Your last inquiry about the puzzle of EVIL out of GOOD
Dec 23, 2000 05:30 AM
by dalval14
December 23, 2000
Dear Mauri:
Further to the long answer I sent to you on this account
yesterday, I was reading through some of the sections of the
S.D. and came across the reference to this question -- or close
to it.
See S.D. II 489- 91.)
Apparently the movement of KARMIC indebtedness -- which is also
without limits in TIME, moves and this is the opposite of the
"pure quiescence" (also "morbid inactivity") of PURE SPIRIT.
(see S.D. II 103)..
It is futile I think to look for some ABSOLUTE BEGINNING. The
ABSOLUTENESS will not respond to inquiry or probe from our finite
minds.
What is left? Our situation. We have minds that can probe the
INFINITE (without arriving at any distinct conclusion -- but a
kind of haze. I would call it the "haze" which surrounds all
such searches for finitude or beginnings or even endings. WE ARE
HERE. And we are dealing with the present, and that (by Karma)
arises out of our PAST.
If you do have the S.D. and a good index, then why not use it and
seek for the answers that are there. Apart from actually finding
a mental satisfaction, the study may lead to deeper areas also.
That has been my experience. But all metaphysical searches have
to have a practical application in our lives, or there are only
mental pass-times. The identification of certain attitudes in
thought and feeling is an important aspect of Theosophical
research -- and we are, all of us, seekers.
Best wishes for the coming year,
Dal
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