Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00291)

This message is in both AAB and HPB books...

- Secret Doctrine III. 401
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire xv:

THE LORD BUDDHA HAS SAID

that we must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; 
nor traditions because they have been handed down from antiquity; nor 
rumors, as such; nor writings by sages, because sages wrote them; nor 
fancies that we may suspect to have been inspired in us by a Deva 
(that is, in presumed spiritual inspiration); nor from inferences 
drawn from some haphazard assumption we may have made; nor [XVI] 
because of what seems an analogical necessity; nor on the mere 
authority of our teachers or masters. But we are to believe when the 
writing, doctrine, or saying is corroborated by our own reason and 
consciousness. "For this," says he in concluding, "I taught you not 
to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of 
your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundantly."

- Secret Doctrine III. 401

May this be the attitude of every reader of this "Treatise on Cosmic 
Fire."
- ALICE A. BAILEY

Respectfully,
Suzanne