Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00025)

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From: "Mauri" <mhart@idirect.ca>
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:36 AM
Subject: Theos-World re Bill and God and ...


> re Bill and God
>
> Here's an extract from Dallas's Feb 25 post:
>
> <<"God" -- Be-ness>>
>
> Speculatively,
> Mauri
>
> PS ... ^:-) ... Seems that being "more specific"
> about this "God" topic tends to be kind of tricky,
> generally, for some people, (and for me it is), but
> Theosophy seems to have a few things to say about
> it?
>

All being is for us an interpretation. It is always a perversion of our
knowledge when the content of an interpretation is looked upon as reality
itself. As Luther said: that which you hold to, upon which you stake your
existence, that is truly your God. Man cannot help taking something as an
absolute, whether willingly and knowlingly, whether accidentally and
fitfully or resolutely and steadfastly. Man has a kind of home in the
absolute. He cannot evade it. In that home he must live.


I quote that to say this: Maybe for a few on this list, Theosophy has
become their God and HPB and the Masters have become the personifications of
that God.

I agree with Karl Jaspers that we do not experience eternal being outside of
that which is empirically manifested to us in time. Since that which is for
us must be manifested in the temporality of the world, there can be no
direct knowledge of God and existence. There can only be faith. To live by
God does not mean to base oneself on calculable knowledge but to live as
though we staked our existence on the assumption that God is. Hence I must
recognize not only that I do not know God but even that I do not know
whether I believe. Faith is no possession. It confers no secure knowledge,
but it gives certaintly in the practice of life.

Now Mauri what is your God? If you don't want to answer I understand
completely. I simply ask that you examine why you continue to ask me
questions for which you are unwilling or unable to offer your own answers.


regards,
Bill



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