Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00417)

>From: "Pam Giese" <pgiese@snd.softfarm.com>
>Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 8:17 AM
>Subject: Re:Re: Yod He Vau He


>From Keith
>> Yet, like I said in the Proem she say clearly not to accept her words,
>but
>> to test it for oneself in a "scientific" type of manner.  I believe this
>is
>> the only way possible for the modern  person.  Accepting things on faith
>or
>> based on "AUTHORITY" and finding them ridiculous, is what got mey
>interested
>> in theosophy".....
>
>I'd like to add to this that there also needed to be an incorporation of
>other's works into our own innate understanding of things. In some ways,
>and beyond those elementary stages of the path,  the writings "reveal" more
>than they can "teach".  "Let him who has ears hear". (various spots in
>Revelations 2&3).
>
>I've been reading David Tansley's "Chakra's- Rays and Radionics".  He has a
>pertinent quote in his discussion of his application of Alice Bailey's
>works to healing and radionics:
>
>"Not surprisingly this area of esoteric knowledge contains its own
>protective boundary or ring-pass-not.  The practioner has to penetrate this
>body of knowledge with pure motive, this means that knowledge is acquired
>for the use of serving others, not self-agrandisment or to bolster the
>image of the personality.  There must be a high level of creative interest
>in the subject matter, and an enthusiastic approach toward knowledge --this
>approach allows the practioner to touch upon the real knowledge of the rays
>that simply isn't available from the cursory reading.  The knowledge of the
>rays has to be transformed into self-knowledge, it has to be absorbed so it
>becomes part of the individual.  As this happens, the barriers recede and
>give way to greater awareness, thus the practioner renders himself
>effective."
>p, 16
>
>
>
>Pam
>pgiese@snd.softfarm.com
>
>Keith:  Of course, we need texts and authorities or there would be chaos
and no where for a person to begin. Yet at some point there is the flight of
the alone to the alone.  An experience of the I AM THAT I AM.  Back to Yod
He Vau He and all that, it seems that the letters have a lot to do with
initial manifestation and the reverberation of masculine and feminine
energies throughout creation of all levels.

Some how the most altruistic state may be seeing and reaching as high into
spirituality as we can and receiving face to face and turning like the
Nirmankayas to bestow to the world below.

All mystical traditions have a lot of practices that seek to go beyond
practice.  I am thinking of the meditation of the Hebrew letters in Kabalah,
the whirling of the Sufis, the breathing or pranayama of the Yogis and the
chanting of the Buddhists.

Did anyone see the esoteric alturism behind the notion of receiving in order
to give (the light of Wisdom, Life  and Love) as opposed to the exoteric
admnishments to give in order to give (out of guilt over past sins or a
trying to buy good karma as in "indulgences")

To take is human, but to take and give the light is DIVINE!

Namaste
Keith