Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00119)

Nov 12

Dear Randy:

If you approach any science to learn it, you have to teach
yourself what are its basis for work and some of its vocabulary.
That is also true for theosophy.  Have you any familiarity with
some of its literature?

At the risk of seeming to be abrupt, it is very difficult to try
to rewrite all that theosophy teaches when it is possible for
both of us to arrive at a joint understanding if you could
familiarize yourself with the KEY TO THEOSOPHY.  It is not a long
read, but it would make for you a bridge of understanding as to
what students of theosophy deal with, and why.

Is this possible?  It is not that anyone refuses to answer you,
but the terms you use and the theosophical ones are widely
separated by the limitations of our average education, even that
which is given at the colleges.  To bridge that gap is
important -- have you any theosophical texts that you can refer
to?  If I knew about those, then I wold have an easier time.

Man is said to "mirror the Universe" because in Man can be traced
in embryo every one of the divers potentials that the Universe
represents.

Best wishes,

Dal

Dallas
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-----Original Message-----
> From: WLR7D@aol.com [mailto:WLR7D@aol.com]
> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 4:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Randy to anyone: physical evolution AND PSYCHO-MENTAL EVOLUTION also.

Dallas I appreciate your reply but you lost me after the first
sentence.  To
a novice in the vernacular this seems like mumbo jumbo.

It appears you make a wide range of assumptions and then build a
philosophical/religious edifice thereon.

I would challenge almost every one of the assertions you pile on
one another.

I could start with the first sentence suggesting that man mirrors
the
universe.  What precisely do you mean by this and what are the
proofs?  Until
this is resolved, all else you have said is dubious.  When this
is resolved,
I will want to go on to the next sentence and ask the same
questions.

If theosophy is based on the belief that there is one all
pervading truth, it
seems that any discussion based upon it should have as its first
objective
reaching agreement on what aspects of this universal truth are
known.  If
agreement cannot be reached at this foundation level, then all
further
discussion is babble.
Randy

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