Theos-Talk Archives (April 2006 Message tt00016)

if otherwise, then, like Socrates repeating to himself, as well as to his=20
fellow-men, the noble injuction, =E2=80=98O man, know thyself=E2=80=99=E2=
=80=99, he succeeded=20
in=20
recognizing his God within himself." (1)

Cass



carlosaveline cardoso aveline <carlosaveline@hotmail.com> wrote:=20

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THE ONLY REAL TEMPLE  -- WHERE IS IT?

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Dear Friends,


Outer, physical  Temples can be seen, at best, as metaphors for,
or projections of, the temple or divine presence in our own consciousness.

Referring to the old Socrates of Athens, , H. P. Blavatsky wrote:


=EF=BF=BDFrom the  days of the primitive man described by the first Vedic p=
oet, down=20
to our modern poet, there has not been a philosopher worthy of that name,=20
who did not carry in the silent sanctuary of his heart the grand and=20
mysterious truth. If initiated, he learnt it as a sacred science; if=20
otherwise, then, like Socrates repeating to himself, as well as to his=20
fellow-men, the noble injuction, =EF=BF=BDO man, know thyself=EF=BF=BD=EF=
=BF=BD, he succeeded in=20
recognizing his God within himself." (1)

The esoteric movement is only a stimulating and testing common ground for=20
that inner recognition.

Best regards,  Carlos Cardoso Aveline



NOTE:
(1) =EF=BF=BDIsis Unveiled=EF=BF=BD, by H. P. Blavatsky, Theosophical Unive=
rsity Press,=20
Pasadena, California, USA, 1988, two volumes, see volume II, p. 318.=20=20
Reproduced by H.P. Blavatsky in =EF=BF=BDCollected Writing=EF=BF=BD, TPH Wh=
eaton, volume=20=20
XIV, 1985, 733 pp., see p. 48.

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