Theos-Talk Archives (July 2012 Message tt00032)

Concept of God in
Theosophical thought:

Madame Blavatsky's ideas on
this concept, as also the methods and philosophy of Prayer require statement
here: 

We reject the
idea of a personal, or an extra-cosmic and anthropomorphic God, who is but the
gigantic shadow of man, and not of
man at his best. The God of theology, we say - and prove it - is a bundle of
contradictions and a logical impossibility. 

We believe in a
Universal Divine Principle, the root of ALL, from which all proceeds, and
within which all shall be absorbed at the end of the great cycle of Being.

Our DEITY is
neither in a paradise, nor in a particular tree, building, or mountain; it is
everywhere, in every atom of the visible as of the invisible Cosmos, in, over,
and around every atom and divisible molecule; for IT is the mysterious power of
evolution and involution, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and even omniscient
creative potentiality.

(We do not
believe) in prayer taught in so many words and repeated externally. Most decidedly, there is another kind of
prayer; we call it WILL-PRAYER, and it is rather an internal command than a
petition. 

An Occultist or
a theosophist addresses his prayer to his
Father which is in secret, not to
an extra-cosmic and therefore finite God; and that "Father" is in man
himself. In our sense, the inner man is
the only God we can have cognizance of.

We call our
"Father in heaven" that deific essence of which we are cognizant
within us, in our heart and spiritual consciousness, and which has nothing to
do with the anthropomorphic conception we may form of it in our physical brain
or its fancy. Yet, let no man anthropomorphise that essence in us. Let no
Theosophist, if he would hold to divine, not human truth, say that this "God
in secret" listens to, OR IS DISTINCT FROM, EITHER FINITE MAN OR THE
INFINITE ESSENCE - FOR ALL ARE ONE. Nor, as just remarked, that a prayer is a
petition. It is a mystery rather; an occult process by which finite and
conditioned thoughts and desires, unable to be assimilated by the absolute
spirit which is unconditioned, are translated into spiritual wills and the
will; such process being called "spiritual transmutation." The
intensity of our ardent aspirations changes prayer into the "philosopher's
stone." Or that which transmutes lead into pure gold. The only homogeneous
essence, our "will-prayer" becomes the active or creative force,
producing effects according to our desire.

Will-power
becomes a living power. A Theosophist looks, for power to subdue his passions
and selfishness, to his Higher Self, the divine spirit, or the God in him, and
to his Karma.

 



Literature is for Portrayal of Philosophic Ideas.







Dr N C Ramanujachary(Srivirinchi)

Besant Gardens, The Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai 600 020 

Phone: 044/24913584, Mobile: 9444963584


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