Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00040)

Nicholas Weeks  wrote:

>Motive will determine black or white.  Which is what I think you are
>hinting at. If a knife is used to chop off an arm is that black or white
>severing?  An impossible question -- a knife cannot make karma --
>positive, negative or neutral.  But if a thug is using the knife in an
>attempt to injure -- then it is black karma.  If a surgeon is using the
>same knife to remove a gangrenous arm -- then it is white karma.

Yes, it is the motive that counts and our motives are very subtle
indeed.

White magic was defined by HPB as "Divine magic, devoid of selfishness,
love of power, of ambition, or lucre, and bent only on doing good to
the world in general, and one's neighbour in particular."

Kabalistic doctrines are to be traced to Aryan thought. The Sephiroth
or Angels invoked in this system are in the same class as Hindu Deva,
some vicious and some good, if a man were to fix his attention upon
them in ceremonial magic, he might attract these powers to himself
with serious result. HPB warned that "Kabalists who dabble in the
ceremonial magic as described and thought by Eliphas Levi, are as full
blown Tantrikas as those of Bengal." Even a learned occultist such as
Sabba Row died a dreadful death of blood poisoning caused by what he
invoked for the benefit of his wife.

Is the Gulf War really ended? With continual resentment, fear and
enmity between U.S.- Iraq, Israel - Hamas it has been transferred from
the plane of the visible to the planes of the invisible merely to
return again to the visible in other forms of riot, assassination and
terrorism. If increasingly evil force accumulates and the thunder-clouds
grow larger and blacker without being dispersed they will eventually
burst into a war-storm on the physical plane.

It is not by defending ourselves and our country (which is a necessity)
by any physical or occult means that wars can be ended, only by
thinking and feeling peace in our heart and really to love our enemy
will the danger of wars pass, never to return.


 "How many enemies, measureless as the sky, will I be able to destroy?
  Yet when the thought of anger is destroyed, all enemies are destroyed"

          Santideva

Best,

Visanu