Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tl00020)

In a message dated 12/21/98 7:06:51 PM Central Standard Time,
bartl@sprynet.com writes:

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 	WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GETTING ALL THIS FROM???????? DID YOU EVEN READ
 WHAT I WROTE, OR ARE YOU SO BLINDED BY A FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGIOUS VIEW
 OF THEOSOPHY THAT ANY HINT OF ANY IMPERFECTION IN ANY OF THE FOUNDERS IS
 BLASPHEMY??????
  >>

A teaching is a kind of energy.  There are different qualities of energy.  I
remember a very wise man once told me that one measure of how high up the
source of a teaching was, that is, its authenticity and quality, was partly
determined by (1) the intelligent quality of people it drew who remained their
own inquirers (i.e. there are two forces at work in seekers that struggle with
each other: the real quest and out of insecurity the need to become a true
believer.) That is, their quest was stronger (perhaps made stronger by the
assistance rendered by the teaching they encountered) than their insecurity
that prompted them to become fundamentalists and end all questing.  And (2),
the other measure was determined by how long it took a teaching to become
nothing but the belief system of fundamentalistic true believers.

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