Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00469)

Dear Adelasie:

I am in full agreement with what you write. Thanks for sending it.

Yes we have to put ourselves in order first, and then our harmony will
affect the rest for good..

Dal

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-----Original Message-----
From: adelasie [mailto:adelasie@surfari.net]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:11 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: Political Backstabbing

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