Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00097)

The 3 societies  --  STUDYING THEOSOPHY

                        " A Universal Brotherhood of Humanity."
 
                        "There is no religion higher than Truth."

 
Dear Friends:

Of necessity this is addressed to individual students.  It presents my
opinions only.

As I see it:  The organizations and societies can at best provide the
necessary study material and the places where sincere, interested and
persistent students can meet and discuss 

1          What is THEOSOPHY ?

2          Is it reasonable enough that it can it be applied?

3          What has been its impact on our world civilization during the
last 130 years? 

4          How is it likely to continue to affect the world?

5          What can I contribute?

In my opinion:  it is vital that the "original teachings" [HPB,  Masters, W.
Q.  Judge]  be our conjoint focus, as writings by many students later than
the Masters, HPB and Judge tend to be filtered and altered by their
personalities and interests.

It is my observation that most of us are unfamiliar, critically, of the
"original teachings" of THEOSOPHY  --  particularly of what HPB and the
Masters actually wrote.

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Without that as the personal base of our own study, how can we make any kind
of independent valuation of THEOSOPHY ?

If I were asked what course to follow, I would recommend: first to carefully
study HPB's The KEY TO THEOSOPHY (1889), its nomenclature and definitions.  

Then move to a careful study and evaluation of ISIS UNVEILED (1877), The
VOICE OF THE SILENCE (1889) , the SECRET DOCTRINE (1888)'  and the MAHATMA
LETTERS.

We have an advantage over the students who participated in the early
studies, inasmuch as The KEY TO THEOSOPHY (1889) and the SECRET DOCTRINE
(1888) established and corrected some of the early variants of technical
designations used in ISIS UNVEILED (1877) and early articles in THEOSOPHIST
(1879 - 1891) magazine.  

LUCIFER and The PATH (1886 - 1896) magazine articles are clear and definite,
and provide more clearly defined practical applications of THEOSOPHICAL
tenets and fundamental bases. 

The THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY (1892) and TRANSACTIONS OF THE BLAVATSKY LODGE
(1890) are of great help to the earnest student.

Mr Judge's one of the original founders of the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY in New
York wrote several books and many articles.  

Mr. Judge's works include:  The OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY, The BHAGAVAD GITA , The
EPITOME OF THEOSOPHY, The ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT,  NOTES ON THE BHAGAVAD
GITA, and  PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS, these have been found to be most helpful,
and also his articles:  such as the series CONVERSATIONS ON OCCULTISM, and
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME.  Both HPB and the Masters have praised his
writings and his work and have repeatedly called him their "colleague." 

There is enough in this short list to keep a group of students busy for
several years if this kind of work if undertaken sincerely and with
persistence. 

The real questions each student has to answer to themselves are:

1          Do I want to really learn what THEOSOPHY teaches?

2          Do I want to see if any practical application of use can be
		derived from that study for myself?  

One has to admit - so that this may function -- that there can be no
enforcement, nor any criticism of members, or of each others' applications.
No organization or society has any rights or powers over the work or lives
of their members. In other words, "authority" of any kind must be and is
abolished. ] 

                        "Theosophist is, who Theosophy does." 

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: leonmaurer@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:58 PM
To: 
Subject: On studying Theosophy, its purpose and practice

To all,

Not to disagree with anyone... But, just to set the record straight, and to 
prevent misunderstandings with respect to claims by some students that 
theosophy as presented by HPB doesn't relate to modern times, people, places
and 
circumstances... Here are some additional views to consider:

The only thing outdated in the timeless teachings of theosophy presented in 
Isis Unveiled, the Secret Doctrine, The key to Theosophy, The ocean of 
Theosophy, and other writings of HPB and WQJ, are the references to the
classical 
sciences of their time -- which were later modified by the modern sciences
of 
Einstein and others. (We might also consider the inadvertent mistakes due to
these 
presumptions in some of the earlier theosophical writings, later corrected 
and explained by HPB.) 

However, these modern sciences were not only clearly and accurately
predicted 
by HPB, but were thoroughly presaged and explained in the esoteric (symbolic

language) teachings in her books and articles as well as in transcripts of
her 
direct discussions with her students.   See: 
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/einstein.html
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sdcommnt/sdc-hp.htm

Incidentally, one must learn how to interpret and translate the symbolic 
language that was necessary to be used in all metaphysical teachings prior
to the 
modern and post modern scientific breakthroughs of the past and present 
century -- for which there were no terms in any western language, prior to
this 
time, which could explain such transcendental science... Other than the 
anthropomorphism's and euphemisms utilized by the ancient mystic
philosophers and 
religious teachers.   Unfortunately, this could lead to great
misunderstandings, as 
well as generate skeptical denials and materialistically biased counter 
arguments against the theosophical truths. 

Accordingly, it is wise to learn how to properly study the Secret Doctrine 
for its occult esoteric meanings (including the "7 keys") hidden in its 
inadvertent and sometimes necessary "blinds" -- so as to avoid any "dead
letter" 
interpretation, including those sometimes made unintentionally by later 
theosophical teachers (or intentionally, to suit their own personal
agendas). See: 
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/HPB-ONHOWSTUD.SD.htm
l
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/HPBvsAB.html

Today, the newer post modern sciences of Superstring, M-brane, quantum
field, 
and holographic paradigm concepts theorized by scientists such as Greene, 
Kaku, Bohm, Pribram, and many others, as well as the synthesis of their
ideas in 
my theory of ABC -- that eliminates the paradoxes and incompatibilities of 
both relativity and quantum physics, and, besides explaining the holographic

nature of the universe along with its genesis in scientific terms, also
explains 
consciousness and its relationships with mind, brain and physical matter -- 
completely vindicates the metaphysical teachings of pure theosophy given out

originally by the Masters and transcribed by HPB in the Secret Doctrine.
See: 
http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in.htm

While not yet fully accepted by the established scientific community, this 
new synthetic, and fundamentally electrodynamic "Unified Field Theory of 
Everything" -- when demonstrated to be true by suitable experiments and
observations 
(now partially underway, and soon to be correlated) -- is destined to become

(perhaps under a different name) the final scientific proof of theosophy in
the 
not too distant future (as predicted by Blavatsky).

As an added observation, since all these theories first were brought forth 
and made public during the last quarter of the 20th century, they may
constitute 
the "New Message(s)" of theosophy, and their proposers the "New
Messenger(s)" 
that was also predicted by Blavatsky to occur in this present, and possibly 
last cycle of the Theosophical Movement.

Therefore, it is evident that the metaphysical teachings presented in the 
Secret Doctrine and confirmed by its correspondence with the most ancient
occult 
scriptures, as well as its consistency with the most advanced emerging 
multidimensional hyperspace scientific theories, cannot be, nor has ever
changed 
since time began -- regardless of the changing conditions of our world, as
well as 
the universe.   This also includes the teachings of the necessity to form
the 
"nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity," and the direct means to 
achieve it through individual, self devised and self determined efforts
related 
to the last two objects of the Theosophical Movement.   Similar teachings 
were also given out to their disciples in the language of their ages, by
Krishna, 
Buddha, Jesus, etc., and all the Master occultists from ancient to modern 
times.   See: 
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/3-ObjectsOfTheosophicalMovement/

However, this is the first time, such esoteric teachings were given out to 
the world at large... Presumedly, because of the possible immanence of a
human 
evolutionary setback due to the general ignorance of the eternal verities
and 
the almost total acceptance of materialism and its concomitants of
selfishness, 
greed, competition, endless wars and runaway technologies that, ultimately, 
can only lead to economic and ecological collapse of the Earth's life
support 
systems...   Which occurrence, as HPB warned, could possibly set back human 
evolution another million years.

Accordingly, it is a mistake to confuse or conflate the teachings of 
theosophy and its occult metaphysics, with its practical application related
to the 
conditions of the modern world -- which incidentally, was predicted by HPB, 
along with sufficient warnings and enough suggestions for action to help
modern 
theosophists devise their own methods of dealing with these changes.   The
only 
things necessary for this is, as she advised, to understand the nature of 
modern communications, and to utilize its "language of this age" to spread 
broadcast the teachings of theosophy so that all people can come together
and 
voluntarily practice its precepts of unity, liberty, independence, and
brotherhood -- 
which would ultimately lead to a peaceful and more stable world condition.

However, the forming of new cults or religions centered around self promoted

gurus, messiahs, saviors, channelers of so called "descended masters," etc.
-- 
is NOT the answer.   Although, it certainly is wise to study the writings of

other or later theosophical teachers and modern occultists, so as to compare

them with the timeless original teachings given out by the true theosophical

Masters KH and M through their direct agents, HPB and WQJ.

How else is one to find out for themselves, what is true and what isn't, and

be able to act on it voluntarily for the good of all -- without outside 
pressure, coercion, or intimidation based on a blind and passive,
nonsensical belief 
in a personal God who listens to our prayers and punishes us for our sins,
or 
a hierarchical messianic religion based government that dictates our every 
thoughts and actions?

I hope this may help us better understand the purpose, teachings and
practice 
of theosophy in this present day and age.

Best wishes,

Leon Maurer