Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00597)

Thanks Morten and thanks for the watermelon follow-up.  I do hope that 
many e-mailers here will go to the reference and read the post in its 
entirety.

peace,


bill

M. Sufilight wrote:
> Hallo all,
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> My views are:
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> In the recent postings of various kind, I find that some of the e-mailers
> here at Theos-talk have overlooked the issue I emailed about on 
> the november 8th, 2006.
> You can read all of it here:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/28634
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> Here is an excerpt from the email.
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> "There is a vast accumulation of Theosophical teachings, much of it in
> writings, which would-be students plough through, looking for
> Theosophy, and wondering why it seems, so often, self-contradictory.
> The simple answer is that this material is largely time-and-culture-
> based. Most of it was prescribed for specific audiences at
> certain times and under particular conditions. Choosing the
> relevant materials for any time is a specialised task. To try to
> make sense of all of it would be like taking a bundle of medical
> prescriptions, issued over the years to a variety of people, and
> working out one's own therapy from such largely irrelevant
> papers - and without a certain specialised knowledge. Theosophical
> Teaching is PRESCRIBED.
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> Such parts of the Theosophical and Esoterical Classics, stories,
> and letters and lectures and so on which apply to the individual
> and the group today - have to be selected and applied consciously
> and appropriately, by someone who is attuned to certain realities.
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> This concept is especially irksome to the academic worker, who
> always has a bias towards utillising every scrap of information
> he can find, not towards assessing contemporary applicability.
> He is, in fact, in a different field from the Theosophist. His attitude
> influences even general readers.
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> If the scholar is unwilling to accept this concept, the conventional
> spiritual thinker is equally hampered. He, or she, does not wish
> to face the fact that Theosophical activity is often carried out in
> a way, which does not, for the conventionalist, resemble spiritual
> matters at all. The fact that the Theosophist has to script and
> project his teaching in a manner which will work - not in a
> manner which will remind others of spirituality - arouses, if ever
> perceived, feelings of great discomfort in the conditional
> 'devout' man or woman.
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> Yet the Theosophist insists that the adherence to traditional forms is
> not a spiritual activity at all."
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> It is important, that we remember, that a lot of the past theosophical teachings,
> letters, books, phamplets, and articles is of a nature, which because of language
> īs adapted to time and place etc. And what was important back then, are
> sometimes not useful today.
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> I can only encourage the Seekers to Avoid being 
> only an Orthodox Theosophist or an ordinary Scholar.
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> Please, let us be compassionate.
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> from
> M. Sufilight with peace and love...
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