Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00032)

Katinka wrote: <<34 here in The Netherlands - I am 
praying for rain and normal temperatures. Katinka>>

I wonder if there might be a form of prayer that even HPB 
might not have thought of as being particularly blackish, 
in some sense, if she were to take into account the nature 
of the one praying and the particulars of the situation. 
Seems to me that defining prayers in terms of black or 
white only might be ignoring other possibly-relevant 
colors or factors: ignoring in the sense that, what is one 
persons white or black, in prayer-related terms, might be 
(possibly?) another persons ... whatever, so ... That is, 
since people are all different, wouln't somewhat different 
evaluative standards apply in how prayer-related colors, 
motives, backgrounds are defined? Was the rain dance of 
the north american natives a form of black magic that 
might be considered essentially as black as the prayers of 
the popes, or ... ? Personally, I tend to suspect that, in a 
sense, some of those natives might've had a lot in common 
with the popes, (ie, in a transcultural sense that might 
often tend to be downplayed in various cultures). 
Besides, doesn't cultural conditioning promote and "okay" 
all kinds of things, leaving people (some people?) to try to 
think for themselves, so if one grows up in, or is 
conditioned by, say, a Theosophic type of culture, 
couldn't there be a possiblity, in that kind of culural 
environment, of being lulled into some kind ... whatever , 
depending on ... Hmm ...

Speculatively,
Mauri