Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00028)

Dallas is only one of the many who adore HPB for what she gave to the world
at what personal sacrifice.

Modern Theosophy that we have access to is due to her great sacrifice.=20

One cannot force anyone to adore anyone else. It seems to develop as time
goes on and one sees the monumental contribution a person makes either to
another person or to a cause which benefits humanity.=20

Let me add myself as one of those who carries the motto "Ingratitude is not
one of our vices." even though I may not display the adoration of HPB as
well as others may.

mkr

At 09:31 AM 11/03/1999 -0800, Dallas Wrote:
Nov 3

Dear Kym:

It isn't adoration, rather I would like to think it is a deep
respect based on understanding.  It is also a sense of very deep
gratitude that I feel for HPB.  If you read a good account of her
life and work as for instance the one that Sylvia Cranston wrote
recently (it is now in paperback) you may get an idea of her
worth and work and sacrifice.  From 1875 to 1891 (16 long years)
she worked day and night.  So we owe to her what we know of the
vast roots of our past philosophies and religions and how they
interacted when originally started.  That alone entitles her to
universal respect in my book.

It would be of course quite wrong for me to rub people's noses in
attributing what I write to her.  to some her name is not
pleasant to hear -- for their own reasons.  But I cannot take to
myself that which is lawfully hers to say.

I am quite convinced that Theosophy is a coherent and useful
system and anyone can use it if they are accurate, honest, and
true to what they study.  Unfortunately there are many who have
taken Theosophical ideas and, so to speak, made them their own --
and in the process of spreading them about, they have distorted
them.  I try to avoid that.  If I give "quotations" it is because
I think that everyone has the right to go back to a source and
verify for themselves the importance of what is to be found
there.  No more

Dallas
dalval@nwc.net=A0

-----Original Message-----
> From: kymsmith@micron.net [mailto:kymsmith@micron.net]
> Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:46 PM
> Subject: Re: theos-l digest: November 02, 1999

Katinka wrote:

No heresy, and you are not the only one, Dallas just comes
across as rather more than usually Blavatsky-only-ish. Just
don't mind that part of him (at least, I have learned to
just not look at it, it gets to tiresome otherwise. Sorry
Dallas - these are the facts)

Dallas is used to being accused of being a fundie, I'm sure.  He
seems
unmoved, though.  A very stalwart gentleman.  Sometimes, I wish I
could
find someone - a writer, philosopher, teacher - who I would be
able to love
as much as Dallas loves HPB.  I often wonder what it feels like
to respect
someone that much - but, alas, I've never found anyone who, in my
mind, is
worthy enough for my adoration.  Wonder what that makes me?
(that's a
rhetorical question, no one need answer it)

Side note:  I just saw the movie, The Matrix, last weekend.  I
was stunned
at the Gnostic, Christian, and Eastern symbolism is contained.  I
wasn't
particularly interested in seeing it, as I had heard little about
the
content, other than the great "special effects."  This movie,
though, was
so much more than that.  I don't expect a lengthy discussion on
this
subject, but I am curious whether anyone else saw it and what
they thought.
 If this movie has been examined before on this list (it came out
last
year), then we need not engage in redundancy.  But I wish someone
had had
the decency to tell me sooner!  A bit too much violence, but the
messages
and questions the movie centered on was an unexpected treat for
the mind.

And why is it, currently, that the "good guys" wear black.  It's
definitely
sexy, but I wonder why society changed the dress of "heroes" from
white to
now black.  I've noticed it in Star Wars, the Matrix, and
numerous other
recent films.  Maybe it is just the power that the color black
imparts upon
a person - I don't know.

Kym