Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00206)

July 29, 2005 



David, please help: --



If HPB wrote: 



"HPB writes:

In the present state of society, especially in so-called civilized
countries, we are continually brought face to face with the fact that large
numbers of people are suffering from misery, poverty and disease.

Their physical condition is wretched, and their mental and spiritual
faculties are often almost dormant. On the other hand, many persons at the
opposite end of the social scale are leading lives of careless indifference,
material luxury, and selfish indulgence. Neither of these forms of existence
is mere chance.

Both are the effects of the conditions which surround those who are subject
to them, and the neglect of social duty on the one side is most closely
connected with the stunted and arrested development on the other. In
sociology, as in all branches of true science, the law of universal
causation holds good. But this causation necessarily implies, as its logical
outcome, that human solidarity on which Theosophy so strongly insists. 

If the action of one reacts on the lives of all, and this is the true
scientific idea, then it is only by all men becoming brothers and all women
sisters, and by all practicing in their daily lives true brotherhood and
true sisterhood, that the real human solidarity, which lies at the root of
the elevation of the race, can ever be attained. It is this action and
interaction, this true brotherhood and sisterhood, in which each shall live
for all and all for each, which is one of the fundamental Theosophical
principles that every Theosophist should be bound, not only to teach, but to
carry out in his or her individual life.
--H.P. Blavatsky



Where is this taken from? Why the secrecy ?



I think it a waste of time (mine assuredly) -- but, why should any reader
trust you on a quote without due references ?



HPB also wrote that giving charity THROUGH THE HAND OF ANOTHER attenuates
its value and it is better, under Karma, to give appropriate assistance
directly - in other words under Karma we are always at the right place to
render such direct assistance as is due. [ Key, pp. 243-245 ]



So which of those suggestions is to be followed?



Best wishes,



Dallas



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-----Original Message-----
From: David Grossman [mailto:davidg@broadviewnet.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:23 AM
To: 
Subject Can we really save the children?



This is from Odin:



HPB, writes about practical Theosophy on this subject at the end of Ms.
Strieber's report....
-Odin

Can We Really Save the Children?
22-Jul-2005
by Anne Strieber

HYPERLINK "http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4727"; \t "_blank"
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4727

Musicians Bob Geldof and Bono may be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for
the series of Live Aid concerts they've organized to raise money for aid to
Africa. They've pledged to wipe out poverty there by raising $50 billion,
which is twice what Africa gets now. But while large donations are welcome,
they aren't necessary: If developed countries gave the 42 poorest countries
as little as $1.23 per child per year, 6 million children could be saved.
Even the poorest countries could get enough food and medicine for needy
children if they had just that small amount of extra money.

In 2003, The Lancet published a study estimating that the lives of six
million children could be saved each year if 23 proven interventions were
universally available in the 42 countries that have 90% of child deaths. Dr.
Robert Black found that an additional $5.1 million would do the job. This
works out to a little over a dollar per child.

Jennifer Bryce, lead author of the study, says, "...$5 billion is about 6%
of expenditures for tobacco products in the US. this reflects a choice being
made by policy makers and donors-a choice that allows 6 million children to
die each year, over 16,000 each day."

Dr. Barbara McPake says, "...it is unquestionably a shameful indictment of
our global society that when known effective interventions have been
developed and could be financed at a cost of this order, millions of
children are denied access to them.This is a sobering reminder of how little
a life costs in some parts of the
world."

The 23 interventions include: breastfeeding and other nutrition
interventions, which are effective in reducing deaths from diarrhea,
pneumonia, malaria and measles; antibiotics for the treatment of pneumonia
and other infections; zinc, for the prevention of diarrhea and pneumonia and
the treatment of diarrhea and insecticide-treated nets for the prevention of
malaria.

Critics say that any extra money given to Africa will simply end up in the
pockets of the wealthy ruling classes there. In the June 25 issue of the UK
magazine The Spectator, Aidan Hartley reminds us that China's Chairman Mao
owned 23 expensive Mercedes-Benz cars, despite the fact that Communism was
originally designed to prevent poverty, and today Kim Jong II of North
Korea, where people are literally starving to death, owns dozens of them.







HPB writes:

In the present state of society, especially in so-called civilized
countries, we are continually brought face to face with the fact that large
numbers of people are suffering from misery, poverty and disease.

Their physical condition is wretched, and their mental and spiritual
faculties are often almost dormant. On the other hand, many persons at the
opposite end of the social scale are leading lives of careless indifference,
material luxury, and selfish indulgence. Neither of these forms of existence
is mere chance.

Both are the effects of the conditions which surround those who are subject
to them, and the neglect of social duty on the one side is most closely
connected with the stunted and arrested development on the other. In
sociology, as in all branches of true science, the law of universal
causation holds good. But this causation necessarily implies, as its logical
outcome, that human solidarity on which Theosophy so strongly insists. 

If the action of one reacts on the lives of all, and this is the true
scientific idea, then it is only by all men becoming brothers and all women
sisters, and by all practicing in their daily lives true brotherhood and
true sisterhood, that the real human solidarity, which lies at the root of
the elevation of the race, can ever be attained. It is this action and
interaction, this true brotherhood and sisterhood, in which each shall live
for all and all for each, which is one of the fundamental Theosophical
principles that every Theosophist should be bound, not only to teach, but to
carry out in his or her individual life.
--H.P. Blavatsky











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