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The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, Vol 1, Stanzas of Dzyan - 0 views

  • The seven ways to bliss were not. The great causes of misery were not, for there was no one to produce and get ensnared by them.
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      Nothingness, voidness, here is the ultimate place, consciouness ceases
  • The causes of existence had been done away with
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      hard to grapple with this....what could have been the cause for existence? The invisible that is, can only be accessed in non-being?? So manybe conventional reality or materiality is nothing but one huge hinderance to entering into realms of "The One Being"
  • the visible that was, and the invisible that is, rested in eternal non-being — the one being.
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  • The producers of form from no-form — the root of the world — the Devamatri and Svabhavat, rested in the bliss of non-being.
  • The seven sons were not yet born from the web of light. Darkness alone was father-mother, Svabhavat; and Svabhavat was in darkness.
  • The Universe was still concealed in the Divine thought and the Divine bosom. . . .
  • The root of life was in every drop of the ocean of immortality, and the ocean was radiant light, which was fire, and heat, and motion. Darkness vanished and was no more; it disappeared in its own essence, the body of fire and water, or father and mother
  • Light is cold flame, and flame is fire, and fire produces heat, which yields water: the water of life in the great mother.
  • 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,
  • . The Primordial Seven, the First Seven Breaths of the Dragon of Wisdom, produce in their turn from their Holy Circumgyrating Breaths the Fiery Whirlwind
  • Make thy calculations, Lanoo, if thou wouldest learn the correct age of thy small wheel. Its fourth spoke is our mother. Reach the fourth “fruit” of the fourth path of knowledge that leads to Nirvana, and thou shalt comprehend, for thou shalt see . . . .
  • Behold the beginning of sentient formless life.
  • The spark hangs from the flame by the finest thread of Fohat. It journeys through the Seven Worlds of Maya. It stops in the first, and is a metal and a stone; it passes into the second and behold — a plant; the plant whirls through seven changes and becomes a sacred animal. From the combined attributes of these, Manu, the thinker is formed. Who forms him? The seven lives, and the one life. Who completes him? The five-fold Lha. And who perfects the last body? Fish, sin, and soma
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    Theosophical Wisdom, esoteric knowledge regarding the universe, powers of sentinent beings, and phenonmenal/mystical universe
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    Secret Doctrine, last Opus of Helena P Blavatsky
Anthony Santagato

Mysteries of Human Nature - 4 views

  • And those who continue in any of the numerous forms of spiritualism as the antithesis of materialism have to consider their own faith as in some sort a divine dispensation, and materialism as a divine infliction -- both, in the last resort, as a mystery
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      Helena Blavatsky postulated the idea of a middle ground between spiritualism and materialism each viewed polar opposites but in need of some sort of bridge. This aligns with the Buddhist Madhymaka school of thought supported by Naraguna taught a middle way between emptiness and the phenomenal realm of existence. Both had to be taken into account in order to reach enlightenment
  • Human vision can be directed toward the horizon we call birth or toward the horizon we call death. In the one case there is the gradual extinction of the light of memory, in the other of the light of imagination. As to what is beyond these horizons the human being has only hearsay "whereon to stand." Out of this secondhand material the average man constructs or adopts the mental and moral position of either spiritualism or materialism. Either position is of necessity insecure because both deny the fundamental characteristic of human consciousness -- the desire or will to experience, to learn, to know for oneself.
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      It seems as thought the spiritualists have shut down their capacities or faculties of the human mind whereas the materialists only the rational and phenomenal experience. I think Blavatsky is saying that wisdom is located in the mind and that a person wil need their empirical knowledge to access the realms that reside beyond the phenomenal and conventional reality
  • So fixed is our concern with one or the other of these two poles or alternating phases of human existence that we are unable or unwilling to consider Self as distinct from them, but are absorbed in them far more than observant of them.
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      never thought of it this way...this is the human experience condensed into simple duality of thinking and living and thinking or grappling with the experiences of living. Rising above both levels of being as in being totally aware of and monitoring our thinking is not natural or comfortable....then observing what drives our actions which of course is connected to the processes of the mind and visa versa also requires wisdom and training...
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  • this is a world of knowledge as well as a world of experience is an indisputable fact to every human being.
  • That there are other and higher forms of experience and therefore of knowledge possible to every man is or should be the natural lesson of human existence.
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    THE great mysteries of Life and Death present to the materialist a question of survival which, on his own terms, can never be decided. For if death were actually the finality of all existence, there would be no means of ascertaining the fact. The philosophy of materialism is purely negative -- a reductio ad absurdum.
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