Ramprakash ML

Hi Barbara

A very important question.

Antahkarana (also pronounced as Antashkarana) literally means Internal organ.

It has one meaning in Vedanta, and quite another in Theosophy.

In Vedanta Antahkarana means mind (chitta), intellect, Buddhi

In Theosophy it means the higher aspect of Lower Manas.

Lower Manas has two aspects : One caught up…[Read more]

As I remember :-

Third Logos is Mahat, the Cosmic Ego. It is the synthesis of primordial seven Rays or Hierarchies.

What is called Ahankara is the “I” principle which emanate from one of the seven Rays of Mahat Tattva.

Such I – principles emanate like millions of sparks, as it were, from the Central Fire, or like millions of Rays of the…[Read more]

so, that explains why our world today is riven with so much heartless competition, conflict, wars, and also underscores the importance of diffusion of Theosophical influence. She says somewhere (probably Key) that brutality and selfishness that rages in mankind at this stage of its evolution is abnormal. Every advancement that is made in science…[Read more]

Sorry, many typos in my previous post. please bear with me.

It is not “antitype” but “Ante-type”

Pavel, you wondered :

What are forms, really, in the Ideal world?

where do all these form come in again, please?

All that can be said is that even the exalted Ones who know the Truth cannot make it intelligible to us. All that they can do is to help our mental consciousness to rise higher to the Archetypes by analogies from things relating to…[Read more]

Pavel Axentiev
June 15, 2017 at 3:48 pm #5838
Ram, could you please explain what is the source of Eternal Verities (on which higher dialectics is based)?

As far as I understand Plato, Eternal Verity, or Truth, is that which is self-existing, which always IS, the Real Being, without generation, subsists by itself. It is apprehended by intelligence…[Read more]

Pavel Axentiev
June 15, 2017 at 3:48 pm #5838
Ram, could you please explain what is the source of Eternal Verities (on which higher dialectics is based)?

As far as I understand Plato, Eternal Verity, or Truth, is that which is self-existing, which always IS, the Real Being, without generation, subsists by itself. It is apprehended by intelligence…[Read more]

Pavel Axentiev
June 18, 2017 at 3:41 am #5851

The query raised is :

“And here again I see the alternate use of the terms spirit and rational soul.
Which begs the question: how much rational is the spirit of man, and what does this actually imply? As for the latter, I suppose, surely, not the equivalence of mere verbal philosophizing with spirit,…[Read more]

Pavel, you will please pardon me for delayed response. Am preoccupied with many other things. I will come back to your post as soon as possible.

Peter
June 16, 2017 at 9:28 am #5842

Hello Peter,
Pardon me for the long delay in responding to your above post. I was preoccupied with other things. I am glad that you got the drift of what I was trying to convey after rereading it.

What you are saying of “discursive” thought, now I understand as ‘Dialectic,” which Taylor explains.…[Read more]

Thanks Peter for the clarification. I see that we both are saying the same thing but differing in the way we are putting across our understanding as regards what you call dionia and Noetic thought. Confusion is caused by the use of the word Discursive by you.

However, I have some misgivings about equating discursive thought or dionia with…[Read more]

Pavel and Peter

As far as I understand Thomas Taylor’s ingenious rendition of Plato’s dialogues, Peter’s rendering of Noetic action as two-fold activity–one on the plane of Ideas, on the one hand, and discursive thought at the level of the mind, on the other–do not seem to me to be correct. (Pardon me, Peter, if I have misunderstood your…[Read more]

That is true, that even the highest minds in the Western intellectual culture have failed to fathom the depth of transcendental wisdom of Plato, except one–whom HPB greatly admires and gives him the full credit for correctly understanding Plato and render his teachings in Greek most faithfully into English. He is the great Platonist, Thomas…[Read more]

Excellent passage from Isis. Thanks Kirk.

One of the chief objects of the Theosophical Movement is revival of Western Occultism, which disappeared with the fall of the Mysteries coincident with the end of Neo-platonism. Hypatia was the last of the great Platonic Initiate after whose assassination by the worthy Fathers of the Church, the Sun of…[Read more]

It is true, Pavel. Raja Yoga is far more rigorous in observations free from errors of bias and other defects of mind and heart than modern science, one difference being the latter looks outward, whereas the former searches within. At some level both meet and are complementary to each other.

“On the material and scientific side of occultism, the use of the inner hidden powers of our nature, if this principle of desire be not strong the master power of imagination cannot do its work, because though it makes a mold or matrix the will cannot act unless it is moved, directed, and kept up to pitch by desire.”

This is the reason why s…[Read more]

Pavel,

I see no way science as we have today, founded on empiricism and inductive method, can ever make significant progress in unveiling the mystery of being.

It is admirably suited to ascertain the laws of physical phenomena that falls within the cognitive range of the five senses and the mind, by observation, gathering, collating facts, and…[Read more]

Peter
May 19, 2017 at 5:51 pm #5678

“In essence Transpersonal Psychology seeks to integrate non-scientific spiritual insights with observations and models associated with the rigorous methodological approach of psychological science.”

That is a great advance made towards open mindedness and admission of reality of the potentialities of higher…[Read more]

Kirk,

HPB would find the world of today, far worse than what it was during her time– in terms of social injustice and inequity, destruction of environment, poisoning of oceans, soil, genetic modification of life sustaining food grains and vegetable life, lethal weapons of mass destruction, and absolutely no-holds-barred pursuit of greed and…[Read more]

Pierre Wouters
May 19, 2017 at 2:56 am #5667

” To the Occultist, material advancement is not of the quality of light, and he finds no proof of progress in merely mechanical contrivances that give comfort to a few of the human family while the many are in misery.”

Lethal effects–moral, social and environmental–of progress of soulless science in…[Read more]