Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00053)

 SD p. 644
>" This state will last till man's spiritual intuitions are fully opened,
>which will not happen before we fairly cast off our thick coats of
>matter ..."
>What follows that quote is the ethical conditions of the living Adept:
>" ... untill we begin acting from within . . .  Until then the only
>palliative to the evils of life is union and harmony -a Brotherhood in
>actu, ..."

After "in actu" is the word altruism.  Those "ethical conditions" apply to
we ordinary folks, not Adepts.  Somewhere HPB? mentions that one purpose
of the TS was to keep alive man's spiritual intuitions.  The opening
*fully* of our spiritual intuition was not a goal of the TS, that is an
individual effort.  That is one reason I think HPB & her gurus taught so
little (compared to philosophy & metaphysics) about personal spiritual
practices. Brotherhood and the too much ignored active altruism are keys
in practical Theosophy.  Note the context before p. 644 -- Karma.  The
deepest of the deep!


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<> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
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