Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00181)

Hi Katinka,

I have to agree with you. After all, what is Theosophy about, a lot 
of debate about what did or didn't happen over 100 years ago? Or is 
it about learning to live as self-responsible adult human beings? 
Someone said to me a long time ago, "Either you believe this stuff or 
you don't. " If you do (if I do) then there is no need to ask these 
eternal questions about whether this or that was real or a trick. 
There is a deeper resonance to the material, that of truth expressed 
by fine human beings, people who lived their lives according to their 
own higher ideals and who did tremendous work for humanity, for us, 
in fact--people who acted according to inner directions given by 
entities of a higher order, entities whose wisdom is above question 
by such as we are. But if we don't believe this stuff, then why are 
we even talking about it? Surely for those to whom it is all smoke 
and mirrors, there must be something else that would benefit from 
their attention in some positive way. 

Best wishes,
Adelasie

On 22 Jun 2004 at 17:18, Katinka Hesselink wrote:

> Hi Pedro and others,
> 
> I think this also means that for us as attempting theosophists, we
> need to focuss on things that are of the essence, which is I guess:
> 
> * practicing theosophy in our daily lives
> * finding truth where we can, and where we can judge it (and those
> phenomena - we really can't judge after more than a century)
> 
> Katinka