Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01409)

Dear Mark (Jake), Dear Duane, 


I would like to write to you both, as well as to all other friends here.  

Perhaps it is easy to rationally show that, from the strictly Occult point of view, Alice Bailey books have several important limitations. 

But besides the points I listed before, in another posting,  explaining why I have a broad sympathy for World Goodwil --  I can add something more.  

A poor and limited rational framework can produce good results, in some circumstances, Jake; just  as a highly precise and rationaly correct framework of mind can produce no results. 

Many factors make that a fact. 

This is proved, in my view, for the fact that in certain moment the North-American 19th century free-thinker D. M. Bennett, who did not even believe in the concept of Adepts (!) , was described by a Mahatma as a most valuable lay chela !) , with moving words in the ML which I can bring here; while dozens of "conscious lay chelas", with full access to all literature, failed miserably because of selfishness in their hearts and minds. 

This is something to think about. 

It its a common place and certainly a consensus that Theosophy was never given to the world for its students to get proud of their "scholarship" ort "status" and attach themselves to narcistic "spiritual" feelings. 

It has been stated thousands of times by HPB/Masters (though not so  by CWL-AB) that it is our will to help mankind, the great orphan (and not to help any corporation)  that will give us the right to be "under higher observation", and to really learn, etc. 

What we see, though, even in some circles of HPB/Masters, is an sad absence of any authentic feeling of co-responsibility for the planet or for the destiny of our present "civilization".    

Well my dear friends Duane and Jake, I guess World Goodwill has something to teach us all as to planetary compassion, global solidarity, and world citizenship. 

So, A. Bailey and World Goodwill may have great limitations in a way  -- and other quarters of the movement also have their own degrees of limitations --; 
but they have something to teach us, as they have something to learn from us.

I don't think that the words above are, or can be, more than a very limited suggestion of something. I count on your goodwill in reading them.   

Regards,   Carlos. 


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