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Re: Theos-World Why worry...

Oct 03, 1999 08:15 AM
by RAMADOSS


What a coincidence! In ML 65, you find the following statement:

"It is an old truism that none of you have ever formed an accurate idea of
either the "Master" or the laws of Occultism they are guided by."

What a precise and definite statement!!!

So, before we try to comment on Their actions or try to critique what they
did or did not do, it may be good to keep the above in mind.

mkr


At 09:20 AM 09/06/1999 +0100, Tony wrote:
>
>Dear Art
>You wrote:
>
>>Taking the Masters... they are but pale reflections and echoes of the
>>Ancient Wisdom we all seek. I will take a Jeddu Krishnamurti anyday over a
>>Koothumi, or a Sri Aurobindo over a Dhwal Khul, or a Swendenborg over a
>>Saint Germaine... Name them all my friend... they will not measure up in
>>thought, depth or spiritual power. When the Gita can be apprehended in its
>>original language (as English can only approximate) it is far more powerful
>>and penetrating than a few crumbs of Morya!
>>
>
>A friend who still does a lot of work with the Krishnamurti school  was
>amongst those having lunch with Krishnamurti, when someone said the kind of
>thing you are writing about the Mahatmas  (the difference being that that
>person was being derogatory) -
> to which Krishnamurti responded:
>"You just don't know what you are talking about."
>
>>Taking the Masters... they are but pale reflections and echoes of the
>>Ancient Wisdom we all seek.
>
>This writer certainly does not see the Masters "as pale reflections and
>echoes .
>. ."
>For example, if we see the MAHATMA:  MAHAT-ATMA as a pale reflection, what
>of SPIRIT?  What of intuition, mind and space?
>For some spirit is non-existent
>To others it is real
>
>You write of "real" live Tibetans, as if being able to see and touch them,
>is what
>makes them real.  But how does the *real* in them differ to the real in you?
>
>What do you understand the original language of the Gita to be?
>Divine wisdom (theosophy)?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Tony
>
>
>
>
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