Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00467)

Hi all of you,

Thanks to both Dallas and Adelasie !


from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...


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From: "adelasie" <adelasie@surfari.net>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: Political Backstabbing


> Dear Dallas,
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> Good questions! Thank you!
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> > How can students of Theosophy offer principles that might serve
> > statesmen to balance the world, save the poor and keep peace ?
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> 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?
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> 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
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