Theos-Talk Archives (July 1997 Message tt00081)

Philip and Gail:

On the subject that Harris and Stevenson address, namely unity.

1.  We all have it at the base of our Natures.  The highest
principle in us is ATMA which is universal, and not our property.
It gives us the power to PERCEIVE.  It assures us of immortality
as a thinking entity.  It provides a base for understanding Karma
as the receiving of the exact results of our decisions, whether
old or new.

2.  In each of us the ONE CONSCIOUSNESS pierces up and down the
seven planes of our being and serves toupohld the memory of any
experience on any of those planes.  Our PERSONALITY is a
constantly changing compound made up of the karma of our choices.

3.  Unity among STUDENTS OF THEOSOPHISTS occurs, regardless of
orgnaization, when at any time we seek to know the TRUTH of some
problem: its origin, its effect, and its recurrence in "time."

There is no possibility of anything but nominal UNITY in any
organization, since to avow a similarity of "aim purpose and
teachings," places us all on a single footing.

4.  The differences of organization to which we consider we owe
our loyalty or affiliation is a personal record of indebtedness,
and of gratitude to those who have so far assisted us to a great
height of understanding and verification of any TRUTH.  Yet, we
are not dependent on that affiliation (even though our loyalty
binds us to a consideration of those whith whom we have grown and
lived).  WE are in every way independently dependent -- a paradox
perhpas, but if thought about will be found accurate.

5.  Exoteric unity is therefore a matter of choice and
independent adherence.  Esoteric Unity is a constant, and is not
assumed or discarded.  The wuperior is that which is definied in
terms of PRINCIPLES, AND NOT "PERSONS."

6.  Unity is a constant readiness to be of assistance to all who
seek or who ask.  No more and no less.

These are to me some of the basic ideas that cut through partial
views and establish the lines of direct unity which embraces all.

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