kind of matter with which they (the Scientists) have hitherto become acquainted.” (SD 1:520)

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The Omnipresent Proteus

Many of the teachings of Theosophy published in the 19th Century by H. P. Blavatsky are being reconciled today in science. Among the most startling of these confirmations is that from an atom to the cosmos, everything is consciousness.

But what is consciousness, and of what is it made? Is it substance or intangible like “dark matter”—and from what source does it originate?

Occult Science goes further and asserts that Electricity “is not only Substance, but that is an emanation from an Entity.”

This “Entity” it says, is “neither God nor Devil, but one of the numberless Entities that rule and guide our world according to the eternal Law of Karma.”

“Force and Matter, Spirit and Matter, and Deity and Nature, though they may be viewed as opposite poles in their respective manifestations, yet are in essence and in truth but one . . . [Spirit and matter] are in short the two poles of the one eternal element, and are synonymous and convertible terms. . .  Therefore, whether it is called Force or Matter, it will ever remain the Omnipresent Proteus of the Universe, the one element — LIFE”(Mahatma Letters)

An Interconnected Universe

“The one fundamental law in Occult Science”

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“The radical unity of the ultimate essence of each constituent part of compounds in Nature — from Star to mineral Atom, from the highest Dhyan Chohan to the smallest infusoria, in the fullest acceptation of the term, and whether applied to the spiritual, intellectual, or physical worlds — this is the one fundamental law in Occult Science.”

“The Deity is boundless and infinite expansion,” says an Occult axiom…

“There is a deep philosophy underlying the earliest worship in the world, that of the Sun and of Fire. Of all the Elements known to physical science, Fire is the one that has ever eluded definite analysis.”

The Spiritual Central Sun

Hubble photograph – the energetic center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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“His radiance is undecaying,” says the Rig-Veda, “the intensely-shining, all-pervading, unceasing, undecaying rays of Agni desist not, neither night nor day.”

This evidently related to the spiritual, central sun, whose rays are all-pervading and unceasing, the eternal and boundless life-giver. HE the Point—the centre (which is everywhere) of the circle (which is nowhere), the ethereal, spiritual fire, the soul and spirit of the all-pervading, mysterious ether—the despair and puzzle of the materialist…”

Plasma Soup

Emerging plasma science has spawned a new vision of the “Electric Universe.” Traditional sciences should now give way to a deeper appreciation of electrical phenomena in space.

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Pioneer investigators David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill write:

“Today, nothing is more important to the future and credibility of science than liberation from the gravity-driven universe of prior theory. A mistaken supposition has not only prevented intelligent and sincere investigators from seeing what would otherwise be obvious, it has bred indifference to possibilities that could have inspired the sciences for decades.”

Gravity is our most familiar ’scientific’ dogma. We are subject to it every day of our lives. Newton gave us his ‘law of gravity,’ which describes its effect but doesn’t explain it. “I frame no hypotheses,” he wrote. Einstein wasn’t as modest introducing his “postulates.” His unreal geometry, unfortunately, doesn’t explain gravity either.

The usual demonstration using heavy steel balls on a rubber sheet to represent ‘gravity wells’ relies on circular logic with gravity as its own explanation!

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An Electrical Universe vs Gravity

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Paradigm Shift

“In their monograph, Thornhill and Talbott suggest that popular astronomy gives a distorted view of the universe. The modern vision evokes a sense of lonely bodies in space—isolated galaxies, self-immolating stars drifting like dust moats in the blackness, and the clockwork solitude of planets. In challenging this idea, the authors emphasize connectivity.

The electric force, they contend, influences matter at all levels, from subatomic particles to galactic clusters, leaving little room for the disconnected fragments of modern theory.

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“Just as this was taking place, another Earth changing phenomenon was slowly gathering momentum and is poised today to massively affect our perspective about most everything that has been deemed vitally important so far. A profound spiritual awakening, without historical precedent, is now dawning openly. Millions of individual mind and hearts are sensing their fundamental unity with – and interdependency upon – a sentient, Paracelscian universal life-field.

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“Amongst the most quintessential realizations dawning upon millions of human beings is the incontrovertible fact that, well before being human bodies of flesh and bones endowed with conscience and some kind of invisible soul, we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

“The stories brought back from beyond the veil of clinical death by a growing number of people, as well as the numerous opportunities for enlightenment and awakening provided, as if by chance, to so many of us, have positively contributed to bring about this paradigm shift in understanding to all those who have ears to listen and eyes to see.”

As Above, So Below

Everything in the Universe follows analogy, H. P. Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine: “As above, so below. Man is the microcosm of the Universe.”

“That which takes place on the spiritual plane repeats itself on the Cosmic plane. Concretion follows the lines of abstraction – corresponding to the highest must be the lowest—the material to the spiritual.

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Everyday One

redwood-forestONENESS is most likely both an experience and a state, probably something that you cannot reach if you are afraid of it. It has to be embraced and welcomed in order to be attained.

Embracing compassion and practicing altruism are, no doubt, ways of attaining individual and global oneness. This was discussed in a previous post The Caring Spirit.

The ancients recognized the reality of spiritual being, knowing that an ever-expanding consciousness and an ever-growing understanding of existence is all that truly matters in our eternal evolutionary journey through the fields of infinitude. All the achievements of civilization depend upon it.

A Lived Reality

The underlying spiritual energies pervading any system cannot be known with physical instruments, but only by delving into the depths of our own minds and consciousness, and this requires many lives of self-purification and self-conquest. Awareness of this one Reality is critical to our future survival and of the Earth, our Mother Home.

Sufi teacher Lynn Barron wants to know: What does oneness really look like? Not as a theory, but as a lived reality in everyday life?

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Be-ness

Higher states of being have their origin in a corresponding universal mind or consciousness. This is the “one absolute Reality” spoken of in The Secret Doctrine, “which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being.”

Scientists using only materialistic methods are in no position to deny out of hand the possibility of such higher states of consciousness.

This Reality is described by H. P. Blavatsky as an “Infinite and Eternal Cause—the rootless root of ‘all that was, is, or ever shall be.’” It is not a personal god, she says, “it is ‘Be-ness’ rather than Being.”

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Duty is that which is due to Humanity, to our fellow-men, neighbours, family, and especially that which we owe to all those who are poorer and more helpless than we are ourselves, she wrote:-

“This is a debt which, if left unpaid during life, leaves us spiritually insolvent and moral bankrupts in our next incarnation. Theosophy is the quintessence of duty.”

What Would it Look Like?

What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions? Or are we being called to question a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our civilization?

This 25-minute retrospective asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves, and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.

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Compassion Speaks

Now bend thy head and listen well, O Bodhisattva — Compassion speaks and saith: “Can there be bliss when all that lives must suffer? Shalt thou be saved and hear the whole world cry?”           -The Voice of the Silence

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Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies.

“We are participants in a process that will always be larger than our imagination or our best sciences can fully explain.”

Power Over Nature

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Is It Too Late?

Dean Radin, Ph.D., is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. His professional career has focused on experimentally exploring far reaches of human consciousness, primarily phenomena like intuition, gut feelings and psi phenomena.

He is Senior Scientist at The Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Petaluma, California, and on the Adjunct Faculty at Sonoma State University.

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IONS

Dean’s research has been featured in numerous magazines and he has appeared on several radio and television programs. He is the author of Entangled Minds and The Conscious Universe.

Dean believes that humankind will be able to change its behavior rapidly enough to avoid its total destruction, because necessity will drive us to do it. And he suggests that something like a global mind could be pulling us or forcing us to make the changes needed.

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Love Is Indiscriminate

Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 at the request of his Zen teacher, with whom he had been studying for fourteen years.

The author of Emptiness Dancing,The Impact of Awakening, and My Secret is Silence, Adyashanti offers spontaneous and direct nondual teachings that have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages.

Adyashanti describes the inclusiveness of love and how actions motivated by love have the power to unite and to change consciousness.

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Human Solidarity

by H. P. Blavatsky

The Key to Theosophy

In the present state of society, especially in so-called civilized countries, we are continually brought face to face with the fact that large numbers of people are suffering from misery, poverty and disease. Their physical condition is wretched, and their mental and spiritual faculties are often almost dormant.

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“On the other hand, many persons at the opposite end of the social scale are leading lives of careless indifference, material luxury, and selfish indulgence. Neither of these forms of existence is mere chance.”

Both are the effects of the conditions which surround those who are subject to them, and the neglect of social duty on the one side is most closely connected with the stunted and arrested development on the other.

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In sociology, as in all branches of true science, the law of universal causation holds good. But this causation necessarily implies, as its logical outcome, that human solidarity on which Theosophy so strongly insists.

“If the action of one reacts on the lives of all, and this is the true scientific idea, then it is only by all men becoming brothers and all women sisters, and by all practising in their daily lives true brotherhood and true sisterhood, that the real human solidarity, which lies at the root of the elevation of the race, can ever be attained.”   – H. P. B.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy, recognizes how we are inextricably bound in each other’s humanity. Translated as, “I am because you are,” Ubuntu describes a sense of unity between people through which we each discover our own strengths and virtues. Featuring healer Credo Mutwa, GreenHouse Project director Dorah Lebelo, and former Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, this glimpse of South Africa shows compassion as a way of life.

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It is this action and interaction, this true brotherhood and sisterhood, in which each shall live for all and all for each, which is one of the fundamental Theosophical principles that every Theosophist should be bound, not only to teach, but to carry out in his or her individual life.

The Deific Essence

“Our DEITY is neither in a paradise, nor in a particular tree, building, or mountain,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote — “it is everywhere, in every atom of the visible as of the invisible Cosmos, in, over, and around every invisible atom and divisible molecule.”

“IT is the mysterious power of evolution and involution, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and even omniscient creative potentiality.”

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“Grant us our postulate that God is a universally diffused, infinite principle, and how can man alone escape from being soaked through by, and in, the Deity? We call our ‘Father in heaven’ that deific essence of which we are cognizant within us, in our heart and spiritual consciousness.”

“Universal Unity and Causation; Human Solidarity; the Law of Karma; Re-incarnation. These are the four links of the golden chain which should bind humanity into one family, one universal Brotherhood.”

Necessity is a Mother

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin believes that humankind will be able to change its behavior rapidly enough to avoid its total destruction, because necessity will drive us to do it. And he suggests that something like a global mind could be pulling us or forcing us to make the changes needed.

Future Seeing

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“THE PAST, the Present, and the Future are, in the esoteric philosophy, a compound time,” wrote Helena Blavatsky, “for the three are a composite number only in relation to the phenomenal plane—but in the realm of noumena have no abstract validity.”

Our generally accepted worldview of duration and time “are all derived from our sensations according to the laws of Association,” explained Blavatsky.

And according to a precept in the Buddhist Prasanga-Madhyamika teaching:

“The Past time is the Present time, as also the Future, which, though it has not come into existence, still is.”

Because they are “inextricably bound up with the relativity of human knowledge,” as Blavatsky said, reductionist ideas are useful only for mechanical concerns—and because they ignore holistic experience, must eventually fall away in the face of man’s deeper spiritual understandings.

Senior scientist Dean Radin, of The Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS), is a daring explorer who boldly goes where the establishment won’t, methodically measuring the immeasurable. In this clip he explains ongoing experiments demonstrating evidence of “presentiment” and “precognition”:

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Clocks are useful for getting to meetings on time. Otherwise, time in this sense, being only the “panoramic succession of our [ordinary] states of consciousness,” it is therefore reductionist—and has only materialistic value.

Ground-level experience reveals only the outer edge of the rabbit hole, and keeps us blind to the mysteries hidden beneath — the experience which leads us to the sum-total of existence. The frontier consciousness sciences emerging today offer an exciting prospect.

In this new country, as the Red Queen told Alice:

“you must run fast just to stay in one place.”

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"I'm late for a very important date!"

The eye-popping series of progressive awakenings experienced by Alice, surely led her and her readers to a greater appreciation of the mysterious and paradoxical. “Stagnation and death is the future of all that vegetates without a change,” proclaimed Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine. Like couch-potatoes, standard-model science sits on a railway platform for a train that, for them, will never come.

A Forest for The Trees

In the words of a Theosophical Master:

“Three clumsy words — Past, Present, and Future — miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective whole, they are about as ill-adapted for the purpose as an axe for fine carving.”

Objective time and reality always appear in a linear frame. But even the legendary punster of the Yankee’s baseball team, Yogi Berra, sensed there was more when he took a playful swipe at the phenomenon of precognition and non-locality with:

“I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”

The Mind’s Eye – 1

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The author and diarist Anais Nin famously remarked:

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”

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If what “we are” is determined solely by our five senses, then we see only what’s inside a sealed box.

John Muir, for whom stuffy boxes were anathema believed instead that “The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Blavatsky’s “Compound time” cannot be separated from the future which is an essential part of the mystery “wilderness” within us. The illusion occurs in separation, and then we are unable see the greater forest for the trees, though they are one.

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Julia Butterfly Hill

William Blake saw “a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower,” that most of us would probably have passed unnoticed. (Heaven in a Wild Flower)

But even such sublime ethics “must give room to still further absolute perfection,” Blavatsky wrote, “to a higher standard of excellence — just as a perfect flower must cease to be a perfect flower and die, in order to grow into a perfect fruit.”

“All instruction is but a finger pointing to the moon, and those whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond. Even let him catch sight of the moon, and still he cannot see its beauty.” – Osho (Adhyatama Upanishads)

Bruce Lee – “Finger Pointing To The Moon”

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“Optical Illusion of Separateness”

Albert Einstein’s main objection to quantum mechanics, as accepted then, was that it provided no reasonable explanation of the world, and in some sense denied what many believed it means to truly exist. While walking with his biographer physicist Abraham Pais, Pais reported Einstein in frustration asked “whether I really believed that the moon exists only when I look at it.”

Einstein also complained in a letter to friend and fellow physicist, Max Born who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics:

“You believe in the God that plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world which objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture.”

Uncertainty Principle

Uncertainty Principle

The complicated genius was, nevertheless, a universal and compassionate thinker, who said: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘the universe,’ a part limited in time and space.”

And Einstein wrote of the human being that:

“He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

The Mind’s Eye – 2

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Non-Duality

Universal unity or non-duality is a popular topic of discussion today. There is a website devoted to it (nonduality.com), and a blog and even a conference October 21-25: titled Science And Non-Duality.

It’s the same concept that engaged Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine. Everything is alive and conscious in “Esoteric philosophy,” she wrote, and “life we look upon as ‘the one form of existence, manifesting in what is called matter—or, as in man, what, incorrectly separating them, we name Spirit, Soul and Matter.” Further:-

“Matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by Life, which pervades them all. The idea of universal life is one of those ancient conceptions which are returning to the human mind in this century, as a consequence of its liberation from anthropomorphic theology.”

Seeing The Future

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Advaita

At Francis Lucille’s The Advaita Channel you’ll find an insightful article A Primer on Advaita.  We were inspired by a quote from Professor Lucille on Advaita philosophy, which tackles the problem of duality by first focusing our full attention on the ‘I’ at every moment.

Once the illusion or limitation becomes obvious, it falls away, and then begin to appreciate the ‘not-I’—by this practice, paradoxically, we are gradually compelled to attend to the greater wholeness within which the smaller ‘I’ exists. As Lao-Tze put it: “The Tao that can be expressed in words is not the eternal Tao.”

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“Consciousness is defined as that, whatever that is, which is aware of these very words right here, right now. … The student who practices self inquiry keeps his attention focused onto the source of the I-thoughts and I-feelings, whenever they arise.

“Once enlightenment has taken place, the process of self inquiry continues effortlessly. The attention spontaneously reverts to the source at the end of each thought and feeling and there is no need to focus the attention any longer.”

“Sum-Totals”

by H. P. Blavatsky

The Secret Doctrine

“TIME is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced — but ‘lies asleep.’

“The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that part which we call the past.

“Nothing on earth has real duration, for nothing remains without change—or the same—for the billionth part of a second.

“And the sensation we have of the actuality of the division of ‘time’ known as the present, comes from the blurring of that momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things that our senses give us, as those things pass from the region of ideals which we call the future, to the region of memories that we name the past.

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“In the same way we experience a sensation of duration in the case of the instantaneous electric spark, by reason of the blurred and continuing impression on the retina. The real person or thing does not consist solely of what is seen at any particular moment, but is composed of the sum of all its various and changing conditions from its appearance in the material form to its disappearance from the earth.

“It is these ’sum-totals’ that exist from eternity in the ‘future,’ and pass by degrees through matter, to exist for eternity in the ‘past.’

“No one could say that a bar of metal dropped into the sea came into existence as it left the air, and ceased to exist as it entered the water, and that the bar itself consisted only of that cross-section thereof which at any given moment coincided with the mathematical plane that separates, and, at the same time, joins, the atmosphere and the ocean.

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“Even so of persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the has-been, out of the future into the past—[they]

present momentarily to our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves,

as they pass through time and space (as matter) on their way from one eternity to another: and these two constitute that ‘duration‘ in which alone anything has true existence, were our senses but able to cognize it there.”


The Caring Spirit

compassion1TWO DAYS after H. P. Blavatsky’s death in 1891 an editorial was published in the New-York Daily Tribune (founded by Horace Greeley) noting “Madame Blavatsky held that the regeneration of mankind must be based upon the development of altruism.”

“In this she was at one with the greatest thinkers, not alone of the present day, but of all time,” the Editorial acknowledged, “and at one, it is becoming more and more apparent, with the strongest spiritual tendencies of the age. This alone would entitle her teachings to the candid and serious consideration of all who respect the influences that make for righteousness.”

The Human Enigma

One of  the clearest statements on the subject is found in her The Key to Theosophy where she says that “altruism is an integral part of self-development.” Asked how a person could achieve such an elevated state, her reply was:

“By the use of our higher reason, spiritual intuition and moral sense, and by following the dictates of what we call ‘the still small voice’ of our conscience — and which speaks louder in us than the earthquakes and the thunders of Jehovah.”

And further, she writes, “there are persons who never think with the higher faculties of their mind at all—those who do so are the minority and are thus, in a way, beyond, if not above, the average of human kind.” Altruistic works would be natural for them because, she says “they will think even upon ordinary matters on that higher plane.”

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It is the “idiosyncrasy of the person” that determines which vibration of the spectrum of consciousness we call ‘mind’ is activated. And this “determines in which ‘principle’ of the mind the thinking is done,” she notes. Both our physical heredity and our ingrained tendencies from prior lifetimes comes into play. The materialistically inclined person is genuinely handicapped because the “metaphysical portion” of his brain, through disuse, is “almost atrophied” she says.

It is as difficult for such a person to raise himself higher, as it is for a naturally spiritually minded person “to descend to the level of the matter-of-fact vulgar thought.” The twin human features of optimism and pessimism “depend on it also in a large measure,” she adds.

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“When I talk or think about altruism, I am often in tears. Why? Because it is really precious and wonderful…” - The Dali Lama

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An Object Lesson

Invoking a Blavatskian principle that “it is often as useful to know what a thing is not, as to learn what it is”— we offer below an interview with Ayn Rand. Appalling as Ms. Rand’s views may be to spiritual thinkers—with so much suffering in the world, individual and societal—the interview nevertheless serves as a powerful object lesson on how reason can be perverted when separated from the heart. As W. Q. Judge writes in the Ocean of Theosophy:

“The lower, and purely intellectual, is nearest to the principle of Desire, and is thus distinguished from its other side which has affinity for the spiritual principles above. If the Thinker becomes wholly intellectual, the entire nature begins to tend downward—for intellect alone is cold, heartless, selfish.

Objectivism vs Altruism

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For the Sake of Right

The contrasting Theosophical spiritual worldview is the polar opposite of “Randism.” As expressed in the Key to Theosophy:

“… our philosophy teaches us that the object of doing our duties to all men and to ourselves the last, is not the attainment of personal happiness, but of the happiness of others—the fulfilment of right for the sake of right, not for what it may bring us. Happiness, or rather contentment, may indeed follow the performance of duty, but is not and must not be the motive for it.”

However noble their professed motives, most scientists can’t get clear of materialism. To do so would open the door to the possibility that consciousness and mind are distinct from the physical brain, and would place these fields out of range of established measurements. Science also fears the intrusion of religious ideas.

This is Your Brain on Altruism

An example of modern laboratory Randism, is the millions recently invested in a new “Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education” (CCARE) at the Stanford University School of Medicine—with the aim of doing scientific research on the neural underpinnings of these thoughts and feelings.

What else are these “underpinnings” if not material? What better way for Stanford to improve their credibility than by inviting the Dali Lama for a visit?

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Altruism – Biological Roots?

Propped up by decades of Richard Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene, the only question scientists still ask when observing unselfishness in nature is “what’s the evolutionary pay-off?”

And, as Kate Douglass in the August 5, 2009 NewScientist reports:

“This all makes good evolutionary sense, since spending time and energy helping someone without any return puts you at a distinct disadvantage in the survival stakes.” However, she points out:

“The only trouble is that in recent years evidence has amassed that people do commit acts of genuine altruism. In experimental game-playing situations, for example, many people will share money with a stranger even when there is nothing in it for them. This has led biologists to conclude that altruism is a part of human nature. What they cannot decide is how or why it evolved.”

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The Jane Goodall Institute

For example, what would cause a human being to sacrifice their own comfort and safety to save an animal species? Learn about JGI’s work in Africa and around the world: chimpanzee behavioral research at Gombe National Park in Tanzania, the Tchimpounga sanctuary for chimp orphans, the work with communities to promote sustainable livelihoods, and their global youth program, “Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots.”

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Absent from the intellectual religion of materialism, and found throughout Indian philosophy, is the idea of Dharma or duty—”that which is due to Humanity,” Blavatsky says. A higher calling she describes as “duty to our fellow-men, neighbours, family, and especially that which we owe to all those who are poorer and more helpless than we are ourselves,” concluding:

“This is a debt which, if left unpaid during life, leaves us spiritually insolvent and moral bankrupts in our next incarnation. Theosophy is the quintessence of duty.”

Dog Saves an Injured Dog

One ‘junkyard’ dog shows more heart and courage than all the Ayn Rands’ of the world, and their intelligentsia ilk.

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“The Theosophical ideas of charity,” Madame Blavatsky explains,

“mean personal exertion for others—personal mercy and kindness—personal interest in the welfare of those who suffer— personal sympathy, forethought and assistance in their troubles or needs.”

There is an ingrained resistance in science, fostered by decades of neo-Darwinian dogma, which has humans evolving altruistic traits as a result of a cultural price we paid each other early in our evolution in order to survive. This is a degrading view of social development in which selfishness vs altruism are simply pawns in a game of roulette-style evolution.

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Compassionate activist, Julia Butterfly Hill (above), is an example of Theosophy pure and simple, taking action, as taught in The Voice of the Silence—sacrificing her comfort and well-being to “help Nature and work on with her.”  (See post: Not An Island)

Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
The Saintly Macaques

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THE TWO PATHS

Samyak Sambuddha, the Teacher of Perfection, gave up his SELF for the salvation of the World, by stopping at the threshold of Nirvana — the pure state.

“Sweet are the fruits of Rest and Liberation for the sake of Self; but sweeter still the fruits of long and bitter duty. Aye, Renunciation for the sake of others, of suffering fellow men.”

Buddha in Sarnath Museum, India

Buddha in Sarnath Museum, India

He who becomes “Pratyeka-Buddha” makes his obeisance but to his Self.

“Prakyeka buddhas are those Bodhisattvas who strive after and often reach the Dharmakaya robe after a series of lives. Caring nothing for the woes of mankind or to help it, but only for their own bliss, they enter Nirvana and — disappear from the sight and the hearts of men. In Northern Buddhism a ” Pratyeka Buddha is a synonym of spiritual Selfishness.

“The Bodhisattva who has won the battle, who holds the prize within his palm, yet says in his divine compassion:

“For others’ sake this great reward I yield”

— accomplishes the greater Renunciation.

“A SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD is he.”

(Voice of the Silence)

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H. H. Dali-Lama – Altruism

“The Secret Path leads the Arhan to mental woe unspeakable … and helpless pity for the men of karmic sorrow”

- Book of the Golden Precepts

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What is Practical Theosophy?

The Key to Theosophy

by H. P. Blavatsky

What you call “Christian duties” were inculcated by every great moral and religious Reformer ages before the Christian era. All that was great, generous, heroic, was, in days of old, not only talked about and preached from pulpits as in our own time, but acted upon sometimes by whole nations. The history of the Buddhist reform is full of the most noble and most heroically unselfish acts.

“Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing”

…[this] was practically carried out by the followers of Buddha, several centuries before Peter. The Ethics of Christianity are grand, no doubt; but as undeniably they are not new, and have originated as “Pagan” duties.

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And how would you define these duties, or “duty,” in general, as you understand the term?

It does not require metaphysics or education to make a man understand the broad truths of Karma and Reincarnation. Look at the millions of poor and uneducated Buddhists and Hindoos, to whom Karma and re-incarnation are solid realities, simply because their minds have never been cramped and distorted by being forced into an unnatural groove.

They have never had the innate human sense of justice perverted in them by being told to believe that their sins would be forgiven because another man had been put to death for their sakes. And the Buddhists, note well, live up to their beliefs without a murmur against Karma, or what they regard as a just punishment; whereas the Christian populace neither lives up to its moral ideal, nor accepts its lot contentedly. Hence murmuring, and dissatisfaction, and the intensity of the struggle for existence in Western lands.

Mind Reading Mind

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Garry Kimovich Kasparov

YOU can’t know for sure Garry Kasparov’s next move, solely by studying the patterns he sets up on the chess board. Absolute certainty requires you to read his mind directly.

Similarly, decoding brain patterns is puzzling for scientists analyzing them. Like weather forecasting, it is too often unreliable. Locating memory in the brain for example remains elusive.

Simple logic says the brain’s activity itself cannot be the source of thought, but is only thought’s result. Knowing what thoughts are by studying their patterns, has proven more difficult than knowing the perfect chess move.

The real ‘thinker’ is positioned behind the curtain of observed consciousness, Theosophy affirms.

It is that invisible conscious entity who delivers the energetic thought signals which light up the cells and neurons of the physical brain, is the active agent of consciousness — not the responding cells and neurons.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Brain’s Holistic Network

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix)

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Mind-Reading Not as Simple
as Previously Thought

A group of scientists at Rutgers University and UCLA, in a report published in the October 2009 issue of Psychological Science that suggests possible methods for predicting brain activity (and hence “reading” minds) — are finding the current brain model is much more complex than previously thought.

Participants were given a functional MRI (fMRI) while performing reading, memorization, and risk-assessment tasks, and it turns out that while the same area is not consistently used (according to prevailing theory), a predictable pattern of activity occurs in the brain.

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This pattern has the potential to be used to determine other psychological data, such as whether a subject is lying or not. The study authors compare these “global” brain patterns to an individual’s fingerprints. Reading these patterns has not been easy.

System-wide Behavior

“What our research shows,” says Rutgers psychology professor Stephen José Hanson,

“is that if you want to understand human cognitive function, you need to look at system-wide behavior across the entire brain. You can’t do it by looking at single cells or areas. You need to look at many areas of the brain to even understand the simplest of functions.”

“While actual mind reading might be too lofty a goal based on this particular study,” the article reports, “the authors are planning to use the data to establish base-line normal global brain activity to compare against the brain activity of those patients suffering with psychological disorders such as schizophrenia, autism, and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity.”

The Intention Effect

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix)

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Mesmerism

“Mesmerism is the name given to an art, or the exhibition of a power to act upon others and the facility to be acted upon,” wrote W. Q. Judge.

“Anton Mesmer, who gave greater publicity in the Western world to the subject than any other person, and whose name is still attached to it, in about 1775 obtained great prominence in Europe in connection with his experiments and cures — but, as H. P. Blavatsky says in her Theosophical Glossary, he was only a rediscoverer.

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“The trinity of nature is the lock of magic, the trinity of man the key that fits it. There being but ONE Truth, man requires but one church – the Temple of God within us, walled in by matter but penetrable by anyone who can find the way – the pure in heart see God.”

- Isis Unveiled

“In 1639, one hundred years before Mesmer, a book was published in Europe upon the use of mesmerism in the cure of wounds, and bore the title, The Sympathetical Powder of Edricius Mohynus of Eburo.

“These cures, it was said, could be effected at a distance from the wound by reason of the virtue or directive faculty between that and the wound.”

Distance Healing

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix)

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A Subtle Form of Matter

“THE great question mooted is whether there is or there is not any actual fluid thrown off by the mesmerizer. Many deny it, and nearly all hypnotizers refuse to admit it. H. P. Blavatsky declares there is such a fluid, and those who can see into the plane to which it belongs assert its existence as a subtle form of matter.

“This fluid is composed in part of the astral substance around everyone, and in part of the physical atoms in a finely divided state. By some this astral substance is called aura. But that word is indefinite, as there are many sorts of aura and many degrees of its expression.

“This aura, then, is thrown off by the mesmerizer upon his subject, and is received by the latter in a department of his inner constitution, never described by any Western experimenters, because they know nothing of it.”

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Sheaths of the Soul

“IT wakes up certain inner and non-physical divisions of the person operated on, causing a change of relation between the various and numerous sheaths surrounding the inner man, and making possible different degrees of intelligence and of clairvoyance and the like.

“It has no influence whatsoever on the Higher Self, which it is impossible to reach by such means.

“In ordinary waking life every one, without being able to disentangle himself, is subject to the impressions from the whole organism — that is to say, every cell in the body, to the most minute, has its own series of impressions and recollections, all of which continue to impinge on the great register, the brain.”

Broadcasting Fields

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix)

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The Astral Body

“THE structure of the inner astral man is definite and coherent,” W. Q. Judge wrote. “How many subjects are trained so as to be able to analyze their own astral anatomy?”

“Just as the outer body has a spine which is the column whereon the being sustains itself with the brain at the top, so the astral body has its spine and brain. It is material, for it is made of matter, however finely divided, and is not of the nature of the spirit.”

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Seat of The Senses

“THE region of the inner man, is not the spiritual being, but the astral one who is the model on which the outer visible form is built. This inner person is the mediator between mind and matter. Hearing the commands of mind, he causes the physical nerves to act and thus the whole body.

“All the senses have their seat in this person, and every one of them is a thousandfold more extensive in range than their outer representatives, for those outer eyes and ears, and sense of touch, taste, and smell, are only gross organs which the inner ones use, but which of themselves can do nothing.”

Born with The Baby

“AFTER the maturity of the child before birth this form is fixed, coherent, lasting, undergoing but small alteration from that day until death,” Judge says.

“And so also as to its brain; that remains unchanged until the body is given up, and does not, like the outer brain, give up cells to be replaced by others from hour to hour. These inner parts are thus more permanent than the outer correspondents to them.”

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“OUR material organs, bones, and tissues are undergoing change each instant. They are suffering always what the ancients called ‘the constant momentary dissolution of minor units of matter,’ and hence within each month there is a perceptible change by way of diminution or accretion.”

Astral Glue

“THIS IS NOT THE CASE with the inner [ASTRAL] form.

“It alters only from life to life, being constructed at the time of reincarnation to last for a whole period of existence. For it is the model fixed by the present evolutionary proportions for the outer body. It is the collector, as it were, of the visible atoms which make us as we outwardly appear.

“So at birth it is potentially of a certain size, and when that limit is reached, it stops the further extension of the body, making possible what are known today as average weights and average sizes.”

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix):

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“THE outer body is kept in shape by the inner one until the period of decay. And this decay, followed by death, is not due to bodily disintegration, per se, but to the fact that the term of the astral body is reached, when it is no longer able to hold the outer frame intact.

Its power to resist the impact and war of the material molecules being exhausted, the sleep of death supervenes.”

“Astro-nerves”

“NOW, as in our physical form the brain and spine are the centres for nerves, so in the other there are the nerves which ramify from the inner brain and spine all over the structure. All of these are related to every organ in the outer visible body.

“They are more in the nature of currents than nerves, as we understand the word, and may be called astro-nerves. They move in relation to such great centres in the body outside, as the heart, the pit of the throat, umbilical centre, spleen, and sacral plexus.”

“I Got My Life Back!”

(Excerpt from The Living Matrix)

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The Personal Actor Within

“THE astro-spinal column has three great nerves of the same sort of matter.

“They may be called ways or channels, upon and down which the forces play, that enable man inside and outside to stand erect, to move, to feel, and to act. In description they answer exactly to the magnetic fluids, that is, they are respectively positive, negative and neutral, their regular balance being essential to sanity.”

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“WHEN the astral spine reaches the inner brain the nerves alter and become more complex, having a final great outlet in the skull. Then, with these two great parts of the inner person are the other manifold sets of nerves of similar nature related to the various planes of sensation in the visible and invisible world.

“These all then constitute the personal actor within.”

W. Q. Judge, Mesmerism

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Ruminations

fall-foliageCrazy Summer Days & Pre-Autumn Ruminations

By Steve Levey

(Having a crazy summer? Me, too. I was recounting all the bizarre things that have been happening to me the last few months, when my friend Steve Levey, of Washington, D.C., offered these insightful thoughts. K. LeBeau, ed.)

PERHAPS it has something to do with (and I might be going over the top here) with the upcoming month of September in which Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, falls on the 18th. It’s just 10 days before Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which is being celebrated on September 27 this year. Normally, Yom Kippur occurs in early October — these holy days move a bit from year to year according to the lunar cycle of reference.

“Kippurim”

Kabbalistically, Yom Kippur is considered to be the most powerful day of the year (although the Sabbaths or each Saturday from sundown Friday on, also have this power latent in them) where the previous year is considered “closed” so that the new one can have a fresh start in us.

The term “kippur” is Hebrew (oddly enough) and comes from the word “kippurim,” which means “to close. “Therefore the Torah, normally kept open to the specific place required for reading each day of the year — for the entire year, is closed on Yom Kippur. I think this is a very significant and useful practice.

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My point is; I’ve always thought that the natural influences at this time of the year proved these particular days had merit. The idea being to prepare to close out the past year in terms of a consideration of what went on, which is very much like the Pythagorean review–called “nightly review,” which is to be done daily before sleep as he prescribed for his students, leaving the coming year (day) a chance to have a fresh presentation.

HPB mentions that she was surprised to see that the Christians didn’t keep these days for the New Year cycle instead of adopting the Greek one, even though the sun gods, as she groups Krishna, the Christ, etc., are to be revered around this time, culminating on January 4th, the Theosophical New Year.

Metaphysical Impressions,
Gifts for a New Cycle

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I think what she was getting at is — there is a genuine metaphysical impression upon our inner natures at the so-called Jewish cycle of New Year/Yom Kippur regarding ends and beginnings, and a natural reverential drive inherent to us, around the December/January cycle. This makes the connection Theosophical (which is what the term really implies) in terms of a synthetic relationship of all of this to us in the West as well as a synthetic doctrine which cuts across all continents and periods of time.

Transition Cycles:
Out with the Old, In with the New

As I understand all of this, we need to get used to seeing these periods as transition cycles, which makes them easier to live with, because they are going to happen anyway (a little reality therapy). Although most Jews living their cyclic recognition of the Jewish calendar of events, suffer righteously during these periods of time, because they take the repentance aspect of their connection to the past too strongly instead of also considering the holy day being latent with potential rejuvenation. Here is a resemblance to Shiva as the third aspect of the Hindu trinity Trimurti — death and regeneration.

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Being raised Jewish, I saw how my mother put a special bulb containing the six-pointed star of David in a particular lamp on Yom Kippur, in memory of the dead of the previous year. Also, many Jews go to temple on the evening before, to a special Memoriam service in which Kol Nidre is sung-a particularly reverential (although beautiful) hymnal for the previously deceased.

So, Yom Kippur ends up being a day of atonement for themselves and those who died, which the Jewish temples support. All of it is grossly misunderstood or taken too literally or both, per the explanations given in rabbinical and Kabalistic writings.

Maybe one could consider taking a universal view of Kabala as compared with Esoteric Vidya (see chart):

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Visions or Illusions

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THE true student of The Secret Doctrine is a Jnana Yogi, and this Path of Yoga is the True Path for the Western student, Blavatsky said. “It is to provide him with sign posts on that Path that The Secret Doctrine has been written.”

This mode of thinking, she explained, is what the Indians call Jnana Yoga. “As one progresses in Jnana Yoga one finds conceptions arising which though conscious of them, one cannot express nor yet formulate into any sort of mental picture.”

Gallery of Illusions

“As time goes on these conceptions will form into mental pictures,” she explained to a small group of her most earnest students.

“This is a time to be on guard and refuse to be deluded with the idea that the new found and wonderful picture must represent reality. It does not. As one works on one finds the once admired picture growing dull and unsatisfying, and finally fading out or being thrown away.”

We seem to be left in a void without support, she says, and “be tempted to revive the cast-off picture for want of a better to cling to.”

Illusions

Look carefully at above optical illusion - what do you see?

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein

And Blavatsky writes:

“THE true student will work on unconcerned, and presently further formless gleams come, which again in time give rise to a larger and more beautiful picture than the last.

“Eventually [he] will learn that no picture represents the whole truth, and this process continues as each picture fades away like the last. “And so the process goes on,” she says, “until at last the mind and its pictures are transcended and the learner enters and dwells in the World of no form — but of which all forms are narrowed reflections.”

Eckhart Tolle – Form is Not the Moment

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Dharana

The SanskritDharana is defined as:

“the intense and perfect concentration of the mind upon some one interior object, accompanied by complete abstraction from everything pertaining to the external Universe, or the world of the senses.” And, The Voice of the Silence repeats:

“…from the stronghold of your Soul, chase all your foes away — ambition, anger, hatred, e’en to the shadow of desire — when even you have failed…”

Photo: Bianca Van der Werf

Photo: Bianca Van der Werf

WHEN the Voice and the Bhagavad-Gita speak about “killing” and “slaying” this is a metaphor about control. About not allowing the “mental noise” or the “monkey mind” to gain rulership over ourselves. It is the silent center, our True Self, which should always rule. Thus says the Voice,

“The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real.
Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.”

For: –

“When to himself his form appears unreal, as do on waking all the forms he sees in dreams – when he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the ONE  the inner sound which kills the outer.”

Peter Russell – Letting Go

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“We are not all too happy, wrote W. Q. Judge, “but are rich in hope, knowing the prize at the end of time, and not deterred by the clouds, the storms, the miasms and dreadful beasts of prey that line the road.”

“Let us, then, at the very outset wash out of our souls all desire for reward, all hope that we may attain. For so long as we thus hope and desire, we shall be separated from the Self.”

“If in the Self all things are,” he advises a correspondent (Letter 15) — “then we cannot wish to be something which we can only compass by excluding something else.”

Knowledge Not in Books

“The Bhagavad-Gita is right in saying “spiritual knowledge includes every action without exception,” wrote Judge in his Essays on the Bhagavad-Gita, “and that it is to be attained by means of devotion. Ignorant men who had no access to books have by their inward sense perceived the real truth of things, not only those round about them, but relating to the larger concerns of nature.”

Jacob Böhme was born in Alt Seidenberg in Silesia nearby Görlitz, where he worked as a master shoemaker. He received his first vision in 1600, a second one in 1610, which he recorded in Morgenrote im Aufgang, also called Aurora.

Jacob Böhme

Jacob Böhme

JACOB BOEHME was wholly unlettered, but he knew the truth,” Judge said, and “His writings show an acquaintance, not to be then gained from books, with the true doctrines found in the Hindu scriptures and secret books.”

“The reason is, that these men have attained to devotion, and thereby cleared away from before the eye of the soul the clouds of sense whose shadows obscure our view of truth.”

The First and The Best

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“I do not decry or despise learning,” he says, “it is a great possession— but if the learned man were also a devoted one in the sense of the Bhagavad-Gita, how much wider would be the sweep of his intellection no one could calculate.”

“Learning of the human sort is not despised among the highest occultists, even among the adepts. They use it and acquire it. They accumulate the record of the experiences of seers and devoted men of small learning for long periods of time, until a great master of both learning and devotion arises.”

“By reason of his profound knowledge joined to devotion, he can make the wonderful deductions … respecting matters so far beyond us that they can with difficulty be imagined. But this again proves that devotion is the first and best, for these extraordinary Masters would not appear unless devotion had been the aim of their existence.”

Alison Wright – Story of Compassion

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“Without devotion a vast confusion arises within us that has been likened by some to a whirling motion, by others to the inrushing, overpowering flow of turbid waters. Boehme calls it in some aspects the turba. It is the delusion produced by the senses.

“And so Krishna, in closing the second lecture, says:

‘The performance of works is by far inferior to mental devotion… Seek an asylum, then, in this mental devotion, which is knowledge.

‘But he who by means of Yoga is mentally devoted dismisses alike successful and unsuccessful results, being beyond them. Yoga is skill in the performance of actions: therefore do thou aspire to this devotion.’

The Self-Governed Sage

“The uncontrolled heart, following the dictates of the moving passions, snatcheth away his spiritual knowledge, as the storm the bark upon the raging ocean. Therefore, O great-armed one, he is possessed of spiritual knowledge whose senses are withheld from objects of sense. What is night to those who are unenlightened is as day to his gaze — what seems as day is known to him as night, the night of ignorance. Such is the self-governed Sage!

Bruce Lipton – The Piece Left Out

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But he who, free from attachment or repulsion for objects, experienceth them through the senses and organs, with his heart obedient to his will, attains to tranquility of thought.

“And this tranquil state attained, therefrom shall soon result a separation from all troubles; and his mind being thus at ease, fixed upon one object, it embraceth wisdom from all sides. The man whose heart and mind are not at rest is without wisdom or the power of contemplation — who doth not practice reflection, hath no calm — and how can a man without calm obtain happiness?”

Eckhart Tolle – To Think or Not to Think

Seeking nothing, he gains all -
Forgetting self, the Universe grows ‘I’.

– The Light of Asia

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“The tumultuous senses and organs hurry away by force the heart even of the wise man who striveth after perfection,” Krishna, the Higher Self, says to his disciple Arjuna. “Let a man, restraining all these, remain in devotion at rest in me, his true self — for he who hath his senses and organs in control possesses spiritual knowledge.”

“He who attendeth to the inclinations of the senses, in them hath a concern — from this concern is created passion, from passion anger, from anger is produced delusion, from delusion a loss of the memory, from the loss of memory loss of discrimination, and from loss of discrimination loss of all!

Knowledge Comes in Visions

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Helena Blavatsky

“If you could’st empty all thyself of self
Like to a shell dishabited …
then there would be no room for (little) Me.”

“… first in dreams and then in pictures presented to the inner eye during meditation. Thus have I been taught the whole system of evolution, the laws of being and all else that I know—the mysteries of life and death, the workings of karma.

“Not a word was spoken to me of all this in the ordinary way, except, perhaps, by way of confirmation of what was thus given me—nothing taught me in writing.

“And knowledge so obtained is so clear, so convincing, so indelible in the impression it makes upon the mind, that all other sources of information, all other methods of teaching with which we are familiar dwindle into insignificance in comparison with this.

“One of the reasons why I hesitate to answer offhand some questions put to me is the difficulty of expressing in sufficiently accurate language things given to me in pictures, and comprehended by me by the pure Reason…” (CW 13, p. 285)

Tenzin Palmo

Tenzin Palmo

“A childlike quality of the mind really means a mind which is fresh,
which sees things as if for the first time.”

“You see a glass and you see it as it is, rather than seeing all the other glasses you have seen in your life, together with your ideas and theories about glasses and whether you like glasses in this or that shape, or the kind of glass you drank out of yesterday. We are talking about a mind which sees the thing freshly in the moment. That’s the quality we are aiming for. We lose this as we become adults.”

–from Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical Buddhism by Venerable Tenzin Palmo, published by Snow Lion Publications

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Journey to The Heart

MotherChildWHEN our earthly Mothers welcomed us back in the house after a hard day’s play, we assumed there would be a lovingly prepared meal waiting for us, a soothing bath and a bedtime story. Clean pajamas and sheets were as much Mother’s rule as her unconditional love.

Mother Nature knows how to care for Her children too, but maybe we have been out playing too long. And She has been waiting for our return home, out of the darkness of separation and materialist concerns.

Perhaps, too, it’s because we have not thought of helping Nature and been willing to work cooperatively with Her — forgetting that Nature and Man are really ‘One Being’ — that we have so many health and environmental concerns.

With a change of heart and direction, re-becoming one with Nature’s Soul-Thought,” we modern humans could deserve a lot more TLC from Her than we do now. Humanity must return once more to wholeness. Only the knowledge possessed by the Sages of the past can help lead us to the healing we need in the present.

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True knowledge is emerging again in 21st Century due to the insight and efforts of many modern mystics, thought leaders and healers.

Swedenborg, the 18th-century Swedish mystic points out that the whole natural world corresponds to the spiritual world, “not only in general but also in particular.” Being convinced of this law “as of a thing self-evident and beyond all doubt.”

And the ancient law of correspondence and analogy was once again brought to our attention by H. P. Blavatsky, who wrote:

“in Occult Science this law is the first and most important key to Cosmic physics.”

Deva-Matri

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“She is very properly called ‘The Mother of the Gods,’” says Blavatsky — “Deva-Matri — it is from her Cosmic matrix that all the heavenly bodies of our system were born — Sun and Planets.”

The True Sun

“Our Sun is only a reflection of the Central Spiritual Sun…”
- H. P. Blavatsky

The True Sun is what Blavatsky calls “The Central Spiritual Sun,” of which our sun is a “lens” or reflection, a focus of energy. The old teaching was revealed first in Isis Unveiled:

“…none of the ancients, the sun-worshippers included, regarded our visible sun otherwise than as an emblem of their metaphysical invisible central sun-god.

The Life Giver

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Such was the enlightened belief of centuries of wise teachers, long before our fighting and trading materialist civilizations were born.

The Hermeticist’s views, which put them at odds with the Church, saw the universe as one coherent organism pervaded by a uniting life-giving spirit — the Cosmic Mother’s primordial soup, if you will.

The Mother Electric

Scientists will be driven out of their position, Blavatsky says in The Secret Doctrine (1:620):-

“not by spiritual, theosophical, or any other physical or even mental phenomena — but simply by the enormous gaps and chasms that open daily and will still be opening before them, as one discovery follows the other, until they are finally knocked off their feet by the ninth wave of simple common sense.”

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For Paracelcus, an alchemist and practicing astrologer, the Sun of our universe corresponded to its Heart– the visible and invisible life giver and sustainer of the world.

In a recent post, The Inner Ruler, we discovered that the human heart, corresponding to the Sun, emanates the largest and strongest field in the body, just as the Sun does in its “body” – our Universe.

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“The real substance of the concealed (Sun) is a nucleus of Mother substance,” the secret commentary explains:-

“It is the heart and the matrix of all the living and existing Forces in our solar universe. It is the Kernel from which proceed to spread on their cyclic journeys all the Powers that set in action the atoms in their functional duties, and the focus within which they again meet in their SEVENTH ESSENCE every eleventh year.”

The Life Currents

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The Commentary further teaches that “the Sun is the store-house of Vital Force, which is the Noumenon of Electricity — and that

… it is from its mysterious, never-to-be-fathomed depths, that issue those life currents which thrill through Space, as through the organisms of every living thing on Earth.”

A Divine Web

“As its substance is of a different kind from that known on earth, the inhabitants seeing through it, believe in their illusion and ignorance that it is empty space,” says The Secret Doctrine. And further:

“There is not one finger’s breath (angula) of void Space in the whole Boundless Universe…”

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That nourishing divine substance-principle, in all its fullness, Man included, was what the Ancients called ‘God’. Says again, The Secret Doctrine:

“The fundamental Law in that system, the central point from which all emerged, around and toward which all gravitates, and upon which is hung the philosophy of the rest, is the One homogeneous divine Substance-Principle, the one radical cause.”

Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to spirit — the light of the one darkness — and the lower one to its shadowy end, matter — and this web is the universe spun out of the two substances made in one,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote:

“It is the omnipresent Reality: impersonal, because it contains all and everything. … It is latent in every atom in the Universe, and is the Universe itself. The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.”

Reservoirs of Vital Energy

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“The Sun is the heart of the Solar World (System) and its brain is hidden behind the (visible) Sun. From thence, sensation is radiated into every nerve-centre of the great body, and the waves of the life-essence flow into each artery and vein … the planets are its limbs and pulses.

“Occult philosophy denies that the Sun is a globe in combustion, but defines it simply as a world, a glowing sphere, the real Sun being hidden behind, and the visible being only its reflection, its shell.

“The Nasmyth willow leaves [now called sun spots] … are the reservoirs of solar vital energy, ‘the vital electricity that feeds the whole system … The Sun in abscondito being thus the storehouse of our little Kosmos, self-generating its vital fluid, and ever receiving as much as it gives out,’ and the visible Sun only a window cut into the real Solar palace and presence, which reflects, however, faithfully the interior work. (I, 541).

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Sun Spot

Astronomers are finally catching up
with The Secret Doctrine

Theosophy holds that as our solar system orbits the centre of the galaxy, it also revolves around a ‘central sun’ or ‘raja-sun’ (just as the moon orbits the earth while both of them orbit our own sun). The central sun is located in the constellation Hercules (H.P. Blavatsky: Collected Writings, TPH, 1950, 5:162-3; Mahatma Letters, 23b.)

Now, astronomers have discovered a powerful magnetic field at the galactic center.

The UCLA News Room states that:

“It has the energy equivalent of 1,000 supernovae.”

More incredible, the UCLA article notes, “Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.”

“We see two intertwining strands wrapped around each other as in a DNA molecule,” said Mark Morris, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy.

“Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm. … What we see indicates a high degree of order.”

Double Helix Nebula

Double Helix Nebula

The Gayatri Hymn

(Rig-Veda)

“That which giveth sustenance to the Universe and to ourselves, from which all doth proceed, and unto which all must return — That Thou Art. In the golden vase of thine earthly body, may the pure Light of the Spiritual Sun shine forth, that thou may’st know the Truth, and do thy whole duty, on the journey back to the Sacred Seat! “

…To be continued