Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00063)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur E. Gregory" <arthra999@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 1:17 PM
Subject: Theos-World The Great Sacrifice:


> 
> THE GREAT SACRIFICE
> 
> He is the "Initiator", called the "GREAT SACRIFICE". For sitting 
> at the threshold of LIGHT, he looks into it from within the circle of 
> Darkness, which he will not cross; nor will he quit his post till the 
> last day of this life-cycle. Why does the solitary Watcher remain at 
> his self-chosen post? Why does he sit by the fountain of 
> primeval 
> Wisdom, of which he drinks no longer, as he had naught to learn 
> which 
> he does not know - aye, neither on this Earth, nor in its heaven? 
> Because the lonely, sore-footed pilgrims on their way back to 
> their 
> home are never sure to the last moment of not losing their way in 
> this limitless desert of illusion and matter called Earth-Life. 
> Because he would fain show the way to that region of freedom 
> and 
> light, from which he is a voluntary exile himself, to every prisoner 
> who has succeeded in liberating himself for the sake of 
> mankind, 
> though but a few Elect may profit by the GREAT SACRIFICE. 
> It is under the direct, silent guidance of this MAHA - (great) - 
> GURU that all the other less divine Teachers and instructors of 
> mankind became, from the first awakening of human 
> consciousness, the 
> guides of early Humanity. It is through these "Sons of God" that 
> infant humanity got its first notions of all the arts and sciences, 
> as well as of spiritual knowledge; and it is they who have laid the 
> first foundation-stone of those ancient civilizations that puzzle so 
> sorely our modern generation of students and scholars. 
> 
> H. P. BLAVATSKY

Thankyou Arthur, what beautiful words they are.
Kind of puts things into perspective doesn't it?

Cant think of anything more to say after reading this so think
I will do some meditation on it.  

Jeremy