Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00053)

Barbara wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LeonMaurer@aol.com <LeonMaurer@aol.com>
> To: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
> Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 1:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Let's Remember the Heart

> "You can peace or you can have liberty.  Don't count on having both of them
> at the same time."
> Robert Heinlein.
> 
> See you,
> 
> Barbara


  Absolutely agree with both Leon and Barbara.  We must be wary of being
lulled into some totalitarian, yet mindlessly peaceful police type state
due to an easy to fall into error of misguided pacifism - whether it's
due to one's conviction of Christian principles or the theosophical
conviction that "we are all one".  (I am reminded here of Annie Besant's
referral to what she called "weak minded theosophists' who would refuse
to fight even to retain their own liberty).  Anyone who doesn't
understand this is well advised to read dissident Soviet writer Yevgeny
Zamyatin's classic dystopian novel, 'We',  describing  the regimented
but blissfully peaceful life in a society ruled over by an all-powerful
"Benefactor".  There is a reason Russia suppressed it for sixty years.

Michele L.

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