Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01594)

Cass,


I am glad to see our way of seeing things is broadly similar in these 
questions.


Carlos.



> From: Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Socrates Inspired More Than Plato
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:24:46 -0800 (PST)
>
> Hi Carlos
> I thought the phrase was "All I know is that I know nothing" which can be 
> understood on several levels.   In terms of comparing myself to HPB this 
> phrase sits aptly with me.  Socrates, IMO passed on knowledge untested or 
> unknowable to himself.  HPB refers to Socrates as the old Sage, yet never 
> refers to Plato in this way.  HPB specifically relates Socrates Daimon to 
> his "familiar spirit".  It appears that we must meet our supreme soul (the 
> spirit) and that it does not meet us, but I have not studied this subject 
> and may look further into it.
> As far as I know the thinking apparatus must be paralysed or overcome if we 
> are to go beyond the thinker's domain.
>
> I was sure this was part of my posting, however, if not, HPB states 
> categorically"Neither Pythagoras, Plator, nor any of the later more 
> important Neo-platonists were ever mediums; for in such case they would not 
> have been admitted to the Mysteries at all.  .....shows that apart from 
> natural "mediumship"** there has existed, from the beginning of time, a 
> mysterious science, discussed by many, but known only to a few.
>
> *  Between the two is placed natural "mediumship", a soul clothed with 
> imperfect matter, a ready agent for either the one or the other, and 
> utterly dependent on its surroundings of life, constitutional heredity - 
> physical as well as mental - and on the nature of the "spirits" it attracts 
> around itself.  A blessing or a curse, as fate will have it, unless the 
> medium is purified of earthly dross.
>
> This to me states that our bodies, physical, emotional and mental must be 
> fully under our control, and when this is the case, when our sol is clothed 
> in perfect matter, we become masters and not servants of those attracting 
> spirits.  However, I could be totally incorrect in this assumption, but it 
> is how, I read it.
>
> Please don't get me wrong, I adored the old Sage as HPB says and seeing 
> Plato agreed to become his pupil, he is no slouch and I am sure destined 
> for much greater things.
>
> Initiation into the Secret Mysteries of Life or our real raisson d'ette
>
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> Cass
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