Theos-Talk Archives (March 1999 Message tt00057)

Dear Louise and Doss,

Louise  wrote:

> The difficulty of being so sure that we have finally
> found the only or right or best source, is that,
> we stay so focused on it, that we do not look up or
> around and often miss the Master who is passing
> us by at the moment.

> My challenge has always been to stay poised so I could recognize a Mahatma
> when he did show up. After all a "Great Soul" cannot be confined
> to a specific time or place or message.


Indeed, the work of HPB and the Masters shouldn't be limited to the last
century.  The last one hundred years is still but a moment in time in the
history of humanity. And it is a moment in time in which the Mahatmas have
'shown up', to use Louise's phrase.   Their work is still with us, in the
'here and now', for us to make use of - if we so choose.  But how many of us
genuinely do "recognise" what we have been given?  Why stay poised waiting
for the Master to come, when 'He' has already been and left us our work to
do?

As you probably know, HPB and the Masters never said the teachings they gave
out where the last word on the subject.  On the contrary they said it was
all that could be given out to the world at the current time.  As a race we
are still in that "current time".  Perhaps it is only by making the most of
what has already been given that 'we' will be entitled to receive more.

Best wishes

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com]On Behalf Of Teos9@aol.com
> Sent: 09 March 1999 11:18
> To: theos-talk@theosophy.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Theosophical Adepts
>
>
> In a message dated 3/9/99 2:13:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Richtay@aol.com
> writes:
>
> << Our movement has been in the wane for a
>  full century now.  The best writing have long been written, the
> best work as
>  far as getting the public eye was done by HPB last century.  I do indeed
> think
>  in many ways we are on autopilot. >>
>
>
> For me this notion runs counter to the Theosophical principle of continual
> evolution. What I see, whether we are TSA'ers, ULT'ers,
> Baileyites , etc., is
> the tendency to perceive the power of our discoveries as complete and
> unsurpassed. We then lock in to the exploration of our newfound
> joy, often to
> the exclusion of a proper openness for new or incoming experiences. The
> difficulty of being so sure that we have finally found the only
> or right or
> best source, is that, we stay so focused on it, that we do not look up or
> around and often miss the Master who is passing us by at the moment.
>
> My challenge has always been to stay poised so I could recognize a Mahatma
> when he did show up. After all a "Great Soul" cannot be confined
> to a specific
> time or place or message. A "Great Soul" must also be a child of cosmic
> momentum, as are we all.
>
> Organizational theosophy's are changing, as well they should. Theosophical
> Consciousness, and the vista's it leads to, remains ever the
> same. Infinity
> itself.
>
> Louis
>
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