Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00385)

Good quote, Chuck.

It is my direct experience that judging the higher self awareness 
(spirituality)  of another is an activity one often zealously embraces 
in an effort to avoid looking at the quality of one's own spirituality. 
Hence moral judgments and condemnations are almost always aimed outward 
at another instead of being absorbed inward upon oneself in communion 
with one's higher self.  Nietzsche is no exception to this phenomenon 
which evidences itself daily here on theos-talk.  We are participating 
witnesses to a daily barrage of disparaging comments and judgements by 
one person upon the character, motivations, higher self awareness, and 
overall theosophical fitness of another.  If, but for one day, that 
person who would judge another so absolutely would instead absorb those 
thought forms into their own consciousness rather than releasing them 
into our theos-talk community, we and  they  would become less 
adversarial towards each other and this meeting place would become a 
haven for seekers, rather than a den for those who are convinced that 
they already know everything worth knowing.

I am reminded of this passage from Matthew 7 KJV

"1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what 
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but 
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of 
thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then 
shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls 
before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again 
and rend you.

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it 
shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and 
to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

peace within,

--bill

Drpsionic@aol.com wrote:
> "Moral judgements and condemnations constitute the favorite revenge of 
> the spritually limited against those less limited." Friedrich 
> Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
>
> Chuck the Heretic
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