Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00236)

>From: "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval@nwc.net>
>Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 4:28 PM
>Subject: Re:Re: Brenda on Ego


>Dear Pepe:
>
>Abut reincarnation -- no one can prove it to another, the logic of it is
>important.  Do you have a copy of Mr. W.Q.Judge THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY, or
>can you borrow one from a friend or a library -- I can send you one if you
>want.
>
>The question of the mathematics is important and Judge deals with it as
>follows in that small book:  (in my book it is on pp. 77-78)
>
>Take the population of a large city, say it is 1,000,000.  In the city is a
>large auditorium, holing perhaps 5,000.  Consider the condition of the
>auditorium. It usually has a fluctuating population depending on the day,
>the time and the importance of the show.  By analogy the amount at any one
>time of those humans on earth is like the fluctuating population of the
>auditorium.  But the total number of the city's population is a constant.
>
>The total number of those "in incarnation" varies, but the grand total of
>those "in" and those "out" is the constant.
>
> Best wishes to you, Dallas
>===================
>
> Dallas TenBroeck
>
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>                   23145 Park Contessa,
>            Calabasas, Ca., 91302, USA.
>
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>> From: "Jose R Grana" <pepeguitar@aol.com>
>> Subject: Re:Re: Brenda on Ego
>> Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 3:38 PM
>>
>> Yes, what we are now, me, you, us, our
>> present and "incarnated" individualities,
>> are unique, will only exist once and will never be repeated.
>> SNIP <
Keith:

Excuse me!  Can anyone really believe (well yes, anybody can believe
anything really) that the limited number of human monads (sparks) from the
one Monad (divine fire) is limited. Pa-lease!  I don't care who said it.   I
don't care if HPB rolls in her devachanic grave.  Anybody can see that the
human race could become as large as a colony of bacteria which it resembles
in many way and populate as many planets as possible and really
over-populate this globe as well.  This is where thesophists have got to do
better or scientists will just shake their heads in well-justified disgust.

I think a more rational approach is that the quality of souls is reduced by
what scientists call  "genetic load"  that is there are more criminals,
insane people, people with defects of every kind as the population becomes
larger and society becomes more "compassionate".  I know this will earn me
nothing, but scorn, but someone has to say that the GURU has no aura.
Theosophists-please!


p.s.  I stopped before I sent this message, because I don't want to take it
back, but maybe modify the stridency.  I think that what passes for
theosophy is a combination of Esoteric Buddhism and Victorian morality from
the Christian tradition.  The hospitals in the East are practically all run
by the dreaded Christians because the Buddhists have a "let them escape
suffering through meditation attitude" and let the poor people work out
their karma without my earning bad karma through interfering with their
karma (that is helping them with a Christian handout!).  Let's take all the
blinder off. So many people assume you have to have a liberal smarmy
mentality to be on the spiritual path.  Sometimes the most compassionate
thing is to call a spade a spade,   The kind of tea party theosophy that
paints an over-pretty picture of the solutions to our problems is something
that Annie Bessant would have never settled for, I bet.

Keith Price