Theos-Talk Archives (August 2006 Message tt00509)

8/19/2006 10:50 AM

Understood  thanks   The interlinking of such efforts is most valuable to
all/  It validates the universality and impersonality of THEOSOPHY  

We make ourselves responsible for pure and accurate transmission  -- and
have to keep it so.

Best wishes

Dallas


-----Original Message-----
From: ] On Behalf Of nhcareyta
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:03 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: To new and old theosophical students PRINCIPLES SKANDHAS
SAMSKARAS.

Dear Dallas
Thank you for sharing with us your insights on the matters below. 
They are elaborate and very much appreciated.
May I offer a short comment regarding just two of your statements?

You write:
> why not keep it simple and study the ORIGINALS closely and with 
minute care?
> 
> When we learn the interlocking and self-proving logic of the 
ORIGINALS we
> may secure more rapidly and accurately an understanding of all the 
rest.
> Any Science or Theology can be compared with THEOSOPHY -- 
speculation,
> theories, hypothesis, etc.. stand revealed for what their probable
> conclusions are. 

And further:
>We can begin with the great text-books of
> THEOSOPHY made available to us now:
> 
> ISIS UNVEILED, the SECRET DOCTRINE, The KEY TO THEOSOPHY, The 
VOICE OF THE
> SILENCE.

The Theosophical Academy was established for this very purpose. The 
founders, after many years in study and contemplation of various 
versions of theosophical writings, writers, organisations and 
history, thought that these and other "original", unaltered works of 
Madame Blavatsky, together with "The Mahatma Letters to A.P. 
Sinnett", to be the most authentic and credible collective 
representation of the Ancient Wisdom available to date.
It was also understood that the writers and inspirers of 
these "original" works never intended them to be ends in themselves, 
nor for them to be authoritative to the exclusion of free thought, as 
did some later writers. It seems these works were the basis of newly 
released information, coordinated in such a manner as to assist 
humanity towards an altogether new way of thinking. Not simply in 
terms of additional technical information but more in the form of a 
new structure and process.
Perhaps the inestimable value of the "original" Theosophy of Madame 
Blavatsky and the Mahatmas lies not only in the profound concepts 
they elucidate, which can be "lifetimes changing" in themselves, but 
in the manner in which their written form and structure can lead to 
dramatically different ways of mind processing.
This free and "holistic" form of thinking is now more vital than ever 
in our modern age where competition, singular authority and other 
expressions of the separative mindset are so apparent.

With kind regards
Nigel