Theos-Talk Archives (June 2009 Message tt00545)

In the words of H. P. Blavatsky: 
. . . the first rule of the society is to carry out the object of forming the nucleus of a universal brotherhood. The practical working of this rule was explained by those who laid it down, to the following effect: -- 
"He who does not practise altruism; he who is not prepared to share his last morsel with a weaker or poorer than himself; he who neglects to help his brother man, of whatever race, nation, or creed, whenever and wherever he meets suffering, and who turns a deaf ear to the cry of human misery; he who hears an innocent person slandered, whether a brother theosophist or not, and does not undertake his defence as he would undertake his own -- is no theosophist." 
And again: 
. . . On the day when Theosophy will have accomplished its most holy and most important mission -- namely, to unite firmly a body of men of all nations in brotherly love and bent on a pure altruistic work, not a labor with selfish motives -- on that day only will Theosophy become higher than any nominal brotherhood of man. This will be a wonder and a miracle truly, for the realization of which Humanity is vainly waiting for the last 18 centuries, and which every association has hitherto failed to accomplish. 
. . . for the essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill-feeling or selfishness, charity, good-will to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to one's self, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of good-will; and the converse of this is true also, -- he who preaches the gospel of good-will, teaches Theosophy. 
. . . The function of Theosophists is to open men's hearts and understandings to charity, justice, and generosity, attributes which belong specifically to the human kingdom and are natural to man when he has developed the qualities of a human being. Theosophy teaches the animal-man to be a human-man; and when people have learned to think and feel as truly human beings should feel and think, they will act humanely, and works of charity, justice, and generosity will be done spontaneously by all. 
When man realizes that he is one with all that is, inwards and outwards, high and low; that he is one with all, not merely as members of a community are one, not merely as individuals of an army or of a State are one, but like the molecules of our own flesh, like the atoms of these molecules and like the electrons of the atom, composing not a mere union, but an organic unity -- then he sees truth and acts accordingly. 
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>From: Erica L. Georgiades <eletzerich@yahoo.com>
>To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Wednesday, 24 June, 2009 9:47:34 AM
>Subject: Re: Theos-World Fanaticism and Dogmatism
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>Dear friends,
>Two weeks now, we in the Theosophical Society in Greece, are under extreme pressure. The Summer Conference of the T.S. in Greece to take place in few days, has caused a lot of talking. But today the situation has exceeded every logical limit. The Bishop of Alexandropolis gave an interview during the morning, and an also interview tonight on a TV channel, accusing us of satanists and saying things that I prefer not to describe.
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>The Bishop of Alexandropolis also published an encyclical, against the conference which is on every Christian web-site and was
>published on newspapers. 
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>It was decided by the T.S. in Greece to request police protection when we arrive on Alexandropolis and on Samothace Island.
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>You can see the program of the conference at this link: 
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>http://www.theosoph y.net/events/ the-kabeirian- mysteries
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>Below is a translation of part of the encyclical, which has a total of three pages, and the links to the original encyclical in Greek.
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>http://www.imalex. gr/DF948CB4. el.aspx
>http://www.athos. gr/s_articles- t_view-id_ 1250.html
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>INSTRUCTIONS 
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>The BISHOP OF ALEXANDROPOLIS ANTHIMOS 
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>TO THE CHRISTIANS OF SAMOTHRACE 
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>My dear brothers and sisters, 
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>Residents of the Island of Samothrace, 
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>I turn to you to beg your attention to protect yourselves against the
>consequences of a Conference on the Kabeirian Mysteries, those terrible
>mysteries ended 2000 years ago, which today some Pagans are trying to
>revive it. We can only make assumptions about what
>happened during the Kabeirian ceremonies, because as in the other mysteries of the ancient world, the initiate was not disclosing what happens, because people would not accept their ways of worship. 
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>The Theosophical Society in Greece, from 26 to 28 June, will hold a Congress in Samothrace Island, to initiate people on the Kaveiria Mysteries. The emblem of the Theosophical Society are two triangles, a swastika, a Ouroboros a snake that swallows its own tail, an evil Egyptian cross, and a secret group of Hindu words. The main Âmotto of the Theosophical Society is that ÂThere is noReligion Higher than TruthÂ. 
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>The question is: 
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>Are these people futile? We know that only to refer to the
>ÂKaveiriaÂ, reduces any intellectual capability they may have. 
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>Havenât they learned the truth answered by Jesus Christ when he taught ÂI am the truthÂ.
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>Its our moral obligation to ask: 
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>v Who invited them to our site, causing the piety of the Christian inhabitants
>of the island? 
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>v Who hosts the home of our five compatriots Martyrs; 
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>v Who invited them to the island of Virgin Krimniotissas? 
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>v Who wants to blind the eyes of Apostle
>Paul of Samothrace? 
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>We will continue to bring pilgrims to wishful Island, of all the world to
>deepen in the first step made by the Apostle Paul in Europe and bring the
>message of the Gospel. 
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>The Theosophical Society is against Christianism who has built hundreds of
>churches on the island.
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>The TheosophicalSociety is: 
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>v An occult organization that uses methods of Eastern religions, 
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>v tries to overcome barriers of religions and to create a universal
>brotherhood, thorugh: 
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>1. studying comparativereligion s and philosophies, 
>2 investigatings the laws of nature and the hidden
>forces of man. 
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>Understand, then, ladies and brothers, how poor is for us Christians, these
>aspirations of the supporters of Theosophical Society, who came to the place of the blessed Virgin Mary from the sacramental blood of Five New Martyrs, tooffer us to go back! To return to the past! To return to the Kaveirian mysteries. 
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>A dead past to us. We want the light, we who live under the
>light and the grace of Christ. We do not need the secretive interpretations, nor false Occultism. We have the gospels of our churches, and is only the freedom of our wishes, which determines our
>relationship with God. 
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>We monitor these reactionary efforts, not to encourage violent
>events with them, but because of the war against us, so pray to God to illuminate to findthe victory of the Gospel given on life and death. 
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>So, my Christian brethren, I urge you to disregard the suspected ÂTheosophical Society which comes to our place to try to mislead our intellect by claiming their searches. They are coming forward to us with bloody and immoral ways to worshipGod. 
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>But I also call your attention to any vandalism that occurs in our churches or chapels. And then the responsibility will fall heavily on those who have
>invited or accepted the realization of this pagan conference on the island. 
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>The Bishop of Alexandropolis
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>Alexandroupolis ANTHIMOS â
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>best wishes,
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>Erica
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