Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00378)

In a message dated 11/18/98 10:53:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-theos-
talk-digest@pippin.imagiware.com Darren or MKR writes:

<< A theosophical
 political system must be the ultimate goal of humanity.
  >>

I sense your zeal and aspiration for a better humanity. However the dynamics
for scaling the political or theosophical hights are already in place and have
been since the inception of these two great ideas. You see, both these idea-
forms are built on and derive their inspiring energy from, the purest levels
of human SPIRITUAL IDEALS.

The Political system, as we encounter it today, is great or failing, in direct
relation to how powerfully its members continue to perceive and serve these
IDEALS in their purest form. The American political system does not need
theosophy to bail it out. It already has some of the finest spiritual Ideals
that humanity is capable of. What it needs is people who can still be inspired
by the majesty of those ideals and uncompromising in their duty to manifest
them. The arena of "dirty politics" is not something that can be corrected
from the outside, a fresh idea, a new wrinkle. Its presence serves as
testimony to an inner corruption that is merely a reflection of the inner
despair of its members. To correct that dilemma, the darkness of human self-
ISH-ness still has to be transmuted into the light of self-LESS-ness. Any
other mission in a single or collective lifetime will continue to fall short
of the goal.

The same thing goes for theosophical organizations. When we read the concerns
of members of these lists, it is easy to think that that these organizations
need a new set of laws or to be overhauled in order to make them conform more
closely to their inspired beginnings. However as in the case of politics the
solutions are not elsewhere and incoming. They are as they have always been
right under our collective nose. Exercise the spiritual ideals that these
societies are built on and these organizations will flourish and prosper. Fail
to actualize the promise inherent in any ideal and the idea-forms, that
represent it will get sick, then rot, and then, die.

What is required are visionaries who can re-inspire the human journey. The
tools are already in place. We on our part, should strive to develop our
intuitive mechanisms which can lift us out of the "either/or" perceptions of
rational manas, and thrust us into the higher perceptual realities of
transcendent idealism. Things work in this world, in exact proportion to how
well or how poorly we perceive the promise and potential of other worlds.

Louis.