Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00406)

Hallo Christina and all,

My views are:

I will seek to be more precise then.

Theosophy is RELIGION itself.
But, true and you are right - it is not A religion.
Try Blavatsky's article:
"IS THEOSOPHY A RELIGION?"
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/IsTheosophyAReligion.htm

Here is an exceprt:
"It is perhaps necessary, first of all, to say, that the assertion that
"Theosophy is not a Religion," by no means excludes the fact that "Theosophy
is Religion" itself. A Religion in the true and only correct sense, is a
bond uniting men together--not a particular set of dogmas and beliefs. Now
Religion, per se, in its widest meaning is that which binds not only all
MEN, but also all BEINGS and all things in the entire Universe into one
grand whole. This is our theosophical definition of religion; but the same
definition changes again with every creed and country, and no two Christians
even regard it alike. We find this in more than one eminent author. Thus
Carlyle defined the Protestant Religion in his day, with a remarkable
prophetic eye to this ever-growing feeling in our present day, as:

For the most part a wise, prudential feeling, grounded on mere
calculation; a matter, as all others now are, of expediency and utility;
whereby some smaller quantum of earthly enjoyment may be exchanged for a far
larger quantum of celestial enjoyment. Thus religion, too, is profit, a
working for wages; not reverence, but vulgar hope or fear.
In her turn Mrs. Stowe, whether consciously or otherwise, seemed to have had
Roman Catholicism rather than Protestantism in her mind, when saying of her
heroine that:

Religion she looked upon in the light of a ticket (with the correct number
of indulgences bought and paid for), which, being once purchased and snugly
laid away in a pocket-book, is to be produced at the celestial gate, and
thus secure admission to heaven. . . .
But to Theosophists (the genuine Theosophists are here meant) who accept no
mediation by proxy, no salvation through innocent bloodshed, nor would they
think of "working for wages" in the One Universal religion, the only
definition they could subscribe to and accept in full is one given by
Miller. How truly and theosophically he describes it, by showing that


. . . true Religion
Is always mild, propitious and humble;
Plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in
blood,
Nor bears destruction on her chariot wheels;
But stoops to polish, succour and redress,
And builds her grandeur on the public good. "

Did this help?

from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "christinaleestemaker" <christinaleestemaker@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: Theos-World Re: why blavatsky?Theosophy versus religion.


-Hallo Morton,
You make a mistake in writing, maybe you mean it in a different way.
Theosophy is NOT a religion, it shows behind or above a religion.

Satyan na'sti paro dharmah= No religion higher then TRUTH.
It is the philosophy of the psychic and spiritual evolution


The religions keep the people poor and stupid.
As you know NO king without submisses, no pope without believers and
no master without pupils.
Theosophy gives anyone who wants to understand the possibility to
return to our true nature.To develope our Latent existant gifts.
It gives us the right to look human and not to act and be like an
animal.
Pranatma

Christina