Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00750)

Christ, this is beautiful!

Thank you Erica,

Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erica Letzerich" <eletzerich@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World The Eyes of the Forgotten Children



The Eyes of the Forgotten Children

"Strive to give back the Divine in yourselves to the Divine in the All."
Plotinus



Could divine wisdom or theosophy be a written system? Would that not 
contradict the very meaning of the word theosophy? How could intellectual 
knowledge which is superficial and absent of wisdom be theosophy? Can we win 
in the battlefield of free thinking and do not surrender to the creation of 
dogmas?



For so long humanity is in constant but silent battle that seems to not have 
an end, and whose battlefield is within human mind. The battle between 
dogmas and freethinking is one of the major causes of conflicts. Two paths 
are unrolled: the path of those who lost in the battlefield and are 
prisoners and generators of dogmas, and the path of the freethinkers that 
are searching for the truth and do not associated it to dead letter.



Within the theosophical circles we can see the reflexes of such battle, and 
many have already surrendered to the powerful human tendency to dogmatize: 
quarrels disagreements original teachings, non original teachings, this is 
theosophy this is not theosophy etc. Exactly like Christians, Buddhists, and 
every other religious movement with intellectual division and conflicts.



Today the word theosophy is generally associated to a set of doctrines based 
upon the genesis presented into the Secret Doctrine of Blavatsky, and 
numerous have been the authors that have written books in an attempt to 
simplify and explain the so called theosophical system. Other interpretation 
common given for theosophy is the ancient wisdom-tradition, and also the 
wisdom underlining religion, philosophy and science or the perennial 
philosophy. A third interpretation is that theosophy is pure altruism, the 
realization of the oneness of life.



The Greek word theosophy has two compounds: Theos (god) and Sophia. In 
ancient Greece Sophia (wisdom) was one of Plato's four cardinals Aretes 
(Virtues). According to Plato the spiritual harmony of the soul where 
related to the four cardinal virtues, which he considered expressions of the 
three basic energies of the Soul. Wisdom was an inner condition that would 
be an expression of one the three basic energies of the soul.

Divine Wisdom or Theosophy is related to the energies of the soul, 
consequently can be understood only from within, there are no words in any 
language able to express the Divine Wisdom or theosophy. You may learn by 
heart the whole system presented in the work of Blavatsky and in the work of 
others, you may write, debate, teach, and affirm this knowledge is 
theosophy. But you will be still trapped by the intellect, consequently 
unable to know what theosophy is. Theosophy - Divine Wisdom- ought to be a 
potential alive within human nature, consequently theosophy can't be the 
lifeless letter, expressed in any book or writing.

Theosophy is a deep awareness of the unity of life of someone else's 
suffering that is also our suffering. It is compassion, altruism and love. 
Can you teach love, compassion and altruism? You may describe it, transform 
into words, but you will never be able to make the other to experience it 
merely by intellectual discussions. It is only the ability to experience it 
that will teach someone what theosophy - Divine Wisdom- is.



Our great challenge in a world immersed in problems, where violence 
increases, wars, millions of children die every year of hunger is to try to 
realize theosophy from within and do not create dogmas. But if one cannot 
realize theosophy from within, can still be a fighter for freethinking and 
do not surrender to the battle. Only the cultivation of an open mind, 
investigative and a pure heart would irrigate the field making possible to 
flourish theosophy - Divine Wisdom.



If you cannot see the light in the eyes of the forgotten children, because 
you cover it with the darkness of human indifference, you don't know what 
theosophy is. And many that spread the darkness of indifference think they 
know what theosophy is and that they are able to discuss about theosophy. 
But they cannot see, as they cannot see the light in the eyes of the 
forgotten children, which they are simply generating dogmas, divisions, 
illusions, and that is not theosophy. Theosophy is the ability to see the 
light in the eyes of the forgotten children because their hopes, their 
dreams, their pain and happiness are also our hopes our dreams our pain and 
happiness.

Erica Letzerich



Erica Letzerich .'.







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