Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00158)

Dallas wrote:

> Put in an Appendix and therein list those changes that study an
> scholarship reveal to be necessary (?) alterations.  Give the
> reason why and the source to be checked by the student for
> accuracy.

Does this detract/distract the student from studying "The Voice of the
Silence" *itself*?  A drop of rain isn't a monsoon but . . . .

> I have found that in matters relating to Orientalism and the
> interpretation of ancient scriptures, the arguments are endless.

The mouse (personality?) in its exercise wheel chasing its own tail and
getting nowhere, absolutely nowhere.

> What is then valuable ?
>
> Precisely that freedom (mentioned also in a current posting) that
> enables the reader/student to do his own checking of the findings
> of others.
>
> Above all, I would encourage independent evaluation of what HPB
> and the masters have written.  I mean,  What are the IDEAS that
> are being conveyed ?  How do they fit into the scheme so
> carefully outlined ?

Carefully outlined, therefore "closely adhere".

> One of the difficulties is rendering information suitable to our
> understanding in this plane and condition of matter as to the
> relations between every one of the "49 fires" as and when one or
> the other is operative under the scheme of the Rounds, Globes,
> and Races, etc....  Also to be taken into account is the triple
> evolutionary scheme as outlined in SD I 181.  And I 247  II 79,
> 241, 247,  and 671.

We also come across what might be termed a language barrier.  For example,
referring to the original of a "very old Book" the Introductory (xliii) of
SD states:

"Tradition says, that it was taken down in *Senzar*, the secret sacerdotal
tongue, from the words of the Divine Beings, who dictated it to the sons of
Light, in Central Asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for
there was a time when its language (the *Sen-zar*) was known to the
Initiates of every nation, when the forefathers of the Toltec understood it
as easily as the inhabitants of the lost Atlantis, who inherited it, in
their turn, from the sages of the 3rd Race, the *Manushis*, who learnt it
direct from the *Devas* of the 2nd and 1st Races".

Also,

". . . language, proceeding in cycles is not always adequate to express
*spiritual* thoughts." (fn, II, 199).

etc..

Best wishes,
Paul.