Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01233)

At 06:44 PM 4/26/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Alex,
>You keep forgetting that I define an adept somewhat differently than you do
>and except for Socrates, the folks on your list did not make serious
>historical contributions.  Let's be honest, if weren't for the TS, who would
>ever hear of Hypatia and Giordano Bruno was nothing compared to his mentor
>Bacon.
>As far as Socrates, that old fraud was no more an adept than Rich T. and
>probably similar in personality without the excuse of youth.
>About the ones who died in Hitler's camps, well that's what happens when
>adepts collide because only an adept can kill an adept.
>
>Chuck the Barbarian MTI, FTSA, MG of 5
>Heretic
>Troublemaker
>
>Chuck:

Almost every well-educated student of either Mathematics or Philosophy has
heard of Hypatia and most of them haven't heard of the T.S. As to Giordano
Bruno he was one of the most important cosmological philosophers of his age.
In some ways, Bacon, whom you know is my absolutely favorite person, was a
kind of a dilettante next to his pupil. All of the people on my list, which
you haven't seen as yet, made tremendously important contributions to human
betterment. Bacon was an Adept, as was Voltaire, as was Frederick the 2nd,
as was Ghandi. What do you consider to be an important historical contribution?

As to Socrates, he was hardly an "old fraud", a teacher is known by his
pupils, and his were so great that, if they came out of his teaching, he was
pretty good. He was also a student of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, who was
himself an adept and all of whose primary students "Pericles and Euripides
for example) were also Adepts.

As to killing an Adept, almost anyone can kill an Adept, if he's not paying
attention at the moment, and sometimes even if he is. I am not altogether
certain at this point what you imagine an adept to be, but I am beginning to
worry about it! Adepts are people who effect human society positively even
if it doesn't seem that way at first (Cardinal Richelieu for example). I
hope you aren't idolizing some imaginary "Black Magicians"...they ain't no
such animals.

Adepts may be social revolutionaries, they are clearly social catalysts, but
the only goal they serve is the liberation of the human spirit and the
intensification of the sense of independence and uniqueness of each and
every human being.

alexis MTI., FTSA.
the eclectic theosophist
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