Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00386)

Thanks, Bill and Chuck,

What a great way to start the day, on the right track once more!

Adelasie

On 26 Oct 2006 at 9:39, Bill Meredith wrote:

> 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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