Theos-Talk Archives (October 1999 Message tt00022)

Dallas, sometimes I wonder if you think for yourself,
or just regurgitate what you read from a few books,
like so many blind church goers.

Not saying that all of the things you repeat or print
don't make sense to me, but some don't and here I must
put forward these questions:

1  Why would Divinity break off from itself, why would
perfection become imperfect?

2  How can a Universal Law be broken? Is it not a
Solid Law?

3  Maybe the only Universal Law is that Anything Goes.
 I don't remember evil even being used as an
applicable term in The Key to Theosophy, unless HPB
was trying to argue with the Preacher.

4  If we are all one, and if we are allowed to do
whatever the hell we want, then what is the point of
Karma after all?  If we originally broke away from
God, maybe we had a good reason, and getting back to
God is actually the wrong decision.  Why go back? 
Don't we just end up being obsorbed and losing
ourselves that way?

5  You can talk all day long about how we are one, and
we should be immersed in altuism, preparing for our
next life, etc, but in the end there is just you. 
Sitting there in front of that screen trying to make
some sense of why things are the way they are:
Particularly why things are the way they are for you!


         Finally, I would like to say, we all know so
little, we are so small, but we do have ourselves, and
we are beautiful, amazing...worthwhile.  We are these
things, in and of ourselves, no questions asked, no
explainations needed, misspellings and all...

               BEST WISHES TO ALL OF US 
 

--- "W. Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval@nwc.net> wrote:
> Sept 25th 1999.
> 
> Dear Alejandro
> 
> What is and how does Karma work.
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Very briefly:
> 
> Karma is the law of all Life  It is the WILL of the
> ONE DEITY which is
> Omnipresent.
> 
> As we live we either improve or delay our own
> progress.  We are, each one of
> us, a "spark" of the ONE DEITY.  We are immortal
> Souls.  We are always
> progressing towards a goal of  WISDOM -- that leads
> to an understanding of
> the ONE DIVINITY -- which is present in all things. 
> It is present as the
> eternal living "Life-Atoms."  Each is a Soul,  Man's
> Soul is a
> SELF-CONSCIOUS Soul.  It can understand the
> Universal PRESENCE of the DEITY.
> 
> Our whole environment and Universe is the ONE DEITY.
>   And the Laws of
> living are the same for all.  We cannot break them
> or mend them as we
> please.  But we can affect them, and the effect will
> make our own lives
> pleasant or difficult.  The DEITY does not break its
> own universal Laws.  it
> is always honest, fair, and true to all its many
> living "sparks" and
> "agents."  "Evil" is the breaking of UNIVERSAL LAW.
> 
> At the end of each life a balance is struck of
> unfinished business and the
> balance carried by the immortal "spark"-Soul,
> forward, determines how our
> next incarnation starts.
> 
> We are constantly determining what our future will
> be like.
> 
> This is an honest Universe and the ONE DEITY is
> honest and true to each of
> its uncountable "sparks."  It shows no favors or
> special concessions to any
> one of them.  It expects each to discover its own
> true DUTY and then to
> follow that voluntarily.  If does not coerce or
> force anyone to do anything.
> But it eternally adjusts, so that the final balance
> is UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD
> or HARMONY.
> 
> Perfection is within the reach of everyone of us. 
> As we sow, so we reap.
> 
> The "Golden Rule" of all living is  "Treat others in
> the same way as you
> expect them to treat   you,"
> 
> ----------------------
> 
> To give  some further explanations let me offer:
> 
> 
> 
> The concept of Karma -- or the law that balances all
> causes to their
> effects -- is based on the fact of the UNIVERSAL
> LAWS of the ONE DEITY that
> pervades the whole Universe.
> 
> The whole urge of every being in the Universe is to
> perceive and understand
> what GOD is.
> 
> Every atom, stone, plant, animal, man is full of
> that great and fundamental
> urge.  Manifestation is therefore  the great Law of
> Progress for all beings.
> Every being comes into existence from the beginning
> of the Universe, as soon
> as the DEITY desires that manifestation and
> evolution should take place.
> 
> Since GOD is everywhere and is also eternal, every
> one of the BEINGS in the
> Universe, being a part of DEITY, are also eternal
> pilgrims.
> 
> They pass in succession through many forms and
> bodies.
> 
> They live in those, and when the time for their
> physical death occurs, the
> inner SPIRITUAL ESSENCE -- which is the immortal
> part, a "spark" of the ONE
> DEITY -- leaves, rests, meditates on the experiences
> of the last embodiment,
> and then reincarnates.
> 
> In the Holy Bible you will remember that Jesus, the
> illumined Son of God
> taught this in several places, one of them is the
> statement that He made
> that St. John the Baptist, was the prophet Elijah
> who had been destined to
> "return."
> 
> As to how Karma works.  As we feel about things, as
> we think about them and
> as we plan our actions, we direct an energy into
> making decisions.  Those
> plans affect all the sensitive and immortal beings
> (or "divine sparks")
> around us.  They impact first of all on our brains
> and our physical form.
> Every "spark-atom" that makes up our body at that
> time records it.  The
> environment also records it as the radiation of
> thought has no limits.
> 
> It is now important to see that there are two very
> different forces or
> energy that we can develop (or "create") when we
> feel, think and act.  The
> MOTIVE makes the difference between "good," and
> "evil."  If our plans are
> directed towards the cooperation of the Life that
> Deity has given to all
> things in nature, as He propels them forward on
> their individual
> evolutionary path, we call them "good."  We are
> then, in harmony with Deity
> and its purposes.
> 
> If our plans are selfish, directed only towards our
> personal benefit,
> towards our isolated ease and happiness;  if they
> are careless and forgetful
> of the rest of the beings that are also "God's sons
> and daughters" in their
> immortal essence, we create "evil."
> 
> So the essential difference between "good," and
> "evil" is the fact that the
> choices made by us will either assist the DEITY in
> its original plan of
> allowing all beings without exception to learn the
> Nature of DEITY, or,
> they will slow down, obstruct, or pervert that great
> purpose.
> 
> If the whole of the DEIFIC LAW of good and progress
> is hurt and distorted by
> selfish motives, the evil so generated (whether
> known by others or unknown
> to them) reacts through the beings that are
> affected.  The Karma (or the
> combined result) that is ours comes as an exact
> response from and through
> those Deity-living-sparks of LIFE.
> 
> If the ONE DEITY is omnipresent, as we started out
> saying, then it is also
> Omniscient.  It KNOWS everything that happens.  Not
> even a sparrow falls,
> but that fall is noted.
> 
> Everything is adjusted, so that any harmony that is
> disturbed raises those
> forces of the ONE DEITY that will restore balance. 
> Since the UNIVERSE is
> indeed vast, we can understand that the enactment of
> the GREAT LAWS is
> supervised by trusted "agents:"  These have been
> called the Archangels,
> Angels, Saints, Prophets, and other supervising
> Presences that have become
> perfect in their knowledge of DEITY so as to be
> trusted to act impartially
> and universally in all cases.  But mankind in
> general does not always
> understand this.
> 
> This Goal of perfect fitting into the Laws of the
> One Deity has already been
> stated above.  so Karma is that aspect of the ONE
> LAW which acts on behalf
> of the ONE DEITY with each of its many "sparks" and
> detached -- even the
> "least of things."
> 
> This also gives us a clue to the nature of the third
> aspect 
=== message truncated ===


=====

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

-- THEOSOPHY WORLD -- Theosophical Talk -- theos-talk@theosophy.com

Letters to the Editor, and discussion of theosophical ideas and
teachings. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message consisting of
"subscribe" or "unsubscribe" to theos-talk-request@theosophy.com.