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Frank,
Thankyou. Each person can decide this on
their own and after checking the opinions of others. I make no claimsfor
Blavatsky or Bailey their work will stand or fall from the content
therein. I will say that I love them both and for different reasons and
again HPB shows the reasonable academic community that Theosophy is a validand
most valuable subject of study. Bailey offers her work making no
claims. Others might. Arguments might break out. No big
deal. I'm happy to study both, harmonize any conflicts as best I can and
proceed with Life. My advice to anyone who wants it is to start with
Esoteric Buddhism and go to Blavatsky's books and procede no further unless
compelled by one's heart of hearts that Alice may have something valuable to
add. And better safe than sorry is a pretty good expression. Itis
best to be wary. And you are right, I have tried and it is very hard to do
Blavatsky and Bailey too. I got into Bailey because of her book
on esoteric healing. I am qualified if anyone is, at the academic
level, to say this is one hell of a great book and leave it at that.
I then read all of HPB's texts, several times, and have her collected
writings because of my wish to understand and apply the book Esoteric Healing to
my chosen field of medicine and pathology. But, you know, I bet I only
really understand about 30% of HPB to a reasonable degree and about 60% of
Bailey except for Cosmic Fire and Rays and the Initiations(about 5 to 10%) I'm
happy. They both have given me a chance to start living a real life and
I'm deeply grateful and probably unqualified to judge their
qualifications. Color me grateful. And color me limited and
struggling like all get out.
Gene
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 4:57
AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Info about HPB
& Alice Bailey
Gene,
no good Theosophist will accept anythingin
metaphysics on authority only. That was HPBs way and it is consonant witha
series of spritual teachers through the ages.
But by point was not that you waste yourtime by
studying Bailey. It is your time. My point was only that I have found outthat
the Bailey writings are not true Theosophy, but rather Theosophy
misunderstood, if not faked. I only protest that Bailey is described as
Theosophist or even as successor of HPB. You have all the right to study and
to love Bailey. But if you take the right to call he a Theosophist, I tootake
the right to call her a Pseudo-Theosophist.
Many beginners in Theosophy have neitherthe time
nor the energy to study 15.000 Blavatsky pages and the Bailey stuff too and
then come to own conclusions. You need not only time, silence but additional
much discrimination power. My hints were for those people, not for those who
can study and find out for themselves. I know of many people who have studied
their whole life with all their will and heart power, 4 and five decades,but
they cannot intellectually explain the difference between Bailey and
Blavatskya lthough they feel it. For those are the comments. I don't force you
to believe my comments.
Frank
Thankyou,
Frank. The Chinese have a saying, "Put your worst foot forward."
I
think that people can look at all the bad things being said about
Bailey
and then avoid looking at the material, especially Cosmic Fire and
Rays and
the Intitiations and save themselves alot of "wasted"
time. It is wonderful
when one is intelligent enough to see,
clearly, that a certain way is the
wrong way and warn others. And
it is important for others to heed these
warnings. I've spent 25
years studying Blavatsky and Bailey and I've
sacrificed the traditional
medical career in order to do this. But. You
know? It
will be worth it when I discover, the hard way, that the Bailey
Books are
false and all these years of love of them and of studying
were
wasted. Then I will have solidly learned, by my own choosen
experience, of
which way not to go and can then come back to the true
path no longer
tempted like those poor fools that still find in them(the
24 volumes of
A.A.B) a deeply attractive force in the world of sorrow and
confusion.
There is the electric fire, the energy of the entire mental
state of
consciousness. There is the solar fire, the energy ofthe
mental body of
each of us, and then there is the fire by friction, the
energy of the
relationship of electric fire and solar fire, wherein
we learn the hard way
by many many lives of hard own experience.
One day we will all wise up.
"Those who know do
least."
Love,
Gene
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