Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00073)

Dear Friends, 
Can we have talismans along the path? 
Take a look at the opening of a vigorous article: 
"Ever since the birth of orthodoxy, of exoteric religion and of black magic, thousands upon thousands of years ago, two predominant vices have held sway over the minds of men—Doubt and Hypocrisy. In pure Occultism, White Magic or Divine Wisdom, these two are known as unpardonable sins. The first anthropomorphists who worshipped form and matter were the creators of these two vices, which invariably go together."
"Doubt is ever rooted in the doubt of and about one's own Higher Self and Inner God. Hypocrisy is related to the lower personal self. The self of matter is like a woman with many paramours—innumerable expressions of hypocrisy—who ever doubts the very existence of virgin chastity or marital fidelity."
"Hypocrisy is the human psychological aspect of the metaphysical Maya; the great Buddha taught that life has coverings which give to our existence and problems false meanings and so veil the Light of Nirvana that its very existence is doubted."
"Hypocrisy is pardonable in the ordinary man whose upbringing—social, religious and educational—keeps him in crass ignorance about the God within him. Anthropomorphism and Atheism, i.e., religious orthodoxy and scientific orthodoxy, blind him; however different these two orthodoxies, they produce the same result—doubt in regard to the Divinity which abides, albeit in a slumbering state, in the heart of every man."

The title of the article is "Duty - The Royal Taliman". 

It was published in the monthly paper magazine "The Theosophical Movement", India.   
You can read all of it at 
http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7606duty.html

Regards,    Carlos. 


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