Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tl00081)

Dallas TenBroeck wrote:

> Dear Estrella and Bart:

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>
> But this will probably be at great variance with some of the
> teachings that are popular and current abroad, and which may have
> attracted you.  I am saying this bluntly, and HPB Theosophy has
> always said this.  It is not dogmatism, nor is it fundamentalism to
> state facts.  Theosophy speaks in so many places of these FACTS.
>
> Are we going to be displeased with the laws of mathematics, physics,
> chemistry, astronomy, etc... simply because it takes a long time to
> acquire an understanding of them ?  Well if that is a barrier and we
> want things in a hurry, we simply won't become proficient in them.
> And, in occultism, no one can become proficient in true magic (which
> is WISDOM) BY DESIRING TO USE IT SELFISHLY EVEN TO THE SMALLEST
> EXTENT.

    I believe that you have not contradicted anything I have said.

    Bart Lidofsky