Theos-Talk Archives (March 1999 Message tt00320)

Richard, 
Thanks for the reference and for giving the whole of the passage in question.
How is zero A.D. arrived at?  An alignment of planets?
Tony

>
>"Let every member know, moreover, that the time for such priceless acquisition
>is limited; the writer of the present is old, her life is well-nigh worn out,
>and she may be summoned "home" any day and almost any hour.  And if her place
>is even filled up, perchance by another worthier and more learned than
>herself, still THERE REMAIN BUT A FEW YEARS to the last hour of the
>term--namely, till December the 31st, 1899.  Those who will not have profited
>by the opportunity (given to the world in every last quarter of a century),
>those who will not have reached a certain point of psychic and spiritual
>development, or that point from which begins the cycle of Adeptship by that
>day -- those will advance no further than the knowledge already acquired.  No
>Master of Wisdom form the East will himself appear or send anyone to Europe or
>America after than period, and the sluggards will have to renounce every
>chance of advancement in their present incarnation--until the year 1975.  Such
>is the law, for we are in KALI YUGA-- the Black Age-- and the restrictions in
>this cycle, the first 5000 years of which will expire in 1897, are great and
>almost insuperable."


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