Theos-Talk Archives (April 2003 Message tt00158)

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From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <inquire@blavatskyarchives.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 4:09 AM
Subject: Theos-World Koot Hoomi versus Serapis on "God"???


> Koot Hoomi stated in THE MAHATMA LETTERS:
>
> "Neither our philosophy nor ourselves believe in a God, least of all
> in one whose pronoun necessitates a capital H. . . . Our doctrine
> knows no compromises. It either affirms or denies, for it never
> teaches but that which it knows to be the truth. Therefore, we deny
> God both as philosophers and as Buddhists. We know there are
> planetary and other spiritual lives, and we know there is in our
> system no such thing as God, either personal or impersonal. Parabrahm
> is not a God, but absolute immutable law, and Iswar is the effect of
> Avidya and Maya, ignorance based upon the great delusion. The
> word 'God' was invented to designate the unknown cause of those
> effects which man has either admired or dreaded without understanding
> them, and since we claim and that we are able to prove what we claim -
> - i.e. the knowledge of that cause and causes we are in a position to
> maintain there is no God or Gods behind them." Letter 10 in the first
> 3 editions.
>
> Compare the above with what Master Serapis stated in several letters
> found in LETTERS FROM THE MASTERS OF WISDOM, Second Series:
>
> "God's blessing upon thee, Brother mine." (letter 8)
> "may the benediction of Truth and the Divine Presence of Him the
> Inscrutable be upon thee." (letter 10)
> "God's blessing be upon you, " (letter 11)
> "God's blessing on thee, Brother." (letter 13)
> "God's blessings on you." (letter 14)
> "God's blessing upon thee, Brother mine." (letter 15)
> "God lead thee, Brother mine, and may He crown thy noble efforts with
> success." (letter 17)
>
> Notice Serapis' use of pronouns with a capital H.
>
> How does one reconcile the above views with KH's emphatic statement
> which reads:

Letter No. 20c
Received August, 1882.
**Except in so far, that he constantly uses the terms "God" and "Christ"
which taken in their esoteric sense simply mean "Good" -- in its dual aspect
of the abstract and the concrete and nothing more dogmatic, Eliphas Levi is
not in any direct conflict with our teachings.
Mahatma Letters. KH.

Jeremy