Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00446)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Ali Hassan" <ananda_hotai@h...> 
wrote:
>The 
> Law is never compassionate, nor beneficient. It is merely the Law. 

The categorical tone of your posting reminded me of a passage from 
the Mahatma Letters, which perhaps apply to every student of 
Theosophy:

"You share with all beginners the tendency to draw too absolutely 
strong inferences from partly caught hints, and to dogmatize 
thereupon as though the last word had been spoken. You will correct 
this in due time. You may misunderstand us, are more than likely to 
do so, for our language must always be more or less that of parable 
and suggestion, when treading upon forbidden ground; we have our own 
peculiar modes of expression and what lies behind the fence of words 
is even more important than what you read. But still — TRY." (Letter 
111, chronological).

Here are some sources that indicate that the universal Law may not be 
what we think it is. There are many similar teachings in different 
traditions.

St Paul (Romans, 13:10) says: "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: 
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." 

"The Law which, shunning learning, teaches Wisdom, reveals a tale of 
woe." (The Voice of the Silence, II:106)

"False learning is rejected by the wise, and scattered to the winds 
by the Good Law. Its wheel revolves for all, the humble and the 
proud. The Doctrine of the Eye is for the crowd, the Doctrine of the 
Heart for the elect. The first repeat in pride: 'Behold, I know'; the 
last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess, 'Thus have I 
heard.'" (Idem, II:119)

"Yet I confess that I, individually, am not yet exempt from some of 
the terrestial attachments. I am still attracted towards some men 
more than toward others, and philanthropy as preached by our Great 
Patron — "the Saviour of the World — the Teacher of Nirvana and the 
Law," has never killed in me either individual preferences of 
friendship, love for my next of kin, or the ardent feeling of 
patriotism for the country in which I was last materially 
individualized." (Letter 15, chronological)

In the Indian tradition, Shiva is identified as the Destroyer and 
Regenerator aspects of the Ultimate Reality or Law (Brahman). The 
name Shiva, though, means "auspicious, propitious, gracious, 
favourable, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly, dear." (From "A 
Sanskrit-English Dictionary by Sir Monier Monier-Williams.)

Pedro