Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00393)

"If we set before an unprepared soul an ideal so lofty that it does not 
move him, we check his evolution. If you give to a peasant the ideal of 
a Brahmana you are placing before him an impossible ideal, and the 
result is that he does nothing. When you tell a man a thing too high for 
him, that man knows that you have been talking nonsense, for you have 
commanded [45] him to perform that which he has no power to perform; 
your folly has placed before him motives which do not move him. But wise 
were the teachers of old. They gave the children sugar-plums, and later 
the higher lessons."  Annie Besant

http://www.anandgholap.net/Dharma-AB.htm

danielhcaldwell wrote:
> So WHO is to determine whether a certain "soul" is
> prepared or unprepared to have contact with HPB's
> "esoteric texts"?
>
> WHO is to decide whether a "soul" is seeking "a
> precocious contact" with HPB's esoteric writings?
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>
> Carlos writes to me:
>
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> So the reason why you have put HPB's "esoteric texts" in the internet
> for every unprepared soul to have a precocious contact with them,
> before they can understand anything is -- to show you don't pay
> atention to HPB's words and aims? Thast you do not have respect for
> her?
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>
> Let us consider the underlying implications of Carlos' words about
> the case of an "unprepared soul" having "a precocious contact" with
> HPB's writings.
>
> In this year of 2006, WHO is to decide whether a particular person or
> soul is prepared or unprepared and whether that person should have
> contact with HPB's esoteric writings?
>
> Are YOU Carlos the person to decide?
>
> Or are you suggesting that the current DES secretary is the person to
> make that decision???
>
> Let's take Jim, a ULT associate. If he finds out TODAY about the
> ULT's Dyzan Esoteric School and writes to the DES Secretary at the
> ULT headquarters and is admitted to the DES, WHO then decides if Jim
> is as a "soul" prepared or unprepared?
>
> WHO decides that Jim is worthy or prepared to have "contact" with
> HPB's esoteric writings?
>
> Is it the DES secretary?
>
> And what special qualifications does this secretary have to make such
> an important decision?
>
> Certainly I would think that one should not have "a precocious
> contact" with these writings! At least this seems to be one of the
> implications of your statements.
>
> And if the current DES secretary is the one who makes such a
> decision, then who decided that the DES secretary was prepared and
> qualified to do such? Was it the former DES Secretary? And who
> before that person? And....
>
> These are just some of the questions that thinking and inquiring
> students of Theosophy might ask as they read your various
> pronouncements....
>
> Daniel
>
>