Theos-Talk Archives (October 2011 Message tt00103)

Thanks for the following quote which is the most powerful call to action
directed towards doing whatever we can to help the conditions of our fellow
men and women everywhere. Sitting and meditating can create powerful forces
in the unseen world, but we are still grounded physical earth.

It is upto each one of us to devise our own plan of action and when we
launch on an action directed towards some good cause, one will be surprised
how far ranging the results can be. I have seen this personally.

Major changes have been brought about by individuals who got into action
instead of sitting on a couch and meditating.

Let us try to make a difference in the lives of our fellow men and women.

MKR


""The world in general and Christendom especially left for two thousand
years to the regime of a personal God, as well as its political and social
systems based on that idea, has now proved a failure. If Theosophists say:
'We have nothing to do with all this, the lower classes and inferior races
[those of India for instance, in the conception of the British] cannot
concern us and must manage as they can,' what becomes of our fine
professions of benevolence, reform, etc.? Are these professions a mockery?
and, if a mockery, can ours be the true path? . . . Should we devote
ourselves to teaching a few Europeans, fed on the fat of the land, many of
them loaded with the gifts of blind fortune, the rationale of bell-ringing,
cup-growing, spiritual telephone, etc., etc., and leave the teeming millions
of the ignorant, of the poor and the despised, the lowly and the oppressed,
to take care of themselves, and of their hereafter, the best they know how?
Never! Perish rather the Theosophical Society . . . than that we should
permit it to become no better than an academy of magic and a hall of
Occultism. That we, the devoted followers of the spirit incarnate of
absolute self-sacrifice, of philanthropy and divine kindness as of all the
highest virtues attainable on this earth of sorrow, the man of men, Gautama
Buddha, should ever allow the Theosophical Society to represent the
embodiment of selfishness, to become the refuge of the few with no thought
in them for the many, is a strange idea." "

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jeremy Condick <jpcondick2011@_tdkgd9ooa_AcFOjjQLSftyBW76WrsYrmxkwFJYNaYyydshTNOmYa-HaIP3kYrTCnqZSEoFkfgEbovvueYI.yahoo.invalid>wrote:

> "The world in general and Christendom especially left for two thousand
> years to the regime of a personal God, as well as its political and social
> systems based on that idea, has now proved a failure. If Theosophists say:
> 'We have nothing to do with all this, the lower classes and inferior races
> [those of India for instance, in the conception of the British] cannot
> concern us and must manage as they can,' what becomes of our fine
> professions of benevolence, reform, etc.? Are these professions a mockery?
> and, if a mockery, can ours be the true path? . . . Should we devote
> ourselves to teaching a few Europeans, fed on the fat of the land, many of
> them loaded with the gifts of blind fortune, the rationale of bell-ringing,
> cup-growing, spiritual telephone, etc., etc., and leave the teeming millions
> of the ignorant, of the poor and the despised, the lowly and the oppressed,
> to take care of themselves, and of their hereafter, the best they know how?
> Never! Perish rather the Theosophical Society . . . than that we should
> permit it to become no better than an academy of magic and a hall of
> Occultism. That we, the devoted followers of the spirit incarnate of
> absolute self-sacrifice, of philanthropy and divine kindness as of all the
> highest virtues attainable on this earth of sorrow, the man of men, Gautama
> Buddha, should ever allow the Theosophical Society to represent the
> embodiment of selfishness, to become the refuge of the few with no thought
> in them for the many, is a strange idea."


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