Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00428)

Aug 22 2004



Dear Friends and Louis.



Allow me to disagree on the subject:



"Given the current state of human affairs, mans inhumanity to humankind, I
would say that EMPATHY, is a development that still lies far in the future
of our evolving personalities. 



HPB's work, describes a vast period of manvantaric becoming. It serves no
purpose to try to fit all her commentaries into our present time. On the
evolutionary journey that she describes, much of what humanity is
potentially becoming, necessarily lies beyond our current ability to
understand or "experience." The 'ring pass not,' I believe it's called.





I think you look at only half of the situation.



I say if the Masters using HPB as their "messenger" placed in the hands of
the generation that lived in the last quarter of the 19th century writings
and books that reviewed :--



1 The history of our selves and our earth's evolution,



2 The Laws that govern the whole of progress both individual, as
well as group progress (and also the "whole" of the Universe),



3 Indicated a goal of virtue and idealism that touches the heart
aspirations of all humans. Such a goal, under the general caption of
"evolution" provides a goal of distant success - of "Good" -- for those
who TRY. [It also indicates that our attainment of such a goal depends on
our work and choices.]



There is a good purpose to that work and effort. 



It is the torch of BROTHERHOOD and of amity, shining brilliantly on the
general background of turbulent horror and chaotic events of tyranny,
selfishness and evil. 



Personally I would not despair. If a few draw from that reading, contact or
study something that inspires to friendship, trust in verity, brotherhood
and cooperation, then much has been accomplished. To step out of shadow
into light is the first step. To pursue that light and verify its existence
is a privilege we earn for ourselves and others. 



Why try to abolish it (as a concept) because a complete reform has not yet
been adopted? How are we equipped to evaluate what has been done? Ask
yourself: "Without THEOSOPHY what would our present world be like?



Seeds planted in autumn and winter lie protected from death by the friendly
coating of a frost that preserves them till the time for spring's burgeoning
life and warming light, allows them to spring forth in verdant abundance. 



We do not know all the cycles, and since they overlap, we may see these
days, perhaps only a suspicion, a little of the work that can, and is being
done is such a terrible time as the present. 



One does not (cannon) eliminate, ever, from man his power of free and
individual choice. The divine spiritual being within every human supports
this. All true advance, "spiritually," is due to the freedom they have, even
at the darkest of times to make such choices. [Many think that a threat of
death will bend any man's will to that of an oppressor - but there are those
who, believing in their immortality (as also of that of all else) laugh at
such threats - and may suffer torture, indignities, and death as a result.]



I don't think we are able to make an accurate assessment of the value of
this work. We may not be able to fully perceive the impact of THEOSOPHY on
society and the currents of modern thought. But the pages down the years of
magazines such as THEOSOPHY [Los Angeles, now in its 92nd volume], and the
THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT [Bombay now in its 74th volume] show that there has
been such a change and it is marked.



Individually, I might say that I consider I am much the better for having
been able to contact and study THEOSOPHY.



Let me add that "man's inhumanity to man" is not endemic. There are shining
examples of individuals who have refused to bow to the trend of utter
selfishness -- leading to tyranny and the oppression, death, torture, etc,
of hundreds and thousands. Many are unknown and work their silent and
important lives unrecognized. But they are there, though we do not know
them. A few of them, like Jesus, who refused to "bow" to tyranny, have had
accounts of their lives and saying changed into the basis for a religion.
His independence, his stand for truth and self-choice has been idolized. 



The laws of every land (if compared) show that they uniformly recognize an
altruism that underlies and supports all co-existence - even if only
lip-service is given to those ideals as found hidden in the verbiage of
bibles, and other texts that priestcraft, all over the world, has vitiated
and turned into subtle and vague threats to the sanity and amiability of
life. 



What is wrong in "Imagination, fantasy, and wishful thinking?" If there is
evil, next door, around the corner, we find the "good, true and beautiful."
And we can lend our minds and hands to the great "wheel" of continuing life
that revolves for all.



Look on one fact: without the support at all points of Nature (the Universe
around us) we would not be alive. The best as the most evil man in the
world benefits form this impersonal force and power. [We receive air,
water, food, shelter, etc. and our marvelous bodies assimilate and combine
all these into a living structure to which we pay relatively little
attention in this area of living. 



Ask why this may be? 



Without



1 The immortality of the Inner Life - Spirit, Soul, the Real Man,



2 The Life giving forces and provisions of our Universe and Earth,



3 The great laws of cooperative life - Karma, 



I would agree with you and be pessimistic.



But I am confronted with many inspiring opposites to consider.



As I understand it the "ring Pass-Not" was a portion of the ancient Egyptian
secret teachings which debarred those who had not purified their moral
natures from receiving a higher level of instruction. As I see it there are
many kinds of "ring Pass-not" -- if we are unfamiliar with chemistry we
cannot understand its jargon without a lot of study similarly, for
astronomy, geology, mathematics, physics, etc. So to with THEOSOPHY - one
has to know and understand the fundamentals and basics. The entrance to such
knowledge may be had through The KEY TO THEOSOPHY -it is worth a read.



Best wishes, 



Dallas



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-----Original Message-----
From: Teos9

Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 3:32 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] Re: TIME & EVOLUTION and freedom



Hello all,



If I may chime in here, it is also possible that a husband IMAGINES that he
"experiences" the feelings of a process, for which he is not physiologically
suited. 



Given the current state of human affairs, mans inhumanity to humankind, I
would say that EMPATHY, is a development that still lies far in the future
of our evolving personalities. 



HPB's work, describes a vast period of manvantaric becoming. It serves no
purpose to try to fit all her commentaries into our present time. On the
evolutionary journey that she describes, much of what humanity is
potentially becoming, necessarily lies beyond our current ability to
understand or "experience." The ring pass not, I believe it's called. 



While some of the things you mention, certainly may be possible, so are
Imagination, fantasy, and wishful thinking.



Best to all,



Louis 



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