Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00376)

Very true!
Your worst enemies could be your best teachers...


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

> There are valuable lessons to be learnt from
> betrayal, most of the time we feel betrayed because
> the other person does not come up to our
> expectations, if we eliminate the expectation, we
> eliminate the betrayal.  No?  Certainly better than
> hanging on to those negative feelings, within us,
> that accompany the act.
>   A wise friend once told me that if we are really
> seaking self development that one day we would see
> that it was those souls that we least admired,
> brought us the opportunity to learn something about
> ourselves, and that it is they, we should thank.!
>    
>   Cass
>    
> 
> Martin <Mvandertak@yahoo.com> wrote:
>           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
> 
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