TOUGH INQUIRY, MODES OF THINKING AND AIDS IN MEDITATION
The concept of God has become a counterproductive attachment. The concept of Space and Duration in Theosophy are aids in meditation, and the term “God” is avoided, but its inclusion or continued use by some is due to psychological and communication factors. The real strength is not being conveyed out of fears and attachments. Theosophy is not a religion, and does not provide a singular method of meditation, except that within Zoroastrianism, Islam, Indian systems, Christianity, Judaism, etc, many schools or teachings sufficiently provide a practical side. Theosophy (1) encourages what we will call here the analogetical approach towards mythologies, philosophies and religions; and (2) encourages more philosophical reflection and inquiry beyond what the creed or dogma of a particular religion demand.
The philosophical reflection itself has an effect on the perspective. If SPACE is the Absolute (boundless arena of appearing and disappearing universes), then what does the interpretation of Moses interaction with God as intelligible FIRE become?
What becomes our interpretation of what prayer is?
Who or what is being prayed to exactly, or communicated with; and is prayer about praying to a particular thing or being, since prayer is understood as propitiation to a god for favors?
Why does man feel and describe the emergence of Wisdom from different “directions,” e.g., transcendent, emergent, unfolding, beyond or immanent? Entire schools are spurned from these different descriptions.
Why does interaction bring about a sense of boundlessness, love, elation, mental elevation (despair of awesomeness), inability to craft a perfect word to describe IT, or even bring one to one’s knees (to submission)?
What makes the mortal discern that the INNER VOICE that seems beyond one’s being and years is in fact entirely distinct from their being or mind, which leads one to believe from their cultural religious perspective, that an external God (monarch of the Universe) is telling them how to organize society?
How does one know that it is not oneself from merely a different density, dimension or angle of matter itself?
So, we find that thus far certain theologians and polemicists have warned about the implications of Theosophy on our religious and theological understandings, but serious inquiry like this are examples of theosophical mode of thinking — into the very intimate observation to the processes of the human faculties and mystical experiences. This mode of thinking in Theosophy is behind the forgotten habit of inquiry against prophetic, spiritualist and mediumistic claims, by not considering the factor of the conditioned brain in these experiences.
From this understanding, one would not “pray” to SPACE, a reality with no time variable. Also, space is everywhere, and one need not sit to observe it; and the mind cannot touch or even conceive beyond the DARKNESS. If one prays, the Absolute will not answer and cannot hear.
What hears when we pray? Why do we even have to conceive of some thing as “hearing” us? One falls immediately into the limitations and traps of anthropomorphism, defended by theologians.
One could very well ask then, well why does prayer generate a sense of depth sometimes, and other times, generate a sense of some thing unfolding from within us? And from where exactly is this unfolding from? We say, “our being, our essence, our soul, our heart, our mind. Are we not a composite of atoms, of stellar elements?
We ascribe particular descriptions to what is being sensed based on our peculiar school or religion; but not all schools of logic within religious philosophies engage in (or encourage) ascribing meanings and terminology in practice or observation to what is occurring, because it obscures itself the more we try to ascribe meaning or describe. So, when we have to teach how we interpreted our visions of the worlds within worlds, we are not only drowning in scenes, we have to try to convey to another human being through all these tricks to trigger the depths of their own intuition and faculties.
For many people, their ascribed meanings bring them some understanding and comfort for some limited duration but eventually becomes counterproductive. The moderation in pursuit of Truth becomes this zealous rush for sensation, which is a trap many people fall into.
The Absolute does not propitiate, because inexorable law hangs over the heads of civilizations, that no man or weapon can curb. There is in this position no “One True God” that protects any particular people or nation over another; or from whom any world leader can threaten dominion over another nation.
Since the Absolute does not propitiate or bend to man’s whims, one would instead pray to unburden the mind, fortify the mind, and observe the causal links between illusions and our attachment to manifested phenomena. Prayer would however remain a means for communion and recognition of our human dignity and shared humanity. Based on the religion, of course, prayer would be directed to particular beings, saints, etc, in the ancient belief of “taking care of the gods.”
But with a little more knowledge, they would not pray and cling to whatever presence; one would discern more. This very much reminds me of the journey of the afterlife in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, where the afterlife journey is full of illusory tests to trap you. Conditional time itself is an illusion, and behind this illusion the ground of reality is timeless, and the metaphysical substrate of matter is eternal, or what Theosophy terms DURATION and SUBSTANCE (co-eternal subtle and dense poles).
This non-dual monism therefore rejects the polemic, that meditation informed by this philosophy “opens us up” to the many illusions within SPACE, like of our mythologies, e.g., “demons” of the invisible worlds and the hidden structures of “the unconscious.” It effectively ends that polemic against other traditions, because then here, it is viewing prayer from a different angle, serving the same defensive function as a shield against what evil (Mara, Diabolo, Ahriman, etc) represents.
The American Minervan 
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