Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00242)

July 19 20094

Dear Friend:

When one is sure of something and can at will and any time review the logic
of its formation, then "belief" changes into "certitude," or "reality" for
us.

We are the eternal Pilgrims. We carry with us all the successes and
failures of our past living and choices. We are living Karma. We are as you
suggest the eternal pupils and verification is our very real task. For this
we develop "attention," so that as the Buddha said, we all AWAKEN -- to
What? To the universal truth and BEING that is ourselves.

We say SPIRIT IS one -- the conversely, there is not a single moment of time
when we are "without" SPIRIT. The "Central Spiritual SUN" is mentioned as a
philosophical reality -- but the development of the Hubble telescope has
shown us that the further we "see," the more UNIVERSES THERE ARE.  

Now if we take this as evidence, don't we LIVE in a vast almost
incomprehensible SUN -- the SUN OF THE ONE SPIRIT. And we are aspects of
THAT at all stages of our lives. This is something we need to grasp with the
mind as the purely physical eye is not able to perceive the infinite spectra
of radiations that cooperate and interpenetrate themselves and all "things."

Actually there is nothing that can be eliminated or stashed in a "dust heap"
of obsolete of effete ideas. There is no place to "hide." We cannot 'fool'
"NATURE," which, as the ONE WHOLE UNIVERSE, sees and knows everything,
including our most remote thoughts and ideas as private persons. 

So the "daily conquest of self" relates of the eternal war (as in the
BHAGAVAD GITA) between the TRUTH and SPIRIT -- and the false and
ever-changing maya or illusion of the Lower Selfish Self -- the Kama-Manas.

So teaches THEOSOPHY as I understand it. 

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Koshek
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:45 AM
To: 
Subject: Re: The daily conquest of self

Hello Dallas,

I too also have a problem with "belief"

I don't think you can really know something if your already pre-
disposed to some "faith." As a matter of fact, I think it is 
impossible since you will only see what you believe to be true 
anyway. 

This is why I'm attracted to Theosophy since it says not to believe 
anything which in my mind seems to urge one to actually find things 
out for themselves and verify, verify, verify. Ther comes a point 
when you actually know that the earth is a round globe. No matter how 
many people believe it is flat, it doesn't make it so.

Koshek