Theos-Talk Archives (June 1997 Message tt00020)

At 09:42 AM 6/9/97 -0700, Brenda S. Tucker wrote:
>At 10:57 PM 6/8/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>>At 11:01 PM 6/8/97 -0400, Lmhem111@aol.com wrote:
>>>In a message dated 97-06-08 01:20:24 EDT, you write:
>>>
>>><< We have to do our part everyday, even
>>> if we end this incarnation with many of these same questions or
>>> misunderstandings still haunting us. >>
>>>
>>>A very good point, Vito. If we do our very best to live by the principles of
>>>theosophy, we in a sense become the "messengers" of the philosophy. "My life
>>>is my message" is an axiom to keep in mind. If our hands and feet do the
>work
>>>of serving others, then we are fulfilling the wishes of the Masters.
>>>
>>>LMHIII
>>
>>Let me modify the above slightly.
>>
>>Instead of "then we are fulfilling the wishes of the Masters", I would like
>>to say "then we are in effect working hand in hand with Them in their very
>>difficult task of helping the "orphan" Humanity."
>>
>>.........MK Ramadoss
>
>Thank you for your paper, MK, and I hope there are more like this. I
>sometimes don't know why this has to be an individual thing - finding a
>messenger. I would hope that the Theosophical Society itself could be this
>very revered "messenger." We certainly have the messsage that the world
>hasn't really had a chance to look at yet. If the message, as it is found
>written about in so many ways, were out there and in every person's hands,
>theosophy could certainly carry itself very well as far as revelation is
>concerned.
>
>I think about the course work that I have done in the 'I AM' Temple and how
>they view theosophy as having "failed" in the effort to make the "great
>ones" known and in presenting this wonderful revelation to every person
>alive on earth. But as standards go, I think every failure can be reversed
>and we still have a chance to make it a "much talked" about, if not "much
>studied" revelation on earth.
>
>This would be my favored definition of "messenger" and "success."


Thanks for your wise response.

Looking back to all the world's great religions, we can see everyone of them
tried to send the same fundamental message in the hope of making human being
change. The messages of Great Teachers have always been very simple and
straightforward. Don't Kill. Don't lie etc.

>From a practical standpoint, even if a new Messenger were to come today, I
doubt that the fundamental message is going to be very different. This is
because I don't think that most of us are yet to fully implement such simple
principles like Don't Kill, Don't Lie etc in their fullest and complete
form. So if we are all waiting for some "miraculous" or occult message, we
may be in for disappointment. That does not mean that the same simple
message may be presented in a totally different way to catch the attention
so that masses will slowly implement them in their lives, thus not only
transforming themselves, but transforming everyone with whom they come into
contact. I am not going to go into the "occult" side because I simply do not
know much. Whether a new occult dispensation is going to be made available,
we have to wait and see with an open mind.

Thanks again.

MK Ramadoss