Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00226)

Aug 14th 1998

Dear Mike:

When we translate our intuitions into the language of passion and desire,
they are debased.  But fortunately for us, there is in every "lower Manas"
(the condition of our minds where they are linked closely to Kama -- see KEY
TO THEOSOPHY) that aspect that is linked through the Sutratma (or
antaskarana) to the Permanent and the Real SELF   -- THE HIGHER SELF.

We could have no intuitions, no aspirations, no sense of unselfishness or of
compassion and generosity unless:  a)  these were universal and powerful
facts in Nature, and b)  we were capable of apprehending them and holding
them separate from the vileness of our passional natures, which tend to make
selfish any information or power of a spiritual nature that we may acquire.
In the BHAGAVAD GITA Krishna makes this plain to Arjuna in many places.
Perhaps the most important declaration to be found there is the one in which
he (speaking as the HIGHER SELF) states that He is the Ego seated in the
hearts of all beings.
 [ Chapter 10, p. 103 top in Judge's rendition ]

The faculty of BUDDHI, (made active in a personage such as Gautama the
Buddha, born, prince of Kapilavastu) is a universal repository of all events
in Nature.  It (BUDDHI) is in fact what is called Akasa -- or the 7th aspect
of the Astral Light -- the Divine Light of WISDOM -- a thorough knowledge of
Karma and all the causes of our present existence.  For, Karma envelops all
of us and in fact unites the whole Universe -- it is represented by the idea
of Universal Brotherhood as a dynamic and inescapable fact.

That is what Theosophy makes plain, as I see and read it.

How otherwise, could the personal man apprehend the wisdom that which
springs from the Universal Man ?  And we may say that the Masters are one
with that UNIVERSAL MAN.  We are potentially so.  The process of
reincarnation brings us ever back into contact with the wisdom that we met
in previous lives and gives us an opportunity of again seeking to know and
to improve our understanding of it.  It is the study of the whole of nature,
and that study can only be prosecuted through our own selves as embodied but
divinely conscious (if we so desire) selves.

People speak of meditation and of initiation and also of acquiring knowledge
and using powers or discovering the "chakras," or of using the power called
"Kundalini" ... and so forth and they have not a clue as to where these
things are.  Many hope they will find a "Guru" who will instruct them, and
are ready to pay large sums and devote many months or years to untested and
unproven systems for which claims are made, either individual or factual,
but usually undemonstrable.  Theosophy states that all these things are
aspects of the divine nature alluded to by those who have learned about them
by studying their own capabilities.  If anyone truly desires to find out the
beginnings of this road to self-study, they can pick up Patanjali's Yoga
Sutras.  (Try and get a copy of that which Mr. Judge translated for us to
use.) Open and see if it can be understood.  The directions are quite plain.
But who believes them ?

Those that seek wisdom and powers and perhaps think that reliance on the
claims of a "guru" will help, have forgotten, or perhaps they do not know
that they are interiorly a Divine Being.  Once this idea is grasped, once
that one is able to realize that the SPIRITUAL aspect of Universal Nature is
everywhere without exception, they have to grant to its all-pervasiveness
AND its presence in THEMSELVES.

If you look into the SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. I, pp. 570-575 you will get an
idea of what Theosophy teaches in this regard.  There is more to be found in
Vol. 2 pp. 78 to 82, and II 246.  If one turns to (Vol. 2 ) pp 93 to 96,
102 - 103,  Vol. I -- 274 to 278  one begins to get an idea of the
importance and vastness of this subject and fact.

Have fun in this search and best wishes,

Dallas

> Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 10:41 AM
> From: "Mike Perala" <mikap@dlc.fi>
> Subject: Re: ECP Masters

>ow
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>> From: "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval@nwc.net>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:20:34 -0700
>> Subject: Re: ECP Masters
>>
>> Aug 12th 1998
>>
>> Dear Mike:
>>
>> Surely reading what is attributed to a "Maha Chohan 82" would make
anyone
>> wonder about the sanity of those transmitting such things.  Makes no
sense
>> as far as I can see it.  So who is being duped ?
>
>We all are!! 8)
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>> If this is called Theosophy, someone is wandering pretty far into a
nowhere
>> land.
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>> Of course this is IMHO entirely.
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>> Theosophy as I see and learned it from HPB always makes sense and appeals
to
>> the highest powers of thought and intuition in us.  It has nothing to do
>> with our personal situations.
>>
>
>But 'highest powers of thought and intuition', if we use them, always
>reflect to our personal situations, of course.
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>Mika Perala
>Finland
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