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The Light Bearer THE LIGHT BEARER SUMMER - 2014 National Library of Canada reference No. 723428. Canada Post Publication mail Agreement number: 40040169 The Light Bearer Satyat Nasti Paro Dharma—There is no Religion Higher than Truth `` the Logo is the Egyptian cross, or Ankh, whispering of the breath of life. It is the resurrection of the Spirit. Volume 20.7 Any and all opinions, ideas, and concepts expressed in this magazine are strictly those of the authors. If I have put in something of yours for which I did not give credit, please let me know that I might do so. May every Theosophical Student find inner wholeness. Copyright © 2014 Canadian Theosophical Association. All Rights Reserved. Theosophy is not a religion, nor a philosophy, but ‘Divine Wisdom’ . Our Seal has 7 elements which represent the spiritual unity of all life. “Om”, at the edit Compiler-Margaret Mason top, is a word which “creates, sustains, and Johnson transforms”. Remember this as you use it in your meditations. Very ancient is the whirling cross or how How the Universe is ‘Swastika’ within the circle below the ‘Om’. Manifested – H.P.B. (Swastika is a compound of SU—a particle meaning Tim Congratulations Tim Boyd! ‘auspicious,’ blessed,’ ‘virtuous,’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘rightly’; and ‘astika’ derived from the verb-root AS— quest The Question – Helen to be; hence ‘that which is blessed and excellent.’- Pearl (poem) ‘Swa’ is one’s Self.) Inside the whirling energy of the Swastika, all is the stillness we hope to find Canada Canada – S.E. Price within our meditations. Our serpent swallows its tail conv Conversations with Radha to the right, representing constant new beginnings. Burnier –Pedro Olivira With each pattern of habits we overcome, we do likewise. All things are made new. Triangles trans Transmitting Compassion represent the ‘Trinity’; be they Will, Wisdom and - Krishnamurti Activity; Father, Holy Spirit and Son; Shiva, Vishnu Yogi Yogi Maharishi’s Timely Quote and Brahma or some other completion. When the downward dark triangle represents descent into why Why? matter, the upward white triangle holds the journey of the Spirit. Note the 12 sides. Mathematics is one key to understanding the written word. Central inside Stand in your Truth. Allow others to stand in theirs. The Light Bearer Sumer 2014 2 The Light Bearer Satyat Nasti Paro Dharma—There is no Religion Higher than Truth `` Editorial Notes from M. Mason- Deep and moving is Suzanne Price’s Johnson; Compiler poem, “Canada”. Loving the Natives as we do, and not wanting our “Nothing is higher than the Truth”. government to further bad karma to But what is Truth? In my reality, Canada, I hope that everyone will truth is always changing. How can it send loving thoughts and prayers be anything else when all life is their way. movement? Many thanks to Naftaly Ramrajkar So I asked my Higher Self. “What is for e-mailing “Conversations with truth?” Radha Burnier” by PEDRO OLIVIRA. You will notice that Radha is called The answer seems to be that Truth is Radhaji. Krishnamurti is Krishnaji. the essence of all things. Then what is ‘the essence’, I ask my Self? The reply I asked for guidance on what to put is unmistakable. The essence of all into this magazine and thereafter I things is Love. found on the internet a quote on ‘Transmitting Compassion’ by Our beloved H.P.B. speaks of the Krishnamurti and Yogi Maharishi importance of learning the laws of Mahesh’s ‘Timely Quote’ from 1979. the universe. Many clues are given. We have much to think about. May each of us find some time to send loving thoughts of harmony, light and To understand the universe, we must happiness to all. May learned understand ourselves first and I wisdom lead to inner happiness, know, as I work at uncovering very awareness, and wholeness. May we prickly and hard to endure emotions; all have a good summer. at their bottom I always find love. Helen Pearl’s poem is on finding Ho'oponopono Prayer: answers through the right question I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I to ask. She also sent a fun poem love you. using Dandelions as a metaphor for aging with humility. The Light Bearer Sumer` 2014 3 The Light Bearer Satyat Nasti Paro Dharma—There is no Religion Higher than Truth `` Boyd served for several years as president of the *TOS in America. For 25 years he worked with a group helping troubled youth in the Chicago area. More recently, Tim’s involvement with the TOS* and the Chushul orphanage in Tibet led to an audience with the Dalai Lama which resulted in the TS in America http://www.tswiki.net/mywiki/index.php?title=Tim_Boyd sponsoring his visit to Chicago in July of 2011 for a two day event attended by ten- The ‘Light Bearer’ would like to thousand people. The event raised more congratulate our new international than $400,000, all of which was donated President, Tim Boyd. to educational projects aiding Tibetan Theosophy’s new international communities worldwide." President, Tim Boyd, has been given much love to share. In her T0S* news update, Lorraine Anderson informs us: *TOS is an international Theosophical Organization created to do good works in the world. If you would like “”No stranger to the work of the to join, write Lorraine Christensen : [email protected] Theosophical Order of Service, Tim The Light Bearer Sumer` 2014 4 The Light Bearer Satyat Nasti Paro Dharma—There is no Religion Higher than Truth `` How the Universal Mind is Manifested Vol 10, Stanza 1, sloka 3; p.317-319 of Blavatsky Collected Writings Sloka (3). .UNIVERSAL MIND Pralaya, it is just as though there were WAS NOT, FOR THERE WERE NO no mind at all, because there is nothing AH-HI (celestial beings) TO to contain or perceive it. There is CONTAIN (hence to manifest) IT. nothing to receive and reflect the ideation of the Absolute Mind; Q. This sloka seems to imply that therefore, it is not. Everything outside the Universal Mind has no existence of the Absolute and immutable Sat (Be- apart from the Ah-hi; but in the ness), is necessarily finite and Commentary it is stated that: conditioned, since it has beginning and A noumenon can become a end. Therefore, since the “Ah-hi were phenomenon on any plane of existence not,” there was no Universal Mind as a only by manifesting on that plane manifestation. A distinction had to be through an appropriate basis or vehicle; made between the Absolute Mind, and during the long night of rest called which is ever present, and its reflection Pralaya, when all the existences are and manifestation in the Ah-hi, who, dissolved, the “UNIVERSAL MIND” being on the highest plane, reflect the remains as a permanent possibility of universal mind collectively at the first mental action, or as that abstract flutter of Manvantara. After which they absolute thought, of which mind is the begin the work of evolution of all the concrete relative manifestation. The lower forces throughout the seven AH-HI (Dhyan-Chohans) are the planes, down to the lowest—our own. collective hosts of spiritual beings who The Ah-hi are the primordial seven are the vehicles for the manifestation of rays, or Logoi, emanated from the first the divine or universal thought and will. Logos, triple, yet one in its essence. They are the Intelligent Forces that give to and enact in Nature her “Laws,” Q. Then the Ah-hi and Universal while themselves acting according to Mind are necessary complements of laws imposed upon them in a similar one another? manner by still higher Powers; . This hierarchy of spiritual Beings, A. Not at all: Universal or Absolute through which the Universal Mind Mind always is during Pralaya as well comes into action, is like an army—a as Manvantara; it is immutable. The “Host,” truly. .* Ah-hi are the highest Dhyanis, the Logoi as just The Commentary suggests that the said, those who begin the downward Ah-hi are not themselves the Universal evolution, or emanation. During Mind, but only the vehicle for its Pralaya there are no Ah-hi, because manifestation. they come into being only with the first radiation of the Universal Mind, which, A. The meaning of this sloka is, I per se, cannot be differentiated, and the think, very clear; it means that, as there radiation from which is the first dawn are no finite differentiated minds during of Manvantara. The Absolute is The Light Bearer Sumer` 2014 5 The Light Bearer Satyat Nasti Paro Dharma—There is no Religion Higher than Truth `` dormant, latent mind, and cannot be “Universal Mind was not,” because otherwise in true metaphysical there was no vehicle to contain it. perception; it is only Its shadow which becomes differentiated in the Q. What are the higher powers collectivity of these Dhyanis. which condition the Ah-hi? Q. Does this mean that it was A. They cannot be called powers; absolute consciousness, but is so no power or perhaps Potentiality would be longer? better. The Ah-hi are conditioned by the awakening into manifestation of the A. It is absolute consciousness periodical, universal LAW, which eternally, which consciousness becomes successively active and becomes relative consciousness inactive. It is by this law that they are periodically, at every “Manvantaric conditioned or formed, not created. dawn.” Let us picture to ourselves this “Created” is an impossible term to use latent or potential consciousness as a in Philosophy. kind of vacuum in a vessel. Break the vessel, and what becomes of the Q. Then the power or Potentiality vacuum; where shall we look for it? It which precedes and is higher than the has disappeared; it is everywhere and Ah-hi, is the law which necessitates nowhere.
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