Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00115)

There is pleasure in the pathless
woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is
society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in
its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. -
Lord Byron
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:51:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mic Forster <micforster@yahoo.com>
Subject: Indigenous Australians

It fascinates me when I hear or read about people who
have had incredible insights into many of the
principles discussed in Theosophy. These people have
had no direct contact with Theosophists, HPB etc. A
classic example is that of the Indigenous Australian.
A passage from an article written by Collins et al
(1996) exemplifies my point beeautifully:

"certain themes are common to all traditional
Aboriginal belief systems. Aboriginal Law was
established during the Dreaming when ancestral beings
walked the earth, creating the landscape and all
living species. The dreaming brought order and meaning
to an already existing world and all entities became
subject to a common law. The land is both a
topographical record of the journeys of the ancestral
beings and a physical manifestation of the truth of
the moral system. Life is considered a recurrent
series of events set irrevocably in motion by the
ancestral beings.... All products of the creation are
kinsmen, including the sun, the moon and the wind. All
are conscious, living beings, autonomous but united in
the system with the common goal of enhancing life."

mic