Lucifer7, August 2009
Contents
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Short Quotes
Mind, H.P. Blavatsky
Averting a Third War, Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Theosophical Attitude to Life
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I'm continuing to archive material that has disappeared from other
theosophical websites. This month I found some articles of historical
and occult interest by the founder of the Theosophical Society: Henry S. Olcott and by and about Geoffrey Hodson.
- Applied Theosophy, Olcott
-
Asceticism, Olcott
-
The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons, Olcott
- The Vampire, Olcott
-
Spiritualism and Theosophy, Olcott
- Geoffrey Hodson bibliography
- Angels and the New Race
- Extracts from Light of the Sanctuary,
the Occult Diary of Geoffrey
Hodson, edited by Sandra Hodson
- How to become psychic
- Introduction to Bill Keidan's original website about Geoffrey Hodson
- Introduction to the life of Geoffrey Hodson, Bill Keidan
- Contacts with The Angelic (Deva) Kingdom, Bill Keidan
- Contacts with The Inner Government of the World, Bil Keidan
- Clairvoyant Research, Bill Keidan
- Oral history about Geoffrey Hodson, recorded by Bill Keidan
- How did he do it?, Bill Keidan
- An Assessment of Mr. Hodson’s life’s work, Bill Keidan
- Conclusion about Geoffrey Hodson, Bill Keidan
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Short Quotes
Y. Y. in the New Statesman (London): I have now come to the
point of disbelieving almost all scandalous stories upon instinct. If I
am given details of a famous woman's love affairs. I immediately
conclude that she leads a life of saintly chastity. If I hear that an
eminent surgeon is a hopeless drunkard, I am
convinced that he is a teetotaler. If I am told that a great
general is a notorious coward, I see him in my mind's eye as a lion of
courage. Nor is this attitude so unreasonable as it seems. The one
thing we may be certain of in regard to stories of the eminent is that
most of them are lies. Lies are told about the great because people
like to believe lies about the great. It drags the great down to the
common level, and is a perverted expression of the passion for equality.
Dhammapada, Translation Juan Mascaro, ch 1
19 If a man speaks many holy words but he speaks and he does not, this
thoughtless man cannot enjoy the life of holiness: he is like a cowherd
who counts the cows of his master.
20 Whereas if a man speaks but a few holy words and yet he lives the
life of those words, free from passion and hate and illusion - with
right vision and a mind free, craving nothing both now and hereafter -
the life of this man is a life of holiness.
BLISS is called the highest Divine attribute. Hence
it is Eternal, beyond Space and Time. Happiness is the human
counterpart. Who is happy? A man permeated with
kindness, radiating kindness, disturbing no one's peace. No
unkindness exists for such a one. He preaches the gospel of
kindness. So does also every unkind person by
contrast.
Realization is not a personal experience, for there is nothing personal
in the real.
Mind
Mind is a name given to the sum of the states of Consciousness grouped
under Thought, Will, and Feeling. During deep sleep, ideation
ceases on the physical plane, and memory is in abeyance; thus for the
time-being “Mind is not,” because the organ,
through which the Ego manifests ideation and memory on the material
plane, has temporarily ceased to function. A noumenon can
become a phenomenon on any plane of existence only by manifesting on
that plane through an appropriate basis or vehicle; and during the long
night of rest called Pralaya, when all the existences are dissolved,
the
“UNIVERSAL MIND” remains as a permanent possibility
of mental action, or
as that abstract absolute thought, of which mind is the concrete
relative
manifestation. The AH-HI (Dhyan-Chohans) are the collective
hosts of
spiritual beings—the Angelic Hosts of Christianity, the
Elohim and “Messengers”
of the Jews—who are the vehicle for the manifestation of the
divine or universal
thought and will. They are the Intelligent Forces that give to and
enact
in Nature her “laws,” while themselves acting
according to laws imposed upon
them in a similar manner by still higher Powers; but they are not
“the personifications” of the powers of Nature, as
erroneously thought. This hierarchy of
spiritual Beings, through which the Universal Mind comes into action,
is
like an army—a “Host,” truly—by
means of which the fighting power of a nation
manifests itself, and which is composed of army corps, divisions,
brigades,
regiments, and so forth, each with its separate individuality or life,
and
its limited freedom of action and limited responsibilities; each
contained
in a larger individuality, to which its own interests are subservient,
and
each containing lesser individualities in itself.
Averting a Third War
QUESTIONER: These monstrous
wars cry for a durable peace. Every one is speaking already
of a Third World War. Do you see a possibility of averting
the new catastrophe?
KRISHNAMURTI: How can we
expect to avert it when the elements and values that cause war
continues? Has the war that is
just over produced a deep fundamental change in man?
Imperialism and
oppression are still rampant, perhaps cleverly veiled;
separate sovereign
states continue; nations are manoeuvring themselves into new
positions
of power; the powerful still oppress the weak; the
ruling elite
still exploit the ruled; social and class conflicts have not
ceased;
prejudice and hatred are burning everywhere. As long as
professional
priests with their organized prejudices justify intolerance and the
liquidation
of another being for the good of your country and the protection of
your
interests and ideologies, there will be war. As long as
sensory values
predominate over eternal value there will be war.
...
What you are the world is. If
you are nationalistic, patriotic, aggressive, ambitious, greedy, then
you are the cause of conflict and war. If you belong to any
particular ideology, to a specialized prejudice, even if you call it
religion, then you will be the cause of strife and misery. If
you are enmeshed in sensory values then there will be ignorance and
confusion. For what you are the world is; your
problem
is the world's problem.
Have you fundamentally changed because
of this present catastrophe? Do you not still call yourself
an American, an Englishman, an Indian, a German and so on?
Are you not still greedy for position and power, for possessions and
riches? Worship becomes hypocrisy when you are cultivating
the causes of war; your prayers lead you to illusion if you
allow yourself to indulge in hate and in worldliness. If you
do not eradicate in yourself the causes of enmity, of ambition, of
greed, then your gods are false gods who will lead you to
misery. Only goodwill and compassion can bring order and
peace to the world and not political blueprints and
conferences. You must pay the price for peace. You
must pay it voluntarily and happily and the price is the freedom from
lust and ill-will, worldliness and ignorance, prejudice and
hate. If there were such a fundamental change in you, you
could help to bring about a peaceful and sane world. To have
peace you must be compassionate and thoughtful.
...
You may not be able to avert the Third
World, War but you can free your heart and mind from violence and from
those causes that bring about enmity and prevent love. Then
in this dark world there will
be some who are pure of heart and mind, and from them perhaps the seed
of
a true culture might come into being. Make pure your heart
and mind, for by your life and action only can there be peace and
order. Do not be lost and confused in organizations but
remain wholly alone and simple. Do not seek merely to prevent
catastrophe but rather let each one deeply eradicate
those causes that breed antagonism and strife.
The Theosophical Attitude to Life
Theosophy is often referred to as a doctrine of hope and
responsibility.
It teaches that at the root of man's being spiritual powers far beyond
his
imagining lie dormant, and that "the soul of man is immortal, and its
future
is the future of a thing whose growth and splendour have no limit." It
rests
with each individual to awaken these powers into conscious activity.
What
greater thing could man ask from the Universe than this? What greater
hope?
He is told "the powers of nature lie before you: take what you can."
Theosophy teaches that man lives in a universe of law, and
that he will
get back from the universe the exact equivalent of what he puts in. In
other
words, there is no power outside himself which can add one inch to his
stature;
he himself has to grow as the result of his own efforts; no
God or
no Master, can do it for him. And conversely, what he has won from
nature
is his; there is no power in the universe can take it from
him; he
alone can gamble it away.
Here is hope and responsibility in fullest measure; often in
looking at
the world we grumble. "Would we not shatter it to bits and then remould
it
nearer to the heart's desire?"
But what man, worthy of the name of man, could wish for more
than this
to know that he alone is the maker of his destiny. Here are all the
powers
of the universe asleep at the heart of his being, and every effort made
to
awaken them will have its exact equivalent result, ounce for ounce.
All the pain, confusion, and frustration in the world is man's
creation.
Individually, racially, nationally; whatever it is, is our
creation,
our responsibility.
Theosophy is a philosophy which appeals to the strength and
courage in
men, it offers little for their personal comfort and
security. It comes
as a challenge to all that is finest and noblest in man, it is a
teaching
for pioneers, adventurers into the unknown.
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