Radarmark, it occurs that there are some, possibly including yourself, unfamiliar with what the Vedists had to say (picked up, echoed and amplified, where possible
clarified) ... on some of the matters I mentioned.
Planetary evolution, for example, is not
unusual or rare in the Ageless Wisdom. Rather, it pertains
everywhere, and is the Cosmic RULE. The idea of intelligent life inhabiting a globe is taught to be UNIVERSAL and a part of God's PLAN. Every student of the Wisdom seeks to
forward that: when, where and however he or she can.
There is revealed an endless Hierarchy, which begins with the Logos, includes all
lesser Lives, and eventually focuses through and within Humanity Itself ... then on the sub-human scale across
animal, vegetable and
mineral kingdom. This point of view, however, looks primarily to the
vehicles involved, the outermost expression, and does not directly speak to ME and YOU. Or of the
Conscious, evolving entity, the Soul.
Just as the Logos Himself ensouls
All of Cosmos (first by remaining
Transcendent, the `Unmoved Mover,' while all of Creation evolves and BECOMES something Greater) ... so to does
every Wise and Loving Agent thereof play a similar, no less Noble part, on its own appropriate turn of the Infinite spiral.
Atoms, literally are ENSOULED, teaches the Wisdom. This is
Vedic instruction every bit as much as quantum physics. Getting one's `head around' the Higgs-Boson may prove, for certain reasons, a bit more difficult than simply adjusting to the seasons.
Every single atom of Cosmos is
`created' not simply in order that it may blindly and mechanically [mechanistically, some say]
bounce off the proverbial walls with no apparent purpose til Judgment Day. This is the blindness and the folly of
atheistic materialists; such ignorance of modern science one hopes will be shortlived.
Perennialists in the true sense of this word, not excluding Thomas, whose ears are plugged (and thus, who hasn't heard) tend to believe that
as matter evolves, so too does SPIRIT. There are really like two poles of *one magnet* with an important Interaction in between ~ a
magnetic field which is Consciousness Itself [THE Self].
We have been taught (by many a Wise Master, remember:
Deus ADERIT) ... that it works a bit like this:
Matter serves as the
vehicle, the means or outer expression for the progressive, purposive evolution of Consciousness ~ which
component of our being, relatively speaking, is the more ANCHOR'd, thus Foundational of the two. This, for every Theosophist as also for the Vedist, is our ROCK, inasmuch as the Buddhist observation is undeniable. All the world is CHANGING ...
Thus, even
as G*d spake to Moses, the easiest `Name' for this Great BEING was and remains:
`I AM BECOMING.'
But there is a deeper mystery involved, for life is not simply a duality, much as that angle on the world of flesh was encouraged for us, and by more than a St. Paul. Thus, even Consciousness Itself is regarded by the esotericist as another Vehicle, though of a far Nobler fashioning.
While
the threefold outer form (the
personality, with its
mortal mind, emotional body & physical vechicles) comes and goes many, many times ... with each new incarnation
GOING OUT [
vide Rev 3:12], and re-entering the Temple
MANY times (yet not becoming a PILLAR for
a rather long string of lives), there is also ~ in human terms ~ the Divine Reflection, a
Temple of Solomon which pertains to
every man (and woman).
This is the
temple not made with human hands, which Christ was able (as many before and some several since) to Resurrect, since he wasn't speaking of the
flesh at all. In short, He was referring to the Fall, to the
absurd notion that we might be here by accident or
on a whim; and as I happen to know for fact He told us, moving forward WAS AND IS, in one sense, as simple as
emulating HIM.
Thus,
DO THIS in Remembrance of `Me' becomes, when held to the Light of
Insight and Reason: Obey the Instruction(s) of your Father, which art in Heaven,
doing the Good deeds thereof on Earth ... and EACH ONE OF YOU [of US] in due course of time (for God's Ways are not at all times easy of understanding) "[shall] come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" [Ephesians 4:13]. Then again, maybe St. Paul was just on crack;
you decide.
Followers of the Ageless Wisdom do not subscribe to the notion that Inspired Evangelists and Apostles were deluded. We believe that
in all times, ages, countries and religions the inspired WISDOM OF GOD, the TRUTH OF THE AGES is present ... as pervasive and accessible in as best a fashion or representation as the
People would have it. You see?
Thomas is actually right about this one. Where you guys insist on
gross distortions ... well, you'll just have to wear it. The error, the
grave offense, is for me to just ~ you know ~ sit here on the fence, kicking my feet, eating my popcorn and
tossing a piece for the starlings & vultures to scramble over, letting the
Crackerback Jox toy surprise get picked over and dragged through the mud
by all the swine and dogs.
"Inaction in a deed of Mercy becomes
action in a deadly Sin."
It is an offense
not to share what was only provided to oneself with the intention of
assisting one's own understanding, that one might become better enabled, uplifted and inspired to pass the torch forward, assisting
others. To greedily guard one's pearls and gems is perhaps no better than
vainly or foolishly to toss down and waste them. So folks like me, usually, as we begin to see ~ tend to withdraw, if only or at first
reluctantly.
The Nazarene Initiate, however, made
a Sacrifice as few of us - and even few of the Initiated - are ever called to do. The very choice of this Advanced Soul to
incarnate (which is what we should be studying, not
virgin birth if we cannot lift it to its proper, pertaining spheres) among us at the time He did (~
105BC) became His first of several
sacrifices. This LOVING ACT, made
Holy under the
LAW of LOVE.
Remember, Friends. If [this man] Thomas tells you there is another and Higher Law, then
let him so NAME it... and thus, while diverging WIDELY from that doctrine and instruction of the Christ, at least let him be HONEST about
confesing to us all his worst, most shameful VICE.
Enough of that.
There is a SPIRIT which moves [behind] every
FORM; this was suggested well enough by a Paul, seeking to
reform the very doctrine of the Hellenists, speaking to crowds, at times, as unfamiliar with certain nuances of the Divine Philosophy as some of you would be
if I continued to speak in gutter rhymes.
The clarification that is needed is that
Consciousness Itself is the Soul, the evolving, Immortal
Being which dwells within us all. This is the
latent Christ, as a softly glowing ember [therefore oft-called
`sleeping'], the measure of the
Divine Flame {SPIRIT} which is
appointed for us all (
i.e., for
each and all). It takes many, MANY long incarnations for this to begin to awaken ... yet inasmuch as precisely this is what we witness in the slow, forward MARCH of Nature, I shouldn't expect the astute observer and earnest student to miss it altogether (if, as we see, some become rather obsessed
over the daily `weather').
Again, why do people take the metaphors and allegory
literally, yet fail to realize in literal terms what is suggested in the Parables? The well-worn grooves, it seems (as you illustrate, Radarmark,
after Thomas), are far easier to
run into ... and thus the needle remains stuck, the record incapable of any further inspiration [as we plainly see]. Perhaps if you listened to what came
before this Man, as there is so much prejudice [with some, especially] regarding what has (for others, CLEARLY) come AFTER!
Says Theosophy's Founding patron in
The Secret Doctrine [vol I, p.49]:
Esoteric philosophy teaches that everything lives and is conscious, but not that all life and consciousness are similar to those of human or even animal beings. 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. 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 [19th, we're a little behind], as a consequence of its liberation from anthropomorphic theology.
Here, that which I have underlined, is one of the
most sublime expressions for us of the Ancient Truth ... in language of modern times, yet especially significant and meaningful
only if we are willing to study what has been written PLAINLY ~ and not just
between the lines.
For
uninspired theologians, as you see, will drag down both Soul and Spirit ... soon acribing to these
any meaning which they wish, especially including that which neither the Ancients [the Vedists, the Egyptians, Greeks, and even the Hebrew
copyists] nor their modern equivalents
ever intended. Christ brought a LIVING MEANING, as
flowing water, to the dead letter ~ and even the
Brahmin priests that Jesus met during his travels could not quite grasp it. He confounded them, exactly as His Teaching is lost on Thomas (
et al).
Knowing something of what He taught, having applied it in my own life ~ granted
imperfectly and in UNfinished manner ~ I have nonetheless discovered all that I have ever required [even 20 years ago I could have said the SAME,
and never once lied] ... in precisely the
WISDOM OF GOD, the Divine Wisdom,
Theos Sophia. Now do not let men as
Thomas here, or ANY, wrest from you what God
freely gives and simply asks that we USE ~ and further develop.
Yes, LOVE,
Loving Forgiveness and a frequent return to UNmovable, Inner abiding Calm ~
an imperturbable calm with seed of Perfect Compassion ~ THIS my Friends, you should all know, is the Universal Balm. It finds its outer, daily expression and contact with men & women *everywhere* in the world as GOODWILL. We can, through the practice of such, make restitution and amends with every culture [some long extinct,
yet subtly still present] Earth's ever known; establishing THIS kind of firm foundation, other
Humanities (from distant Stars) will co-Assemble at the Throne.
Do some men & women KNOW the Logos?
Well, they asked
Jesus from Nazareth this same sort of thing. At just that moment, I believe he was
drinking deep, from Pierian Spring. And thus his question for the Apostle, as we think we understand it,
was aptly put; the answer, those of us who can hear it, came because Peter
knew - the Game's [
Lila, the Divine Play,
the DANCE] been long afoot:
Let SPIRIT [your Father in Heaven, and
ESSEntially the same as mine] guide your
Consciousness; and as my own father often has advised me, "
Let your CONSCIENCE† be your Guide."
True, each person must
decide which dictates are
of Conscience, clear and cold and sometimes hard. But if you're having that much trouble with this
most basic of the BASICS, the Higher Road is not for you. Personally, I have found it
most difficult of earnest travel, and this
not because the means and CLEAR indication are not provided ...
shining Bright for me, as for You. Thus the
quote of Chesterton, and a
similar quip of Gandhiji.
But by no means do I intend disrespect when I say that
some of you lot will simply carry on, as is your CUSTOM [
or TRADITION, as some are wont to insist on calling it] ... always interpreting messages like
"Love your neighbor, even your enemy as yourself" entirely metaphorically or
purely as the domain of your IDOLized Superman; while matters such as virgin birth, the consumption of wine & wafers or
the Confessio continue to be hammered out quite
literally, along with age-old
anthropomorphisms.
It's a helluva lot
easier to nail a MAN to a cross, or stone him for
Preaching the Gospel, than it is to fasten fast
the Divine Spirit [Deus Aderit] ... or belittle it. Or is it? I would put that one
to the earnest theologian. He, of all people, ought to know [what travesty is actually going on]; and personally,
I won't go near it.
† [SOUL, the Immortal reincarnating Self, relatively permanently residing in Solomon's Temple]
You seem to assume you're infallible, I question that, and find it suspect, and, indeed, arrogant.