Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00218)

Dec 5 2003

Dear Friends:

[sorry this got lost in the shuffle and ought to have been
published a few days ago.]


Here is how I might assemble an answer to your friends' question:



What is the matter with antiquity?


Have we not always learned from those more experienced and older than we
are? Are we so arrogant, have we ceased to be humble before WISDOM ?
Is it come to us at present that we need to believe we do not owe them
a debt? There is not a thing around us which does not arise from
ancient roots.

Shall we say:

Obliterate Shakespeare for instance?  

How about Kepler and Copernicus, and Galileo and da Vinci? Pythagoras,
Plato, Jesus, Buddha and Krishna -- are they not with us still?

Also, why not rid ourselves of all works of art, music, science, etc...

Good bye: Tennyson, Milton, Donne, Marlowe, the Bible, the Quakers,
etc., Pope, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Lytton,
Rider Haggard, Jules Verne, Keats, etc... ?

Forget Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Pythagoras, Plato, Democritus, Ptolemy,
Aristotle, Bach, Beethoven, Copernicus, Kepler, Descartes, Euclid,
Fibonacci, Galileo, Goethe, Kant, Leonardo da Vinci, Bacon, Neitche,
Mozart, Pacioli, Isaac Newton, Tycho Brahe, Vitruvius Pollio, etc..

Well we have had illustrious predecessors all of us. I for one, respect
and revere their wisdom and seek to prove its value again and again.

When it comes to religion and philosophy we no longer are spectators but
become engaged in proving again the worth of ancient views and
teachings. Our civilizations as they rise and fall are continuous
evidence of the waves of progress, or, am I wrong ?

Best wishes,   

( and excuse my bluntness, please.)

Dallas

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There is more to living than science alone.

Theosophy deals with Science, philosophy and theologies.

It also stands for free will and free thought.

Not passivity, but rational ACTIVITY.

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nisk98
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:30 AM
To: 
Subject: Re: HPB outdated?

Dallas writes:>

These questions have puzzled me for over 65 years, and In 
Enjoy observing the changes in science that have occurred during that
time.



Someone once , very sharply, pointed out to me that the Thou's and
Thee's and 
similar language found in so-called "old" writings were inappropriate in

today's world.

What would one reply to such an individual?