Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00132)

Perhaps I have missed something in this thread, but my reading is that a "potential dugpa" and an "actual dugpa" are two different ideas.  Free will provides us with choices on the spiritual path, we can use our spiritual knowledge for selfish or for altrustic purposes.  Of course we are all potential dugpas if we choose to use our knowledge to benefit our own advancement and not apply it to humanity's advancement.

Cass

danielhcaldwell <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com> wrote:                                  Jake, you write:
 
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 I'm seeing more that this whole
 "letter" is hokey. The pseudo-teacher
 says that "each of us has a dugpa inside
 of us." WE DO NOT! This is not
 supported anywhere in the literature.
 We have a high and low self, and the
 low self is not a "dugpa"! Here's the
 supposed teacher quote, according to
 ver Planck:
 
 "Judge the action, not the person. You
 never know the true motives. Never
 judge human nature on its lowest level.
 Every one has a potential Dugpa in him."
 
 Pure dugpa BS!
 ======================================
 
 About 30 minutes ago I had thought I would
 look thru various primary sources for this
 dugpa quote.  I have this vague recollection
 of reading it somewhere else.  Didn't Pryse refer
 to it somewhere...etc. etc.
 
 I started re-reading Volume IV of THE PATH, and
 look what my eyes saw!!
 
 On page 142 of the August, 1889 issue of THE PATH,
 one sees towards the top of the page this heading:
 
 ABOUT BLACK AND WHITE MAGICIANS.
 
 This is following by a question:
 
 "How is one to recognize a black magician, and how to treat such an 
 one?"
 
 Then four paragraphs answer the question and the answer apparently 
 is signed:
 
 HADJI ERINN.
 
 Now the first sentence of the first paragraph of the answer reads:
 
 "It has been well said by H.P. Blavatsky that 'each one has a 
 potential black magician within.' "
 
 !!!!!!!
 
 Is the above discovery MORE "Pure dugpa BS!" in THE PATH????
 
 Compare and contrast this sentence with what Julia and Jake wrote.
 
 First Julia in her July 1889 PATH article.
 
 On the second page (p. 98) of this lead article, Julia writes:
 
 "What is our present Duty? Hear the words of the Master. 'Judge
 the action, not the person. You never know the true motives. Never
 judge human nature on its lowest level. Every one has a potential
 Dugpa in him.' "
 
 Julia adds a footnote to this quote:
 
 "Dugpa, black magician; one devoted wholly to self. This [quotation
 above] and other quotations [later in this same article] are from
 the private letters of the Adept."
 
 Now Jake's comments!!
 
 ===========================================
 The pseudo-teacher
 says that "each of us has a dugpa inside
 of us." WE DO NOT! This is not
 supported anywhere in the literature.
 We have a high and low self, and the
 low self is not a "dugpa"! Here's the
 supposed teacher quote, according to
 ver Planck:
 
 "Judge the action, not the person. You
 never know the true motives. Never
 judge human nature on its lowest level.
 Every one has a potential Dugpa in him."
 
 Pure dugpa BS!
 =====================================
 
 Ok, I'm out of here.  Back to my perusal for
 that other quote!
 
 Daniel
 http://hpb.cc
 
 
     
                       

 		
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