Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00156)

Nov 18 2003



Dear Friend:



Re: Quotes on the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT 





You comment:



"Thanks for the insight to beyond the beyond. However I cannot 'see' how
on this plane of reality where 'free will' exists & as we can change our
mind, it surely follows, so also can the Universal Mind change on all
planes of existence. 

Regards"





To me the questions always are:





Why is anything done or changed? 



What is the motive behind such alterations?



Who does the changing?





I can understand the "lower Mind,"(Kama-Manas) which is steeped in the
prevalent atmosphere of our ordinary lives, being mean and frivolous and
careless of others well-being. There it is ruled largely by our likes
and dislikes. Called "Kama" technically, the "lower Mind"(Kama-Manas)
acquires this designation "lower" because of its self-centered
interests. It ceases to be just, merciful and BROTHERLY. It is
essentially selfish and self-caring, and usually has little concern for
others and their rights.



Selfishness dominates, and the "desire-mind" makes changes, regardless
of how they may affect others to their detriment.



However, if we adopt the Theosophical view that the entirety of Nature
(our UNIVERSE, world, and ourselves) is composed of immortal, living
Monads (units of spirit/matter that do not "die"), then our view and
outlook to decision making may change radically. Another quality
ascribed to these immortal Monads is continuity. They evolve in
intelligence and understanding and as they do this they receive greater
responsibilities in assisting Nature to administer its vast work of
urging all beings toward a final "Goal," termed by some: Universal and
Individual PERFECTION. This is SPIRITUAL and UNIVERSAL WISDOM. It
implies the practical and ever-active practice of virtue. For some of
us, this may appear as a dreary discipline. 



But ought we not ask ourselves: "Why is it so?" 

What is the freedom we desire? 



And then follows the ultimate in selfishness and isolation: 



How can we escape responsibility for evil we may knowingly do? 



Why is it that we instinctively sense we will be held accountable for
injustices we perpetrate? Curious fact.



Let us ask where pain, sorrow and suffering come from. Theosophy states
selfishness is that source and cause. If we forget we are "one among
many," then we employ a sense of isolation to justify acts and motives
that impel selfish thinking. This leads to harm and a violation of
individual rights forced on others who may be innocent of our views.



According to Theosophical doctrines, this selfishness awakes the
ever-vigilant Karmic aspect of Nature. It is this which demands equity
and fairness among all classes and levels of the Monadic hosts (beings
at various levels in the harmonious evolutionary scheme) who are
inter-active and co-existent, and working among themselves the
complexities of an evolutionary process that all benefit from. The
sense of a vast "family" is rendered here. Theosophy declares this is
the Great LAW of living and of progression towards "Perfection." It is
always in the company of others that this is done. 



The designation UNIVERSAL MIND is technically given to the process in
evolution when a re-incarnation of the Universe, or of a System of
worlds, is re-begins. It is planned (by the UNIVERSAL MIND) according
to Law - KARMIC LAW. 



This involves the deathless residues, the immortal skandhas, of previous
existences -- of a multitude of beings (all monads at various levels of
individual evolution) - that have under Law to incarnate and work
together. 



The UNIVERSAL MIND is an integral part of the Universal Scheme, in which
SPIRIT and MATER (as polar opposites) are always present as the
UNIVERSAL MONAD. For them to interact, Universal KARMA, and the
UNIVERSAL MIND ( MAHAT ) are logically essential. 



The Universal mind unlike the "lower Mind" of a man does not work
whimsically or frivolously. It is Universal because the aspects of
justice, equity, mercy, compassion - all the great virtues are innate to
it, and always function in that manner. So Theosophy teaches.



I hope this proves to be of help.



Best wishes,



Dallas



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-----Original Message-----
From: dlux 
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:02 AM
To: dalval14@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: TM 128th Anniversary - More quotes to consider



Thanks for the insight to beyond the beyond. However I cannot 'see' how
on this plane of reality where 'free will' exists & as we can change our
mind, it surely follows, so also can the Universal Mind change on all
planes of existence.



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----- Original Message ----- 

From: <mailto:Earthlink.dalval14@earthlink.net> W. Dallas TenBreoeck 





THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT 2003 Nov. 17 128 anniversary





More Quotes to consider:





There is a very great difference between the Theosophical Movement and
any Theosophical Society. The Movement is moral, ethical, spiritual,
universal, invisible save in effect, and continuous. A Society formed
for theosophical work is a visible organization, an effect, a machine
for conserving energy and putting it to use; it is not nor can it be
universal, nor is it continuous. Organized Theosophical bodies are made
by men for their better cooperation, but, being mere outer shells, they
must change from time to time as human defects come out, as the times
change, and as the great underlying spiritual movement compels such
alterations.

The Theosophical Movement being continuous, it is to be found in all
times and in all nations. Wherever thought has struggled to be free,
wherever spiritual ideas, as opposed to forms and dogmatism, have been
promulgated, there the great movement is to be discerned. .. One can
therefore see that to worship an organization . is to fall down before
Form. . H. P. Blavatsky herself declared that it were better to do away
with the Society rather than to destroy Brotherhood.

The real unity and prevalence, and the real internationalism, do not
consist in having a single organization. They are found in the
similarity of aim, of aspiration, of purpose, of teaching, of ethics.
[From "The Theosophical Movement," Path, August, 1895]

W Q J Articles Vol II, p. 124...



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Now, either H.P.B. was right or she was wrong in what she says in the
Secret Doctrine about the future of America. If wrong, then all this may
be dismissed as idle speculation. But, if right, then all thoughtful
Theosophists must take heed, weigh well, mentally appropriate and always
remember what are her words as well as the conclusions to which they
lead.

In the first pages of the second volume she speaks of five great
Continents. First, the Imperishable Sacred Land [this is at the North
Pole, W.Q.J.]; second, the Hyperborean, now part of it is in Northern
Asia; third, Lemuria, sunk long ago, but leaving some remains, islands,
the points of high mountain ranges; fourth, Atlantis, presumably in the
Atlantic Ocean, now below the level of the water, but with perhaps
Teneriffe and Atlas as reminders; and fifth, "was America."

>From a survey of the book, digging in notes and culling from the text
here and there, the conclusion is irresistible that although the present
America is not the actual Continent as it is to be, it is a portion of
it; and certainly is now the nursery for the race that will in the
future occupy the sixth Continent, which for the sixth Great Root-Race
will emerge from the waters. Where? Perhaps when the present America has
been split up by tremendous cataclysms, leaving here and there large
pieces on its western side, it is in the Pacific Ocean that the great
mass of the new one will come up from the long sleep below the sea.
Rightly then will the great far western ocean have been named Pacific,
for that Race will not be given to contest nor hear of wars or rumours
of war, since it will be too near the seventh, whose mission it must be
to attain to the consummation, to seize and hold the Holy Grail.

Turn to page 444 and onward of the second volume. Read there that the
Americans have become in only three hundred years a primary race pro
tem., in short, the germs of the sixth sub-race, to blossom in a few
more centuries into the pioneers of that one which must succeed to the
present European fifth sub-race in all its characteristics. Then after
about 25,000 years, which you will note is meant for a great sidereal
cycle of a little over that length of time, this new race will prepare
for the seventh sub-race. Cataclysms will then fall upon you; lands and
nations will be swept away, first of all being the European, including
the British Isles - if not gone before - and then parts of both North
and South America. And how puny, mongrel, indeed, will be the remains of
the scientists of today, great masters of microbes now, but then to be
looked upon as strange remains of the Nineteenth Century, when, as the
people will tell each other then, so many, with Truth before them,
laughed at it and stoned its apostles, dancing a fantastic dance
meanwhile around the altar of invisible matter.

It seems as if some power, deliberately planning, had selected North and
South America for the place where a new primary root-race should be
begun. ..

But the last remnants of the fifth Continent, America, will not
disappear until the new race has been some time born. Then a new
Dwelling, the sixth Continent, will have appeared over the waters to
receive the youth who will tower above us as we do above the pigmies of
Africa. But no America as we now know it will exist. Yet these men must
be the descendants of the race that is now rising here. Otherwise our
philosophy is all wrong. So then, in America now is forming the new
sub-race, and in this land was founded the present Theosophical Society:
two matters of great importance. It was to the United States, observe,
that the messenger of the Masters came, although Europe was just as
accessible for the enterprise set on foot. Later, this messenger went to
India and then to Europe, settling down in the British Isles. All of
this is of importance in our reflections. For why in America at first
does she begin the movement, and why end her part of it in England? One
might be led to ask why was not an effort made at all costs to give the
last impulse outwardly in the land of promise where she began the work?

Do not imagine for one moment, O ye English brothers of mine, that
London was selected for this because the beauties of your island called
her, or for that she had decided at the finish that after all a mistake
had been made in not going there first. It was all out of stern
necessity, with a wisdom derived from many older heads, having in view
the cycles as they sweep resistlessly forward. The point where the great
energy is started, the centre of force, is the more important, and not
the place at which it is ended. And this remains true, no matter how
essential the place of ending may be in the scheme. What, do you suppose
India is not as important? and would not that land have offered
seemingly a better spot than all for the beginning of the magnum opus?
Adepts do not make mistakes like that. ..



The deeds of men, the enterprises of merchants, and the wars of soldiers
all follow implicitly a law that is fixed in the stars, and while they
copy the past they ever symbolize the future. [From "On the Future: A
Few Reflections," W. Q. Judge, Lucifer, March, 1892.]

W Q J Articles Vol. II, p 130.



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- - Where the Movement Really Began - - 



It came neither from the East nor from the West. The East has
solidified, crystallized, stood still; it would never have commenced
such a movement. The West did not know about such things; it did not
want them. We are wrapped up in material progress, and never would have
started such a movement. Where, then, was the movement really started?
It was started in the spiritual world above both East and West, by
living men. Not by spirits of dead men, but by living spirits, living
spirits like yourselves, who have risen above creeds and nations and
castes and peoples, and are simply human beings. They started this
movement by giving the impulse and the message; that is why we who have
been in it so long have the confidence born of knowledge, knowledge that
it will succeed.

We began at the time under direction, when we knew that materialism was
spreading, not only over the West, but insidiously all over the East.
..

When the Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 . . . There was
nothing else but laughter and jokes. . But we have succeeded always in
remaining at the post and saying just what we meant to say all the time
despite all the laughter. We took no salaries, but we had belief in the
human heart.

The objects of the Theosophical Society having been explained to you,
you know the Society has but one doctrine, that of Universal
Brotherhood. You cannot belong to it unless you believe in that; you
won't want to belong to it unless you believe in that. But you are not
required to believe anything else. (From "Organized Life of the T.S." 

W Q J Articles Vol. II, p. 136-370



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