Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00165)

Carlos,
You asked, "can we have talisman's along the path".  You answered this question with "karma" - how do you link the two ideas?  Talisman's have negative and positive energy depending upon motive and character, didn't HPB have a lock of the master's hair or his turban?   

Cass

cardosoaveline <carlosaveline@terra.com.br> wrote:                                  There is no talisman  better, or more powerful,  than good karma. 
 
 And good karma results from fulfilling one's duty towards one's own 
 higher self. That, on its turn, needs the development of the prajna 
 paramitas mentioned in "The Voice of the Silence". A stimulating 
 challenge, no doubt.  
 
 Carlos. 
 
 --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@...> wrote:
 >
 > HPB had an insignia ring>  Isn't the TS seal a talisman?
 > Cass
 > 
 > carlosaveline <carlosaveline@...> 
 wrote:                                  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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