Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00640)

Hi.This message is for everyone, but it has been inspired by your message,
which I thank you for. Everyone likes to think his knowledge is objective,
but usually our knowledge is distorted by our minds, which are
preconditioned to see things in a certain way. This is why the appropriate
object of study is oneself. All preconditioning is is a pattern of thought
that does not correspond to a physical reality which is the cup, the chair,
the tree, the body without interpretation of such, but perceived
directly.This is the basis of true spirituality. If anyone tells you
differently, he is very very wrong, but if you believe me, without
verifying, that is authority, Fortunately, in this particular case, it is
easy to verify, as if you follow along with me, we can see that a pure
impartial recording of the cup, the chair, the tree, the body AS IT IS and
not as I interpret it, is closer to the truth than my interpretation of the
cup, the chair, the tree, the body, and may even be "THE TRUTH". Even if we
want to think in terms of "God" or a primal cause and, by a not perfectly
harmonized thinking function, be one step removed from the cup, the chair,
the tree, the body, it is obviously true that if "God" has given these to
us, it is our daily bread which will sustain us. If I am lacking, I am not
in a state of pure devotion, which means--- I--- am not present to myself AS
I AM HERE, and therefore cannot receive the present, as incompletion
perpetrates incompletion. It is very simple and easy, but maybe I am wrong
about this. What do you think. Wry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-theosophy@adslhome.dk>
To: "Theos-Talk" <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Theos-World Debate on Aryanism...part 3


> Hi all of you,
>
> Here is some more:
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> a.. 1. Attraction of Celebrities
> A man who is being delivered frim the danger of a fierce lion deos not
> object, wheather this service is performed by an unknown or by an
> illustrious individual. Why, therefore, do people seek knowledge from
> celebrities ?
>
> a.. 2. I think it was the sufi El-Ghazali (d.1111) who said something
like the
> following:
> The disticntion between opinion and knowledge is something, which can
easily
> be lost. When this happens,
> it is incumbent upon those who know the difference to make it plain as
far
> as they are able.
> This habit of confusing opinion with knowledge is almost a epidemic
disease
> these days.
> Well, that was years ago, but this issue seems to be a disease even
today.
>
> a.. 3.
> It is allright that some people have authorities. But they have to be
> constructive. If the authority is
> destructive, then I won't be good and have to be stopped.
> I could ask if any has an opinion on wheather any authorities today are
good
> or bad, and I would probably get a lot of hands.
> But if I ask about if any have the needed spiritual knowledge to judged
> wheather it is true, - I bet near all the hands will fall down - if the
> truth was to be presented.
>
> from
> Sufilight with peace and love...
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