Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00191)

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Dear Friend:

There are thousands of "Names" given by the devout to "God," and
to "Gods."

But as you have discerned the Names may be different but the
DEITY is ONE FOR ALL.



Consider:

"God can not be less than Space."

God is the highest in us. God is everywhere. God is Life, the
Self, Spirit, Consciousness. Why is it, then, that we have kept
this name- God?

Do we not know, now, that God can not be a being? Because any
being' is in space, and so Space is greater than any being. And
aren't We greater than any idea about space, because We have the
idea? Consciousness and Space are not different. Why?

Our Inmost Self is the Real God, and all we can know of that God
is in and of ourselves.

Is it any wonder that Theosophy is called God- Knowledge? When we
know that Knowledge, then, we are the highest beings in the
universe. But, the highest beings are not God; they are gods,
each one. So, we are a God within, but we do not know it, here on
earth. Someone once said that we are Gods in the making!

Once, a little boy who had been taught by his mother that God is
everywhere, cried out to stop the car they were riding in. "Why?"
she asked. And he said, "The car is riding over God, and I can't
bear it. God is in the stones and dirt, isn't he?"

Where do you suppose he had gained the idea that Life, or God,
could be hurt? Well, he had once been taught that God is a being
up in the sky, and not that God is within us and in everything.
To him, God was a large Person.

So, the ancient Greeks, for instance, pictured the ocean as a
Person-Poseidon. They pictured the heavens as a Person-Zeus. They
pictured life in manifold forms as a Person- Proteus. And they
pictured all Nature as the Person-Pan. But, what do you suppose
Pan means? It means ALL-Everything.

It was because in earliest times they knew Life to be in
everything, each form of Life having its own kind of knowledge,
or intelligence, that they felt more at one with all Nature.

They knew they had all the powers that were in the sea and sky,
in the mineral and vegetable and animal world.

Their gods were the intelligent powers of Nature; but they also
knew that all these powers came from the One Life, the One Power,
the One Spirit.

They did not make of THAT a person!

The gods and goddesses of ancient peoples simply meant "the
opposites." So, they had their Light-and-Darkness gods. But, in
the course of time, these peoples lost sight of the Real, just as
many people have lost sight of the Real, the God within.

Some have made of God a Good Person able to reward those who are
good and make them happy. They have named God's "opposite," the
Devil, who has power to make people wicked; but, it is God who
punishes the wickedness. All this is very confusing, isn't it?
Such ideas of "God" have been made by men. The Inner God is ONE
FOR ALL. We are all brothers and sisters. We each have a "Ray"
of the ONE DEITY within ourselves. It is the SPIRIT.

So, we have to ask, so we can understand what is meant by anyone
when he says, "God."

Many think "God" is a Spirit, who is everywhere outside
themselves, so that they can "pray" to Him for what they want to
receive, or to be relieved of; that He may do for them what they
can not do for themselves. Suppose someone could do all our
walking for us? Would we ever know how to walk ourselves? Suppose
someone could do all our thinking for us? Suppose someone could
do all our work for us? Can someone be happy for us, or can one
be miserable for us? "Praying" in the real way, can we not see,
is acting for and as the God within ourselves, not just now and
then, but all the time.

[Extracted from the E. V.]

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I hope this may be of help,

Best wishes,

DTB

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-----Original Message-----
From: cesar j
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 5:23 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Start a Class on Theosophy


hi to all

who is greater?Allah,God or Parabrahm? who is the creator of male
and
female? Brahma or parabrahm?

can someone tell me about god, Brahma, parabrahm ?

who is the greatest? In my understanding they are all the
ABSOLUTE ONE

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