Theos-Talk Archives (June 2002 Message tt00006)

June 2 2002


Thanks Georg:

Take care not to confuse what I offer for the real Basic Theosophy of
H P B.

Any of us, who are only students, can give but what we have understood
of the great Philosophy.

So as I say, what I write, inevitably, has some biases (my own) in
there. Always GO TO THE ORIGINALS, if you can.

That is the fault of most adherents to any of the great religions.
They have not studied their own scriptures AT THERE SOURCE. They have
accepted interpretations -- and have been to that extent fooled and
misled.

It is the same with societies and groups that say they can offer
"esoteric instructions."

People get raked in who have no concept that "esoteric" implies first
and foremost VIRTUOUS. There has to be an appreciation of the FACT
that:

1. we are all immortals in essence (in SPIRIT) and therefore on the
inmost planes we SHARE everything. [ You could say that in us there
burns forever the inextinguishable SPARK of the One spirit, whose
"Rays" touch all aspects and components of "matter." hence they are
in us developed into the INDEPENDENT MIND that we are, and in other
beings they are there on their path towards such independence.) The
sooner we secure our own hold on these concepts, the sooner we will
succeed in embodying those Theosophical fundamentals and principles of
virtue in our own personal natures.

2. The Universe and ourselves are RULED continually by the same
identical rules. There are no favourites." Prayers and penances and
rites and rituals amount to NOTHING. The Universe is wise in its
impartiality, its universality, and is merciful in its fairness to
all. and under Karma we al receive exactly what we put into our life
and reasons for living and deciding things. If we transgress against
any one in any way, we are the only ones who can settle the debt by a
balancing of the scales of Karma. There is no escape, and there is no
"dust heap" somewhere, hidden in Nature, to which "mistakes" are
consigned.

3. We can "hide" nothing of our true inner MOTIVES from the Great
law ( of Karma, of Justice, of Mercy, and of fairness to all).

4.. We are all evolving together, and in Reincarnation, we bump into
one another almost continually -- because our Karma (as
personalities) mixes and mingles with others. -- as our education
proceeds from life to life.

There is no saving of time, but taking any one's say-so, inevitably
wastes it, because it causes delay.

One has to try and go to the ORIGINAL SOURCE of any statement and see,
by common sense, and our own developing intuition, if it is TRUE,
universal, fair, just and therefore trustworthy.

Each one must approach to the study of the ORIGINALS by H P B -- who
was the Master's Messenger, and of Mr. W. Q. Judge, who was her most
devoted pupil, and demonstrated this by the marvelous expansion of the
study of Theosophy in America, until his death in 1896. Judge was
also one of the Vice-Presidents of the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY in those
early days and one of the 3 original "founders," who never was
unfaithful to the Masters. The other was Col. H S Olcott, President
of the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY .

Best wishes,

as always,

Dallas

-----Original Message-----
From: Georg
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 12:28 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Where are we? What can we do? Help ?

Wow Dallas! I find this post the best four pages of stuff I have
around
here yet! I have been going out of my skull (as you know too well now)
trying to feed an urge, but I could not identify the urge, nor did I
know
exactly what it wanted? No books fed it. I would try to meditate, and
could not 'get it'. Just really an uncomfortable thing digging at my
innards.

Then I had a rotten day today cleaning my place from carpet to
ceiling,
and downloading crap on my computer that took all day and does not
operate. But by and by I was able to get to my Email; all 170
something of
them. I went umpf! and did the delete thing. But I found this post
stand
out for some odd reason, and it was spared (or I was) being another
victim
of the delete sequence. I had to print this one! I used to print all
your
postings Dallas (wow, someone just shot at this direction!), but my
poor
old KX-P4420 only gets 30k pages between services, and I cannot afford
taking it to the shop every week:-)

But yes, I can now remember when things clicked and the esoteric made
sense. I remember a story I told when I was locked up (In the pen
people
(some) tend to think a lot). Someone asked the question "What REALLY
is
Right and Wrong?". Fact of the matter is that we as individuals have
to
act in one way or another to produce the friction we each have to by
LAW
do. It is not about rubbing a piece of wood to make heat (but at times
it
could be); it seems to be more about impacting Thoughts. For instance,
a
bus load of disabled children gets highjacked by some suicidal nutter,
and
he sends the bus over the grand canyon, none survive. All sorts of
vibes
would be produced as necessary and according to LAW. Now lets say that
same "nutter" was raised different, and he bacame a pilot for a life
flight EMS outfit; he is flying a big chopper full of needy third
world
kids to a hospital where they will get free plastic surgery for severe
facial deformities. On route a tail rotor shatters and the pilot
fights
and fights to save the chopper, but it goes down anyway, killing all.
In
one case, most of us would say the main character is "evil", in
another
case the same man would be a dead "hero".

I keep thinking about the book Tzava'at Harivash. In it the Baal Shem
Tov
uses the term "Sparks". We all have to produce sparks one way or
another.
What can make a difference in the way one/we perceive these sparks is
up
to us always. Every thing with a material existance has a feeling of
whether it is going according to LAW, or whether it is contrary to.
Like a
Giant redwood tree, it does its thing over a long time, producing many
a
sparks. Or the tiny botulism spore, this happy little gram-positive
bacillus that hardly anybody even thinks aboutm just marches forever
forward, making its sparks wherever it can. Like the whales; what are
they
good for? they gave many people many sparks in many ways; made light,
fed
people, made women sexy, gave men jobs, and created ecoterrorism, and
ecology, and nature conservation, and so on...
Karma is sparks. To exist is sparks. We are going to spark no matter
what.
We do have a choice in how we get to spark (if we are aware we have a
choice).

Again though, like you mentioned Dallas ORDERLINESS IN PROGRESS. I
like
ants. They are simple to observe. They just do their thing, and do it
well. It seems the more perfect a thing is, the more we hate it. The
cockroach, fantastic animal; hated worldwide. I see humans as
floundering
unfortunately stupid and helpless and aimless critters bouncing off
the
walls trying to figure it all out? Maybe if we just started acting
human
like, maybe we could fit in with Nature too; and leave saying to
ourselves; "Hey, I came, I saw, I did my thing, and now I go,
content."

My appologies for rattling on. I am sort of typing to myself I guess.
I
have been working on a defect of my character that has been a thorn in
my
side for some time now. I have a supressed hatred for one particular
religion. Not against its individuals so much, but against the
organization, and what it eventually doest to the individuals. Try as
I
might, just when I think I have this hate abollished, it sneaks up
even
stronger.

Georg