May 2008
Dear Fellow Students
This commentary deals with many matters cosmological, astrological and astronomical.
There are so many mysteries surrounding these matters, and much of it is given
to us to work out for ourselves--for the time being, at least.
I have never been satisfied with the usual theosophical descriptions of rounds--their
scope and their duration. By comparing globes, chains and schemes to chakras
and chakric systems, I have come up with some other alternatives, offering many
possibilities, not all of which can be simultaneously true! It will be for us
to discern what is reasonable, probable and improbable.
I have presented a number of theories and several apparently contradictory possibilities
are among them, but I thought these speculations would give us some food for
thought when considering the probably intricate mathematics and algorithms of
the round process and its relation to petal unfoldment process. I just am as
interested in what is unreasonable as what is reasonable. By pointing out the
flaws of the various systems proposed, and which I also, propose, we can perhaps
get closer to the truth.
The commentary focuses mainly on karma and the more remote sources of the karmic
conditions we experience. We cannot possibly trace to their sources the karmic
factors impacting our lives. But we can, intelligently, make the best of them
so that we may function as constructive factors within the expression of the
Divine Plan.
If we wish to understand karma (and it is a vast study) we shall have to understand
cycles. The true figures for the occult cycles discussed in this section of
text are not give to us, but enough is given to enable us to utilize the Law
of Analogy to clarify the relationship existing between certain large and even
vast time periods.
We an enmeshed in all these karmic, cyclic processes. Over some of them we have
absolutely no control. DK speaks of our "helplessness" with regard
to them. Yet, we can command our own destiny within a limited sphere, and it
is up to us to learn the difference between those karmic conditions we can affect
through choice, and those over which we have absolutely no control.
It is a humbling study and an abstruse one. DK explains certain ideas with
which we may have thought ourselves familiar, from a completely different angle,
shedding new light and forcing us to re-conceptualize.
Wade in fearlessly and see what illumination comes! Today is, after all, the
second Taurus Full Moon, and so the light pouring upon the subjects we are studying
can be unusually intense.
LL&P,
Michael