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Message 8549 of 8766 | 
From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <comments@b...> 
Date: Sun Nov 10, 2002 6:10 am
Subject: Master KH on "God": Mahatma Letter No. 10


PLEASE DO NOT EMBARRASS YOURSELVES BY CLAIMING THAT THIS IS 'GNOSIS' 
AND NOT A-THEISM. 

Mahatma Letter No. 10
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-10.htm

[Transcribed from a copy in Mr. Sinnett's handwriting. -- Ed] 

NOTES BY K.H. ON A "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER" HEADED "GOD" BY HUME, 
INTENDED TO PREFACE AN EXPOSITION OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY (ABRIDGED). 

Received at Simla, 1881-? '82. 

Neither our philosophy nor ourselves believe in a God, least of all 
in one whose pronoun necessitates a capital G. 


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Therefore, we deny God both as 
philosophers and as Buddhists. We know there are planetary and other 
spiritual lives, and we know there is in our system no such thing as 
God, either personal or impersonal. Parabrahm is not a God, but 
absolute immutable law, and Iswar is the effect of Avidya and Maya, 
ignorance based upon the great delusion. The word "God" was invented 
to designate the unknown cause of those effects which man has either 
admired or dreaded without understanding them, and since we claim and 
that we are able to prove what we claim -- i.e. the knowledge of that 
cause and causes we are in a position to maintain there is no God or 
Gods behind them.