"Salmon" Teachings
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"Salmon" Teachings
Think of a salmon and compare it to your inner sides as you can.
- PSYCHE. The psyche is the salmon's head.
- HEART. The middle section is your interior heart and the seat of art and confluent thinking, largely.
- SPIRIT. The salmon's tail is the divine side - die Göttlichkeit of some German mystics.
The monad sphere: The monadic egg is a spirit form, a pure Spirit. It is the microcosmic absolute intelligence and prepares for love and wisdom. Vehicles of the monad downwards are the following "balloons", or sheet or spheres.
- Atmic: Spiritual nature. Synthetic principle. Domain of will.
- Buddhic: Intuition, pure reason, wisdom level over causal level, and love.
- Causal, egoic:
- Mental: (a) Abstract mind, higher mind (manas), Pure mind. Higher mind. Intelligence nature, Activity. (b) Concrete mind, lower mind.
- Emotional (astral) desire-body
- Vitality, prana
- Etheric
- Dense physical body
After considering the table along with the salmon figure, this may be clear, starting from bottom with these:
- The dense physical body is like the skin of the salmon mouth.
- The etheric field is what makes it sense the surroundings it is adapted to pretty well.
- Its vitality aspects are seen in how good it is at flopping and wriggling - such life outlets.
- Its feeling level has to do with what the salmon loves and hates and so on, to the degree it does such things.
- The mind of the salmon contains what it thinks about, for example "Food! Food!"
- Deep inside is still more, and some can talk about a causal level too, a concept adopted and modified by Theosophy from the term karana sarira. It includes the sense of ego, or gross "I am", and stands for the "innermost subtle body that veils the soul".
- The wise reasoning of the salmon is still subtler than its "I am".
- And the spiritual will of it is subtler still.
- And the inmost side of it is balloon-like, a sphere with subtle boundaries, as Bailey suggests. This is the monad, the essence of a human.
Refinements of "salmonist" thinking are exposed by text and a Buddhist map of inner states by Daniel Goleman in a comparative book, The Varieties of the Meditative Experience (1975).
In conclusion: Adhere to the inward salmon as you can. Focus on your heart after catching your salmon in deep meditation, and the salmon strives to preserve you. It manifests from within in nightly dreams and so on, to preserve sides of yourself and keep you in balance, depending on what others are up to in your surroundings and wider.
1 - Hard to describe
See if the cap fits before you wear it. There are many fishes in the sea. Certain things that are hard to detect are hard to describe. Subtleties can be nicely hinted at through figurative ways of speaking and writing. Through them, some perplexity can be avoided and lessened. You can cater to a gradual process.2 - The astonished may be eaten of
You could be astonished to find how well fed salmon-eaters are. Many there are who keep feasting of salmons of others. On that glorious life.The salmon forbids that his darling falls victim. Try to keep on having another nice day. A long life tends to come with a price.
3 - The life and its means
Wherever we happen to be, we should go far to be without effort, or strain on one's personal part. Find means to rest well and deeply where you are.The body-and-mind receives its life from within somehow (too).
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Literature
Bailey, Alice. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1973.
Goleman, David. The Varieties of the Meditative Experience. London: Rider, 1975.
Tansley, David. Dimensions of Radionics. Bradford: Health Science, 1977.
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