Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00326)

Steve wrote: <<I hope I don't get strick by 
lightning for saying this, but we mortals 
need a better system of signals. Lightning 
is a lousy way of sending a message.>

Seems to me that those people who get hit by 
lightning and other "acts of God" might be 
inclined to complain (as per Steve?) to the 
effect that "God's reasong" (in whatever 
sense) seems too direct, plain, simple, 
exoteric, blunt, etc, lacking in "more 
specific" and "understandable enough" 
explanations. Then, on the other hand, if 
Theosophy is seen to offer plenty of 
compensatory explanations for that kind of 
apparent simplicity and bluntness on the 
"worldly level" (at least?), there might then 
be a somewhat general tendency, I tend to 
suspect, to complain about "too esoteric" 
explanations by way of such as the Esoteric 
Tradition. Of course if one doesn't complain 
too much about shortages of food for thought, 
though, I wonder if one might then be 
inclined to turn into something like a 
"student of Theosophy," at some point, 
generally speaking ...

Speculatively,
Mauri