Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00674)

Hallo all of you,

My views are:

If we do not pull ourselves much more together
and start dealing with the upcoming furutre and the present situation, - and keep continuing to 
use OLD views of the past - NOT related to our present time - the world will loose many potential aspirants
into the New Age waves of socery.

That is why I suggest, that we by careful reading could consider the following:
http://home19.inet.tele.dk/global-theosophy/skole_1.htm


We will have to relate the theosophical teaching to time, place, people and the circumstances.
The time is not ripe to keep dwelving into the past - WITHOUT - relating our activities to the present and the future to come.

The theosophical Mahatmas are not concerned with sects or any of the major religions
in a manner that makes one of them more important than the other without a critical view upon them.
They are concerned with facts - which ARE related to time, place, people and circumstances.

Past teachings of the high initiated Mahatmas SHOULD NOT be translated into to use in our present hour and time,
without a critical understanding of that - spiritual teachings sometimes are related to time, place, people and circumstances.



The view is:
Taken from --- The Aquarian Theosophist march 17, 2002
The page 13-15
http://www.teosofia.com/Docs/vol-2-5.pdf


"Maybe the following could be of interest:

The difficulty of giving one the Wisdom
Religion is dealt with by H. P.B. in the Secret Doctrine as follows:

1. Opinion must be reserved because:
Complete explanation for initiates only.

a. Only a fragmentary portion of the
esoteric meaning given.
b. Only adepts can speak with authority. - S. D., I, 188, 190. II, 55, 90.
c. The teachings are offered as a hypothesis. - S D II, 469.



2. We must lose sight entirely of:

a. Personalities. Only adepts can speak with authority.
b. Dogmatic beliefs.
c. Special religions. - S. D., I, 3, 4.



3. We must be free from prejudice. - S. D., III, 1.

We must also:
a. Be free from conceit.
b. Free from selfishness.
c. Ready to accept demonstrated truth.
d. We must find the highest meaning possible. - S. D., III, 487.
e. We must be also non-sectarian. - S. D., III, 110.
f. We must remember the handicap of language. - S. D., I, 197, 290, 293.
g. We must aim to become a disciple. - S. D., I, 188. II, 246. III,129.
h. We must eventually develop powers. - S. D., I, 518. II, 85.
i. We must lead the life of Brotherhood. - S. D., I, 190.
j. We must remember that H. P.B . makes no claim to infallibility. - S. D., II, 25 note, 273. I,293.
k. H. P. B. says:

"I speak with 'absolute certainty' only so
far as my own personal belief is concerned.
Those who have not the same warrant for
their belief as I have would be very credulous
and foolish to accept it on blind faith...

What I do believe in is:
1. The unbroken oral tradition revealed by living divine men during the infancy of mankind to the elect among men.
2. That it has reached us unaltered.
3. That the Masters are thoroughly versed in the science based on such uninterrupted teaching."
- Lucifer, Vol. V, p. 157.

"The Secret Doctrine is no 'authority' per se; but being full of quotations and texts 
from the Sacred Scriptures and philosophies of almost every great religion and school, those
who belong to any of these are sure to find support for their arguments on some page or another.
There are, however, Theosophists, and of the best and most devoted, who do suffer from such weakness for authority."
- Lucifer, Vol. III, p. 157. (Edition to this email: This reference seem to be incorrect ??? --- )



"The many-sided facets of the mystery language have led to the adoption of widely varied dogmas and rites in the exotericism of the Church rituals. It is they, again, which are at the origin of most of the dogmas of the Christian Church, e.g., the seven Sacraments, the Trinity, the Resurrection; the seven capital Sins and the seven Virtues. The seven keys to the mystery tongue, however, having always been in the keeping of the highest among the initiated Hierophants of antiquity, it is only the partial use of a few out of the seven which passed, through the treason of some early Church Fathers -- ex-initiates of the Temples -- into the hands of the new sect of the Nazarenes. Some of the early Popes were Initiates, but the last fragments of their knowledge have now fallen into the power of the Jesuits, who have turned them into a system of sorcery.

It is maintained that INDIA (not in its present limits, but including its ancient boundaries) is the only country in the world which still has among her sons adepts, who have the knowledge of all the seven sub-systems and the key to the entire system. Since the fall of Memphis, Egypt began to lose those keys one by one, and Chaldea had preserved only three in the days of Berosus. As for the Hebrews, in all their writings they show no more than a thorough knowledge of the astronomical, geometrical and numerical systems of symbolizing all the human, and especially the physiological functions. They never had the higher keys."

Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, vol. 1, p. 310-11:


"But while supposing that the whole cycle of the universal mystery language will not be mastered for whole centuries to come, even that which has been hitherto discovered in the Bible by some scholars is quite sufficient to demonstrate the claim -- mathematically. Judaism having availed itself of two keys out of the seven, and these two keys having been now rediscovered, it becomes no longer a matter of individual speculation and hypothesis, least of all of "coincidence," but one of a correct reading of the Bible texts, as anyone acquainted with arithmetic reads and verifies an addition or total.* A few years longer and this system will kill the dead letter of the Bible, as it will that of all the other exoteric faiths, by showing the dogmas in their real, naked meaning.

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* All we have said in Isis is now found corroborated in the "Egyptian Mystery; or The Source of Measures," by those readings of the Bible with the numerical and geometrical keys thereto."

Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, vol. 1, p. 318.







from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...

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