Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00000)

Jan 1st 1998

Dallas writes:

Dear Bee:

And a Happy and fruitful new Year to you, Bee for 1998.

I enjoyed your comment on cosmological considerations and the perspective
it provides as we turn it on ourselves.  We are both significant (to
ourselves and the Universe) and insignificant (in terms of our personal
power to act and live.

But it seems to me the fact of our being mind-beings is important.  It
affords us a glimpse of the Universe as well as ourselves and of other
"minds" who live in situations comparable but not identical to ours.

How can we be selfish and isolationist if we are immortals, and have to
continue to live with our brother immortals (known or unknown in the
present incarnation).  But the fact that we have under karma come to know
of each other and are willing to advance opinions and make contact is to me
a significant indication of the value of such bonds and interaction.

>From that point of view alone we draw closer to our friends in many places
and open channels for the future, which work both ways.

I have never found that isolation breeds anything but mistrust of others,
and that is irrational fear of the unknown.  If, however we know that we
are dealing with those who, like us will continue to live, and that any
karma set up between us is going to come up again, then what is there to
fear ?

Fear and ignorance go hand in hand.  Theosophy, I have found tends to
eliminate uncertainties with an over-view of what the real scene is behind
or within the presently experienced life -- which for any one of us is all
memory now.  As we are we are an advancing infinitesimal small slice of
present time, working its way through DURATION.  All our past is "memory."


Along this line I note that in the KEY TO THEOSOPHY, HPB indicates that the
memory of our noble and altruistic deeds alone follows us as an indication
of the value of our past lives.  In effect we are at all times the ultimate
focus of all we have made of ourselves.  And, as we advance by choices
(deliberate or habitual) we shape our futures.

But enough of this.

		All good wishes to you for 1998.		Dallas



		Dallas TenBroeck

dalval@nwc.net                        (818) 222-8024
                   23145 Park Contessa,
            Calabasas, Ca., 91302, USA.

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> From: "Bee Brown" <bbbrown@ihug.co.nz>
> Subject: Re:Theos-Talk : Selfishness
> Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 7:51 PM
>
> On Wed, 31 Dec 1997 00:29:52 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
> >John Catron wrote:
> >>
> >> As for the history, the planetary systems, rounds, root races, sub
> >> races, whether true or not is unimportant for me at this point of my
> >> evolution.		<  SNIP  >