To Light a Thousand Lamps - The Theosophical Society

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ness is an illusion. There is an interconnection among all
nature’s families — in the sense that all beings are sacrificing
a little of themselves for the benefit of the kingdoms
above and below them. There is an interchange of helpfulness
constantly going on that we might intuit more often
could we feel our oneness with all. Along with a constant
interchange of life-atoms and of energies of many kinds,
there is also an intermeshing of karma among all of nature’s
kingdoms. Indeed, we have the mineral, plant, and animal
kingdoms within us, and the elemental kingdoms as well,
and we also have the god kingdoms within us, because we
are gods in human form. We too often overemphasize our
seeming separateness.
Today an astonishing array of evidence is confirming
that consciousness is one and that while it manifests in different
ways in stone, plant, animal, and human, it is one
flowing river of life. Experiments with plants, for example,
suggest plant sensitivity to human thoughts and to music. If
there is reciprocity of vibration, both positive and negative,
between humans and plants, it surely exists among our own
species. The continuous interchange of thought-energies,
of thought-atoms, among us is not limited to the human
kingdom or to our planet. When we reflect on the living
network of magnetic and soul force between ourselves and
every aspect of the cosmic organism we call our universe, we
sense something of the magnitude of our responsibility. If
we could view all that occurs in our personal circumstances,
in our social and communal relationships, from this perspective,
from the eye of our immortal self, we would transform
every aspect of human living.