Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00082)

Jan 5 2004

Dear Friends and C:

In continuing, let us look at "self-sacrifice."

Is this not found to be an aspect of love? -- and nurturing -- by the
advanced and wiser "entities" of those who are learning and rising in their
own intelligence?  

Can we say: as a universal factor in that vast arena of evolution and
individual improvement, that all we call: "Evolution" or "Manvantara," or
"manifestation" that the sharing of concepts and materials is universal?
Example, can we look at: parents and offspring; teachers and pupils.
managers and employees; artists and aspiring artisans -- Laws, Rules and
Ideals are to be found everywhere -- all shared, all cooperative, all
facilitating a harmonious and pleasant life, etc...

Is this one of the expressions of "love?" Surely besides "personal" love,
there has to be a fundamental and basic LOVE -- one that encompasses the
"many." Curiously it seems for most, that the singular and personally
directed "love" -- usually an exclusive one -- is the only one to be
considered. But is this correct? Is this so in the vastness of nature?  

On observation, we find the wiser are always in some way or other tutoring
the less experienced. Our educational institutions illustrate this. Our
family and communal life show this everywhere. The concept of "government"
onerous as it may be to some, also illustrates this -- as an ideal.
(Applications, usually restrictive and punitive, often fail.)

In history we have an example of the line of ancient academies, libraries,
and monasteries where philosophy, science, ethics and morals were
considered, debated and preserved.

All our Universities, with their many departments and libraries, show the
clustering of talent and genius, so that advances in knowledge and the
unveiling of Nature's secrets proceeds, and can be made available as needed.
Now more than ever before the exchange of information has enabled a more
rapid and deeper appreciation of the secrets of Nature. But we need t say
very humbly: NATURE WAS THERE FIRST and she has instituted every aspect of
life (micro to macro) so that harmony and discord are reconciled in a
universal symphony that rules every aspect of time and space. The product is
LIFE, and the lubricants are WISDOM, tolerance and the recognition of
universal brotherhood. Universality, impersonality and a great heart-care
for others, are the three main keys to this actuality of on-going LIFE
everywhere. 

It is wise, perhaps, to observe that Nature has installed all these many
benefits long ahead of our investigations. Is this out of "love" or
"necessity?" Or, both? Or do we sense therein the everpresent and
ever-active Law of KARMA: Action / reaction -- Spirit / matter -- at work ?

Suppose that we agree to accept the occult concept that the whole of nature
is a manifestation of two poles of life interacting?  

Spiritual harmony, works by law, to use and improve the chaos of
unintelligent matter-forms. 

An organization to do this impersonally and individually in the vastness of
SPACE would require a balance and a sensitivity that is hard to realize,
until -- until we look into our own physical organization, or psycho-mental
"self," and our wonderful analytical mental capacities. [Example: try the
effect of a pin-prick in one's finger. The whole body reacts, and knows
what has happened.]

We know that there is somewhere hidden within us a "SELF." It observes our
living and records our impressions and reactions -- Memory ensues. Science
seeking for a physical basis has yet to discover it. The tools for its
executive power can be seen working in all of us. We can observe
consciousness and intelligence at work, but, can we define them fully? How
can this be done?

We know that the focus of our "attention" is one that we can cultivate,
sharpen, and devote to any study, event or work. It carves in "memory"
either a light or a deep impression. [ Example: That there is an
independent and retrievable record of all events and sensations is proved by
hypnotic experiments. In THEOSOPHY, this is called the Records of the Akasa
and the Astral Light.]

Our brain-mind may take time to sort out the dual impact of "occurrence /
event," and the psychic / feeling impact associated with it. {As is
currently happening with thousands of the "survivors" from the tsunami in
the Indian Ocean. A mental and psychic numbness isolates some survivors for
a while. The scars left by the catastrophe will never entirely vanish.}

Feelings and emotions are to be seen as separate from rational and logical
processes. The SELF within employs all these in two ways: as receptors and
as actuators. [The impressions acquired through our 5 "perceiving" senses
are collected by the synthesizer: the MIND. And then, the "pictures" made
by those through it, are presented to the OBSERVER-- the SELF within.]

The second set of 5 "acting" senses are then brought into play, and the body
is made to express by the will, the choices and independent decisions made
by the inner SELF. 

Here is where motive and virtue play their part. The future of all beings
depends on the prevailing quality of cooperation and of brotherly love --
inherent in a relation that has been in operation since the remotest of
times, is continuing now, and will pass on into the longest foreseeable
future. It is filtered, however thorough our present "personality." And
the "personality we live in has limitations. The SELF knows this. And it
is our present "personality" that needs refining. In the equation of "Self
/ not-self" the "not-self is the isolating and selfish personality that
resists charity, love, generosity and self-sacrifice. Is this reasonable?
In answer lets ask a further question : For how long can isolation and
selfishness endure ? And when the death of the body inevitable arrives,
does anything worthwhile survive? 

With such a view what shall we decide to do?

It is true that there are (on practical considerations) distortions -- but,
underlying those deviations from a harmonious "norm," is there not an IDEAL?
How can we discover for ourselves the truth of these things? 

If for instance (in the case of virtues and morals) the injunctions to
living a "higher life" -- such as can be found in Krishna's BHAGAVAD GITA,
in Buddha's DHAMMAPADA, in Jesus' SERMON ON THE MOUNT, in HPB's articles on
"occultism" make clear, and show that since antiquity, there has been a
common and basic system of self-improvement recommended.  

All religions have shared in this single pattern of basic idealism.  

But not all of them (as currently organized) have made it a point to tell
their parishioners that they were, each of them, inherently immortal in
SPIRIT, that they lived to learn to think independently, that knowledge and
wisdom were available for all who desired to acquire those tenets and axioms
of true LIFE, and that the objective of living was to assist and harmonize
with all others. 
[ Example: If "God" is universal, then the fact that any human, or entity,
or other religion exists, is proof that "God" (in ITS vast wisdom) desires
them to be alive. How are we to seek to abbreviate or terminate, or cause
any suffering to others? ]

As students, we can go through those concepts, test them, and pull out the
separate items of this coherent system, and then, make use of it, once we
have demonstrated to ourselves its reasonableness. Is not Wisdom an
objective of living? 

Benjamin Franklin, for instance in his "POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC" describes
those items of virtue and talent he discovered budding in himself and, he
said he expected to use this knowledge to improve his own character and
nature. It would be made by him a course of practical application. It is a
good starting place to consider.

None of this information is found to be "spoon-fed." nor is it "pap for an
undernourished humanity." It is a call for the most vigorous of researches
and an iron will to self-apply the best conclusions we can arrive at. 

Everything is based on the principle of spiritual immortality, as a basic
and innate point of truth. It is an exactitude inherent, not only in every
human mind/soul or "heart," but throughout Nature in all its many
interlocking and cooperative components. The "sub-atomic forces," the
"atoms," the molecules, cells, crystals, and all structures in our bodies,
in the world, and ultimately in the Universe are in continual movement and
undergo a continual and "brotherly" harmony of exchange. And we are not
continually or fully aware of this ever-on-going process. One might observe
that there also is an ongoing exchange of energies and forces as rays, and
waves of force pass in and through all of us -- some generated in the most
remote areas of space. Of what nature and quality are mental thoughts, and
emotional feelings? Where to they go after we emanate them? Do we receive
them from others? Can they be healthful or harmful?

Are these minute exchanges to be of assistance, or of impediment to us and
others? What do we prefer? What should an Ideal Universe require ?

We tend to limit our perceptions and conclusions to the physical appearance
of our bodies, and narrow our objectives (often) to the selfish ease,
pleasure of a future self-imposed isolation -- that for so many implies
"bliss" (an unformulated isolated contentment) of this single existence,
and the body we live in and function through.  

THEOSOPHY draws our attention to the evidence of a "Higher Life" based on
the universal fact of SOUL IMMORTALITY, and the inevitable and constant
exchange of the materials and other vital such as energies of thought and
emotion, all, components of our joint life and co-progress. In nature we
discover that we share everything. The reception and generation of
responses are things we can control once we become aware of their existence.
How to do this?

The literature of THEOSOPHY continually points to this as feasible .  

But how many are there who actually grasp this concept, even dimly, and work
to prove or disprove it?

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: christinalee  
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:55 AM
To: 
Subject: [bn-study] Re: "intelligent design of life"



"W.Dallas TenBroeck" dalval14@e... wrote:

Is it not the Fohat that is responsable for all of that, with that 
working in different vibrations.The creator of all, that what is, was 
and ever should be.

Love the heretic or whatever one will call this!

Greetings


Christina