Re: Theos-World RE: error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?
May 29, 2005 05:09 AM
by M. Sufilight
Hallo Dallas and all,
Sorry about the content of my last email to you - Dallas.
But, I was quite lost in the maze of information you emailed
on various subjects.
And I am still baffled about what you actually were trying to tell my and
others with that email.
The below is something I can understand.
Very good thought that "essence" thought.
But Dallas, I thought that we removed problems instead of being creators of
them ?
from
M. Sufilight
----- Original Message -----
From: "W.Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@earthlink.net>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: RE: Theos-World RE: error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?
May 29 05
Dear M S:
Our Universe is ONE and SPIRITUAL IN ESSENCE.
We because of many desires make differences and problems.
If we focus on essentials all becomes smooth and easy
That's all that need be said -- but some want to know how that is so.
Dallas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sufilight
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 6:25 AM
To: Subject: Re: : error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?
Hallo Dallas and all,
My views are:
Dallas I hate to say it, but this email is way to long - filled with to
many
words.
So please Dallas: What do you want - or what are trying to tell me ?
from
M. Sufilight
-BNStudy" <
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: RE: error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?
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May 28 2005
Dear M S :
Re: error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?
In regard to good and evil, we might think and see if this helps at all:
The Universe is not one of competition, but rather, a comprehension of a
universal fact. All participate in this. Now how can we test this? Can
we divest it of any emotional or personal, selfish attitudes? Can pure
thought be attained?
As I see it, comprehension is a Mind faculty and all have it developed in
various stages. We need to exercise our minds to seek to know anything.
It includes selection, comparison, analysis, re-formation, and above all
an
openness to the thoughts and ideas of others - so as to extract all that
is of the ideal and the universal from them.
But over anything else, we (as personal minds) have to assure ourselves
That what we learn is valid and universal - of course the ultimate truth
is (as
I see it) a profound intuition (a universal certainty, Buddhi perhaps) --
Also called Apara Vidya -- a "knowledge of things in themselves" - as
causes.
If so, then, those CAUSES are eternal and ineffaceable energies and powers
which are an integral part of the ONE SUPREME SPIRIT.
In the effort to grasp these concepts, it is our present personal
consciousness that is transformed, made ineffable (spiritual ?) which in
its purity (free from emotion and Kama), alone, is able to make this
transition - in the words of the Gayatri verse, it becomes that "vase"
that
surrounds the absolute SUN of the one SPIRIT - the universal (and the
individual) ATMA. I would say this is the Buddhi, and is made of that
spiritualized and individualized substance (a specialized grouping of
'monads,' called "Suddha Sattva." ( Glos p. 11)
And, it is for this reason that our personal and individual "perfection,"
when attained, is an integration of our individual and personal selves.
The temporary "personal" mask-like self of this, and every "incarnation"
--
become one with its master "Thread" - the ONE ATMIC SELF -- or,
the HIGHER SELF within each of us.
Looking at it from the point of view of the Universe - all the billions of
scattered "rays" of that one Divine, reunite (eventually) and CONSCIOUSLY
into ONE. None is "wiped out" or "erased" by Devachan, Sleep or Nirvana.
Together they form that "bundle of sticks" that are the Unity of the
Ancient Spiritual Lodge of the Wise -of the Avatars, the Buddhas, the
Bodhisattvas, the Rishis, the Adepts and the "Elder Brothers" -- the
Mahatmas of the Race and Family of MAN - of the eternal (not the
personal) Man.
To work with (as a brother Immortal) and manifest along side of all other
"points of Spirit involved in Matter," each Spiritual morsel (Ray)
self-consciously adopts a "rising self"-- a unit of "personal
consciousness," which, as a MONAD, is now trying to become fully
SELF-CONSCIOUS. [see S D II 167]
All the rest is a passing show - illusion and maya -- but always recorded
imperishably by the universal scribes the Lipika in the imperishable
fabric / substance named the Akasa. (yet in its own way and at its own
place it
has validity as "Para Vidya.")
We are either "beneath" nor "above," nor "besides" anyone or anything.
This is not pride or selfishness, but a statement of impersonality and
universalism - a fact that only a pure, impersonal SPIRIT can make.
And, it has to be done only by the "impersonalized and universalized
PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS." It is the final sacrifice (a sacred deed)
Offered by every "personal Self" to the ONE PURE SPIRIT of which it
recognizes a
Ray in itself as an embodiment - an "Elder Brother." It is ever in our
Higher Nature as the Monad -- ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS.
"Evil" by definition becomes a denial of this condition and power in us --
is it not a vast error? It opens the "door" to acts,. thoughts, and
feelings that tend to destroy the harmony of universal virtue and law.
And of
course every part of universal NATURE rejects and fights such a
violation. So we
have the "eternal war" between the Higher SELF, and the "lower selfish,
evil self." [depicted in the BHAGAVAD GITA]
I ask: Isn't the cure today's work -- brotherhood and compassion -- the
giving of ourselves to others and trying to assist wherever we are
allowed?
There is nothing we do not do which is not a "service" to another - in
Some way. If this is the key to active brotherhood, how do we search and
find
it?
That is our task and pilgrimage.
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