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Re: Theos-World Re: "Blavatsky died with cigarette in mouth." (corrected)

May 11, 2005 04:42 AM
by Bill Meredith


Thank you, Leon. Well said.

I would add (with your words) that none of us can write completely free from our own individually personal points of view which incorporate our own particular emotional and mental biases which is also conditioned by our education and the times and societies we live in.

It is but a small gain to recognize the personal biases of HPB and others. It appears to me that we lift the veil that covers our spiritual unity in relative proportion to the extent that we are able to recognize and mitigate against our own individual personal biases. We each must do our own work.

bill
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Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: "Blavatsky died with cigarette in mouth." (corrected)


All these "facts" presented by Amand Gholap are nothing more than personal
opinions -- conditioned by his own prejudicial biases, beliefs and convictions
-- that have been refuted over and over again by the Masters and others. When
will he wake up and see things as they really are?

The real nature of reality can never be written down. This includes both HPB
and CWL who saw the fundamental ontological basis of reality from their own
individually personal points of view which incorporated their own particular
emotional and mental biases which was also conditioned by their education and
the times and societies they lived in.

Therefore, neither of them could explain -- if we take their dead letters at
their face value -- the true nature of occult reality that would be consistent
with each other. Nevertheless Blavatsky gave it out first in its entirely,
and taught it to both Besant and Leadbeater -- who then reinterpreted it based
on their personal biases toward the Christian religion that they were co
nditioned into believing since birth. Blavatsky pushed it in the opposite
direction because she was conditioned to hate the Jesuits and Catholicism and thus was
biased against all organized religions of a personal God nature. Thus all
their inner visions are questionable. As for fundamental reality and its
metaphysical ontology, that has never changed. And has its basis in fundamental
truths that go beyond any written interpretation.

That's why HPB said, when not so conditioned, that the real occult
ontological truth is hidden "in and around the words and between the lines," and only
through our own intuition and self devised study and practice, could we ever
truly understand it in its entirely. Thus we each have to find that truth for
ourselves, and cannot be stuck in the dead letter writings of either HPB or CWL.

The problem here is that Amand is as much a "dead letter" Leadbeater
fundamentalist as those who read the Secret Doctrine in its dead letter are Blavatsky
fundamentalists.

The true occultists/theosophists are neither. And take what they know to be
the truth from their own inner intuitive understanding -- based on a
comprehensive study of all the writings and interpretations, so as to compare them,
cull out the inconsistencies and arrive at the "golden mean" of absolute truth
through their own direct inner visionary experience -- without any biases or
prejudices that come from the conditioning of their lower natures.

Enough said.

Leon Maurer



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