2010-1-22 03:38:00
A permanent atom is a center for force containing what may be described as a great computer program that has the accumulated knowledge and programming of the pilgrim's past. This programming is an essential ingredient in evolution as it is used to create better more refined bodies as we move forward from life to life.
There are five permanent atoms:
These are like extensions of a greater permanent atom called the Monad which is a greater extension from cosmic divine space.
I thought I should clarify a couple things about permanent atoms.
Dan asked, "Are the permanent atoms related to the energy "petals" of each centre in any way?"
As indicated in the quotes posted from the writings of Alice A. Bailey, the answer would be yes.
As we evolve spiritually new energies unfold in our permanent atoms and our centers. The unfolding of energy corresponds and is related but with differences.
Something I wrote in an earlier article on this topic needs some clarification.
Here's the quote:
"Even so it is with our physical bodies. Life after life we seek to make a better, tougher, healthier, more resourceful body. As we do this, we carry with us all the permanent atoms (programs) of bodies past. Then we reach a point where we start putting our attention on beauty as well as function. During these lives we also have a great interest in the outward beauty of music, art, painting, architecture, creating, and such others. This interest stimulates us so that after we pass out of incarnation, and revise our program for the next body, we put more attention on increasing its beauty and symmetry.
"If you have lived 600 lives, for instance, you would have a chain of 600 permanent atoms within you that interplay to create body number 601."
See: "The Purpose Of The Body"
The key to understanding this statement was my point that the permanent atom is like a great computer program that carries within it all of its evolution through the series of lives that have been lived. To see them as six hundred individual atoms is not quite correct. But to see it as one atom within which is information gathered from hundreds of lifetimes s more accurate.
The physical permanent atom corresponds to the DNA. It changes from life to life but if we want a record of the body we do not need to take the whole body, but only one DNA molecule. This has the programming to recreate the body, or it can be altered to create a new body with different characteristics.
Just as the physical DNA has the programming of all the bodies of your ancestors even so does your physical permanent atom have the programming of your bodies from your past lives.
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