Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00082)

Friday, March 07, 2003

Dear Friends:

May I break in here? This is interesting. Made me review some of my
early education and experiences, as I have lived in many parts of the
world, I always found it most interesting t discover what other groups
and peoples knew, believed in, or aimed for.

I was pleased early on in life to discover that Theosophy had the
virtue of doing away with "differences" and melding all of humanity
together on good and sound principles:

Karma -- responsibility.
Reincarnation and immortality of the Ego -- the time needed to learn
everything.
Unity -- in all three essentials of being: Spirit, Mind and Matter.
And, their cooperation.
A Goal for existence -- becoming WISE.
Immortality -- for the thinking, living, inquiring SELF.
Space -- infinity in which we all have a place and a purpose of being
Brotherhood and tolerance, cooperation and generosity -- virtues as
opposed to the selfishness and horror of vice and isolation.

If the actuality of Reincarnation and Karma are true and operative.
Of what value is it today to discuss races and religions as indexes to
individuals and their personal views? No one need feel derogated by
their birth or race.

Regardless of the labeling, which is arbitrary, and may be used to
mentally degrade people without good cause, the individual is, and
always will be, independent of any grouping. We are all, essentially,
ourselves.

Hence the immortal Monad at the core of a person today, I mean the
REAL MAN and the HIGHER SELF, may in a previous incarnation have
belonged to some human form of a different sex, race, tribe, religion,
sect, etc... Those are regulated by personal Karma -- and each one
makes his or her own all the time.

When we look back into the past we are looking at the past we lived in
and created. Today we are creating the causes for our futures
individually and together.

So too for the future, when we reincarnate, say, in 1,000, 1,500,
3,000, 5,000 or 15,000 years, the various divisions, political and
religious of today on our Earth may have passed away. Several
civilizations may have passed by.

That which remains are the qualities of human character in particular
and in general. Why? Is it so? -- because Karma operates
incessantly now, then and hereafter?

So, should we not learn something that will help us today? We can
learn through Theosophy something definite about the rules and laws of
Karma and Reincarnation and thus better regulate our own motives and
our own choosing from here on? This is what I find Theosophy
advocates. And I am glad that there have been students ahead of me
who point to these ideas. I am now checking them out and verifying
them.

So who is pleased by labeling? Only those who do not think through
the implications and the responsibilities of being human and making
reasonable and friendly choices, usually. They also do not consider
their own immortality, and the fact that their decisions return always
to them as doves return to a roost.

Theosophy starts with the proposition that the UNIVERSE is ONE -- as a
SPIRITUAL ENTITY. Then it observes that the realm of "matter" is also
immortal in its many molecular, atomic and sub-atomic "units." Every
being from the "life atom" up to the highest planetary Spirit -- the
Cosmocratores or the Dhyan Chohans, have been Men such as we now are,
or will become men in the aeons that will follow the present. The
faculty of thinking or the mind is a common one in the whole of
humanity, though of course of several different degrees and
compositions. These three sets of immortals twist and twine about each
other and are inseparable.

The Spiritual SELF (in each of us) never dies; but as it wends its
pilgrimage through many lives, each is found to be one that gives it
fresh experience and all the memories associated with those. A few
moment reflection on our own character and capacities will ensure us
that we labored for millions of years in making ourselves what we now
are. No one life, nor descent of physical or parental heredity alone
has endowed us with the capacities we have. We need only review about
33 generations [2 RAISED TO THE POWER OF 33] leading up to our
present existence, and find that the whole of humanity has had a
chance to become our physical "ancestors" at some point of time. So
who is superior to who by virtue of descent alone ?

Did we build our present bodies? Yes. We did, but in this life we
have forgotten how. Why not look at them as a "God" might -- we feed
them, house and clothe them, medicate them, build them and discipline
them or allow them to become lazy and careless --- The responsibility
is not our parents, nor our community. Our parents gifted us with
life and maintenance over the tender years of infancy and during the
early maturing process, then we took charge. Our community shelters
us, but is not invariably right in its group thinking or observances.

The process of evolution makes it possible for all degrees and kinds
of differences in character and motivation to live together, to
tolerate each other, and to practice the kind of brotherhood which
spiritual brothers can do. Why should we adopt others' feuds? Most of
those are senselessly destructive. And we boast of our independence
and capacity ton think independently? What bases do we adopt?

So I would say: Lets avoid characterizing any one. Lets attend to our
own faults and foibles.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: netemara
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:30 PM
To:
Subject: Re: figures in history compared

> >>>The Zodiac killer was a Jew, or did you not know that? ...
...

> >
> > It must have been a solved case then Son of Sam? All I know is
that
> > the person identified was Jewish and a male person.
>
> David Berkowitz, although raised as a Jew, was a member of
the Process
> Church of Final Judgment (at least according to his own testimony)
at
> the time of his slayings. He is now a Born Again Christian.
>
> Bart Lidofsky

Thanks for the info. But he is still Jewish.

Net