Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00136)

Daniel,
Thanks for your post and information. I do have question that has arose 
from time to time when reading such as you posted today and also comments by 
members. The question is centered upon the doctrine of Love as mentioned in the 
post today and other mentions on this Forum. In the post today Love is defined 
as "Eros" from the Greek and that is fine, but it has a tendency to just me 
personally to cause a "wait-a minute" response. Here is my problem with Eros. I 
also have read another Pole of this energy, that of the doctrine of "Agape." 
Paul in the new testament says "we are all servants of the Lord." Now in an 
English-Greek Concordance the English word "servant" is in fact in the Greek 
"slave" and the reason is that Paul is speaking from the doctrine of Agape and not 
from Eros. Eros as I understand it is indicating corporeal affections, 
whereas Agape is a Spiritual Affection based on conscious spiritual awareness of 
relationship of the corporeal to the Absolute, a distinction between the 
unconditioned and the conditioned, the conditioned being "create" and hence "slave" in 
parlance as Paul uses it. Self-sacrifice is the epitome of this awareness in 
terms of the Agape doctrine as the percipient offers self as instrument of the 
Will of the Absolute without reservation or self consideration for it's 
purposes. This in a way to me aligned to the ultimate state Blavatsky writes of 
when mentioning the Law that all are subject too.

Do you have reference where Blavatsky makes mention and contrasts Agape 
and Eros? I would enjoy reading if you have it.
also when will there be a "Global Search" option using keywords for your 
website? Daniel, I really would like that to be there if at all possible.

Best regards and thank you for your dedicated long standing work. I am still 
reading the Stokes documents.

John 


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