Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00004)

Nicholas Weeks wrote:
>
> MK:
> >What do you think would happen if our motive is to kindly accept, love
> >and try to understand ourselves as well as our animal nature?
>
> I do not think a specific contemplation directed towards our lower self
> matters much, as long as it's cravings are not indulged and it becomes,
> over time, obedient to the altruistic Self.  Since most of our waking (and
> dreaming) consciousness is heavily influenced, even dominated by our
> lower, self-centered desires, it is just a charade to project love,
> loathing or indifference towards our lower self.  It is only the persona
> putting on yet another mask (of kindly nobility) and performing for
> another part of itself.
>
> The Secret Doctrine vol. 2 pp. 109-10 covers the ground quite profoundly
> and deserves study.
>
> The traditional attitudes of discipline, neglect, contempt or combat
> toward our animal nature have produced generations of adepts &
> bodhisattvas.  I see no reason to reinvent the wheel of Dharma.

Nicholas,
Are you saying that love, acceptance and undertanding are not part of
your experience of the "sunlight of higher Nature?" Is the only God of
"Truth" that Theosophists worship so "fiercely" only a mental
apprehension? Is it not also experienced as love in the heart?

I think of Jesus saying, "Suffer the little children to come unto me."

Mark
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