Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00151)

Dearest Dallas
Thanks for the kind repply.
I also agree with you.
Maybe you could help me understand something else:
Perhaps I am not "tuned" to the purposes of this list.
But there has been something that always intrigued me:
Members usually pass on just a little of their own awareness, spiced with atiny bit of opinion, but excessive amount of quotations, almost entire chapters...long extracts of SD, Isis, so on.
Not that they´re not important - quite the opposite - but even Caldwell shows/has quite more interest in history.
I have the sensation that historical data of 50 years ago or even more is sometimes more important than our contemporary doubts and quests because they have less audience here ( aparently ?)
Sometimes I feel that I am in the wrong group because, in spite of the highlevel of many discussions, it seems that history has a heavier weight.
Why? If theosophy is also an exchange of ideas and comparative study?
Should we be so tied to the past and to all those first "theosophy-officials" of theosophical history?

Krishtar

Message ----- 
From: Dallas TenBroeck 
To: AA-BNStudy 
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:09 AM
Subject: Theos-World RE: all you can do


April 5 2004

Dear K

Everything you say is true.

Knowledge without morals and ethics and the will to apply them once they
are understood is as you say useless.

However:

There is a duty for all who know: and that is to diffuse the sources of
knowledge and the fruit of study, so that those who are looking and
searching ay perhaps come upon those and use them as a starting point.

I would rather come upon something that is a reflection of truth than be
bemused and bewildered by opinions.

Knowledge, logic, thought philosophy and above all good will,
commonsense and wisdom are the essential all hope to learn from.

Where man has been, men can go.

Best wishes,

Dallas


-----Original Message-----
From: krishtar [mailto:krishtar_a@brturbo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 8:59 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World all you can do



RAGHU AND ALL

YOU CAN READ THE BEST BOOKS ON BUDDHISM BUT IT WILL NOT TURN YOU INTO A
BUDDHIST.
YOU CAN KNOW THE BEST PHILOSOPHY BOOKS BUT IT WON´T MAKE YOU A
PHILOSOPHER.YOU CAN KNOW BY HEART ALL THE THEOSOPHICAL MANI WORKS BUT IT
WON´T MAKE YOU A THEOSOPHER.
YOU CAN CUT AND PASTE, QUOTE AND COLLATE AND EXPLAIN THE DEEPEST TEXTS
ON ANY SUBJECT BUT IT WON´T MAKE YOU A MASTER OR A TEACHER.
YOU CAN COMPARE, FIGHT FOR YOUR IDEAS, DISCUSS AND DRAW CONCLUSIONS,
PASS A VERY HANDSOME SELF IMAGE, RECEIVE THE WORST CRITIQUES BUT IT
WON´T CHANGE YOUR NATURE.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE.
ALL OF IT JUST GIVES MORE FUEL TO YOUR EGO, MORE FUEL TO YOUR PRIDES AND
LIVES YOU BLINDER AND BLINDER TO YOUR INNER NATURE.
READING AND OBTAINING KNOWLEDGE, WITHOUT MEDITATING AND TRANSFORMING IT
INTO WISDOM IS ONLY OBTAINING MORE INTELLECTUAL SIZE.
I USED TO FEEL DIMINISHED WHEN DEALING WITH MORE ERUDIT PEOPLE,
PRINCIPALLY MYSTICALLY.
NOW IT CHANGED BECAUSE TODAY I DISCOVERED THAT IT IS NOT IMPORTANT THE
QUANTITY OF INFORMATION YOU GET BUT THE AMMOUNT OF UNDERSTANDING YOU
HAVE FROM IT.


KRISHTAR 

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