Key To Theosophy

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.Q.This refers to Gautama, but in what way does it touch the Gospels?A.Read history and think over it.At the time the events narrated in theGospels are alleged to have happened, there was a similar intellectualfermentation taking place in the whole civilized world, only with oppositeresults in the East and the West.The old gods were dying out.While thecivilized classes drifted in the train of the unbelieving Sadducees intomaterialistic negations and mere dead-letter Mosaic form in Palestine, andinto moral dissolution in Rome, the lowest and poorer classes ran aftersorcery and strange gods, or became hypocrites and Pharisees.Once more thetime for a spiritual reform had arrived.The cruel, anthropomorphic andjealous God of the Jews, with his sanguinary laws of "an eye for eye andtooth for tooth," of the shedding of blood and animal sacrifice, had to berelegated to a secondary place and replaced by the merciful "Father inSecret." The latter had to be shown, not as an extra-Cosmic God, but as adivine Savior of the man of flesh, enshrined in his own heart and soul, inPage 41The Key To Theosophy - HP Blavatsky.txtthe poor as in the rich.No more here than in India, could the secrets ofinitiation be divulged, lest by giving that which is holy to the dogs, andcasting pearls before swine, both the Revealer and the things revealedshould be trodden under foot.Thus, the reticence of both Buddha andJesus-whether the latter lived out the historic period allotted to him ornot, and who equally abstained from revealing plainly the Mysteries of Lifeand Death-led in the one case to the blank negations of Southern Buddhism,and in the other, to the three clashing forms of the Christian Church andthe 300 sects in Protestant England alone.Theosophical Teachings as to Nature and ManThe Unity of All in AllQ.Having told me what God, the Soul and Man are not, in your views, can youinform me what they are, according to your teachings?A.In their origin and in eternity the three, like the universe and alltherein, are one with the absolute Unity, the unknowable deific essence Ispoke about some time back.We believe in no creation, but in the periodicaland consecutive appearances of the universe from the subjective onto theobjective plane of being, at regular intervals of time, covering periods ofimmense duration.Q.Can you elaborate the subject?A.Take as a first comparison and a help towards a more correct conception,the solar year, and as a second, the two halves of that year, producing eacha day and a night of six months' duration at the North Pole.Now imagine, ifyou can, instead of a Solar year of 365 days, eternity.Let the sunrepresent the universe, and the polar days and nights of six monthseach-days and nights lasting each 182 trillions and quadrillions of years,instead of 182 days each.As the sun arises every morning on our objectivehorizon out of its (to us) subjective and antipodal space, so does theUniverse emerge periodically on the plane of objectivity, issuing from thatof subjectivity-the antipodes of the former.This is the "Cycle of Life."And as the sun disappears from our horizon, so does the Universe disappearat regular periods, when the "Universal night" sets in.The Hindus call suchalternations the "Days and Nights of Brahm ," or the time of Manvantara andthat of Pralaya (dissolution).The Westerns may call them Universal Days andNights if they prefer.During the latter (the nights) All is in All; everyatom is resolved into one Homogeneity.-oOo-Evolution and IllusionQ.But who is it that creates each time the Universe?A.No one creates it.Science would call the process evolution; thepre-Christian philosophers and the Orientalists called it emanation: we,Occultists and Theosophists, see in it the only universal and eternalreality casting a periodical reflection of itself on the infinite Spatialdepths.This reflection, which you regard as the objective materialuniverse, we consider as a temporary illusion and nothing else.That alonewhich is eternal is real.Q.At that rate, you and I are also illusions.A.As flitting personalities, today one person, tomorrow another-we are.Would you call the sudden flashes of the aurora borealis, the Northernlights, a "reality," though it is as real as can be while you look at it?Certainly not; it is the cause that produces it, if permanent and eternal,which is the only reality, while the other is but a passing illusion.Page 42The Key To Theosophy - HP Blavatsky.txtQ.All this does not explain to me how this illusion called the universeoriginates; how the conscious to be, proceeds to manifest itself from theunconsciousness that is.A.It is unconsciousness only to our finite consciousness.Verily may weparaphrase St.John and say:& and (Absolute) light (which is darkness) shineth in darkness (which isillusionary material light); and the darkness comprehendeth it not.This absolute light is also absolute and immutable law [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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