Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00952)

Chuck,

Steven got the point. Carlos.


> From: Steven Levey <sallev1@yahoo.com>
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> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: RE: 1906 Controversy Sources
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:20:53 -0800 (PST)
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> Chuck,
>        I think you are missing the spirit of Carlos's words here. He is 
> not simply talking about some kind of authoritarian sense of Theosophical 
> ethics, at least I don't think so. It would be heretical for him to do 
> that, for it would be in a dead letter sense, or interpretation, of this 
> ethic had that been his intention.
>       I think he is saying (or rather implying) that by definition, 
> theosophical thought is ethical because it implies the need for humane 
> thought and compassion as part of its systematic approach to wisdom. This 
> actually makes theosophical thought Wisdom. Otherwise it would be just 
> another intellectual mask for it and as sterile as any other. So, this is 
> what makes the Theosophical Movement, being that is capable of containing 
> true theosophical thought, potentially useful. But it's only potential, 
> since any aspect of the so-named Movement can become, and has become in 
> many instances, selfrighteous, giving the philosophy itself a bad name.
>
>   Steve
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> Drpsionic@aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/17/2006 8:40:12 AM Central Standard Time,
> carlosaveline@hotmail.com writes:
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> Now, when people say that Theosophy is just words, so that the Ethics of
> Theosophists is of no importance, this is absolutely not true.
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> No, it is absolutely true.
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> There is no holy writ in Theosophy. Everything is open to debate and
> question and interpretation so one may be a Theosophist and still reject 
> the ethics
> of everyone else. The two really do not go hand in hand no matter what
> Blavatsky said. This isn't the 19th century any more. We do not mix things 
> they
> way they did.
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> Chuck the Heretic
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