Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00003)

Sept 1st

Dear Art:

Why not start at the simplest of  beginnings ?

Find out what Theosophy teaches.

The KEY TO THEOSOPHY is a most excellent beginning.

But note well that there is no quick fix, or study.  It changes one's
whole outlook, once that the most important aspects are grasped and
are chosen to be used in one's life.  This is serious stuff.

Consider these:  You (and I and everything else) is an IMMORTAL
MONAD -- a combination of Spirit, matter and MIND.

Being immortals, we are in school -- the school of Life which
functions for us incarnation after incarnation.

The Universe runs by immutable and eternal LAWS -- KARMA.  These
cannot be change altered or broken.  Nor is it possible to hide
anything for the all-seeing EYE of Nature.

The difference between right and wrong, or between evil and good is
very simple.  It is the difference between complying with and
cooperating with Nature's uniform LAWS, and trying to  break, bend or
avoid them.

Nature adjust everything with fairness and justice.  It runs a dynamic
equilibrium that takes the Karma of every individual into account no
matter where they may be.

Would you call this fate?  Perhpas.  But when you consider that every
MONAD (immortal) also has FREE-WILL within the limits of its level of
intelligence and its ability to think and chose, you will see right
away that we circumscribe our freedom by our earlier choices, and we
change our freedom by our present decisions and options.

So you have 1,  universal unity because of the spiritual one source of
all being and life.

You have 2,  immutable and fair just laws that run all evolution

And 3, you have an evolutionary school that is always progressive.
The goal of potential perfection is available to all, and the speed
with which one is able to approach that, is always self-decided.

The Universe and our world is a vast brotherhood of inter-related
cooperators.


Why not consider the THREE FUNDAMENTALS:  These are in the SECRET
DOCTRINE, Vol. 1, pp 14 -19.  They ought to be memorized.

Go to page 272-3 Vol. 1 SD -- there you are given THE ANCIENT SOURCE
OF THEOSOPHY.

Open ISIS UNVEILED, Vol. 2, p. 587-591.  There you will find 10 points
of oriental/Theosophical psychology to study.

The change in outlook which becomes evident on studying Theosophy is
to consider that we live in an ETHICAL UNIVERSE.

Our every desire, thought and act is weighed in the balance of honesty
and fairness.  We actually live like gold-fish in a fish-bowl and do
not know it.  We think that we can cloak our dark secrets of
selfishness in darkness, at night and with silence, but NATURE which
is DEITY knows everything we do.

There is no theology and no priest and no psychologist who will be
able to take our particular burden away from our backs and make us
well.  We are the only ones who make or break ourselves.

Is this a tough view of life and work and living?  Yes it is, but what
would you have as an immortal ?  Wisdom and assurance, or lies and
deceit?  Which in the long run is most valuable?

Our greatest problem is that this is not what we are told at home,
school, or at work.  Nor does our western society subscribe to
individual immortality.  It does speak to the personal man and tries
to make him happy with his deceitful, evil and dishonest self -- and
that is an impossibility.  Being at core an eternal being, he knows
that evil doing is a perversion of life.

Theosophy does say so. and what I write is a very condensed version
that is explained in simpler and nicer words.  But, since you asked, I
thought the facts ought to be stated.

First one has to realize that this is an honest Universe.  It runs by
law, and not by whim or chance -- nor is it possible to cajole or buy
one's way out of any self-created mess.  Each one of us pays in kind
for the errors that we make.  We can mitigate the debt by trying to
adjust the injustice and especially with those whom we know we
affected.  This takes a lot of character to do that.

But read the KEY, and you will find that HPB lays it all very clearly
with adequate explanations before you.  You can also read what Mr.
Judge writes in the OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY, or the EPITOME, or the ECHOES
FROM THE ORIENT, as he copies and condenses what HPB taught
accurately.  He makes no changes to the original doctrines.

In England there is an ex-General Secretary of the T S by name
Geoffrey Farthing.  In the past 5 or 6 years he published a Manifesto
to the TS for them to consider.  He advocated basic reforms in study
and behavior.  He has more recently published a "follow-up" to the
original Manifesto.  If you can secure a copy of this it would be
helpful.  I believe that this was republished in the last couple of
years in these pages.  Perhaps Eldon Tucker (the Web-master) will know
where and how to find it.  If you want Mr. Farthing's address I will
send it to you.

If you desire the TS to make reforms of itself, it will have to revert
to the original teachings of HPB -- all the rest in between will have
to be abandoned and changed.  This can be done only if the members
decide that they desire to do this.  Let them do the necessary study
and decide if the TS is valuable enough to be rescued, because it is
they who will have to do the hard work.  No one else can do it.  They
have HPB's and Masters' words -- now, who will actually follow them?

If you or anyone else expects that the work will be done for you, then
let's be absolutely clear.  The TS was launched on good principles.
HPB remained with it for 16 years and had lots of problems keeping it
gong on those original lines.

After her death changes began almost within hours of her death, and
have been going on ever since.

The documentary History of the T. Movement shows this clearly.  One
ought to be familiar with that.  However any reform has to be based on
principles that one finds to be fair and right.  And all the work has
to be self-done.

This is as I see it.  It there are more questions, I will be glad to
answer and supply references for individual study and work.

Best wishes,

Dallas
dalval@nwc.net 

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Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 10:03 PM
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Subject: Theos-World Recommendations to the TS


So Dallas with respect to your knowledge of Theosophy and your
experience...

What recommendations if any, would you make to the Society?

I realize you favor using The Keys to Theosophy as a basic text...

- Art Gregory



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