Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01203)

Carlos,

As I said, you are welcome to think what you want to think. Karma 
will ultimately teach each of us what is true about this subject. 

> But let me ask: how can we explain the popular but false assumption 
that it is "unbrotherly and unspiritual" to make evaluations or 
judgements 
about other people´s actions?  

We simply cannot know another's heart. We cannot know another's 
motive. We can judge all we like, but we will very likely be wrong. 
We base our judgements of others on what we observe, and what we 
observe is a reflection of who and what we are. The actions of others 
may seem wrong to us. We may even learn something about human 
behavior, about what we choose to emulate or what we choose to avoid, 
but ultimately we cannot judge even the actions of others. Where in 
theosophical literature does it say otherwise?
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> The origin of that belief may help us understand it. 

"Judge not lest ye be judged," is a bit older than the Spanish 
Inquisition. It is a part of the ageless wisdom, the heritage of 
humanity, as expressed in the Bible, one of the most occult books of 
western civilization.
>  
> 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.  

It seems that such a condition is a natural result of ignoring the 
injunction to "Judge not."
>  
> 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.

Sorry, Carlos, but it is just not true that the injunction to not 
judge our fellow human beings came from the post-Inquisition 
priesthood of the Catholic Church. It's been around a lot longer than 
that. When we make judgements about our brothers and sisters we 
participate in the heresy of separateness. They are us and we are 
them. We only judge ourselves, and too often use the resulting 
opinions to punish others for our own iniquities.
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> 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. 

Exactly.
>  
> 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. 

The Christos, the Avatar. the First and the Last, the Great 
Sacrifice, the Watcher on the Threshhold who will not quit His post 
until the last hour of the Manvantara has been rung, may indeed know 
more about the inner life of a human being than I do. But he also 
says he judges no man. 
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> And this, again,  will depend on Antahkarana, one´s ability to listen to 
the `voice of the silence´. 

As does all.
>  
> The prohibition of "judging" is a paralysis of Manas, the mind. 

So here we have a good example of how two diametrically opposed 
statements can both be true, depending on one's point of view. I 
would say the exact opposite, that judging one's fellow human beings 
is a result of paralysis of the faculty 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.  
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> 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";  othertimes oeot judging?. 

Faith is a good quality to cultivate. So  are trust and acceptance. 
It may be confusing to try to disprove the ancient wisdom by means of 
Christian methods of debate. Christianity is nearing the end of its 
cycle and, although it doubtless did some great good in its time, in 
many ways it is  now being misused to prove the opposite of the 
teachings of its founder, the Master Christ.
>  
> 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". 

Indeed, free use of thought such as, "Love ye one another." 

Again please let me say that this is not a debate. You have a right 
to think as you do. We all do, and if we are wrong, time and Karma 
will show us the error of our ways. But it still seems important to 
me to represent what I understand as an alternative to some of the 
things you say.

Best wishes,
Adelasie.
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