Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00074)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "W.Dallas TenBroeck" 
<dalval14@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends::
> 
> Kindly read:
> 
> Dallas
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: carlosaveline cardoso aveline [mailto:carlosaveline@...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:43 AM
> To: dalval14@...
> Subject: Every Challenge is... 
> 
> 
> Dear Dallas,
> 
> My messages to Theos-net for some uknown reason are not getting 
through.
> Could you help me with that?
> This, see below,  is one message apparently "lost in the air".
> Perhaps you can give it a "lift"...
> 
> Thanks a lot,  Carlos.
> 
> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
> 
> 
> Dear friends in Theos-net,
> 
> I hope this message (unlike others), does get through!
> 
> Carlos.
> 
> 
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> 
> EVERY CHALLENGE IS AN OPPORTUNITY
> 
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> 
> 
> One writer who presents himself as a student of Helena Blavatsky 
has written
> 
> one or two articles in a website suggesting that  Robert Crosbie, 
the main 
> founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists (ULT), broke the vows 
he had 
> made as a student of the Esoteric School founded by H.P.B. in the 
19th 
> century.
> 
> Such writers tend to appear from time to time in several countries. 
They 
> tend to publish long, high-sounding articles about things of which 
they know
> 
> nothing. By doing this, they add extra weight to the well-known 
verses in 
> the "Tao-Te-King":
> 
> "Those who know, don't talk.
> Those who talk, don't know."
> 
> At least one of such persons has recently gone beyond discussing 
occult 
> facts of which he knows nothing.  He has been sending long letters 
to a 
> number of students in several countries, anxiously defending his 
decision to
> 
> give as much publicity as he can to the libels  originally invented 
against 
> H. P. Blavatsky more than one century ago.
> 
> These people typically write against those who seek and who 
stimulate the 
> search for the inner learning and for the lay discipleship along 
the lines 
> established by H.P.B. and her Masters.
> 
> Such efforts are now new, and they are not original. We have had 
persons of 
> this typeattacking H.P.B.'s work all the time since the mid-1880s. 
We also 
> have had people successfully defending Theosophy all along.  Yet -- 
there is
> 
> something sad about this.
> 
> The very existence of students who try to live up to the inner side 
of 
> H.P.B.'s Teachings seems to gravely offend these poor people.  This 
is 
> unfortunate. No sincere student could ever aim at that.
> 
> One can only wish that these aggressive skeptics will understand 
and accept 
> the existence of such a thing as an occult life and spiritual path.
> 
> I wish they could see  that there is an occult level of study and 
action 
> which must be kept to those who have freely  decided to pledge 
themselves in
> 
> their own hearts to try  to improve themselves -- and who have made 
a 
> commitment top help each other along that old, steep and narrow way 
to 
> Eternal Wisdom.
> 
> The lack of respect that these skeptics seem to show for the inner 
instances
> 
> of the theosophical movement  might be connected to a lack of 
respect they 
> have for their own inner consciousness and  conscience.
> 
> It follows that to wish them well, and to send them good thoughts, 
is part 
> of our task.
> 
> On the other hand, our mission also includes preserving the 
movement and the
> 
> Teaching from these occult successors of the 19th century 
slanderers 
> Vsevolod Solovyov,  Emma Coulomb and others.
> 
> It is not a coincidence that both Solovyov and the Coulombs, as 
well as 
> their 21st century  successors, first infiltrated the theosophical 
movement,
> 
> and only then started to attack H.P.B. and the Masters' work from 
inside the
> 
> theosophical circles.
> 
> As paradoxes are part of the occult life, there is a bright side to 
this.
> 
> Esoteric philosophy states that great opportunities are generally 
in direct 
> proportion to the difficulty of challenges.
> 
> Therefore, putting a limit to the slanderous action of "modern" 
skeptics may
> 
> be a golden opportunity now available to earnest students worldwide.
> 
> 
> Best regards,  Carlos Cardoso Aveline, from Brazil.
> 
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