Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00393)

>>5. Does anyone really care about the rounds and the chains and why should
>>they?
>>Have fun.
>>Chuck Cosimano
>
> Well I certainly do. Why? Magic. Unless you practice some form
>of astral traveling or "pathworking" in which you use the model of the
planetary
>
>chain of globes as a map of the inner worlds then you probably won't care
>very much. But as a map of the inner or invisible worlds I think that HPB has
>done us a real service and I personally find her description of the planetary
>chain the cornerstone of theosophy and the cement so to speak that holds
>all of the theosophical "core teachings" together.
>
> Jerry S.
>
Having just made the effort to study this topic I agree. I see things quite
differently since gaining a little understanding of how it all hangs
together. Somehow I have accepted that I have been around for ever and will
be around for ever and that has given life a new dimension. Globes and
rounds also need to be understood in the evolutionary model to come to
grips with life-atoms monads. I realise now that my previous attempts to
understand Swedenborg's Grand Man has laid the framework to fit the
life-atom concept in to. I has been much easier to think about it all. I had
never really bothered with globes and rounds as I thought it too hard to get
to grips with but now a glimmer is seen and it is fascinating.>
>
Bee Brown
Member Theosophy International