Theos-Talk Archives (January 2011 Message tt00208)

When I was reviewing the publications, I noticed that in 2008. all his
articles etc were collated and published in two volumes.
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Sharing the Light - the Collected Articles of Geoffrey Hodson (in 2 volumes)

John and Elizabeth Sell (Compilers & Editors), Roselmo Doval-Santos (Editor)

Theosophical Publishing House Philippines, 2008
More than 1,900 pages, hardbound with dust jacket.    Price in New Zealand:
$NZ 110 including GST.

I am sure many would be interested in his writings. However, it is
expensive. In US$58.00 and not within the reach of most theosophists who are
on a tight budget. There was even a comment from one of the Masters in
Hodson's Occult Diary, the financial situation about most theosophists who
work for a living.

It is amazing that no one seems to pay any attention to the basic question
of making them easily reachable by theosophists, since non theosophists are
not interested in this type of material. Today with electronic medium and
communications it is very easy to address this.


I hope the publishing decision makers are reading the messages here and hope
they open their eyes to the realities and the basic objectives why these
theosophical publishing houses were established in the first place.


MKR


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:20 PM, John W <JohnWW@Gm1FtjVtbaBhn6fwn5lZr4cydWOFOzTRWi6ASRNj-VrXRz3m6SMGYHjHXGMtL-qOQSB48XIBLyM743ZC.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

>
>
> Geoff Hodson's visit to Java was in 1933, before WW2, and while Indonesia
> was still under orderly Dutch colonial rule. But since the damage done by
> the Japanese during the War, and chronic misrule and rampant overpopulation
> and deforestation since independence in 1949 (in spite of the original
> Indonesian leaders having graduated from the best Dutch schools), Indonesia
> (and Java and Bali in particular) has gone steadily downhill into poverty
> and chaos and corruption. A lot of the root of the blame rests with rising
> Islamic fundamentalism, with much persecution of Christian, Hindu, and
> Buddhist minorities.
>
> Java today bears little resemblance to what it was like in 1933. Because of
> the recent (since the late 1990s) suicide bombings mainly in Jakarta and on
> Bali, other violence and robbery against tourists, rip-offs of tourists by
> tourism operators, and instances such as the Corby case in which corrupt
> cops (seeking promotion) and baggage-handlers planted drugs in the property
> of tourists to obtain their framings and convictions on false charges, I
> would never visit Indonesia now, not even if had diplomatic immunity.
>
> Geoff Hodson was born on 12th March 1886, when H P Blavatsky was still
> alive, and died in Auckland, New Zealand, on 23rd January 1983. He spent the
> latter part of his life in New Zealand, after moving from Perth, WA. I met
> him and his wife Sandra a few times in his last years, the 1970s and early
> 1980s, when he gave lectures in Auckland and Whangarei, NZ.
>
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hodson
> which gives a complete list of his books.
>
> John W.
>
> --- On Mon, 31/1/11, Augoeides-222@HsRX9lnEkBLSx-UZUi9Kuf8MZ-uSlRJpSmClf8S7CLxHB-VB0Xh_REe1_gIwCHrfh_vNwYGL5q6f7_ZbDj3iUFI.yahoo.invalid<Augoeides-222%40comcast.net><
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> Subject: Re: theos-talk Borobudur - Occult Side of Java
>
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Monday, 31, January, 2011, 9:46 AM
>
>
>
>
> mkr,
>
> Many here may want to vist it on Google Earth, here are the Coordinates for
> Borobudur and an varger Shiva temptle 1.90 mi to the SE:
>
> Borobudur Temple
>
> 7 36 28.50 S
>
> 110 12 14.40 E
>
> Prabanan Shive Temple
>
> 7 45 07.05 S
>
> 110 29 28.74 E
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "MKR" <mkr777@UdeA7RbBowkIwnP836HMz69YKUBXqJXxhNvxrPChiFOqzuRz09DkfiGH2Ed3vUqClITj96cL.yahoo.invalid <mkr777%40gmail.com>>
>
> To: "theos-talk" <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com<theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>>
>
>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 7:15:29 AM
>
> Subject: theos-talk Borobudur - Occult Side of Java
>
> There was an interest from a member about the Occult History of Java
> written
>
> by CWL. I found that Geoffrey Hodson had written about his experience of
>
> visiting Java, which is interesting. I am quoting from his Occult Diary
>
> which is currently out of print.
>
> MKR
>
> ------
>
> Early 1930s
>
> A RETURN VISIT TO BOROBUDUR
>
> During a lecture tour of Java in 1933. a visit was made to the great
>
> Buddhist shrine known as the Borobudur. The presence was realized of the
>
> great presiding Deva - a very lofty being - and two poems were written as a
>
>
> result. These were published in The Theosophist during 1934.
>
> Return visits have recently been made to the shrine during which we were
>
> again received and an attempt made to obtain a description of the Deva, as
>
> also to receive of His wisdom.
>
> As He presents Himself to the writer. graciously descending to his level,
>
> this great Deva is distinctly masculine and markedly Indo-Aryan in
>
> appearance. He is probably a Deva of Wisdom, for the golden light of Buddhi
>
>
> shines all about Him, glowing through the successive spheres of soft rose,
>
> soft green, and dazzling white, of which His aura chiefly consists. An
>
> emanation of white fire shot through with gold surrounds the inner form,
>
> then a great sphere of yellow is followed by the other colourings, the
> whole
>
> displaying in quality of colouring and in luminosity the glory of a sunset
>
> sky. White rays, like searchlight beams, play out from the central fonn, in
>
>
> the heart of which they seem to arise. Some of these shine upwards, others
>
> laterally over Java and the sea beyond, the others deep down into the
> earth,
>
> widening as they leave the central form.
>
> All life, for many miles, especially devic life, is quickened by this light
>
>
> and power of the Deva of Borobudur. He is, I think, the Head of the devic
>
> life of the island, as also of the surrounding seas, a veritable Deva King.
>
>
> Ever and anon a silver star flashes forth above His head, whilst great
>
> forces, white and gold, flame-like and petal-shaped, play about His feet as
>
>
> if He stood within a great lotus formed of fire.
>
> Within the central aura is a thought-fonn of the Lord Buddha, seated in
>
> meditative pose. It is a vehicle, at the lower mental level, for the life
> of
>
> the Lord, upon Whom the Deva appears to meditate perpetually. Contact with
>
> the consciousness of this Great One gives rise to the following thoughts,
> as
>
> if He preached for all aspirants a brief sermon on enlightenment and the
>
> Path:
>
> "Although for men the attainment of enlightenment seems far away, in realms
>
>
> beyond time's imprisonment, enlightenment for all is here and now, within
>
> them as a living fact, a power of accomplishment. "Thus, within your
>
> archetypal self, as in these stupas which you see, there sits a Buddha,
>
> fully formed though partially concealed. The secret of your own
>
> enlightenment is the presence within you of this Buddha-tobe.
>
> As you must gaze within the stupa's form, piercing with your eyes its
>
> covering, so with the eyes of thought and will gaze inward and perceive
> that
>
> embodied wisdom which is yourself, the Buddha which you are in timelessness
>
>
> and will make manifest in realms of time. Keep your soul's gaze fixed upon
>
> this archetypal Buddha. Dwell daily, hourly in its presence, until thought
>
> and will combine to bring to birth within your outer self the Buddha of
>
> which your inner Self consists. Then let imagination soar into your
>
> Buddhahood.
>
> Picture yourself as living now the Buddha life, moving amongst men as did
>
> the Lord. Do this with will and thought unchanging, until in very fact
> these
>
> two bring forth in you the living Buddha.
>
> ''Thus shall time cease to imprison you. Thus shall future be blended, with
>
>
> present, yourself at the centre, conscious of both as the eternal now. Past
>
>
> I counsel you to forget, annihilate entirely, wipe from the tablets of your
>
>
> mind, as scaffolding which having served the builder's need is taken down
>
> and disappears. Past is dead for you. Present and future will similarly
>
> disappear as you learn to live intensely in that fullness which is the
>
> eternal now.
>
> "Dark is the world; darker it may yet become. Grave dangers threaten human
>
> life, human progress, human peace. The opposing forces gather for a
> conflict
>
> which well may be the greatest and the last of the planetary battles waged
>
> on earth. Should light conquer, should brotherhood and peace prevail, as
>
> almost certainly they will, then the opponents of the Law, organized as
>
> enemies of man, will meet with that defeat which will put an end to mass
>
> hatred, mass brutality, and mass enmity to Light. Thereafter the great Law
>
> shall prevail.
>
> "Could you but see as We see Who, standing above the conflict, represent
> the
>
> Law, how every unifying thought and deed of every man, however humble if
>
> sincere, plays its important part - nay, I would say tremendous part - in
>
> bringing victory to the side of Light and Law, your work would be more
>
> inspired, your wills more ardent, your faith more fiery, and your lives
> more
>
> full of power. Go forth therefore with added force, with greater zeal,
>
> constant in self-discipline, losing self in service, planning, thinking,
>
> working in the cause of Light and Law and in the name of Those Who are the
>
> Light and have become the Law. On all your work the blessing, the peace,
> the
>
> beauty, and the power of Borobudur .. "
>
> On another occasion He said:
>
> "You will help in clearing away the mists of ignorance and superstition
> with
>
> which Java is enwrapped, by awakening the minds of the better classes to a
>
> realization of the harm which the practice of blood sacrifice is doing to
>
> the national soul and through that to the health and well-being of the
>
> people; also in instructing them concerning the facts. The educational
>
> authorities and the members of the Theosophical Lodges are the most
>
> promising agents for such work. United, well-organized and well informed
>
> groups of esotericists could help greatly by means of regular and constant
>
> activity along the lines suggested. and in the daily radiation of Power and
>
>
> Light over the island"
>
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