Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00066)

Thanks Jeremy! 

I think every once and a awhile you can see the dynamic genius 
of Madame Blavatskaya... We can still appreciate her 
contribution. I have quoted her on more than one occasion in 
various e discussions, even though the mere mention of her 
name is enough for some to reject everything she said!

Even though at times there were some fairly obvious ways she 
was not very comfortable to be around. I'm thinking of what GRS 
Mead wrote about difficulties he had with her. Mead is someone 
I really admire for his contributions in Gnostic studies but we still 
have to give Madame Blavatskaya her due! 

- Art


--- In theos-talk@egroups.com, "Jeremy Condick" <jp@c...> 
wrote:
> 

> 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

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Arthur E. Gregory" <arthra999@y...>
> 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
>