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RE: Idle Friday lunchtime musing


On 10 August 2007 16:55, Igor Peshansky wrote:


> TI is the chief spirit of the universe[*].  

> [*] <http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/tho-tre.htm> (no anchors)

"  Ti (Chinese) In the I Ching, the name for the beneficent sustaining power
or chief spirit of the universe. One of the minor deities is described there
as engaging in rebellion against his superior, in which he maintains that he
himself is ti. In consequence of this the rebellious spirit with seven choirs
of celestial spirits were exiled upon earth: this "brought a change in all
nature, heaven itself bending down and uniting with earth" (SD 2:486) -- a
Chinese version of the Fallen Angels. Back of this tale itself lies the
fundamental concept that all things originate in the divine, emanate from it,
and ultimately return to it, so that at any stage of this spiritual
procession, any minor entity can claim that its inmost selfhood is identical
with the highest, the originating source  "


  WTF?  This isn't the Reich translation of the I Ching that I'm familiar
with...

"  Copyright C 1999 by Theosophical University Press.  "

  Ah.  It's the New Age Yoghurt-Weavers' Edition.  Wonder what that reference
to "SD 2:486" is?

"  SD - The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky  "

  Figures.  What a bunch of ... grr!

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd2-2-04.htm

"  It is not alone Egypt, Greece, Scandinavia or Mexico, that had their
Typhon, Python, Loki and its "falling" Demon, but China, also. The Celestials
have a whole literature upon the subject. In King, it is said that in
consequence of a rebellion against Ti of a proud Spirit who said he was Ti
himself, seven choirs of celestial spirits were exiled upon earth, which
"brought a change in all nature, heaven itself bending down and uniting with
earth."

And in the "Y-King," one reads: "The flying Dragon, superb and rebellious,
suffers now, and his pride is punished; he thought he would reign in heaven,
he reigns only on the earth."   "


  Y'know, that bullshitter Blavatsky never actually so much as opened the I
Ching, let alone read it, did she?  Sounds like a crude mangling of the
Gnostic myth relating to the Demiurge's separation from / denial of /
rebellion against the Pleroma ...

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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