Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00021)

Thursday, August 07, 2003

Re: Present and Future? What will it be ?


Dear Joe, and Friends

You wrote: --

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JF 

The question that all of these brings up is the same. We are on
the verge of recreating ourselves, in ways that we have only the
dimmest concept of the effects. What kind of ethics is going to
guide our development? What yardstick of wisdom will we use?
Are we going to bring into reality what Timaeus and the Rig Veda
warned of thousands of years ago?  
 
In any case, I hope this has given you some additional food for
thought and perhaps will be the opening of a dialogue that will
produce some imaginative approaches and perhaps even solutions to
the conundrums posed by these issues. Please feel free to share
this e-mail with whomever you see fit. My intent is simply to
promote dialogue on important issues among people of all
persuasions, spiritual, philosophical, scientific and otherwise.
 
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Dallas:	Let me inter-observe:

DTB	Theosophy considers the universe (Nature), of which man
is an integral part, as an interactive “school” consisting of
immortal elementary individuals (Monads -- of United
Spirit/matter immoral Individuals) and their environment consists
of a large mass of “Monads of lesser experience.” [ see S D I
632-3, 619-20, 623, ]

Everything is included in this concept that visualizes an
immortal mass of “students” at various levels all passing through
various stages of experience until individual “perfection,” or,
graduation.

The “graduation” is considered to be the apotheosis of spiritual
Perfection, and of wisdom. The titles given to such successful
ones, are, among others, Masters of Wisdom, Christs, Mahatmas,
Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Avatars, Dhyanis [ Gnyanis--the WISE ].
Their advent among men create a lasting impression and frequently
religions spring up among their later successors and adherents.
These wise ones have always existed, and in fact are our Elder
Brothers. [see ISIS UNVEILED II, pp. 98-105, 593 top]

All this complexity has existed (not imagined or fancied) for
aeons of time. The rules and Laws (which are justice, fairness,
compassion and total equity) are called Karma (in general they
are the virtues -- which rule all conditions, situations and
individuals always. In Theosophy, The SECRET DOCTRINE and ISIS
UNVEILED trace these hints and remnants, and emphasizes for us
moderns, their similarities and analogies

Mankind, considered psychologically and intellectually, is in a
“balance situation”-- midway. It is equilibrized in intelligence
and spiritual consciousness (ethics) with ignorance, selfishness
and the vices of the intellectually selfish. Mankind is a
transition stage, wherein the “desire burdened Personality, by
its own choice and efforts, transforms itself out of that selfish
set of. limits into the universal Potential of an immortal
universal WISE ONE. Constitutionally, it decides to do NO HARM
to any one. It makes itself altruistic and noble.

In mankind, the ignorance, fantasy and indolence of the
“personality”(Kama) and [the proud isolation of selfishness], is
equipoised by the close proximity of the INDIVIDUALITY -- the
Spiritual Immortal and generous immortal Soul (the Higher Manas).
This latter is always engaged in education -- it passes on the
ethics of superior Men, to those seeking for a sure guidance to
be applied in their own life. And it provides in addition, the
logic and rationale of the virtues. It banishes “authority,”
“blind belief,” and the whimsical fancies and powers, of an
imagined “personal God.”

It proclaims the realm of Law everywhere. Karma, it says,
provides compensation, for the least of harm (or good) done to
another - the redress thereof, being essential to progress of the
individual who is harmed, the one who harms and the advancement
of the whole.  

Benevolence, generosity, and sharing are always considered
superior to selfishness.

Kurzweil and Heinlein wrote of the selfish personality and its
lawless selfish enhancement basically the forced sacrifice of the
“many” for the pleasure and success of the “few.” Nature does
not work that way. Hence, the short lives of those who live
selfishly.

As to the general RULES OF THE UNIVERSE ? It is a vast code, a
true science, uniform, and has always been geared for the
ultimate success of every unit (Monad), without exception. The
rights and privileges of every individual are considered equal to
all others -- and thus, responsible life is visualized as WHOLE
LIFE. It demands a knowledge of Laws and their application in all
cases.

Since eternity is its time-frame, it is not able, nor is it to be
placed into any accelerated mood for certain intellectual, but
heartless giants, who might desire to “out-run all the rest.” It
is not exciting, nor is it indifference to the mass of lesser
individuals (all immortals also), and it certainly is not the
enhancement of the present short-sighted selfishness of a few
personalities. Nor of the heartless technologies of the present,
misused in armaments, political controls, and the rule, or
otherwise, of the average populace. 

Real Power does not reside with the wealthy that are known, but
with those “behind the scenes” manipulators of the wealthy, the
politicians and the policies of business, and government. 
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J F

You ask: “What kind of ethics is going to guide our development?
What yardstick of wisdom will we use? Are we going to bring into
reality what Timaeus and the Rig Veda warned of thousands of
years ago? “

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DTB

Brotherhood and compassion are the surest and most long-lasting
guides to practical daily ethics. The enhancement of selfishness
and viciousness is not. So says Theosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism,
Christ’s teachings are the same. They each to different past
peoples, and in those times said and say the same timeless Truths
and ethics.  

Why does vice forever pay tribute to virtue, and seeks to hide
its ugly spirit beneath a cloak of benevolence and virtue? Why
is LAW forever superior to Evil and viciousness ?

Perhaps the Timaeus and Rig Veda say what is true ? And this may
be very unexciting to the personality. But only one who knows
and studies them can answer that accurately. H P B gives us an
example of this in ISIS UNVEILED II 537 

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Best wishes,

Dallas






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