Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00402)

I think I need to leave civilization and go live on an island somewhere
(maybe a huxley-esque island?).

Bring on the Comet

D



At 04:20 PM 11/20/98 EST, you wrote:
>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:
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><< A theosophical
> political system must be the ultimate goal of humanity.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Louis.
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