Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00130)

In a message dated 06/10/00 11:30:43 AM, benge@adsnet.com writes:

>I don't know how anyone can not experience God personally, and a savior is a
>matter of perspective.  When a person is drowning, and another person comes
>along and tells him to stand up -- the water is three feet deep, that other
>person is perceived as savior.

"Experiencing God, personally," as the divine power within us all (through 
the culmination of deep meditation, or otherwise), and believing in a 
"personal" God who is the absolute ruler of your individual destiny -- are 
two different things. The impersonal Godhead (Ein Soph or Parabrahm), as the 
ineffable divine power behind universal origin and evolution, has no 
relationship or personal interest in any individual part of, or being in, the 
universe.

Believing that someone who saves your life is your savior is one thing, and 
believing that a so called "Son of God Savior," such as Jesus died to save 
you from reaping karmic punishment for your own sins -- is another.  The 
latter idea, called "vicarious atonement," was contrived by the priests of 
the Christian Church long after Jesus died, and directly contradicts the 
theosophical teachings, as well as the direct teachings of Jesus himself.  
For a look at who this biblical character really was, his relationship to the 
Church founded in his name, and what he actually believed in, see:
http://members.aol.com/graphinc/wwtmcjc.html

Understanding that you are a relatively new student of theosophy -- when you 
study a bit more of the esoteric teachings of theosophy and the comparative 
religion given us by HPB in Isis Unveiled and the Secret Doctrine, you will 
be even better able to discriminate between and understand the meaning of the 
above ideas -- that you, apparently, misinterpreted completely from reading 
the letter commented on.

LHM
 

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