Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00155)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> netemara888 wrote:
> > That is why it is called the wheel of rebirth and therefore a 
cycle. 
> > Those who are the instruments of destruction were created and 
put 
> > here just as those whom they victimize. One cannot be on the 
> > receiving end if one were not at one time on the giving end. 
That is 
> > all I have to say about it. This I know to be truth. Giving 
labels 
> > to events in history is something that is created just as racial 
> > classes are created for political power. But people point to the 
> > Bible and say God ordained separation of the races. So more 
than 
> > not labeling and categorizing is way in which humanity has deal 
> > psychologically with things that are taboo or ugly. 
> 
> So, for example, if I go to your house, and rob you of all 
your 
> possessions, you would not press charges, because you deserved 
what 
> happened to you? Or are you just into forgiving people whose 
crimes are 
> against OTHER people?
> 
> Bart

Dear Bart,

I like to quote Mohammed (Henry Olcott's former life) on this one. 
He is said to have told his followers to tie the leg of the camel 
and go to bed. Or as my initiating Master told us when asked: "if we 
get sick or if someone wrongs us legally should we just let it be?" 
He said "No, go to the doctor, take the medicine and leave the 
results to Him." And for legal matters he would say something that I 
really liked but it escapes me now.

And yes, FYI someone did come in my yard this summer and took all 
my lawn grooming tools. The culprit turned out to be an ex-con who 
had just got out of prison. Because of my standing, his karma took 
hold immediately. I did not press charges but he went back to 
beating his wife and the next day was taken back to prison for 
life. I know because they were living in a rundown duplex on the 
corner, in an otherwise working and middle-class neighborhood.

For a more dramatic example I saw on the inner planes the whole 
scene of my mother, sister and cousin's deaths but I could not 
change it. We did sue for wrongful death but the money was useless 
to me and my family. It evaporated like mist. But would I have 
changed my mother's karma if I could have? Naturally. 

And finally "Render to Ceasar the things that are Cesaer's and to 
God the things that are God's." 

Netemara