Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00009)

Friday, February 02, 2001

Dear Mauri:

If we are immortal MONADS there are no "older" or "newer"
students here. If you mean relative to the age of our
personality this incarnation then a time scale is possible but
then, each of us studies at different rates and chooses the areas
of our improvement and growth of knowledge.

So "age" really has nothing to do with it. A 15 year old may
have read and studied more of THEOSOPHY than a 50 year old who
has read cursorily through the Secret Doctrine, and is in
position to shuffle many ideas without having settled in his Mind
what is useful or definite.

We are the only ones who settle Karma on ourselves, whether for
good or ill. If another seems to be a channel for some kind of
Karma to precipitate, it is not their "fault" but, is basically
ours for having set up the CAUSES. It may be their fortune or
misfortune to be in the chain of events. It still remains our
RESPONSIBILITY as to how we REACT.

"Watch out" ought to be further qualified with the words "for
the kind of emotions you then allow to come out." At such times
one either balances the Karma or permits to roll on
incomprehended and accumulating more or less of the "same" to it.

It is helpful if one reads Chapter 11 in the OCEAN OF
THEOSOPHY -- W. Q. Judge; and, KEY TO THEOSOPHY by H.P.B pp.
99 - 163.198-215.

Articles by W.Q.J. FRIENDS OR ENEMIES IN THE FUTURE W.Q.J.
Articles I p.92
MORAL LAW OF COMPENSATION	ditto p. 127
ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES IN LIFE	ditto	p. 138
CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS AND THEIR RETURN ditto	p. 159
[ all in the 2 Vol. Set of W.Q.J. Articles published by ULT and
available at BLAVATSKY.NET]

I hope this may help,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mauri [mailto:mhart@idirect.ca]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 6:16 AM
To: basic@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-basic] "older students of Theosophy"???

RE:

[bn-basic] head winds of theosophic simplexity
Thu, 1 Feb 2001 06:31:14 -0800
From:
"Mauri" <mhart@idirect.ca>

who wrote, in part:

'. . . the various "older students", collectively, ought to be
regularly consulted about the simplexic aspects of the
"basics."'
==========

But, having received some comments from A STUDENT
OF THEOSOPHY, how is one to know/decide
something about the "age level" of the contributor, and
thereby something about the "age level" of the
contribution?

It would seem that we all have to ask ourselves that
question and then, for better or worse, deal with the
repercussions of our own answer: That would seem to be
part of how Karma is specifically applicable to each of us.

So while, (presumably), Karmic workings might be
complex and simplexic, and impossible to time, there might
be some consolation in the notion (?) that, one way or
another, sooner or later, there might be a Karmically
appropriate response to our enquiries, attitudes, efforts,
etc. (Sorry about the word "might" in that last sentence:
but being a "younger" student, I have to admit that I really
don't Know any better. I've been "told" this and that but,
"unfortunately", I have not yet acquired a means of
"more-directly knowing"---or "Knowing"---anything much
in a Knowing way.)

And so, presumbably, it's the QUALITY of our own
efforts at interpretation of WHATEVER we get, (and the
quality of our efforts at applying those interpretations,
however tentative they may be, to our own situations and
relevance), from whoever, that goes toward getting (as per
the relevant Karmic processing)
more and more RELEVANT (or relevant quality)
responses from more and more "older" students.

A less wordy version of the above: WATCH OUT!

Something like that?
Mauri


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