Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00567)

What is that for an idiotic poppycock?
Fairy tales for hysterical, non-thinking male and female aunts.
Pseudo-theosophical, emotionial, anti-spiritual propaganda to fool innocent 
people and erect a dark priest-theocracy.

"Leadbeater has destroyed the TS."
- George Cardinal LeGros


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@AnandGholap.org>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject: Theos-World Friends in Mental Plane


[ www.AnandGholap.net - Online Books on Theosophy ]

" Let us turn to the second part of our subject, the question of the man's 
relations with persons whom he loves, or with those for whom he feels 
devotion or adoration. Again and again people ask us whether they will meet 
and know their loved ones in this grander life, whether amid all this 
unimaginable splendour they will look in vain for the familiar faces without 
which all would for them seem vanity. Happily to this question the answer is 
clear and unqualified; the friends will be there without the least shadow of 
doubt, and far more fully, far more really, than ever they have been with us 
yet.

Yet again, men often ask: 'What of our friends already in the enjoyment of 
the heaven-life; can they see us here below? Are they watching us and 
waiting for us?' Hardly; for there would be difficulties in the way of 
either of these theories. How could the dead be happy if he looked back and 
saw those whom he loved in sorrow or suffering, or, far worse still, in the 
commission of sin? And if we adopt the other alternative, that he does not 
see, but is waiting, the case is scarcely better. For then the man will have 
a long and wearisome period of waiting, a painful time of suspense, often 
extending over many years, while the friend would in many cases arrive so 
much changed as to be no longer sympathetic. In the system so wisely 
provided for us by Nature all these difficulties are avoided; those whom the 
man loves most he has ever with him, and always at their noblest and best, 
while no shadow of discord or change can ever come between them, since he 
receives from them all the time, exactly what he wishes. The arrangement is 
infinitely superior to anything which the imagination of man has been able 
to offer us in its place — as indeed we might have expected — for all those 
speculations were man's idea of what is best, but the truth is God's idea. 
Let me try to explain it. Whenever we love a person very deeply we form a 
strong mental image of him, and he is often present in our mind. Inevitably 
we take his mental image into the heaven-world with us, because it is to 
that level of matter that it naturally belongs. But the love which forms and 
retains such an image is a very powerful force — a force which is strong 
enough to reach and act upon the soul of that friend, the real man whom we 
love. That soul at once and eagerly responds, and pours himself into the 
thought-form which we have made for him, and in that way we find our friend 
truly present with us, more vividly than ever before. Remember, it is the 
soul we love, not the body; and it is the soul that we have with us here. It 
may be said, 'Yes, that would be so if the friend were also dead; but 
suppose he is still alive; he cannot be in two places at once.' The fact is 
that, as far as this is concerned, he can be in two places at once, and 
often many more than two; and whether he is what we commonly call living, or 
what we commonly call dead, makes not the slightest difference. Let us try 
to understand what a soul really is, and we shall see better how this may 
be. "

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