Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00335)

Thank you, Leon. Well said.

I would add (with your words) that none of us can write completely free from 
our own individually personal points of view which incorporate our own 
particular emotional and mental biases which is also conditioned by our 
education and the times and societies we live in.

It is but a small gain to recognize the personal biases of HPB and others. 
It appears to me that we lift the veil that covers our spiritual unity in 
relative proportion to the extent that we are able to recognize and mitigate 
against our own individual personal biases. We each must do our own work.

bill
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From: <leonmaurer@aol.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: "Blavatsky died with cigarette in mouth." 
(corrected)


> All these "facts" presented by Amand Gholap are nothing more than personal
> opinions -- conditioned by his own prejudicial biases, beliefs and 
> convictions
> -- that have been refuted over and over again by the Masters and others. 
> When
> will he wake up and see things as they really are?
>
> The real nature of reality can never be written down. This includes both 
> HPB
> and CWL who saw the fundamental ontological basis of reality from their 
> own
> individually personal points of view which incorporated their own 
> particular
> emotional and mental biases which was also conditioned by their education 
> and
> the times and societies they lived in.
>
> Therefore, neither of them could explain -- if we take their dead letters 
> at
> their face value -- the true nature of occult reality that would be 
> consistent
> with each other. Nevertheless Blavatsky gave it out first in its 
> entirely,
> and taught it to both Besant and Leadbeater -- who then reinterpreted it 
> based
> on their personal biases toward the Christian religion that they were co
> nditioned into believing since birth. Blavatsky pushed it in the opposite
> direction because she was conditioned to hate the Jesuits and Catholicism 
> and thus was
> biased against all organized religions of a personal God nature. Thus all
> their inner visions are questionable. As for fundamental reality and its
> metaphysical ontology, that has never changed. And has its basis in 
> fundamental
> truths that go beyond any written interpretation.
>
> That's why HPB said, when not so conditioned, that the real occult
> ontological truth is hidden "in and around the words and between the 
> lines," and only
> through our own intuition and self devised study and practice, could we 
> ever
> truly understand it in its entirely. Thus we each have to find that truth 
> for
> ourselves, and cannot be stuck in the dead letter writings of either HPB 
> or CWL.
>
> The problem here is that Amand is as much a "dead letter" Leadbeater
> fundamentalist as those who read the Secret Doctrine in its dead letter 
> are Blavatsky
> fundamentalists.
>
> The true occultists/theosophists are neither. And take what they know to 
> be
> the truth from their own inner intuitive understanding -- based on a
> comprehensive study of all the writings and interpretations, so as to 
> compare them,
> cull out the inconsistencies and arrive at the "golden mean" of absolute 
> truth
> through their own direct inner visionary experience -- without any biases 
> or
> prejudices that come from the conditioning of their lower natures.
>
> Enough said.
>
> Leon Maurer
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