Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00662)

Re: Wed Nov 8 Thought for the Day
  
   R. Don quotes from the "Key to Theosophy":
  
<"....as the bee collects its honey  
from every flower, leaving the rest 
as food for the earthly worms, so  
does our spiritual individuality, 
whether we call it Sutratma* or  
Ego. Collecting from every terrestrial 
personality, into which Karma  
forces it to incarnate, the nectar 
alone of the spiritual qualities  
and self-consciousness, it unites all 
these into one whole and emerges from 
its chrysalis as the glorified Dhyan 
Chohan. So much the worse for those 
terrestrial personalities from which 
it could collect nothing. Such personalities 
cannot assuredly outlive consciously their 
terrestrial existence."
  <.....I would like 
to see discussions generated. There is 
important information in this single paragraph.>
  
    Well, as far as I know, the "Sutratma or 
"Spiritual Ego" referred to is based in the 
personal monad, and is not the same thing 
as the "guardian angel" or manasaputra that 
each person is supposed to be overshadowed by.  
We add the "essence" from each incarnation 
to the wealth of understanding, so to 
speak, of our own spiritual ego or Self.  
The buddhic and Higher manas aspects.  
Experience is generally all lower quaternary, 
or mundane, and there isn't anything very 
spiritual about it.  So it must be the 
personal insights we generate from this 
experience, which is a higher manas or 
buddhic essence or overview of the whole 
process which is garnered by the Spiritual 
Ego, and not the mundane experience itself.  
'And you can't generate these insights 
unless you maintain a latent, at least, 
link with ones higher nature throughout 
a personal life.
  
         - jake j.
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  <2. Wed Nov 8 Thought for the Day
    Posted by: "Rodolfo Don" rrdon27@earthlink.net rrdon27
    Date: Wed Nov 8, 2006 12:55 pm ((PST))
  This is an excerpt from The Key to 
Theosophy pp. 167-8. It explains  
the spiritual EGO and its multiple 
incarnations. I would like to see  
discussions generated. There is important 
information in this single  
<paragraph. For example:
  What is the difference between the 
spiritual individuality and every  
personality that the Ego creates ?
  Why are so important all these diverse 
personalities ? Some pleasant,  
some unpleasant...
  <What is the result after the Ego 
concludes with its pilgrimage ?
  Thank you
  Rodolfo Don
  <"The spiritual Ego of man moves in 
eternity like a pendulum between  
the hours of birth and death. But 
if these hours, marking the periods  
of life terrestrial and life spiritual, 
are limited in their  
duration, and if the very number of 
such stages in Eternity between  
sleep and awakening, illusion and 
reality, has its beginning and its  
end, on the other hand, the spiritual 
pilgrim is eternal. Therefore are the 
hours of his post-mortem life, when, 
disembodied, he stands face to face with 
truth and not the mirages of his transitory 
<earthly existences, during the period of 
that pilgrimage which we call "the  
cycle of re-births"--the only reality 
in our conception. Such intervals, their 
limitation notwithstanding, do not prevent 
the Ego, while ever perfecting itself, 
from following undeviatingly, though  
<gradually and slowly, the path to its 
last transformation, when that Ego, 
having reached its goal, becomes a divine 
being. These intervals and stages help 
towards this final result instead of hindering 
it; and without such limited intervals 
the divine Ego could never reach its 
ultimate goal. I have given you once 
already a familiar illustration by comparing 
<the Ego, or the individuality, to an actor,  
and its numerous and various incarnations 
to the parts it plays. Will you call these 
parts or their costumes the individuality 
of the actor himself? Like that actor, the 
Ego is forced to play during the cycle of 
necessity, up to the very threshold of 
<Paranirvana, many parts such as may be 
unpleasant to it. But as the bee collects 
its honey from every flower, leaving the 
rest as food for the earthly worms, so does 
our spiritual individuality, whether we 
call it Sutratma* or Ego. Collecting from 
every terrestrial personality, into which 
Karma forces it to incarnate, the nectar 
<alone of the spiritual qualities and 
self-consciousness, it unites all these 
into one whole and emerges from its chrysalis 
as the glorified Dhyan Chohan. So much the  
worse for those terrestrial personalities 
from which it could collect nothing. Such 
personalities cannot assuredly outlive consciously  
their terrestrial existence.
  Sutratma = one of the meanings of Sutratma 
is the string of incarnations that the Ego 
goes through. Think of it as a "spiritual  
<path" for the Ego.>
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