Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00173)

Dear John and Laura:

What you write is important, I think. It made me review
(what little I know of) the work and thinking done by all of
us for a good long time.

To discuss religion with success one has to remove the
concept of sacred and forbidden from it. It has to be
impersonalized and universalized and any tinge of a
"Personal God" has to be removed from it. It states in fact
that any "Personal God" or Personal Savior" is illogical and
impossible. Tolerance requires the broadest possible
attitude for consideration, thought and conclusion.

Starting with the ONE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT, it declares that God
and Savior are INTERNAL to every being. No exceptions. No
special cases. No special favors. No isolated existence.
Brotherhood therefore is everything and all.

Then religion becomes philosophy -- a love of, and a search
for truth. It starts with a perception of LAW working in
and behind all things. "Things" are then seen t be the
expression superficially of causes that underlie them.
those causes are not fixed, but are in themselves whirling
gyrating force fields of intent and integrity. The harmony
of the universe in these terms is seen to be dynamic, ever
moving so that the disparities of one will adjust and fit
into the peculiarities and disparities of others. Mainly
these are to be perceived on the plane of the psychic or
desire nature, where our expressed being has a tendency to
isolate itself (we think it is OUR integrity), from the
impact of others and the general laws of BEING.

Truth belongs to everyone and not to religion (or Science)
alone.

Therefore Theosophy is called a SYNTHESIS of the three:
religion, science and philosophy. It takes it our to
"authority" into the area of "consideration." it implies
that all minds are able to think along common lines. Of
necessity those "common lines" are dispassionate and
universal in scope.

The Theosophical concept of the Universal SPIRIT -- as an
eternal "background" which has no limits in terms of our
perceptive analytical divisions" dimension, age,
complexity, interaction, etc... is most important, because
at a stroke it places "DEITY , or GOD at the core of our own
being, as well as at the core of everything else.

Size, age and apparent ability have nothing to do with such
a concept.

It seeks to establish in the mind of the thinker the concept
of an uninterrupted ONE-NESS, and an EXCELLENCE which has
for object in existence the desire to "Know itself."

For this to have any validity (staying power) the concept of
a universal LAW that springs from a PRIME AND UNIVERSAL
CAUSE. is important. Yen the third aspect of UNIVERSAL
EVOLUTION, which is an expression of making visible and
patent the wisdom that this inherent and innate in every
single aspect of the Universe becomes reasonable -- eve if
the performance of such a feat is apparently beyond our
finite mind's comprehension. Metaphysical ideas are then
invoked, located, examined, established and adopted.

This is, essentially, the nature and aspect of all human
minds -- if looked at impersonally and free of desires and
limiting, personal biases. One then sees, that if one can
use the simile, it starts with the "atom" and ends with the
"Galaxy" -- and has no limits of dimension or of time. And
as a natural CAUSE, there has to be a reason for this vast
complexity, and the laws of harmony that permit vast
diversities to co-exist.

Thus the imagery of the "snake" is both wise and
poisonous -- shows that we need to use discrimination in
handling the diffusion of truth. Tolerance is the best
expression of this attitude which then proceeds to envelop
and seriously consider any and all aspects of information,
past and present.

Best wishes,

Dallas

-----Original Message-----
From: John Gray [mailto:classiccontours@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 6:53 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] Re: bn-study digest: July 16, 2002

Dear Fellow Students:

Does the comparitive study of all scriptures help us to
comunicate with all
regardless of sect or creed?

All methods are needed, not because of our likes and
dislikes, but because
as students we must find ways to make Theosophy available to
humanity at
large. Theosophy is not so we can go to meeting. It is
to focus and
awaken all of humanity. If we focus on which form we like
or do not like,
we are caught in separateness which is always a form of
selfishness.
Whenever caught in that loop it is beneficial to self
examine and re-read a
little Judge or Blavatsky. The snake of self (personal)
creates a wonderful
opportunity to examine from the eternal position. It
brings us to a point
of knowledge and wisdom when we do not judge AND when we
self examine at the
same time.

Tolerance is not hard if we are standing inwardly in the
right spot. The
feeling of intolerance indicates that we need to adjust our
position
inwardly. Are not all difficulties our greatest
instructors?


Laura



> BN-STUDY Digest for Tuesday, July 16, 2002.
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> 1. Re: cosmology, the evolution of man and of the Universe
> 2. Re:Re:RE: Color and Music
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