Theos-Talk Archives (July 1997 Message tl00044)

Aquarian Axioms

1. Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell 
in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when 
it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson. 

2. Harmony is the law of life, discord its shadow; whence springs suffering, 
the teacher, the awakener of consciousness. 

3. To obtain the knowledge of Self is a greater achievement than to command 
the elements or to know the future. 

4. Self-knowledge is unattainable by what men usually call 'self-analysis.' It 
is not reached by reasoning or any brain- powers. 

5. Real Self-knowledge is the awakening to consciousness of the divine nature 
of man. 

6. Will creates intelligently; Desire blindly and unconsciously. 

7. When desire is for the purely abstract -- when it has lost all trace or 
tinge of 'self' -- then it has become pure. 

8. Spirituality is not what we understand by the words 'virtue' and 
'goodness.' It is the power of perceiving formless, spiritual essences. 

9. The discovery and right use of the true essence of Being -- this is the 
whole secret of life. 

10. You cannot build a Temple of Truth by hammering dead stones. Its 
foundations must precipitate themselves like crystals from the solution of 
Life. 

(Ancient axioms from a compilation made by H.P. Blavatsky in 1890) 

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Keith Price:  This is the clearest exposition of the fact that Blavatsky never 
meant to focus on the Eye Doctrines, but the Heart Doctrines.  The senses 
encode maya into useful data for negotiating this treacherous and beautiful 
thing we call the world, the earth.
The brain analyses and gives meaning to the data using templates from past 
lives, animal instincts, learned philosophies and sciences of the present 
incarnation and intuitions from the Master within - the Higher Self.

I wonder if death would be like plunging into a sea of computer like code, 
bland HTML without color or form.    Our brains provide the reality browsers 
to get the graphics and interactivity we enjoy as beauty and love.

Can we download an improved browser from the Master to really read and 
organize the code, so we can see Being, Enter the Temple of Truth, and 
percipitate the crystals of the Diamond Body the Masters possess?  I think 
many would say like Jung: (to rephrase) I don't need to be told, I have been 
there!

And as for Unity:  this is the natural Will, not desire,  once one has been 
there.  

Namaste
Keith Price