Theos-Talk Archives (May 2009 Message tt00107)

And another strange thing about Bible is among all religious/spiritual writings, which I know, the Bible is most effective in transforming hearts of people. This despite the fact that it is difficult to get any text accurately after 2000 years and  occultists' statements that Bible text is not historically accurate.
Third interesting thing is such old and according to some people historically inaccurate book is most influential in the world.
Irrespective of historical accuracy, contents of Bible are of extremely high quality. Much of the bible consists of abstract thoughts, requiring the use of what Theosophists call the causal body or higher mental body. I think study of Bible, especially New Testament should help development of higher mental body.
Best
Anand Gholap

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell" <danielhcaldwell@...> wrote:
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> Anand wrote in part:
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> Although story of Christ can be used as allegory to explain soul's
> condition....If somebody is saying that Jesus did not exist
> physically, AS WRITTEN IN THE GOSPELS, I DON'T agree with it. I think
> reader will benefit more if he considers Jesus AS TRUE and tries to
> live teaching, instead of involving in ALLEGORIES....
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> caps added. Notice Anand's words: AS WRITTEN IN THE GOSPELS
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> Yet C.W. Leadbeater who Anand has repeatedly proclaimed as the greatest occultist-saint wrote:
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> Certainly the Christian Bible ought NOT to be taken LITERALLY, for
> many of its statements are symbolical, and others are simply not
> true. When we examine clairvoyantly the life of the Founder of
> Christianity, for example, we can find NO TRACE of the ALLEGED twelve
> apostles, it would seem that as men they NEVER existed, but that they
> were introduced into the story for some reason ? possibly to typify
> the twelve signs of the zodiac....THE TRUTH IS that the four gospels
> at any rate were NEVER intended to be taken as in any sense HISTORICAL....
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> Without the 12 Apostles being real person, how much of the Gospels
> and story of the early Christian church remain as real actual history?
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> If twelve apostles didn't exist, did Jesus?
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> Food for thought.
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> Daniel
> http://hpb.cc
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