Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00464)

Dear Dallas,

Good questions! Thank you!

> How can students of Theosophy offer principles that might serve
> statesmen to balance the world, save the poor and keep peace ?

What has the theosophical student to do with divisive thinking about 
"them" and "us?" Are we not all one? Do we not accept responsibility 
for all the wrongs committed in the name of humanity? Do we not find 
ourselves here in these exact conditions, political, cultural, and 
otherwise, individually and collectively, because we have earned 
them, and do they not represent the opportunity to right the wrongs 
we perceive, the wrongs we ourselves created? 

If we want to balance the world, must we not balance our own 
individual lives? If we want to save the poor, do we not have the 
mandate to live our own lives with charity and generosity toward all? 
If we want to promote peace, do we not have the responsibility to 
live peacefully ourselves, to simply refuse to fight, to find other 
ways of resolving conflict? 

We don't have forever to fool around thinking about it. The time is 
now. Either we take the teachings seriously and get busy making them 
a reality in our own lives, or we will find ourselves, we humans, 
with further eons of struggling to realize that all life is one, that 
everything we do affects the whole, and that we do have the power to 
change everything, simply by gaining control of ourselves and 
aligning ourselves wholeheartedly with the forces of light, the 
positive principle of the Universe. It may not be easy, but it is 
very very simple.

Best regards,
Adelasie