IDEAS, DIVINE
IDEAS
DD 0l CAUSES, IDEAS and PRINCIPLES (EP 149)
The Will-pleasure of
Absolute Be-ness is the primal Cause. It is the Cause of Creation. From within
the Will-pleasure of Absolute Be-ness all subordinate causes spring. Causes
then give rise to the archetypal Ideas. Archangels work through the Ideas and
apply Total Wisdom to each form. Every Idea holds within it the whole Circle of
Possibilities and Probability of the form to be manifested. Principles govern
the expression of causes in time, place and space.
EP 23 It is a basic
truth, and a very human folly, that the more we impose our ideas, our concepts
and expectations on what lies ahead, the less capable we are to see the things
as they actually are.
ET 34
This is not only
within the Human Idea, but in other Ideas, such as harmony, movement,
composition, analysis and other abstract Ideas.
ET 63 We know of the existence of twelve Archangelic Orders:
of Thrones, of Authorities,
of Dominions, of Principalities, of Overlords, Seraphims along with others,
named and unnamed. No one has ever spoken in detail of the kind of vibration
of the Archangels who belong to the higher echelons of the Orders, because few
have come close enough to these Orders to be attuned to them.
ET 63 The Dominions or Overlordships are, by their nature, beyond
any research because they differ little from Absolute Beingness, from the human
point of view. Most of us cannot understand the vibration of these Archangels,
perhaps because they are more within Divine Self-sufficiency than within Divine
Will-pleasure.
ET 72 Within Mind, whether we call it supersubstance or
super-matter, the primal fire, the unremitting light or the timeless present,
are the Laws, Principles and Idea-Causes, of the Divine Meditation. Within the
Ideas, the Holy Monads are expressed, to honour Total Wisdom, Total Power and
Total Love.
ET 73 Now, we have vibration when the universes and the worlds are
realized. Of these worlds, humanity can only
come to
understand the gross material, the psychic,
the noetical and
the noetic. The noetic is a state, and
resides above the
lower three worlds of separation, as a world
of states and
unexpressed forms. It is a world of Ideas
and not yet the
expression of the Ideas.
ET 78 We are, first of all, a Holy Monad, which
has not yet
expressed itself in the worlds of form. We
are Life beyond
time and place, but we have as yet no
existence before our
emanation. Existence begins from the instant
a ray of the
Holy Monad passes through the Human Idea.
From that instant
we exist as a Self-aware Soul.
ET 79 We (human beings) are each a Holy Monadic
Being, without
name or limit, outside any concept of place
and time. We
are within the all-encompassing presence and
Total Power of
Absolute Beingness. We have not been
separated from It.
There can be waves on the surface of the sea
and waves can
be created which differ from one another,
but all are of the
same substance. It does not mean, because we
are Holy Monads,
that we are something apart from Absolute
Beingness.
We must not, therefore,
undervalue any single thing in the worlds of existence. Every form of life's
phenomenon presents a miraculous example of Divine Expression, of Total Power,
Total Wisdom and Total Love. We must never call any fellow human being an
enemy, purely and simply because, in the muddy worlds of space, place and time
our own interests appear to clash with his interests. These interests are in
the world of existence and have no ultimate reality. They are emotionally
derived and only relatively real.
ET 79 The relative reality is subject to constant
change. Take
some existing thing and
develop it in the worlds of existence.
Somewhere it must end. It
anticipates somewhere, and
sometime, some finality. Such conditions are
perishable and
changeable. We cannot see our Holy Monad as
different from
the Holy Monad of someone else. We cannot
divide the
indivisible. Absolute Beingness is
everywhere present in
full Power. We must disentangle ourselves,
as humanity, from
attraction and conditions which are
insubstantial, and align
ourselves
to the Divine. Nevertheless, these insubstantial
conditions are indispensable and we must pass through them,
since were it not so, Absolute. Beingness
would not allow
them to be a part of Its Divine Plan.
ET 80 Thus these conditions should not be over
nor undervalued by
us. They should be investigated rationally,
to see for what
purpose Absolute Beingness, and our Divine
Self within
Absolute Beingness, have decided upon these
types of
expression within the worlds of the
phenomenon of life.
ET 80 We (human beings) are eternal Self-conscious and Self-aware Beings expressing Mind, reason and love. We are the Researchers who have at our disposal an inexhaustible workshop of possibilities and probabilities and from which we are invited, with tree judgement, to draw to ourselves knowledge and wisdom.