Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01192)

Dear Friends,
 
How to explain the popular but false assumption that it is ?unbrotherly and unspiritual? to make evaluations or judgements about other people?s actions?  
 
The origin of that belief may help us understand it. 
 
Medieval Christian Church burned thousands of people alive. It not only judged them but comdemned them to torture followed by death,  for the crime of thinking for themselves and of questioning established Opinions.  
 
Simultaneously, the same Church piously issued the fashionable thesis and command ?do not judge?, using it as an unquestionable Christian rule to be followed  everywhere and at all times by all common people.  Of course, priesthood alone would be in charge of judging ? and condemning.
 
In fact, though, it is common knowledge that all people make judgements.  Yet many of them ? pious and religious as they are ?  do that in an unconscious way, because they do not allow themselves to think, or to really assess  the facts and situations, before getting to a conclusion. 
 
In the New Testament, Jesus paradoxically says: 
 
?Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgement is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me?.  (John, 8: 15-16.) 
 
?Father?  corresponds to ?Atma?, the true Self, the ?parent? of a lower self.  Judgements,  id est,   evaluations and assessments made in the presence of Father Atma will be much better than assessments made ?after the flesh? or according to appearances and instinctively or automatically. 
 
And this, again,  will depend on Antahkarana, one?s ability to listen to the ?voice of the silence?. 
 
The prohibition of ?judging? is a paralysis of Manas, the mind. This prohibition of thinking  is connected to ancient Taboos which Sigmund Freud analysed well as he tried to explain modern religiously dogmatic behaviour.  
 
Surprising as it may be, there are several other important points in which Freud says the same thing as the Esoteric Philosophy, only under a scientific language.  He often takes precise photographs of the workings of lower quaternary in human beings. 
 
Freud?s book ?Totem and Taboo? help us explain the ?manasic paralysis?, or ?manasic suspension?,  that we can observe in ?theological? operations and in some pseudo-theosophical circles, as well.  The pretext for that  selective mental  paralysis by which people renounce their individual discernment  is sometimes ?having faith?;  other times ?not judging?. 
 
The management of deep collective unconscious fears  is the key for the efficiency of such authoritarian group prohibitions against the free use of thought by ?common individuals?. 
 
Best regards,   Carlos.  
 
 


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