Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00123)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jjhe@c...> 
wrote:


> Because I'm only willing to speak from my personal understandings, 
> experiences and intuitions, I'm not one to proclaim that Theosophy 
> pre-existed in the mind of Parabrahm. You will have to ask 
Parabrahm 
> about these things :-)

Hello Jerry:

Thank you for your comments. I think the fragment of the beautiful 
hymn from the Rig-Veda, quoted by HPB before the Stanzas of the 
Cosmogenesis in the SD, seems to indicate that the essential 
unknowability of the mystery that surrounds us goes right up to the 
very top, perhaps to THAT itself:

"Who knows the secret? who proclaimed it here?
Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang?
The Gods themselves came later into being—
Who knows from whence this great creation sprang?
That, whence all this great creation came,
Whether Its will created or was mute,
The Most High Seer that is in highest heaven,
He knows it—or perchance even He knows not."

 
> Since I don't have daily conversations with Parabraham, the 
Masters, or 
> even the late Madame Blavatsky, my understanding of Theosophy must 
be 
> much more humble. I see Theosophy as an expression of a kind of 
> perennialism which demonstrates the universality of ideas among 
> humankind's myths, religions, philosophies and sciences. I think 
this 
> definition is more useful, because Theosophy then becomes 
something we 
> can personally engage with and grow from--otherwise we are left to 
> merely be wowed by and parrot writings from old books we believe 
to have 
> been inspired. In the SD, HPB writes that even the Dhyani Chohans 
have 
> limitations in what they are able to perceive and understand. If 
we are 
> to accept her statement here, then, I would ask: why should we 
proclaim 
> to be True things that even the gods she writes about do not even 
know? 
> To do so is just another form of self delusion, or self 
aggrandizement, 
> IMO.


I also see it along similar lines. The word Brahman, for example, 
derives from the verbal root 'brih', "to grow, to expand". So 
perhaps growth, expansion, evolution - all three - belong to the 
very nature of the universe as a whole. 

If a teaching is something which is shown to someone - a person, a 
group, a culture - all of which are also experiencing growth and 
evolution, such a teaching needs to be dynamic. Theosophy has also 
been called the Perennial Wisdom, and that which is perennial lasts 
for a long time, perhaps because its 'language' is one that 
acknowledges the changing environment and the growing perceptions of 
humans in every age.

Like you, Jerry, I also don't have any daily conversations with 
higher spiritual realities and in that respect I am very 
much "offline". But I like to think on these things and was very 
much heartened by what I read on a bookmark produced by TPH Wheaton 
many years ago:

"THINK! It could be a new experience for you."


Pedro