Oversoulful plane
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The holy-spiritual, a.k.a. oversoulful or (to Indian Theosophists) anupadakan or paramatmic or (to Greek Theosophists) 2nd Logoic plane or monadic plane (or dimension or n-space/continuum/universe separately, or enclosing and interpenetrating grosser planes, respectively) or world (simply) in Theosophy is the world in which paramatman, i.e. (according to Theosophy) 2nd Logos monad of triad, i.e. Word manifest as holy spirit/oversoul exists[1].
Blavatsky, recommending [neo-]Platonism, wrote the 3 spiritual worlds (including divine [spiritual] world) are formless (beyond ideal forms,) thus too hard to know/sense, except perhaps the plain/low spiritual world to the degree human spirit controls its own consciousness. 'Neo-theosophists,' however, beyond simplifying planar denotations by preferring 'monadic,' say that a human monad (usually defined as spirit & soul) includes individual holy spirit i.e oversoul. While more than that can be said without contradicting autotheist prophets, many/most Theosophists who are not neo-Theosophist prefer the definition that only the sum of spirit & soul is a monadic 'ray of the absolute' descending from the Logoic to pneumatic world, and that the idea of individual oversouls only applies at the involution (creation or at least descent) and final evolution (return or ascent) of a monad.
A reason some people call the oversoulful world holy-spiritual is to denote it as the second world of the triple manifestation (trinity, Logos--Word; deity-spirit) or spiritual triad. Plain spirit (atman) is the third aspect of the triple manifestation which is reflected in humans, etc. in the spiritual triad atma-buddhi-manas.
See also Paranirvana.
[edit] References
- ^ Helena Petrona Blavatsky (1893 - 1897), The Secret Doctrine, London Theosophical Pub. House, 1893-97, ISBN 0-900-588-74-8
Sources:
- Charles Leadbeater (1912 - 1937), A Textbook of Theosophy, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1912 - 1937,
