Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00006)

Mark K:
>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?

Not at all.  "Compassion is no attribute, it is the Law of Laws." said the
VOICE.  Your beaming love approach can be and is used by real Bodhisattvas
towards other beings; but I have never heard it being used toward
themselves.  But perhaps there is more to your practice than just love
towards your animal nature.

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

I recall "If a man wishes to come after me, he must deny his very self,
take up his cross, and follow in my steps." (MK, 8,34)

What is more loving than for Jesus to recommend that practice of
self-denial which will take one to His abode?  If love is "long-suffering"
does that only apply to putting up with outward trials?  Or could it also
mean bearing the cross of our always protesting, demanding, craving and
craven animal nature?  Eventually every soul must crucify the animal-man
and only then can there be a Transfiguration.

Best,

--
Nicholas <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
  A life of sacrifice on the basis of morality and integrity is the
  Dharma of man.  Satya Sai Baba