Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00003)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mauri <mhart@i...> wrote:
> netemara888@y... wrote:
> 
> <<I wish it were not true that The 
> Theosophical Society as an evolutionary
> vehicle is dead, but it is. That does not 
> make it worthless, just that it needs 
> adjunctive links to make it viable for a 
> spiritual-minded person. >>
> 
> Seems to me that people, in general, might 
> optionally define of themselves partly in 
> terms of "adjunctive links," in a sense, 
> among other things, towards a number of 
> things, including Theosophy.

That's a nice connection that you make here. And it is truth as 
well. But what I am talking about I guess would be something which 
is not so much along the lines of intellectual satisfaction.

One thing that the RS masters would say, and that I like, is that 
one must satisfy the intellect before chosing the path to meditation 
and going beyond the three worlds.

I've been under 
> the impression that Theosophy is, 
> essentially, whatever an individual makes it. 

This is where I place Theosophy as satisfying the intellect.

> Seems to me that the esoteric nature of 
> Theosophy

I don't think the esoteric nature is the problem. It's light has 
been put in another place is all I am saying. 

might tend to make it somewhat 
> generally confusing and unappealing, for a 
> number of people, so that, in that sense, it 
> might seem kind of deadish, I guess, to some 
> people, maybe ...

The life is the light, and vice versa. And that is what is missing 
from Theosophy. I don't mean the people themselves who study it. I 
guess I mean the direction. Yes, that sums it up.

It's like some countries who were once great and had a golden age, 
are now not thriving. Look at America now. It has all these advanced 
souls and great destiny and look at some of the countries in Africa 
or in S. America. They are dead or dying in some ways spiritually. 
and I for one am not attracted to those places now. Even though we 
are the great materialists the East has said WE the US has the 
dharma, that's good enough for me.

Namaste

Netemara

> 
> Speculatively,
> Mauri