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re Alice Bailey and Theosophy

Mar 13, 2004 07:11 AM
by Mauri


According to a recent post on Theos
Talk, apparently Alice Bailey wrote, at
some point: <<"They will prepare and
work for conditions in the world in
which Christ can move freely among men,
in bodily Presence; He need not
then remain in His present retreat in
Central Asia."

"His reappearance and His consequent
work cannot be confined to one
small locality or domain, unheard of
by the great majority, as was
the case when He was here before. The
radio, the press, and the
dissemination of news, will make His
coming different to that of any
previous Messenger; the swift modes
of transportation will make Him
available to countless millions, and
by boat, rail and plane they can
reach Him: through television, His
face can be made familiar to all,
and verily 'every eye shall see Him.">>
I'm not particularly familiar with her
writings, but seems to me that those
kinds of statements could, or might,
alternatively, be interpreted in a
symbolic sense. What if her "Christ"
and "Messenger" were interpreted as
"Higher Self," for example, interpreting such as "aspects of s/Self relevance" by way of possibilitites and potentials, eg, or something ilke that ...
Or does the general reader (or some
general readers ...) find such alternatives and interpretations too troubling, or too far out, or too abstract, or too something, maybe, or ...

I wonder if anybody out there might know more about whether she intended some or all of her statements/books to be interpreted literally or symbolically ... I tend to be under the impression that HPB, for one, did not intend her writings to be interpreted literally, so ... Not that there might not be plenty of perceived ("real enough" or "apparent enough" ...) "other hands" (or "apparently relevant-enough considerations") in relation to AB's writing's, I'm tending to guess, as per whoever, in relation to what might be seen (by some ...) as possibly, (or "really enbough"...), over-riding, or transcending, (per whatever apparent- enough reasons or intuitive promptings, or both ...), considerations re such as what might be "sensibly enough" seen to fit one or the other (literal or symbolic) camp or mix of ... whatever ...

^:-/ ...
Mauri








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