Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00009)

Jan 2nd 1998

Dear Bee

Glad to read your comments, which so closely agree with my way of thinking

Thank you also for quoting Hartmann again to me.  I recalled that statement
concerning the incoming ideas which might simultaneously influence several
persons, as in the case of inventors, or philosophers -- also that if the
brain instrument is dulled or damaged, distorted concept arise and in some
cases there is inability to grasp them at all.  I imagine that the Masters
pour forth such great concepts when the time is right, and that there are
those who are attuned to that Source.

I would not be surprised if students of Theosophy who are diligent find
help from such sources and give joyous welcome to those IDEAS.

Can we not say, if we accept the concepts of karma and reincarnation as
true, that we are now (as we are) the cumulative result of all our past.

W.Q.Judge translated the BHAGAVAD GITA and in the PATH magazine he
published NOTES on the B G.  Among these I came across the following which
I always felt cleared the air in regard to "consciousness."

	"Our consciousness is one and not many, nor different from other
consciousnesses...the One Consciousness of each person is the Witness or
Spectator of the actions and experiences of every state we are in or pass
through.  it therefore follows that the waking condition of the mind is not
separate consciousness.

	"The One Consciousness pierces up and down through all the states or
planes of Being, and serves to uphold the memory of each state's
experiences.

	"Krishna advises his friend Arjuna to restrain the senses, and then to
"strengthen himself by Himself."  The meaning here is that he is to rely
upon the One Consciousness which, as differentiated in a man, is his Higher
Self.  By means of this higher self, he is to strengthen the lower, or that
which he is accustomed to call "myself."

When I wrote of isolation, I was thinking of a person who seized knowledge
and the sequestered it.  A miser does that with money.  An ambitious person
seizes the free will of others and attempts to bend them all to his right
to order their lives... or something like that.  If they are ignorant or
fearful this incapacity is taken advantage of.  The selfishly ambitious
fears wisdom and knowledge which would enfranchise those he seeks to
dominate.  Theosophy is under constant attack, inner and outer for this
very reason.  And, yet, those who hear even a little about it, do not
forget.

	All the best 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: Thursday, January 01, 1998 11:57 PM
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> On Thu, 1 Jan 1998 02:56:37 -0800, you wrote:
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> >Jan 1st 1998
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> >Dallas writes:			<  SNIP  >
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