I have no idea who this "Krsanna" dude is, but i like the way s/he
goes about 'splaining this mystery. Now , IMO, much of blavatsky is
too steeped in the occult for me, but, you can learn from it if you
are selective.
Space rather than geography
The concept of space is so key that the premise of Blavatsky's work
hinges on it. "The Secret Doctrine" is a brief overview of texts from
which the six main religions of the planet were spawned. Blavatsky
makes her statements then moves on with very little extrapolation.
"The Secret Doctrine" was apparently written for those prepared to
understand it. This resulted in many claims that Blavatsky's made up
her work. Nineteenth Western scholars had never seen anything like
Blavatsky's work.
The 14th Dalai Lama affirmed her translation of Tibetan text that
Western scholars had never seen. After double checking Blavatsky's
translation of "The Voice of the Silence," he wrote a foreword for it.
Einstein kept a copy of "The Secret Doctrine" on his desk for years.
Space does not equal geography.
Seth provides a longer runway, i.e., some foreplay, which coincides
with my understanding of space-time. Here are a few things Seth had
to say about space. The following comments from Seth are consistent
with Blavatsky's extrapolations of the stanzas from which "The Secret
Doctrine" was written.
"Now your ideas of space are highly erroneous. So in my contacts with
your sphere of activity, I do not sweep through bright golden skies
like some spiritual superman into your physical domain.
"I will go into this in a later chapter, but in a very real manner,
space as you perceive it simply does not exist. Not only is the
illusion of space caused by your own physical perceptive mechanisms,
but it is also caused by mental patterns that you have accepted --
patterns that are adopted by consciousness when it reaches a certain
stage of "evolution" within your system.
"When you arrive, or emerge, into physical life, not only is your mind
not a blank slate, waiting for the scrolls that experience will write
upon it, but you are already equipped with a memory bank far
surpassing that of any computer. You face your first day upon the
planet with sills and abilities already built in, though they may or
may not be used; and they are not merely the result of heredity as you
think of it.
"You may think of your soul or entity -- though only briefly and for
the sake of this analogy -- as some \conscious and living, divinely
inspired computer who programs its own existences and lifetimes. But
this computer is so highly endowed with creativity that each of the
various personalities it programs spring into consciousness and song,
and in turn create realities that may have been undreamed of by the
computer itself.
"Each such personality, however, comes with a built-in idea of the
reality in which it will operate, and its mental equipment is highly
tailored to meet very specialized environments. It has full freedom,
but it must operate within the context of existence to which it has
been programmed. Within the personality, however, in the most secret
recesses, is the condensed knowledge that resides in the computer as a
whole. I must emphasize that I am not saying that the soul or entity
is a computer, but only asking you to look at the matter in this light
in order to make several points clear.
"Each personality has within it the ability not only to gain a new
type of existence in the environment -- in your case in physical
reality -- but to add creatively to the very quality of its own
consciousness, and in so doing to work its way through the specialized
system, breaking the barriers of reality as it knows it.
"Now, there is a purpose in all this that will also be discussed
later. I mention this whole subject here, however, because I want you
to see that your environment is not real in the terms that you imagine
it to be. When you are born, then, you are already "conditioned" to
perceive reality in a particular manner, and to interpret experience
in a very limited but intense range.
"I must explain this before I can clearly give you an idea of my
environment [Seth], or of those other systems of reality in which I
operate. There is no space between my environment and yours, for
example, no physical boundaries that separate us. In a very real way
of speaking, your concept of reality as seen through your physical
senses, scientific instruments, or arrived at through deduction, bears
little resemblance to the facts -- and the facts are difficult to
explain.
"Your planetary systems exist at once, simultaneously, both in time
and in space. The universe that you seem to perceive, either visually
or through instruments, appears to be composed of galaxies, stars, and
planets, at various distances from you. Basically, however, this is
an illusion. Your senses and your very existence as physical
creatures program ;you to perceive the universe in such a way. The
universe as you know it is your dimensional reality. The events are
mental. This does not mean that you cannot travel to other planets,
for example, within that physical universe, any more than it means
that you cannot use tables to hold books, glasses, and oranges (as our
coffee table did at that moment), although the table has no solid
qualities of its own.
"When I enter your system, I move through a series of mental and
psychic events. You would interpret these events as space and time,
and so often I must use the terms, for I must use your language rather
than my own.
"Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality of which I spoke
-- those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence.
Space and time, for example, are root assumptions. Each system of
reality has its own set of such agreements. When I communicate within
your system, I must use and understand the root assumptions upon which
it is based. As a teacher it is part of my job to understand and use
these, and I have had existences in many such systems as a part of
what you may call my basic training. though in your terms my
associates and I had other names for them."
Seth's ideas are something to think about.
Regards,
Krsanna
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