Theos-Talk Archives (June 2002 Message tt00120)

Hi all of you,

1.
A little story - on *Sharpshooting Scholars*

Theosophists and scholars seem to oppose one another. But when they know one another's approaches and knowledge, this 'opposition' disappears.

Scholars themselves know a great deal about the besetting sin of their profession, that of over-specialisation and blinkered dogmatism. Here is a story about the whole matter, told me by a scholar who himself admitted, unlikemany others, that he knew that he was like one of the characters in the tale: Bu´t that there was nothing that he could do about it :

A number of academics, it appears, were enrolled in time of war into infantry. After training they all proved to be crack shots, capeable of hitting the bullseye far more often than any other recruits.
The time came for them to be sent into battle. As the enemy advanced, the order was given to fire. nobody moved, 'For goodness' sake', shouted the commanding officer, 'why don't you shoot?'
'how can we, you fool?' roared back one of the scholars, 'When wehavn't beem trained to fire at PEOPLE?'


2.
Alexandra David-Neel writes in 'Les Nouvelles Littéraires', 1954, p.1
that Shambhala as referred to by Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine, vol.2 p.320 and 400. - is to be found at Afghanistan - near or at the city of Balkh !

Does anyone has some comments on that ?

Now the city Balkh was it is said in the olden days called 'The Elevated Candle' - i.e. 'Sham-I-Bala', which is a classical Persianization of the sanskrit Shambala.

The great Sufi - Jalal-Uddin Rumi d.1273 - the greatest poet of Persia camefrom Balkh. So did Avicenna (Ibn Sina) d. 1037.

Where was the spirtual teacher Gurdjieff's hidden initiates really from ? 

Peace to Afghanistan.


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Sufilight with peace and love...





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