Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00058)

Dear Mauri:

make it simple.

If the 7 Principles of Man is correct, then, at the core of
our being -- the MONAD -- ATMA/BUDDHI is all the possible
esotericism any one would want.

The MONAD within is on its plane in contact with the
Universe and all its wisdom.

What is our trouble? We live (when awake in this body of
ours) in a Mind which is linked and limited to the physical,
and the psychic (desires, passions -- Kama) area of our
consciousness.

There is however a thread (as you may have noticed H P B
speaks of it in the KEY TO THEOSOPHY (HPB) which you say
you read) between the embodied mind that has to use the
brain as its link and the HIGHER MANAS which is forever
linked to ATMA-BUDDHI.

Solve that equation and what we call "esotericism" is ours.

A clue is diversity arises from unity. Unity arises from
NO THING. Or as said of old:

"Look inward, thou art Buddha."

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mauri [mailto:mhart@idirect.ca]
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 4:44 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World re esoteric/exoteric re Dallas

Re the subject/defining of "esoteric/exoteric," Dallas
wrote,
in part:

<<<<<The degree of study and application depends on the
determination of the student to learn and evaluate. If this
is applied then we realize that every such devotee has
within him or herself the power to perceive that which is
true and distinguish it from that which is not. If any one
accepts and adopts "knowledge" without such personal
effort and checking, then indeed we may say there is "blind
faith" and "blind belief" present. In such case the danger
of
going astray is magnified. It is important for the devotee
to identify in such cases the "cause" for such a dangerous
decision and course. Is it impatience, is it ignorance, is
it deliberate, is it carelessness ? Only the individual can
answer these questions to himself.

ESOTERIC is: "abstruse, designed for the circle of
initiates," private, withheld from open expression." The
language of medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, physics,
mathematics, engineering, astronomy, atomic sciences,
music, poetry, etc. may be said to be esoteric to the
average person.

Any one who reads and then studies ISIS UNVEILED
and The SECRET DOCTRINE will emerge a much more
learned, if not a wiser person. All information thereafter,
will be viewed in that light that only an awakened Mind
employs. It universalizes the person. It makes the many
"secret" processes of Nature (the Deific Powers present
in all things and events) clearer>>>>>>>>>>>

So <<The degree of study and application depends on the
determination of the student to learn and evaluate>> . . . ?
I'm tending to wonder about the kind of "esoteric/exoteric"
sense that that "learn and evaluate" was (or might be?)
meant in . . .

Seems to me that there are various senses of
"esoteric/exoteric," and if the distinction between
"esoteric
as experiential" and "esoteric as whatever else" isn't made,
then, as I see it, confusion can result, and some people may
get the impression that <<the determination of the student
to
learn and evaluate>>, without directly experiencing the
"real esoteric," can somehow "meaningfully enough" replace
the experiential esoteric.

Yes, there may be "meaning enough" in some forms of
<<determination of the student to learn and evaluate>>, but
I think that it might be generally helpful if a clearer
distinction is made between the forms of "esoteric" that are
experiential, and those that are whatever else.

Speculatively,
Mauri




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