Theos-Talk Archives (January 2012 Message tt00176)

Cass writes and quotes:
  >Altruism engendered by the lower mind and energized by the lower devotion is not true altruism.
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  >The mind free from attacks of kama is energized by the compassionate reason or Buddhi, and >thus wedded is ensouled by the Self of Creative-Power, which is the true doer of deeds. Then >comes into manifestation the higher altruism in which charity is just and not merely kind, altruism >which enables man to discard the crutch of dependence and to stand on his own feet in self-trust. HPB
  >Cass

           Great quote.  I am wondering if you have the reference on it.
           I have just re-read what has to be one of HPB's best articles on practical psychology:  "Are Dreams but Idle Visions?" (Jan., 1882, Theosophist) The one before it in The Theosophist is good too.

          1000 "Isis Unveiled" references:  In the back of the Theosophical Publishing House's " vol. 2 "Isis," the is a long bibliography (composed by Boris de Zirkoff, I suppose) of about a 1000 most formerly arcane and impossible to find books, and series, supposedly referred to by Blavatsky in Isis.  Now, I'd say about 3/4 of these books can be found on Google books, Archive.org, and elsewhere.  It is a real gold-mind.  Maybe most of the books are incidentally referred to by Blavatsky, but many are worth reading in themselves.  
        Loeb Classical Library books are not listed individually (like Lucian, 3 books referred to in Isis.)   I'd recommend Lucian's "De Dea Syria," (The Goddess Syria) for an interesting account of a Mystery Temple of 2000 years ago.   All that is available is over-whelming.

                                - jake j.
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