Wednesday, July 26th, 1978

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

JULY 26, 1978

BUDDHISM; INSTINCT

TOPIC: Buddhism

SUBJECT: Instinct

SUBSUBJECTS: Astral Body, Etheric Formative Forces, Nidana Chain

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Vol. 1–Science

• G.R.S. Mead, The Doctrine of the Subtle Body in Western Tradition

• Plato, Phaedrus

• Guenther Wachsmuth, The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man: A Path of Investigating Into the World of the Living

DIAGRAMS embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1978 0726-1-AB. Elements and Etheric Formative Forces.

• FIGURE 1978 0726-2-AB. Etheric Formative Forces and the Process of Manifestation and Decay.

• FIGURE 1978 0726-3-AB. Nidana Chain Vesica Nested within the Metaphysical Chart.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations and planetary glyph spelled out.

1978 07/26 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Buddhism; Instinct

[Alan Notes 0726 1978 Begin]

7/26/78

INSTINCT

Isis Unveiled -- Instincts [Note: H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Vol. 1–Science, pp. 425-434.]

Subtle Body -- Synesius -- 5 senses ff. [Note: G.R.S. Mead, The Doctrine of the Subtle Body in Western Tradition, pp. 92-97.]

Imagination (spirit) = astral body, bond between body and soul (irrational and rational).

Soul uses astral body supplied to it by planetary spheres as a vehicle for sense experience (Plato's fable of the chariot). [Note: Plato, Phaedrus, sections 246a-254e.]

Astral distorts information revealed by the senses -- no distortion would mean getting to prime matter.

[FIGURE 1978 0726-2-AB. Etheric Formative Forces and the Process of Manifestation and Decay. Digitally recreated by IT from AB class notes.]

Circulation is from being to being -- forces evolve out of being a phenomenal world which decays and lapses back into being (Steiner's term = astral world).

[FIGURE 1978 0726-3-AB. Nidana Chain Vesica Nested within the Metaphysical Chart. Digitally recreated by IT from AB class notes. See also diagram L17 in AD Mandalas for comparison.]

Planets in inner ring translated metaphysical into individual. Jupiter transforms Self-Existent into your Avidya.

[Alan Notes 0726 1978 End]