Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00077)

Daniel offers us a very potent message from The Old Lady, one that is 
absolutely applicable to us now today. For weeks this list has been 
engaged in some sort of multi-level sparring match. In the meantime, 
momentous events are occurring in the affairs of humanity, events 
that will affect all of us for a long time to come. Perhaps we can 
listen to HPB, speaking to us from beyond through these words, and 
take a moment to sincerely ask ourselves, "Am I honestly working to 
bring peace and brotherhood to consciousness in humanity, or am I 
succumbing to the forces of darkness, allowing my lower ego to sow 
dissention wherever I may?" Nobody can answer for us, but the answer 
will guide us, if our aspirations are pure. The work is important, 
the need great, the stakes high. The whole future of humanity hangs 
in the balance. Let us read and learn.

Adelasie

On 3 Dec 2006 at 14:33, danielhcaldwell wrote:

> H.P. Blavatsky's Warning 
> about the TS from 1891 to 1897-1898
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> Let me remind you all once more that such work is now more than ever 
> needed. The period which we have now reached in the cycle that will 
> close between 1897-8 is, and will continue to be, one of great 
> conflict and continued strain. If the T.S. can hold through it, good; 
> if not, while Theosophy will remain unscathed, the Society will 
> perish -- perchance most ingloriously -- and the World will suffer. I 
> fervently hope that I may not see such a disaster in my present body. 
> The critical nature of the stage on which we have entered is as well 
> known to the forces that fight against us as to those that fight on 
> our side. No opportunity will be lost of sowing dissension, of taking 
> advantage of mistaken and false moves, of instilling doubt, of 
> augmenting difficulties, of breathing suspicions, so that by any and 
> every means the unity of the Society may be broken and the ranks of 
> our Fellows thinned and thrown into disarray. Never has it been more 
> necessary for the Members of the T.S. to lay to heart the old parable 
> of the bundle of sticks, than it is at the present time: divided, 
> they will inevitably be broken, one by one; united, there is no force 
> on Earth able to destroy our Brotherhood. Now I have marked with 
> pain, a tendency among you, as among the Theosophists in Europe and 
> India, to quarrel over trifles, and to allow your very devotion to 
> the cause of Theosophy to lead you into disunion. Believe me, that 
> apart from such natural tendency, owing to the inherent imperfections 
> of Human Nature, advantage is often taken by our ever-watchful 
> enemies of your noblest qualities to betray and to mislead you. 
> Skeptics will laugh at this statement, and even some of you may put 
> small faith in the actual existence of the terrible forces of these 
> mental, hence subjective and invisible, yet withal living and potent, 
> influences around all of us. But there they are, and I know of more 
> than one among you who have felt them, and have actually, been forced 
> to acknowledge these extraneous mental pressures. On those of you who 
> are unselfishly and sincerely devoted to the Cause, they will produce 
> little, if any, impression. On some others, those who place their 
> personal pride higher than their duty to the T.S., higher even than 
> their Pledge to their divine SELF, the effect is generally 
> disastrous. Self-watchfulness is never more necessary than when a 
> personal wish to lead, and wounded vanity, dress themselves in the 
> peacock's feathers of devotion and altruistic work; but at the 
> present crisis of the Society a lack of self-control and watchfulness 
> may become fatal in every case. But these diabolical attempts of our 
> powerful enemies -- the irreconcilable foes of the truths now being 
> given out and practically asserted -- may be frustrated. If every 
> Fellow in the Society were content to be an impersonal force for 
> good, careless of praise or blame so long as he subserved the 
> purposes of the Brotherhood, the progress made would astonish the 
> World and place the Ark of the T.S. out of danger. Take for your 
> motto in conduct during the coming year, "Peace with All who love 
> Truth in sincerity," and the Convention of 1892 will bear eloquent 
> witness to the strength that is born of unity. 
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> Your position as the forerunners of the sixth sub-race of the fifth 
> root-race has its own special perils as well as its special 
> advantages. Psychism, with all its allurements and all its dangers, 
> is necessarily developing among you, and you must beware lest the 
> Psychic outruns the Manasic and Spiritual development. Psychic 
> capacities held perfectly under control, checked and directed by the 
> Manasic principle, are valuable aids in development. But these 
> capacities running riot, controlling instead of controlled, using 
> instead of being used, lead the Student into the most dangerous 
> delusions and the certainty of moral destruction. Watch therefore 
> carefully this development, inevitable in your race and evolution-
> period, so that it may finally work for good and not for evil; and 
> receive, in advance, the sincere and potent blessings of Those whose 
> goodwill will never fail you, if you do not fail yourselves
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> Quoted from:  http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-am/hpb-am4.htm
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