Theos-Talk Archives (July 1996 Message tt00046)

Dara & Rich:

I'd agree with Dara that we're not equipped to setup Esoteric
Groups, that it would take the Masters (or perhaps their Chelas)
to do so. But I'm thinking of a gradual evolution in that
direction. And Rich's description of how deep a good lodge
meeting can get is a good example of the start of such an
evolution.

There are many intermediate stages between what might be in a
real Esoteric Group and in such an inspired lodge. Is it
possible to direct our thoughts towards what some of those stages
might be, and if uncovering them, to help institute the more
simple, the most immediate of those additional changes? I wonder.

>From one standpoint, the spirit comes and goes of its own accord,
and a group provides an opportunity for it to appear, if it
chooses to. From this standpoint we don't make anything inspired
happen, we only provide a setting that is ripe for it, and let it
come if it will. Rich's lodge is doing this.

I just think, though, that there also must be ways that we can do
something more than passive cooperation, where we can by our
thoughts, actions, and lives make things happen about us *because
of who we are and what we do*. This could apply to theosophical
ldoges. What is it that we can to, that would lead to a break
through into new levels of experience? How can our theosophical
groups becomes something more than they presently are? I strongly
suspect that there are things for us to do, things that are
staring us in the face, only waiting for us to recognize them and
act on what then becomes the obvious. But what are they?