Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00065)

<< Richard, nice to hear from you again. Hope things are well.
 As usual, you have me pegged pretty well.

 Jerry S. >>

--Perhaps even more the Scorpio . . . since nothing seems to please many of
your sign so much as getting other people to erroneously think that they fully
understand them. . .

Things are going well but a little chaotic now since I am having two house
closings next week (I regard it as a little move toward simplification:  no
longer will I be like the  guy in THE HOUSE OF USHER all alone in six bedrooms
and two bathrooms; now I will only have three bedrooms and three bathrooms).

I like what you have been writing recently, even what you had to say about the
standard storyline about reincarnation being an exoteric doctrine.  As a
mystic and proponent of epistemological theosophy, of course, I would keep
open the possibility that even some of this is literally true.  What we are
after, it seems to me, is not a personally convincing understanding of all
these things; rather, a "peace (about them) which (sur)passeth understanding."

But I agree with you that too much story-level (T)heosophy can cause some
harm, maybe especially for those who should be logging more time toward the
development of practical Adeptship.  Oh yes, there's the Ultimate Hobby for a
person, isn't it?  I sometimes have the perverse thought that the reason more
people don't take it up (and I include "Magic" as a possible component of
Adeptship) is not because of laziness, but because of NOT BEING LAZY
ENOUGH--i.e., individuals may actually be over-willing to toil, struggle, and
suffer in all the conventional ways to survive daily life and/or attain their
all-too-conventional prizes.

Surviving evermore SMOOTHLY: that's what we want.  Attaining evermore EASILY:
that's what we want.  --And both not for anything lasting that we can get and
keep as a result of such developments, but just for the BASIC PERSONAL SPORT
of it. . . .

Best wishes, Jerry, and

Godspeed,

Richard Ihle