Theos-Talk Archives (July 1996 Message tt00034)

Eldon wrote a very valuable posting. Here is a short comment.

>We come to a point where, as Rodolfo says, we have to transform
>ourselves, or fail. We reach a turning point in our personal
>progress, and can either take new steps in our lives, and flower
>in new and different ways, a kind of personal initiation, or we
>can fail. What happens when we fail? We backslide. The Teachings
>lose their magic and power. It is not a dramatic crisis of
>meaning, where it all falls apart in our lives. Rather, it is a
>slow fade, a gradual decline, as we lose interest in the
>Philosophy and the Path, and drift back into some other belief
>system.

I don't believe that it is a matter of failing in our own
progress.  It is a matter of not doing what we're supposed to do.
I agree with you that we have a sacred trust and we must be true
to it.  Our transformation becomes a necessity for the work that
needs to be done.  But again, this transformation is done
individually.  It involves real conviction that what we're doing
is the right thing to do, and that it is needed for the Cause.
Nobody can convince us of that.  We have to do it on our own.

Rudy