Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00033)

Hi Mauri, Not that you may or may not need it or that it will or will not
necessarily have any measureable or immeasureable effect whatsoever, but if
for no other reason than because it is within my ability to do so, tonight I
will pray for you. Who knows eh?

Bill
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From: "Mauri" <mhart@idirect.ca>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: Theos-World re "praying for rain and normal temps"


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