Theos-Talk Archives (August 2007 Message tt00256)

Dear M -

Thank you for the warm welcome and tips.  So far I'm swimming in familiar waters as concerns names and events but am not well read in the works.  What would you recommend as a FIRST "must-read"?

~ Jane



----- Original Message ----
From: M K Ramadoss <mkr777@gmail.com>
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 6:11:38 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Introducing Myself

Hi, Jane; Welcome to the list.

This is an unmoderated (uncensored) list and hence it has an inherent value
to all of us.
As you will see, both with current posts and those in archive, the topics
are very wide ranging and sometimes the exchanges are emotion charged. Just
be patient for some time and then you will see how the discussion flow.

If you have not already found out, most of the theosophical writings are
available on-line for free. So you can pick and choose to download what
interests you and familiarize with the various authors. Feel free to post
any msg you like and surely there would be responses from many of the
participants.

mkr

On 8/10/07, Jane Lucienne <jane_lucienne@ yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings, Friends :-)
>
> You will probably all be delighted to hear that Theosophy is a subject I
> have much to learn about and that I probably have virtually nothing to
> contribute to discussion threads except queries and probes for deeper
> understanding, if that.
>
> I consider myself to be spiritually eclectic and am constantly trolling
> the waters in search of signs of intelligent life after work. I have been on
> a self-study path, exploring a variety of occult and mysticism topics,
> becoming familiar in a general way with Theosophy, since 1970.
>
> What got me started on my path was a correspondence course in astrology
> from the Rosicrucian Fellowship and my first deck of tarot cards
> (Rider-Waite) , progressing to the Thoth Tarot (Crowley-Harris) , and
> subsequently exploring the differences in philosophy of the four most
> popular tarot deck authors who based their decks on the western kabalah.
> This led me to inquire into the history of tarot and specifically the
> spiritual-political movements of the time, ascended masters, and a lot of
> other stuff including religions and cultures of the world.
>
> I still use the Qabalistic Tarot for path working. But to this day I
> probably cannot carry on an intelligent conversation about astrology because
> nobody shares a common frame of reference with me since I have such a
> negative visceral response to astrology in the forms it has come to take.
> After inquiring into as many astrology systems as I could find to compare
> (why are there so many?) I finally settled on none of them, (re)turning to
> the real sky and indeed the whole of the Universe as the tap root of a
> hybrid system of my own (rogue that I am). I don't have a "practice" of any
> sort. I work for a living. And I dabble :-)
>
> I am enjoying this list and have a great appreciation for all of your
> wonderful posts. Thank you.
>
> ~ Jane
>
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>
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