Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00472)

Aug 24 2004



Dear Friend:



Perhaps this quote might help you:



Master writes: 



"Any writer has the privilege of taking out whole sentences from the
dictionary of Pai- Wouen- Yen- Fu the greatest in the world, full of
quotations from every known writer, and containing all the phrases ever used
-- and to frame them to express his thought... But you may find, perchance
throughout my letters twenty detached sentences which may have been already
used in books or MSS. 



When you write upon some subject you surround yourself with books of
references etc.: when we write upon something the Western opinion about
which is unknown to us, we surround ourselves with hundreds of paras: upon
this particular topic from dozens of different works -- impressed upon the
Akasa. 

MAHATMA LETTERS pp. 364







"There is not a book but is the shadow of some other book, the concrete
image, very often, of the astral body of it in some other work upon the same
or approximate subject. 



I agree entirely with Dr Cromwell when he says that 'true talent will become
original in the very act of engaging itself with the ideas of another;' nay
will often convert the dross of previous authors into the golden ore that
shines forth to the world as its own peculiar creation. 



'From a series of extravagant and weak Italian romances, Shakespeare took
the plots, the characters, and the major part of the incidents of those
dramatic works which have exalted his name, as an original writer, above
that of every other in the annals of literature.'



>From LETTERS FROM THE MASTERS OF WISDOM, Series I, pp 105-6



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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew S
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:21 PM
To: 

Subject: RE: Reality



"Perception is reality." -- unknown 



Didn't HPB say somewhere that anything that can be thought by mankind really
and truly exists somewhere in the cosmos? Please help me find that quote,
for those who know.



Andrew 







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