Theos-Talk Archives (May 2006 Message tt00611)

"We welcome the scholars who want to understand the Path. What of 
the others?
They think that we do not welcome them, but it is they who do not 
welcome us.
They cannot do so while they retain such strange conceptions of the 
Way" (1)
Best regards,  Carlos.



Here you have uplighted a real matter of fact.
greetings Christina.







--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
<carlosaveline@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
> After years dealing with an internet version of Cicero's "De 
Oficiis" (On Duties, his masterpiece on ETHICS) --  I received 
yesterday the paper volume from  LOEB's classics, Harvard.
> It was funny to see how the translator, in the Preface, puts 
himself above Cicero. 
> Philostratus' translator does the same,   in the same collection.  
Present-day scholars think themselves to be far above ancient 
thinkers. 
> This fancy was first stimulated by Vatican scholars.  Its premise 
is that everything "before Christ" is weak. The best thing some 
scholars will say of Socrates or Plato is that they "seem to 
anticipate Christ", when in fact Christian thinkers freely 
plagiarized ancient thinkers to create out of them their 
own "theology". 
> Jesuits dominate Catholic scholaship. 
> In recent decades, theosophists have been giving a -- to me -- 
undue attention and importance to rank-and-file university 
researchers, as if having  a  PhD should be enough for someone to be 
accepted as an intelligent people, or as a person who can to think 
for himself.   Far from it. Universities titles mean nothing in 
themselves. In most cases, Universities are but conditioning 
institutions. 
> The correct position of truth-seekers with regard to scholars is 
probably  the one described thus by Idries Shah:
> "We welcome the scholars who want to understand the Path. What of 
the others? They think that we do not welcome them, but it is they 
who do not welcome us. They cannot do so while they retain such 
strange conceptions of the Way" (1) 
> Best regards,  Carlos. 
> NOTE:
> (1) "Wisdom of the Idiots", Idries Shah,The Octagon Press, London, 
p.49. 
> 
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