Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00144)

Krishtara A. wrote: <<I can see there is a 
lot of discussion here and that is good, as 
long as respect is held..>>

I looked up the word "respect" in the 
dictionary, looking for more info or clues 
about what might be referred to, by some, as 
a more comprehensive definition of "respect," 
but then it occurred to me that "Theosophy 
itself" (wording that somebody brought out on 
another list) might be seen, by some, to 
offer some kind of clues and info about 
"respect" in a 
Theosophical/more-comprehensive sense.

<<A new question for the group: are there any 
Avatars in this world?>>

One might wonder how "Avatar" might be 
defined in whatever "more comprehensive" 
sense/context ... In other words, while 
"Avatar" may be seen, optionally, to be "more 
comprehensively" defined, eg, in a 
Theosophical glossary, I suspect that such 
defining would still leave room for various 
individual interpretations, interpretive 
tendencies, so, in practice, one person's 
"Avatar" could be, (possibly, I'm guessing), 
another person's ... whatever ... not that 
that state of things is anything new, but ...

So what if Theosophy were to be seen (or is 
it already?) as basically, (potentially?), 
offering the view that all humans are, in a 
sense, "potential Avatars" or "more-advanced 
types if only they could wake up to such 
realization," at any rate; and that, in order 
for one to appreciate such "advancement," in 
whatever general/particular interpretive 
sense, or in order for one to appreciate 
something about comparisons, or 
comparativity/relativity, (in whatever 
"exoteric" sense, at any rate), what if one 
(ie, "one" in a broader, general context?) 
were to, say, take up some form of, eg, 
"study of Theosophy" as a means of, say, 
(among other things!), gaining some kind of 
sense about "more comprehensive" ways of 
defning (however "exoterically" by 
"necessity") about various kinds of daily 
issues, which kind of "study" (per whatever 
karmic route) might, at some point, in some 
cases, (possibly, I suspect), lead to 
whatever forms of "recognition" or 
interpretiveness re such as "Avatars," even, 
in whatever "more comprehensive" sense, maybe 
(even though "presently"... whatever) ...

Speculatively,
Mauri

PS Incidentally, my quotes are often a 
replacement for "preferred" italics, in that 
there are people on these lists, apparently, 
who prefer to receive "plain text," meaning 
that, with such email settings, italics (eg) 
are (generally, in most cases?) automatically 
ironed out (I suspect, at any rate). In 
other words, I often use quotes in my posts 
in reference to "intended/additional 
meanings" that, I suspect, exoteric, or 
"regular," unmodified words might fail to 
convey, in some cases, occasionally, possibly 
... Not that my selective use of quotes 
necesSArily makes for some kind of "more 
comprehensive" interpetations at the 
receiving end, in some cases, I tend to 
suspect, but/"but" ...