Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00345)

Thank you Cass...isn't it strange I get these friendly
words from you and not from them?
Imagine my understanding my far neese HPB ( my great
grandmother was her family) suffered so much as well
when dealing with people who in fact betrayed
her...but I have learned to live with the idea: if it
doesnt kill me it makes me stronger...:)
Thanks again!

--- Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Martin
>   I am pleased to hear that Theosophy touched your
> soul and brought you through your nightmare, never
> mind about the theosophists who apparently treat you
> so badly.
>   Cass
> 
> Martin <Mvandertak@yahoo.com> wrote:
>           Humble me was invited into Theosophy in
> '75, then
> worked from '76 till '80 as a volunteer in the
> European Headquarters in The Hague; then I was sent
> away with the reason I was too boisterous.
> In fact I had devoted my career to become a printer
> and work for spreading Theosophy ( I was 16 in '75).
> Things worked out the worst and those people from
> The
> Hague calling themselves my friends had just left me
> alone in my disappointments, I was taken into a
> nuthouse afterwards in 1981 but survived. If it
> wasn't
> for my real Self I would have become the worst
> adversary of the Theosophical Society after this
> period of my life, but thanks to mySelf I remained
> into the same spirit of Theosphy...
> 
> --- Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > IMO you're right Nigel concerning the information
> > age, which I wasn't thinking of at the time.
> Wasn't
> > it in 1975 that Bill Gates registered Microsoft. 
> > Cass
> > 
> > nhcareyta <nhcareyta@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Dear Cass
> > 
> > Points well made.
> > 
> > In addition have we thought much about the dawning
> 
> > of the "information age" with computers and the 
> > internet. 
> > 
> > Was this part of their "effort?"
> > 
> > On the jnana path, information leads to knowledge;
> 
> > and knowledge to awakening.
> > 
> > And what would be the need for a messiah figure
> with
> > 
> > all this information extant, other than to relieve
> > the 
> > burdensome task of thinking and doing the work for
> 
> > ourselves?
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Nigel 
> > 
> > --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva
> > <silva_cass@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps the problem is that Theosophists are
> > looking for a new 
> > Blavatsky. As she said, lesser messengers will
> come
> > with their 
> > contribution to spritual wakefullness. I think we
> > can see this in 
> > the West with the acceptance of eastern
> > methodolgies, e.g. yoga, 
> > reiki, tai-chi,healers, all practices contribute
> to
> > an overall 
> > awareness that we are not just the body!
> > > 
> > > Cass
> > > 
> > > Morten Nymann Olesen <global-theosophy@...>
> wrote:
> > > To all readers
> > > 
> > > My views are:
> > > 
> > > There is - one more - quote from HPB about what
> > will happen in the 
> > years after 1975.
> > > I think with an organisation awaiting his
> arrival
> > as HPB puts it in 
> > the below, - one will have to stop believeing it
> to
> > be the fact, that 
> > the number of persons involved in this are more
> than
> > a few science 
> > intellectuals:
> > > 
> > > "...that during the last quarter of every
> hundred
> > years an attempt 
> > is made by those "Masters," of whom I have spoken,
> > to help on the 
> > spiritual progress of Humanity in a marked and
> > definite way. Towards 
> > the close of each century you will invariably find
> > that an outpouring 
> > or upheaval of spirituality -- or call it
> mysticism
> > if you prefer -- 
> > has taken place. Some one or more persons have
> > appeared in the world 
> > as their agents, and a greater or less amount of
> > occult knowledge and 
> > teaching has been given out. If you care to do so,
> > you can trace 
> > these movements back, century by century, as far
> as
> > our detailed 
> > historical records extend...If the present
> attempt,
> > in the form of 
> > our Society, succeeds better than its predecessors
> > have done, then it 
> > will be in existence as an organized, living and
> > healthy body when 
> > the time 307 comes for the effort of the XXth
> > century. The general 
> > condition of men's minds and hearts will have been
> > improved and 
> > purified by the spread of its teachings,
> > > and, as I have said, their prejudices and
> dogmatic
> > illusions will 
> > have been, to some extent at least, removed. Not
> > only so, but besides 
> > a large and accessible literature ready to men's
> > hands, the next 
> > impulse will find a numerous and united body of
> > people ready to 
> > welcome the new torch-bearer of Truth. He will
> find
> > the minds of men 
> > prepared for his message, a language ready for him
> > in which to clothe 
> > the new truths he brings, an organization awaiting
> > his arrival, which 
> > will remove the merely mechanical, material
> > obstacles and 
> > difficulties from his path. Think how much one, to
> > whom such an 
> > opportunity is given, could accomplish. Measure it
> > by comparison with 
> > what the Theosophical Society actually has
> achieved
> > in the last 
> > fourteen years, without any of these advantages
> and
> > surrounded by 
> > hosts of hindrances which would not hamper the new
> > leader. Consider 
> > all this, and then tell me whether I am too
> sanguine
> > when I say that 
> > if the Theosophical Society survives and lives
> true
> > to
> > > its mission, to its original impulses through
> the
> > next hundred 
> > years? Tell me, I say, if I go too far in
> asserting
> > that earth will 
> > be a heaven in the twenty-first century in
> > comparison with what it is 
> > now! 
> > > (H. P. Blavatsky's book "Key to Theosophy", s.
> > 306-7. English 
> > edition, Italics added.)
> > > 
> > > So HPB said in the above: "Think how much one,
> to
> > whom such an 
> > opportunity is given, could accomplish. Measure it
> > by comparison with 
> > what the Theosophical Society actually has
> achieved
> > in the last 
> > fourteen years, without any of these advantages
> and
> > surrounded by 
> > hosts of hindrances which would not hamper the new
> > leader."
> > > 
> > > So I guess I will just have to disagree with you
> > about the 
> > importance of the numbers who receives the message
> > Frank. I think it 
> 
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