Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01167)

Hi Carlos,

I hesitate to engage your suggested topic because I don't want to get 
involved in some sort of debate. However, the issue of judging our 
fellow human beings is an important one in theosophy and all the 
ancient teachings. We humans need to understand why our pernicious 
habit of acting as judge jury and executioner of our brothers and 
sisters is seriously impeding our evolutionary progress. 

It is not for the purpose of trying to convince you of anything, 
Carlos, that I respond to your post. It is your right to think and 
behave as you wish and see fit, and nobody but you knows what that 
constitutes.  But in the interest of our subject, theosophy, and of 
offering alternate points of view, here are some suggestions.

The two biblical quotations below seem quite clear to me. They speak 
to the necessity for the student of occultism to attend to the inner 
qualities in his own life. We sometimes think that if we follow 
certain outer practices that we are making progress toward 
enlightenment, and, while this may be true is some cases, it is not 
the outer practices that are important, not at our stage of the game. 
What is important is developing the inner qualities such as self-
control, altruism, service, purity, faith, truth, and devotion. The 
outer behavior will follow the inner development. 

The Bible is surely a deeply occult document, full of esoteric 
teaching, but it is useful to remember that a literal reading is not 
productive of undestanding. As with all occult literature, the real 
meaning lies hidden within, to be discovered by the sincere student. 

If we attempt to discover the real meaning of the teachings we have 
been so lavishly given, we will find that there is no recommendation 
that we human beings judge one another. This is based in the fact of 
the Unity of all life. We are not separate from our brothers and 
sisters. We are all one. The separation is only an illusion, created 
by the apparent differentiation of the One into the many on the 
material plane. Our job is to evaluate and improve ourselves, our own 
little part of the whole, and to allow others to do the same. We 
simply are not qualified to know what is in another's heart.

This is pretty difficult for us in this materialistic Kali Yuga. We 
are all vulnerable to the errors of our times. But it is our next 
step in evolution, to embrace the consciousness that all life is One. 

The Golden Rule of all the world's religions is a good place to 
start. "Do unto others as you would they do unto you." 

Adelasie

On 25 Nov 2006 at 9:55, carlosaveline wrote:

> Friends, 
>  
> Kindness must be in one´s heart, much more than in one´s outer shell or visible personality. 
>  
> I would like to extend an invitation to those who believe that "nobody can judge or evaluate anyone else", and also to those who use this popular but wrong  saying as a shield to justify the absence of moral or ethical choices. 
>  
> Would these friends  tell us whether they think the New Testament Jesus is wrong, or if that Master is arrogant, or he behaves like a bigot, as he says the words below? 
>  
> In the New Testament, Jesus confronts the process of façade-building and make-believe with these words:  
>  
> "How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and plate, while the inside is full of  what you have obtained by violence and selfishness. Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!"(Mt, 23: 25-26) 
>  
> And also: 
>  
> "How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside. In the same
> way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins."(Mt, 23:
> 27-28)
>  
> In that departament, there is no need to quote H. P. Blavatsky,  as she most often used a similar language with regard to whitewashed appearances. 
>  
>  
> Best regards,   Carlos.