Theos-Talk Archives (October 1999 Message tt00080)

	Dallas,

	Thankyou for your response. I am certainly not advocating that I can
"blame" the universe and be free of any personal responsibility for my
actions. I am merely trying to understand something that appears to me as a
contradiction.

	There is much in your response to digest. I had understood that the
yugas were "imposed as a blanket", that there was a fixed universal cycle of
ages. You have given much food for thought that this isn't the case. If I
understand you correctly then we are born into a yuga appropriate to our
karma. This would appear to resolve the apparent contradiction. But it still
seems to me that there are "blanket" cycles. Each of us experiences night
and day, winter and summer regardless of our virtue or lack of it. I am
grateful for the words of the Masters but I hope you will agree that we each
need to follow these issues through in the light of our own reason and
experience in order to truly understand what is being said. I need to ponder
this further...

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	With regard to Peter Merriott's response.

	Thankyou Peter,

	You said:

	"...we can't stop the earth going around, or away from the sun, but
we see in the 	darkness what we project from our own consciousness and act
thereon."

   	I agree. I am aware of an innate sense of right and wrong and can
observe the 	effects of my actions regardless of whether it is day or
night, so even if I do not 	understand the larger scheme of things I
must come back to observing myself and my 	direct experience. I expect
the "Divine Plan" will remain a matter of faith for me, 	certainly
for the time being! 


	Kind Regards,

	Nicholas John Street

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