Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00021)

And here is someone who has expressed our "beloved"? Duality into a 
significant directive towards the "One".

SELF-TRANSCENDENCE

    Man is all the time outside of himself: it is in projecting and 
losing himself beyond himself that he makes man to exist; and, on the 
other hand, it is by pursuing transcendent aims that he himself is 
able to exist. Since man is thus self-surpassing, and can grasp 
objects only in relation to his self-surpassing, he is himself the 
heart and centre of his transcendence. There is no other universe 
except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity. This 
relation of transcendence as constitutive of man (not in the sense 
that God is transcendent, but in the sense of self-surpassing) with 
subjectivity (in such a sense that man is not shut up in himself but 
forever present in a human universe) - it is this that we call 
existential humanism. This is humanism, because we remind man that 
there is no legislator but himself; that he himself, thus abandoned, 
must decide for himself; also because we show that it is not by 
turning back upon himself, but always by seeking, beyond himself, an 
aim which is one of liberation or of some particular realization, 
that man can realize himself as truly human. 

    JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
    ( http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/Readings/123.htm )



Dear Friends:

Two “We’s” seem to work in and through us.  The Higher or BUDDHI-MANAS (the
honest, sincere, wise MIND) seeks the ways of brotherhood and cooperation.
The Lower KAMA-MANAS (the selfish, isolated, territorial mid) seeks to
dominate, convince, and confuse -- it lives isolated and to reinforce its
supremacy it tries to label others in terms of its concepts of reality --
which are not universal.

At lease this seems to be the case as I see it,

Dallas