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Fw: Some Random Remarks on one of Perry's Comments

Sep 17, 2004 08:35 AM
by Bill Meredith



----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Meredith" <meredith_bill@earthlink.net>
To: <dalval14@earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Some Random Remarks on one of Perry's Comments


Dear Dallas, you seem to equate theosophy and the study of theosophy with reading books and comparing and contrasting later material with Blavatsky, Judge, and Mahatma "original programme" material.

Your comment below that, " I have fully checked out the documentation and seen them. -- "dependency on mere books" is a problem when one has nothing to go on." is very telling. Might a person be able to intuit beyond the book and even beyond the documentation, since both are but materialistic representations of a truth, to experience the truth of things with the eye of dangma which neither reads books nor needs the material documentation behind books?

Further you comment that, " The ability to think things through depends largely on the extent of one's study." Can you expand upon this thought? In the previous paragraph you give me directions to locate a book on theosophical history. Are you equating the ability to think things through with book study? Are you saying that without books and the attendant documentation, "one has nothing to go on.?"

Can one be in touch with the Higher Self, without having read a theosophy book? Once the link with the Higher Self is established, does one strengthen that link by reading books?

Thank you for your comments. They are valuable to me.

regards,

Bill

----- Original Message ----- From: "W.Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@earthlink.net>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:32 AM
Subject: RE: Some Random Remarks on one of Perry's Comments


Sept 16 20004


Dear Bill :


If you want documentary facts (and escape (?) opinions) then secure a copy
(it is on line) of

THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT (1875-1950)

Available at www.phx-ult-lodge.org/
www.ult.org
www.theosophycompany.org

cost of the actual book is about $ 7.50. Probably about $ 10.00 shipped.
Maybe you already have the book? But see it "on line" first.

The full history of what has happened since 1875 is summarized there.
[Documents included]

I have fully checked out the documentation and seen them. -- "dependency
on mere books" is a problem when one has nothing to go on.

The ability to think things through depends largely on the extent of one's
study.

Some never stop studying. Others call a halt, and then their limits are so
to say: "frozen." ( I hope only for a while.)

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill M
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:45 AM
To:
Subject: Some Random Remarks



Perhaps it should be left up to each individual who claims the label
theosophist to decide for themselves what they "should" read.

Books may be useful in the beginning, but I would think that some more
experienced theosophists might have gotten past the dependency on mere
books.

After all, Isis itself can be unveiled by those with eyes to see.

The voice of the silence itself can be heard by those with ears to hear.

Bill








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