Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00364)

Jan 26th 1998

Dear Mark:

I do not think we are at cross purposes.  If I have referred to books and
their contents it is because the same basis or vocabulary helps shorten
comprehension.

I also quite agree that if one goes by the "eye doctrine," or the "dead
letter" -- so often lifted from books, then indeed the petrifaction of
searching and learning occurs.

However, in view of the scope that theosophy offers and the insight into
"hidden" aspects of nature, an her workings, I would say that the
"learning" of theosophical doctrines, and the using of its vocabulary,
would shorten many discussions and abridge many a misunderstanding -- and I
would also venture to say that we would be none the worse.

No one who is a true seeker for truth believes that anything written or
spoken encompasses the full limits of possible boundaries to expression.
As time passes continually so doe things alter constantly.  All one need
seek is that individual stability, which by similarity and allegory
resembles closely the thought and sensing processes of others.

We all went to school, though at various times, places, and with a number
of curricula as "specialties."  The use of the English language affords us
a means of communication, if not of instant rapport of the mind -- Oh for
thought transference ! --

You ask me if I am a "librarian "  strangely enough it does show -- as I
have been in the book world in many capacities for most of my life.  I had
the good fortune to study THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY when I was quite young,
and tried to "destroy" it by study and analysis, and found that I had been
captured, in the sense that my mind was liberated from many of the closed
concepts I had been taught as facts in school -- they were show to be
theories, which to my way of feeling is more honest than proclaiming them
"truths," and later on having to destroy and rebuild them.  How can one
thereafter place entire reliance of anyone's say-so ?

So I use "references" as some times I think that those will show the
area from which I have drawn my statements -- so others can more closely check
them and see if I am right or wrong.  I am full of questions, and enjoy the
exchanges that lead to deeper understandings.  And that is all that I think
I am, and can do.

I also think that it is vital for us to use the "conference: method, rather
than to string ones' self out on a limb, with a tiger waiting below for us
to fall off, and a hungry leopard beginning to crawl out to where we are !

So my comments were sprayed out to all of us who are so diligent in
corresponding and sharing our ideas.

Yes the wonder of discovery opens continually as we proceed.  I hope that I
have made my motive, method and attitude as clear as can be .

			Best wishes as always,			Dallas


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

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> From: "Mark Kusek" <mark@withoutwalls.com>
> Subject: Re:Re: Yod He Vau He
> Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 5:02 PM
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