Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00074)

Hi Dallas and all of you,

1. Baraka is a word which has its origins along the following lines:

Spiritual activity has an impalpable element, called baraka, from which
the word 'barque'-a ship-is derived. This word means 'the Sub-
tlety,' and it cannot be shown to you."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/13178

Baraka is also called - "a beneficial power".
Baraka is the emanation of spiritual energies made by the Initiated
or writers of spiritual books. Certain books ar ebeing cared for by the
spiritual writer so much, that the writer are concerned about whether the
spirituallly minded reader absorbs the text apropriately. I here talk about
the
spiritually minded reader - who wants and needs guidance while reading the
book.

Did this help?
Anyway - why do you ask ?
Isn't it so if I am not mistaken, that you have told me, that you know the
arab language ?


2. On the W. Q. Judge and Blavatsky relation

Yes. The were real pals. Good !
But they were also in disagreement from time to time - no doubt about that !
I will suggest, that you look behind the Isis curtains Dallas.
I am not quoting here - I don't need to do that.
I am sure you can dig up some sparks of disagrement to quote from -
somewhere in your archives
if you really wanted to. (smile...)

And maybe W. Q. Judge - appearnt - hijacking of Blavatskys book The Voice of
Silence was a spiritual good,
not know by the uninitiated.
The idea with it, was to ensure, that the fueling of the later spiritual
sparks who formulated the later offshoot branches of
Theosophy - was going in the proper direction.
Without W. Q. Judge's sort of fumbling with the Voice of Silence, there
would maybe never have been the later dicivision
of the Theosophical branches. The later break away from TS was another part
of the plot. W. Q. Judge was in fact the one
who could be said to have started the creation of offshoot branches of
Theosophy.
This has importance, when one are concerned with organisational Theosophy.

Try - if in need - to read my quote from the previous email again.
It is the example on what happens when a spiritual teacher and initiate
disappears - or physically dies.


Keep smiling...

It is the thoughts coming from the spiritual Heart of comapassion I am
interested in.




from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W. Dallas TenBreoeck" <dalval14@earthlink.net>
To: "AA-BN--Study" <study@blavatsky.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:59 AM
Subject: Theos-World RE: Value of W Q JUDGE and HPB -- Tony versus Reed on
"The Voice of the Silence"


> Oct 6 2003
>
> Re HPB and WQJ
>
>
> Dear Morten and friends:
>
> Please let me know where "baraka" is derived from? What language?
> What system? Is it inclusive or exclusive?
>
> Everything written or said in Theosophy has a certain depth of spiritual
> knowledge and wisdom associated with it. The reader contributes his
> interest and sagacity to study but cannot enforce that on others.. In
> other words opinions can be offered -- such as you made yours
>
> The relations of Judge and HPB were defined by them as
>
>
> 1 HPB
>
> -- "Well, sir, and my only friend, the crisis is nearing. I am ending
> my S.D. and you are going to replace me, or take my place in America. I
> know you will have success if you do not lose heart; but do, do remain
> true to the Masters and Their Theosophy and THE NAMES... May They help
> you and allow us to send you our best blessings." -- HPB { #
> 15, LETTERS, p. 280 )
>
>
> "If W.Q.Judge, the man who has done most for Theosophy in America, who
> has worked most unselfishly in your country, and has ever done the
> bidding of Master, the best he knew how, is left alone...then I say--let
> them go ! They are no Theosophists: and if such a thing should happen,
> and Judge be left to fight his battles alone, then I shall bid all of
> them an eternal good-bye. I swear on MASTER'S holy name to shake off
> the dust of my feet from every one of them ... I am unable to realize
> that at the hour of trouble and supreme fight ... any true Theosophist
> should hesitate for one moment to back W.Q.J. publicly and lodge in his
> or her protest. Let them read Masters' letter in the preliminary ...
> All that I said about W.Q.J. was from His words in His letter to me ...
> Do with this letter what you like. Show it to anyone you please as my
> firm determination ..." --HP B LETTERS, (ULT) p. 277
>
>
> MY DEAREST BROTHER AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:
>
> In addressing to you this letter, which I request you to read to the
> convention summoned for April 22nd, [1888] ... We were several, to call
> it to life in 1875. Since then you have remained alone to preserve that
> life through good and evil report. It is to you chiefly, if not
> entirely, that the Theosophical Society owes its existence in 1888. Let
> me then thank you for it, for the first and perhaps the last, time
> publicly, and from the bottom of my heart, which beats only for the
> cause you represent so well and serve so faithfully. I ask you to
> remember that, on this occasion, my voice is but the feeble echo of
> other more sacred voices, and the transmitter of the approval of Those
> whose presence is alive in more than one true Theosophical heart, and
> lives, as I know, pre-eminently in yours. ..." -- HPB
> H.P.B.'s 1st Message to the American Theosophists. April l888.
>
>
> "Ingratitude is a crime in Occultism, and I shall illustrate the point
> by citing the case of W.Q.Judge. He is one of the three founders of the
> Theosophical Society, the only three who have remained as true as rock
> to the cause. While others have all turned deserters or enemies, he has
> ever remained faithful to his original pledge ... He is the
> Resuscitator of Theosophy in the United States, and is working to the
> best of his means and ability, and at a great sacrifice, for the spread
> of the movement... Brother Judge refuses to defend himself (*)... But
> is that a reason why we should let him go undefended ? It is our
> bounden duty to support him, in every way... Let our protest be on
> merely defensive lines, and not of an aggressive character. For, if the
> spirit of Theosophy does not permit aggressiveness being used, yet it
> does demand in some cases active defense, and it does impose on everyone
> the duty of taking an active interest in the welfare of a brother,
> especially of a persecuted brother, as Mr. Judge is now ... "
> -- H. P. Blavatsky.
> THEOS. MVT., Vol. 5, p. 65
> WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov,
> p. 22
> _________________________
> .
>
>
> "He who does all and the best he can and knows how does ENOUGH for Them.
> This is a message for Judge. His Path begins to beat The Theosophist
> out of sight. It is most excellent ... The Path alone is his
> certificate for him in Theosophy." - -HPB LETTERS
> , p. 279
>
>
>
> "If I thought for one moment that Lucifer will 'rub out' Path I would
> never consent to be the editor. But listen, then, my good old friend.
> Once that the Masters have proclaimed your Path the best, the most
> theosophical of all theosophical publications, surely it is not to
> allow it to be rubbed out ... One is the fighting combative Manas: the
> other (Path) is pure Buddhi ... Lucifer will be Theosophy militant and
> Path the shining light, the Star of Peace. If your intuition does not
> whisper to you 'IT IS SO,' then that intuition must be wool-gathering.
> No, sir, the Path is too well, too theosophically edited for me to
> interfere." -- HPB LETTERS, p. 281
>


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