Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00314)

Hallo Daniel and all of you,

My views are:

I find your below quotes very good.


I will like to add the following article:
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/IsTheosophyAReligion.htm

We find the following:
"Because Theosophy can be practiced by Christian or Heathen, Jew or Gentile,
by Agnostic or Materialist, or even an Atheist, provided that none of these
is a bigoted fanatic, who refuses to recognize as his brother any man or
woman outside his own special creed or belief."


--- This is the problem - ie. being bigoted fanatics - some groups on this
planet are facing today. ---
So let each of us just try to be compassionate when it happens to us, that
we are being dealt with in the torture chamber of the black magician.
Or was it karma or justice ?

What is rare requires an effort to achieve.
Let us do become humble Adepts and Avatars.



from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
To: ".DanielHCaldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:16 PM
Subject: Theos-World H.P. Blavatsky and Koot Hoomi on Distinguishing between
the True and the False


> H.P. Blavatsky and Koot Hoomi on Distinguishing
> between the True and the False
>
> EXTRACT A
>
> Madame Blavatsky wrote in THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY:
>
> "Look around you and observe. While two-thirds of
> civilized society ridicule the mere notion that there
> is anything in Theosophy, Occultism, Spiritualism, or
> in the Kabala, the other third is composed of the
> most heterogeneous and opposite elements. Some
> believe in the mystical, and even in the supernatural
> (!), but each believes in his own way. Others will
> rush single-handed into the study of the Kabala,
> Psychism, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, or some form
> or another of Mysticism. Result: no two men think
> alike, no two are agreed upon any fundamental occult
> principles, though many are those who claim for
> themselves the ultima thule of knowledge, and would
> make outsiders believe that they are full-blown
> adepts. . . . Some limit ancient wisdom to the Kabala
> and the Jewish Zohar. . . . Others regard Swedenborg
> or Boehme as the ultimate expression of the highest
> wisdom; while others again see in mesmerism the great
> secret of ancient magic. One and all of those who put
> their theory into practice are rapidly drifting,
> through ignorance, into black magic. Happy are those
> who escape from it, as they have neither test nor
> criterion by which they can distinguish between the
> true and the false. . . . A portion of the true
> [Esoteric] sciences is better than a mass of
> undigested and misunderstood learning. An ounce of
> gold is worth a ton of dust. . . . "
>
> Quoted from:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/key/key-2.htm
>
> EXTRACT B
>
> Mahatma Koot Hoomi in a letter to A.P. Sinnett wrote:
>
> ". . . You have heard of and read about a good many
> Seers, in the past and present centuries, such as
> Swedenborg, Boehme, and others. Not one among the
> number but thoroughly honest, sincere, and as
> intelligent, as well educated; aye, even learned. Each
> of them in addition to these qualities, has or had . .
> . a 'Guardian' and a Revelator -- under whatever
> 'mystery' and 'mystic name' -- whose
> mission it is -- or has been to spin out to his
> spiritual ward -- a new system embracing all the
> details of the world of Spirit. Tell me, my friend, do
> you know of two that agree? And why, since truth is
> one, and that putting entirely the question of
> discrepancies in details aside -- we do not find them
> agreeing even upon the most vital problems -- those
> that have either 'to be, or not to be' -- and of which
> there can be no two solutions? . . . "
>
> ". . . Vainly do your modern seers and their
> prophetesses, creep into every cleft and crevice
> without outlet or continuity they chance to see; and
> still more vainly, when once within do they lift up
> their voices and loudly cry: 'Eureka! We have gotten a
> revelation from the Lord!' --- for verily have they
> nothing of the kind. They have disturbed but bats,
> less blind their intruders; who, feeling them
> flying about, mistake them as often for angels - as
> they too have wings!..."
>
> Quoted from:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-48.htm
>
> EXTRACT C
>
> Stainton Moses, a "seer" and medium of the 1880s wrote
> to A.P. Sinnett:
>
> ". . . my inner spirit-sense is opened. Only yesterday
> . . . Imper[ator] . . . was clearly visible and
> audible to me. . . . "
>
> To this comment by Stainton Moses [S.M.], Koot Hoomi
> wrote:
>
> ". . . So is Jesus and John the Baptist [clearly
> visible and audible] to Edward Maitland; [who is] as
> true and as honest and sincere as S.M. . . . And does
> not E. Maitland see Hermes the first and second
> and Elijah, etc. Finally does not Mrs. [Anna]
> Kingsford feel as sure as S.M. with regard to +
> [Imperator] that she saw and conversed with God!! . .
> . And who purer or more truthful than that woman or
> Maitland! Mystery, mystery will you exclaim. IGNORANCE
> we answer; the creation of that we believe in and want
> to see. . . . "
>
> Quoted from:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-90.htm
>
> Daniel H. Caldwell
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