Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00170)

Dec 11 2003

Dear Ericva:

To me there are several positions:

1. "We" are inside THE DIAMOND.

2 We are outside THE DIAMOND.

3. We and the DIAMOND are illuminated by an "outside" LIGHT.

4. We and the DIAMOND are ONE. But there are two foci (like the
MONAD) of "spirit and Matter."

5. We seek to develop the qualities of the DIAMOND in ourselves. [What
are those qualities?] [Why are they worth developing in us?] [Why
don't we already have them?]

So how would Theosophy resolve the allegory.

Many thanks for the ideas.

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Erica Letzerich [mailto:eletzerich@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:03 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World The Aphabet of truth

Hello

Let's us imagine a diamond with many facets, every one shinning, 
through different directions the conjunct of it transmits an, unique 
truth about the diamond. The different facets transmit prisms of 
truth, that if we do not see in a fragmented way it will show us the 
whole beauty of the diamond.

Still there are diamonds that are not so good in quality and in 
beauty, they are collected and lapidated earlier from the supposed 
time, so they can't express the perfection of it's light, because 
still remains some dark spots, invisible to the eyes, for everything 
in nature has it's own time.

So let's imagine that our three higher principles: Atma, Budhi, Manas 
contains within the purity of a diamond, that can't be expressed in 
it's conjunct through the brute condition of the personality, still 
full of dark spots and shadows. 

This dark spots or shadows within ourselves constitute a body 
attached still to a series of behavior, believes based in mental and 
emotional patters imprinted in humanity through the earliest period 
of it's existence.

"(.)As for human nature in general, it is the same now as it was a 
million of years ago: Prejudice based upon selfishness; a general 
unwillingness to give up an established order of things for new modes 
of life and thought -- and occult study requires all that and much 
more --; pride and stubborn resistance to Truth if it but upsets 
their previous notions of things, -- such are the characteristics of 
your age, and especially of the middle and lower classes.(.)"KH

Let's nominate the conjunct of this patterns as egoism. This is the 
biggest shadow within ourselves that does not allow the higher self, 
to project the light of the highest principles into our personality.

How such shadow, egoism, can be an obstacle for the one that searches 
for the truth? 

He or she are going to be inclined to believe that their own believes 
are the real ones. He or she are going to be inclined to believe that 
the believes of somebody else are the only real ones because they 
have sympathy for that somebody else. So they start building dogmas, 
ghettos, excluding from their circle those who act or think in a 
different way. But, still they are following the old patterns based 
on egoism.

(.)To our minds then, these motives, sincere and worthy of every 
serious consideration from the worldly standpoint, appear -- selfish. 
(You have to pardon me what you might view as crudeness of language, 
if your desire really is, that which you profess -- to learn truth 
and get instruction from us -- who belong to quite a different world 
from the one you move in.(.)KH

How to break such patters and which are this higher models that may 
allow one to go closer to the truth? 

Of course such break requires a practical change in every level of 
our lives. Apparently many people goes through changes, but still 
they are reflecting the same patterns. One may become vegetarian for 
compassion, or fashion, but still he is so selfish as he was before.

So he has no compassion, he has just a partial understanding of a 
truth that is cruel to kill animals as it's cruel every form of 
violence. But this does not make him better! Hitler was vegetarian.

What makes really difference and change is the opening to 
investigation and to a series considerations about our own believes 
and our own self. Such openness does not come from a mind still 
permeated by egoism.  

First one should consider the possibility that there are eternal 
truths. Such truths are expressed in different forms, but all of them 
leading into the same direction.  

There are truths that can't be transmitted or understood within the 
limits of the mind, they are higher levels of vibrations within Budhi 
and Atma such truths we may intuit sometimes, but very rarely be 
assimilate. Only when one remove the dark spots that remains within 
himself.

We may learn a letter of two of the alphabet of the truth, but until 
to learn the whole alphabet, to understand it, and to know how to use 
and to express oursevels through it, there is long journey in front 
of us. 

That's why some theories where given on the last century, theories 
that are supposed to compose an axiomatic body of truths as Mahatma 
KH mentions: 

(.)You proved faithful and true, and have done your best. If your 
efforts will teach the world but one single letter from the alphabet 
of Truth -- that Truth which once pervaded the whole world -- your 
reward will not miss you. (.) KH

So the ones that may follow the krishnamurti school may think that 
this alphabet of truth, is only one more dogma. No it's not a dogma 
as much it's not a dogma to say to someone if you touch the fire you 
will get burned. Of course there are people that very easy can build 
dogmas around such teachings, crystallize and distort it. Well this 
is the human nature. 

For what I see there are two basic levels of truth:

The one that has to be reached and assimilated from within, and this 
may happen only during an iniciation. As known from many of us the 
initiation process is of psychological nature. In this sense 
something completly esoteric, interior and unique.

The one that may be taught for elder brothers to make our path 
easier, as the father that teaches his child: do not pull the tale of 
the a dog, because he will bite you!!!

Erica Letzerich


 

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