Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00230)

Sunday, July 31, 2005

Re: Corresponding terms in all religions and philosophies


Dear Friend:

In ISIS UNVEILED and the SECRET DOCTRINE HPB does this kind of comparison
and equivalence all the time.

Antique THEOSOPHY is the permanent and basic root of all religions and
philosophies.

To bring this home to modern research and thought HPB spent great time
tracing the historical roots of most of the great religions and also shows
how currently they still agree on basics.

The Answers below are useful to us all. 

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: M. Sufilight
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 6:45 AM
To: Subject: Re: Gregory's biggest mistake in life

My views are:

I have followed the recent exchanges of emails on the below topic.

The following might be helpful to understand why I think that
almost all parties involved in exchanges of emails somehow has failed
to understand the theosophical teachings.


CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE ESOTERICAL AND THEOSOPHICAL TEACHINGS

Q: What is the connection, if any, between the various methaphysical
and esoterical teachings?

A: There are, in your terms, numerous connections.

The important ones to note are:

1. The world is littered with the remnants of genuine theosophical
activities, whose actions has become vitiated or repetitious. These remnants
sometimes call themselves genuine theosophical groups - even if they are
not. Somnetimes the even use the same name as the original teaching group or
groups as if this will make their activities equally valid.

2. It is a natural law that teachings be renewed in conformity with the
place, TIME, people involved and spiritual needs of the process. (And not
the various individuals wants of the proces.)


Q: What form does the renewal take?

A: Simply this. A Teacher, dedicated to a certain kind of function,
organizes and presents the teaching in a manner suitable to the conditions
just cited.


Q: Does this mean that traditional methaphysical and theosophical teachings
which we find find represented in various countries are not now of any real
function, because they represent survivals from a period when they enshrined
real "work" ?

A: That is so.


Q: But how much reality or function do such organisations now have?

A: In your terms, these spiritual, psychological and other systems have 
Three main components:-

1. The component of reality, which is ultimate truth, which is more or less
locked in by the human formulator.

2. The component of decay, which is what has crept in at the point where the
effort ceased to act truly, perhaps on the death of the formulator.

3. The component of outside appearence, which becomes after a time,
unwittingly, the main interest of the participants.

This is the least useful but most attractive component.


I might later write the following pages of the chapter.

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CUT