Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00525)

Dear Cass,

I agree. Carlos.


> From: Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Opportunities Now
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:22:45 -0800 (PST)
>
> Footnote-Fountain Source of Occultism on pledge fever and the probationary 
> path.
>   Everything is karmic.  Whatever happens is the resultant of the many 
> karmic energies working to find expression in a life, the strongest of 
> these coming into manifestation first, while the less strong are not turned 
> aside but are dammed back, to await their turn.  In certain very unusual 
> circumstances it is possible for an adept or teacher with the full consent 
> of his pupil to prevent the appearance of the strongest karmic energy 
> first, or so to smooth its action that other karmic energies or elements 
> can appear almost simultaneously.  These rare instances are always for the 
> benefit either of the pupil or for some great and impersonal work for 
> humanity, and can take place only in circumstances or conditions which are 
> actually within what may be called a higher karma of the one so submitting 
> himself to the destiny thus modified.  But even here the karma so affected 
> will find its expression just the same, and with its precisely normal 
> condition of power and with precisely normal
>  results.  Subsidiary Papars, October 1895.
>
>   So who is to say that HPB wasn't also dealing with karmic energies 
> working through the personality while at the same time  working for "some 
> great and impersonal work for humanity"
>
>   Cass
>
> carlosaveline cardoso aveline <carlosaveline@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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> TESTS, PROBATION AND ACTUAL LEARNING
>
> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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>
> Dear Friends,
>
> To an ordinary observer, present controversies at “Theos-talk” might look
> like a chaos. To the student of Esoteric Philosophy, there is a higher or
> inner order in this apparent dis-order.
>
> Actually, there is nothing wrong in the fact that difficulties and
> contradictions emerge.
>
> Some people see the spiritual path as a way of obtaining peace and comfort
> at the personal level. In their deeds, if not in words, they try to reject
> all “probations” and tests. They fear pain. They attach themselves to
> pleasure.
>
> When these people learn about H.P.B.’s struggle against theological
> dogmatism and other forms of collective ignorance and hypocrisy, they feel
> that the main teacher of the esoteric philosophy was excessively polemist.
> They think that H.P.B. had a temper and that she was less peaceful than she
> should have been.
>
> Thinking like this may help us disguise our own tamasic love for routine 
> and
> ommision. Those who challenge collective ignorance are fiercely attacked in
> various ways – so it is convenient for us to have some handy explanations
> and excuses as to why we do not try to follow the example and the vibration
> pattern of Initiates.
>
> Ill-informed people believe that HPB challenged the dogmas of her time
> because she was anxious, neurotic – or perhaps because she had ‘a missing
> principle’ in her inner consciousness. The matter of the fact is that she
> was setting an example for future generations of truth-seekers to follow.
>
> She couldn’t avoid challenging the dogmas of her time because she was a
> great soul. The same happened to many Messengers, great and small, since
> Pythagoras, Buddha and Lao-tzu. Messengers don’t care about established
> dogmas or personal well-being. Seen as an example of an vibration pattern,
> H.P.B.’s life and suffering contain an inspiring example for us in the 21st
> century.
>
> She was a willing instrument to open a new road and to establish a better
> pattern. More than one century after she left her body in 1891, her life
> is still a living metaphor illustrating the path which we might take
> courage to tread one of these days. The inner aspect of the progress along
> this road is radiant with eternal bliss – while, at the outer level, the
> learner’s personality undergoes a painful psychological and alchemical
> transformation.
>
> One Mahatma described this process in a letter to a lay chela:
>
> “You were told (...) that the path to Occult Sciences has to be trodden
> laboriously and crossed at the danger of life; that every new step in it
> leading to the final goal, is surrounded by pit-falls and cruel thorns; 
> that
> the pilgrim who ventures upon it is made first to confront and conquer the
> thousand and one furies (1) who keep watch over its adamantine (2) gates
> and entrance – furies called Doubt, Skepticism, Scorn, Ridicule, Envy and
> finally Temptation – especially the latter; and that he, who would see
> beyond had to first destroy this living wall; that he must be possessed of 
> a
> heart and soul clad in steel, and of an iron, never failing determination
> and yet be meek and gentle, humble and have shut out from his heart every
> human passion, that leads to evil.”(3)
>
> What about “Theos-talk” as a probationary field of search for truth?
>
> Contradictions here are evidences that it is alive.
>
> Right now, an apparent “fever” of messages and controversy precipitates
> some materials and destroys others, in several levels of consciousness, and
> with several kinds of magnetism.
>
> New learning opportunities may be emerging from under the surface of such
> outward misunderstandings.
>
> “Opportunities are everywhere”, indeed.
>
>
> Peace to all beings, and best regards, Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
>
>
> O o o O o o O o o O o o O o o O o o O
>
>
> NOTES:
>
> (1) Furies: in classical Mythology, feminine deities who punished crimes,
> prompted by the victims, and who took revenge on behalf of the gods.
>
> (2) Adamantine: like a diamond; impenetrably hard; utterly and unyieldingly
> firm.
>
> (3) “The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett”, Theosophical University Press,
> Pasadena, California, 1992, Letter LXII, pp. 351-352.
>
> O o o O o o O o o O o o O o o O o o O
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