tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21854753256186875292024-03-17T20:04:33.535-07:00www.HelenaBlavatsky.OrgUniversal brotherhood, planetary citizenship and the search for eternal wisdom are among the central ideas inspiring this blog.Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comBlogger1245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-9977897506452411732024-03-08T14:07:00.000-08:002024-03-08T14:07:04.524-08:00The Aquarian Theosophist, March 2024 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnN3hPpgVfImwhiu0iCxgU62SYtNZmjxm_VycumCkPsSwnbx4Yn52gRJmjGERv6dgH353tPzO51BgukWxXrD_PPNx1uQs0ABaGwFNJDP1p60r-xJtgvrG-3A_D7OAjCkrYdQN2Ox_bmCGrxv3QlfhdhSsqObvnXI0rAkXyu0_vhXUlqfrtXJneAfxuIYDc/s16000/Capa_%20The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20March%202024.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span></div><p></p><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">D</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ear reader, </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The <strong>Aquarian</strong> for March starts with the article “<strong>The Comedy of Mutual Accusations</strong>”, by H.P. Blavatsky. The question is: can we humans get rid of envy and aggression?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<strong>Jambunada’s Wedding Feast</strong>”, the story of a spiritual marriage in ancient India, is on page three.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<strong>Dalai Lama Worked With the CIA</strong>”, acknowledges the article on pages four and five. The subtitle explains: “<strong><em>Yet the Use of the So-Called Tibetan Buddhism by the CIA Should Be No Surprise</em></strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Other topics: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* “<strong>Our Oneness With Infinite Life</strong>”<strong>, by O.S. Marden</strong>. In Spite of Our Failures and Blunders, The Nations Are Coming Closer Together.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>A link to the article</strong> “<strong>Berdyaev and the Search for Truth</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Akasha and Astral Light - </strong>Two Basic Terms in Esoteric Philosophy, by Helena P. Blavatsky.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Preparing the Omega Point</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Power of Will - </strong>A Statement of General Principles, by Frank Channing Haddock.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>A 3,000 Years Esoteric School </strong>- The Advanced Levels of the Search for Wisdom. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Thoughts Along the Road - Stable Peace in Dangerous Times</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">With 22 pages, the edition includes the List of New Items in our websites. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-March-2024.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-March-2024.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">Click Here to Read</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-March-2024.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-March-2024.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The Aquarian” for March 2024</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of The Aquarian was published on 08 March 2024. The entire collection of the journal is available <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">G</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves, and better understand the world. Invite them to join the study-group <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u> in <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Google Groups</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" class="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HPB_Aux..png" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HPB_Aux..png" style="height: 215px; width: 445px;" /><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div><p><br /></p>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-80033860514639422542024-02-27T09:37:00.000-08:002024-02-27T09:39:37.781-08:00Obstacle, a Precondition of Willpower<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> <br /><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 22pt;">What to Do When Worries<br /></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 22pt;">And Problems Block Your Road<br /></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Jean des Vignes Rouges</span><br /></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih_UtB0GCieVbzyeSXVY7QEyDimX8qa9CwWyE00bnUh1U7rpyP4Dti6c01e5Jmyzt_jjCscRc4-2FyCvn_eLabei5mu6GkYSu67Ca7S2WXN8WRVTtf71jY8h6g3Vs98j-Ewtb2Jud24bal7qiyrt-J6kPzcZ_Y-IRQUfcotLuLl4Ufn68Vl5qTC3asjzYU/s16000/Obstacle,%20a%20Precondition%20of%20Willpower.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 24pt;">M</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ore trouble coming my way!” you exclaim with a feeling of frustration. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Don’t complain about it! Problems give you a great opportunity to strengthen your willpower. You must acknowledge, in fact, that it is the obstacle blocking your path that creates this phenomenon called <em>an act of will</em>. If your life always had a smooth track and never faced contradictions, you would soon become an amorphous, viscous, pasty being, a “noodle”!</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Look around you and observe those who are called “tough fighters”. Their lives are strewn with countless difficulties. This is the source and foundation of their strong will.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">But why do they have to face so many obstacles?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">It is because they threw themselves vigorously forward, eager to grasp reality, and want to give it a form according to their vow and their desire.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">So much so that we arrive at this observation: the need to overcome the obstacle creates the will. But, on the other hand, the will itself makes the obstacle emerge.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">See a proof of this fact in the idiots who have no will. What is the problem with them? To avoid getting into trouble, they stop wanting. They suppress their desires by limiting themselves to grunting. Yet, by rejecting worries, they reject themselves.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">We can see then that willpower and obstacle generate each other. They are inseparable. By wanting, you inevitably create difficulties, since the intention is to force reality to adapt to your will. By fighting to obtain such a submission on the part of reality, you develop your willpower.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Conclusion: whenever worries, problems and challenges block your path, accept them cheerfully and say: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“How lucky! Here is, finally, the possibility offered to me to overcome myself; in other words, to jump over this obstacle. Let us go!”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Thus the very dissatisfaction of seeing your path interrupted by an obstacle becomes the cause of the creation of yourself, by yourself.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he article “<strong>Obstacle, a Precondition of Willpower</strong>” is available on the websites of the Independent Lodge since 27 February 2024. It is also part of the January 2024 edition of the <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/2024/01/the-aquarian-theosophist-january-2024.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/2024/01/the-aquarian-theosophist-january-2024.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Aquarian Theosophist</span></a></span></strong></u>. It consists of a translation - made by CCA - of “</span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/obstacle-condition-de-la-volonte/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/obstacle-condition-de-la-volonte/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Obstacle, Condition de la Volonté</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">”. The original text was first published in 1945 in the book «<strong>Dictionnaire de la Volonté</strong>», by Jean des Vignes Rouges, Éditions J. Oliven, Paris, 320 pp., pp. 213-214. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;">J</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ean des Vignes Rouges</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> is the pen name of French military officer and writer <strong>Jean Taboureau</strong> (1879-1970). </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-notebook-of-willpower/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-notebook-of-willpower/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Notebook of Willpower</span></a></span></strong></u>, by Jean des Vignes Rouges.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-to-strengthen-ones-will/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-to-strengthen-ones-will/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">How to Strengthen One’s Will</span></a></span></strong></u>, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/jean-des-vignes-rouges/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/jean-des-vignes-rouges/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Other writings by Jean des Vignes Rouges</span></a></span></strong></u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HPB_Aux..png" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HPB_Aux..png" style="height: 215px; width: 445px;" /><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these revealing words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div><br /></o:p></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-37261644378217686622024-02-23T10:25:00.000-08:002024-02-23T10:25:10.820-08:00Alexandre Dumas and Social Conflicts<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> <br /><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 22pt;">Let Us Not Confuse Prudence<br /></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 22pt;">With Cowardice; Prudence Is a Virtue<br /></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span><br /></span><span lang="FR" style="color: #000099; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="FR" style="color: #000099; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6L8-TakT0qJ2yXrph6wVpwEgdKDHCEMLYhSzlpWBLeb9rbD2ahPv4fKrus74yyIP5GsiAChj9FHSEXOV24_jA5H5Z-uCJ8yTXb2X0baeXHmFPtOJBs1pmV4rlGC5D7wqSbSW_pVOaRpySe-H7eB4bTYZROxITeBTngUatZvqVqGDLqBFGK0iWosWViqmw/s16000/Alexandre%20Dumas%20and%20Social%20Conflicts.jpg" /></div></o:p></span><b><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">D’Artagnan protects a
lady: a classical drawing<br /></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">by Maurice Leroy. [Image
from Wikipedia in French]</span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">I</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">n the works of Alexandre Dumas (father), social conflicts seem to make no sense. A feeling of humanism and respect for Life permeates his writings, ignoring ideological divisions and differences of social class. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The heroes in Dumas’ novels are on both sides of large-scale political conflicts. There are honest idealistic people in the different fields of opinion, and they are placed here and there by the apparently blind waves of fate and circumstances. While they perform their external duties loyally, the real conflict takes place in their soul: it is the struggle between goodwill and selfishness; between loyalty and fear or ambition.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The external dynamics of social and military conflicts is largely governed by a constant change of tides. At the same time, a deeper, quieter struggle takes place in the consciousness of individuals. It is not easy to perfectly harmonize the conflicting levels of duties they must fulfill, or the commitments to which they have to be loyal.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Everything human has contradictory aspects. Mutual respect often occurs between fierce adversaries. On the other hand, a disguised treason among allies and friends can also take place. It all depends on the silent strength of ethics and honesty in the soul. Unfortunately, not every human group is capable of understanding the stern Law that requires Loyalty among those who wish to attain any degree of lasting contentment. The following thesis seems to be implicitly stated in Alexandre Dumas, through the facts that take place in his novels: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Mankind is still in its infancy. Stable systems of organized hatred result from human ignorance. However, every well-informed soul is more or less aware of the central principle of Eastern philosophy that says: <em>hatred is not extinguished by hatred; hatred is extinguished by impersonal respect and good will</em>.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">On the other hand, no rational agreement is possible with psychotic aggressors: think of Milady de Winter in “The Three Musketeers”, or Mordaunt in “Twenty Years After”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Philosophy of the Musketeers</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Alexandre Dumas stands for traditional ethics in his novels, but he does so in a broad intelligent way, through narratives calculated to elevate the lives of the readers as a whole. Dumas accepts human contradictions as basic facts. He takes practical spiritual lessons from the imperfections of our humanity, which he often describes with a compassionate, brotherly sense of humor. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The Three Musketeers”, “Twenty Years After” and “The Vicomte of Bragelonne” make a fascinating description of a struggle: the battle between the old moral values of the medieval society - let us think of the Knight Templars for instance - and the new absence of ethics, in the money-centered society of modern centuries, whose theology of egotism was established up to a large extent by the Jesuits. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">While facing the modern world, Dumas moderately defends the old Code of Honor and ethics of the cavaliers; however, he is not necessarily a conservative, and does not defend the social order of the Middle Ages as such. The boundless compassion he has been sharing since the 1840s with his readers around the world promotes social solidarity and mutual help. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Paradox is part of life. Just as Helena Blavatsky, Dumas was a friend of Giuseppe Garibaldi, and a true friend of peace. According to Dumas, war and violence are unfortunate actions. Blavatsky thought the same. Yet there is no easy way to avoid wars, or spiritual ignorance. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The long-standing struggle between traditional ethics and modern selfishness permeates Dumas’ novels. The fight between honor and comfort occurs fundamentally within human mind. Secondarily, it makes noise in the drama of organized nations. Human soul and human society are one. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">In the following paragraphs we translate and comment philosophical sentences selected from “The Three Musketeers” and its sequel “Twenty Years After”.<strong>[1]</strong> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">From ‘The Three Musketeers’</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Let us not confuse prudence with cowardice; prudence is a virtue</strong>. (Maxi-Poche, p. 260)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">By training his discernment the pilgrim will be able to see the difference between the two.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>[<em>A certain King</em>], like all weak hearts, lacked generosity</strong>. (Maxi-Poche, p. 686)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">In other words, moral weakness provokes a lack of generosity. And the other way around: moral courage is associated with a generous purpose. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>A gentleman possesses nothing except his word</strong>. (Maxi-Poche, p. 269)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Sincerity to one’s fellow creature emerges from honesty to oneself. Truthfulness is like the Sun: it sends its light in every direction inevitably. However, discernment is unavoidable: actions speak louder than words, and silence is often wise. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>As I am not a gentleman, I am free to lie</strong>. (Maxi-Poche, p. 275)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">This comes from a historical novel set in the seventeenth century. Since the twentieth century, nobility is not a social convention any longer. It is now an attribute of the soul and only visible to those who have the eyes to see. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Moral nobility is more important than social status. On the other hand, a rascal can only see appearances and therefore concentrates his efforts on deceit. The first step of the fool in preparing his own karmic punishment consists in believing he is quite clever - and more intelligent than others. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Behind each form of happiness in the present, a future fear is hidden</strong>. (Maxi-Poche, p. 427)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">An important tenet in esoteric philosophy. “The Voice of the Silence” says: “… Thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled”.<strong>[2] </strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Self-delusion must be avoided: the price to pay for self-indulgence is too high. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Time brings opportunity; opportunity is the lottery or gambling system of a man: the more you commit yourself to your goal, the more you gain, if you know how to wait. </strong>(Maxi-Poche, p. 463)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Being able to wait for a long unforeseeable amount of time is as important as acting with the speed of a lightening. Total patience allows you to have unlimited intensity. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>An excessive worry can only be fought by extreme indifference</strong>. (Maxi-Poche, p. 442)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">There are times when humbleness, detachment and indifference to non-essential factors help the pilgrim avoid anxiety with regard to outward events. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">From ‘Twenty Years After’</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">*<strong> Pythagoras made his disciples keep silent for five years to teach them to be quiet. </strong>(Éditions Robert Laffont, p. 598)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Silence makes it easier to listen to your conscience and spiritual soul. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>A good deed is never lost</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 618)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Everything is part of karma: even a thought has practical results. During situations when it is impossible to perform a correct outward action, <em>honest good intention produces good karmic results according to its intensity</em>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Blood calls for blood</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 674)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">One act of violence stimulates another, and one military conflict leads to another, until the karmic reaction emerges and harmony is restored. There are vast chains of actions that aim at creating conflict and provoking pain, while other chains of causation produce justice, equilibrium, inner learning, a stability of the soul, contentment and peace. One must choose the right one, and act in accordance with it. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>There is nothing more convincing than a great conviction; even skeptical people are influenced by it</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 690)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Actions and ideas are spread by example, and through the natural power of their living magnetism. But there is a time to sow and a different time to harvest. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>A habit of twelve or fifteen years has become second nature</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 703)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">However, if you have an old habit that is an obstacle to your spiritual learning, remember one thing well: no one is ever too old to correct his limitations. Laziness can always be defeated by calm persevering action, and by an intense determination to correct oneself. Pythagorean tradition recommends: “do that which is right, and in time it will become pleasant for you.” </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>It is in human nature to seek perfection in pastries as in other things</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, pp. 712-713)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Yet do not waste your energy in trifles, for some things are important, and others are not. Absolute perfection is not easy to attain, but everything can make some progress in the right direction. Improve yourself in the first place, and the whole world will get better in time. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Sleep is a very capricious divinity, and it is precisely when we invoke it that it makes us wait</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, pp. 719)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">There is something sacred about the transition to sleep. An invisible door is passed and new dimensions open before you according to the present state of your soul. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>I see ingratitude not as a fault or a crime, but as a vice, which is much worse</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 729)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The feeling of gratitude means that our soul is alive. Reciprocity is part of the Law of Symmetry that regulates life.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>The appearance of external objects is a mysterious conductor, which corresponds to the fibers of memory and will sometimes awaken them in spite of us; once this thread is awakened, like that of Ariadne, it leads into a labyrinth of thoughts where we get lost following that shadow of the past that we call memory</strong>. (Éd Robert Laffont, pp. 811-812)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">And the past must be cherished, for it is an unlimited source of helpful lessons for the present and inspiration for the future. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* [A son says to his father:] <strong>Your heart is so generous that you understood everything that was happening in mine</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 813)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Affinity makes feelings and thoughts transparent. A selfless view of life does not want and does not need to distort facts. By understanding the law of unity of all that exists, one can look at facts without the lens offered by egotism. However, a severe discernment is unavoidable. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">One must remember that cowards and traitors know nothing about mutual respect. Unfortunately, one can only be generous with those who deserve it. People who obey to blind hate will see generosity as a mere sign of weakness and take advantage of it to attack you in treacherous ways. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>It is with small armies that we win big battles</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 849)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Large corporations usually have no soul, or cannot listen to it. Complex bureaucracies are often unintelligent. A few good-willing people make the difference. Therefore Moses Maimonides wrote: “When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well-established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude.” <strong>[3] </strong>Wisdom emerges from calm independent thought, not from large scale propaganda. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Regarding one’s superiors, and especially when one’s superiors are princes, the supreme politeness is to obey without delay and without reasoning</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, pp. 849-850)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">If you happen to interact with someone who is wiser than you and is doing good, seize this privilege. Help such a person whole-heartedly, with no cavil or delay. Follow your conscience. Try to learn true wisdom from him and from everything in life.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Athos, like all noble natures, did not transmit to others the sorrowful impressions felt by him; but, on the contrary, he always absorbed them into himself and returned hopes and consolations in their place. It was as if his personal pains came out of his soul transformed into joys for others</strong>. (Éd. Robert Laffont, p. 890)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">It is in human nature to share with others whatever one is. Honest persons improve everything that comes to them, and can’t help but work to build a decent world. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">NOTES:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <strong>The Three Musketeers</strong>: “<strong>Les Trois Mousquetaires</strong>”, Maxi-Poche Classiques, Maxi-Livres, 1997, 696 pages. Copyright 1994, Bookking International Paris. <strong>Twenty Years After</strong>: “<strong>Vingt Ans Après</strong>”, in “<strong>Les Trois Mousquetaires, Vingt Ans Après</strong>”, Les Grands Romans d’Alexandre Dumas, Éditions Robert Laffont, S.<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">A., </span>Paris, 1991, edited and annotated by Claude Schopp, 1388 pages. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">See also the second sequel to “<strong>The Three Musketeers</strong>”, “<strong>Le Vicomte de Bragelonne</strong>”, en cinq volumes, Paris, Nelson Éditeurs, 1955. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[2]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> This refers to the Hall of Learning. See “<u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-voice-of-the-silence/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-voice-of-the-silence/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Voice of the Silence</span></a></span></u>”, by Helena P. Blavatsky (Ed.), Fragment I, page 6. On the severe karmic balance between happiness and suffering, read the article “<u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-law-of-symmetry/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-law-of-symmetry/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Law of Symmetry</span></a></span></u>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[3] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“<strong>The Guide for the Perplexed</strong>”, Moses Maimonides, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 414 pp., see “Introduction”, p. 9.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he article “<strong>Alexandre Dumas and Social Conflicts</strong>” is available at the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists since 23 February 2024. On 14 January 2024, the text was published in the theosophical blog at <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/alexandre-dumas-and-social-conflicts/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/alexandre-dumas-and-social-conflicts/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Times of Israel</span></a></span></u></strong>. An initial version of it can also be seen, signed “CCA”, on pp. 12-17 of the January 2024 edition of “<strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-aquarian-theosophist-january-2024/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-aquarian-theosophist-january-2024/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Aquarian Theosophist</span></a></span></u></strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000 </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/einsteins-theory-of-happiness/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/einsteins-theory-of-happiness/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Einstein’s Theory of Happiness</span></a></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Awakening from the Opium Wars</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Hitler’s Science, and Science Today</span></a></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/from-the-proverbs-of-solomon/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/from-the-proverbs-of-solomon/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">From the Proverbs of Solomon</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><br data-cke-eol="1" /></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-16971987107083771402024-02-21T13:36:00.000-08:002024-02-21T13:38:13.578-08:00H.P. Blavatsky’s Signet Ring <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;">The Annotated Story of a
Ring Shows<br /></span><span style="font-size: 22pt;">the Need for Honesty
Among Theosophists<br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Radha Burnier</span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">(International President
of the Adyar TS from 1980 until 2013)</span><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj247sJEZxblAJWLs7ehg64BNdNhmr0NMeMq0ZmNeOrtNAtbxT6RLhZEI7z098MF58YP6TpwIui1nJQXPxZgWpwpQ1CKk1gB1Ftw2ir7-v3jVrNsmfBiRZAr75vQ2qt-kZ63lG_OAVwhj7VQSEohiu39090aTzkfCnvXyutkkM_npKBRsrbRJdD7_48Ga-w/s16000/H.P.%20Blavatsky%E2%80%99s%20Signet%20Ring.jpg" /></div></o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Radha Burnier
(1923-2013) and the image engraved in HPB’s signet ring</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">D</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">uring my travels and often at the time of the International Convention [<em>of the Theosophical Society of Adyar</em>] someone or other enquires about “HPB’s ring” and whether it can be seen. The story of HPB’s signet ring <strong>[1]</strong> has been related by former President [<em>of the Adyar TS</em>] C. Jinarajadasa, who heard it from Miss Francesca Arundale. It was published in the “HPB Centenary Number” (August 1931), a special issue of <em>The Theosophist</em>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">When HPB was staying with Miss Arundale and her mother in 1884, as she wanted a signet ring made according to her own design, Miss Arundale got it made. It was of dark green, almost black agate <strong>[2]</strong>, engraved with the double triangle incorporated in the TS emblem and the word s<em>at </em>in Devanagari characters. <em>Sat </em>means “Truth” in Sanskrit. At the same time, with HPB’s permission, Miss Arundale got a similar ring made for herself. But there was a difference: HPB’s seal was set on a heavy gold ring and was mounted on an oval frame with a hinge, which formed the lid for a shallow locket. Miss Arundale’s copy of the ring was lighter and without locket or hinge. Jinarajadasa says HPB wore her ring from 1884 to the day of her death, after which it was passed on, in accordance with her wish, to Annie Besant. Dr. Besant always wore the ring - on the index finger of her right hand.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Miss Arundale too always wore her ring and at her death, we are told, it passed to her nephew, G.S. Arundale <strong>[3]</strong>, who presented it to the Esoteric School Archives. It was that ring that Brother Jinarajadasa placed on the finger of N. Sri Ram at the inaugural meeting after the latter was elected President. Many members are familiar with the photograph depicting the occasion. The ring was passed on to John Coats when he became president [<em>of the Adyar Theosophical Society</em>] and is now with me. It would therefore be more correct to call it the President’s ring rather than to speak of it as the HPB ring. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">When Annie Besant died, George Arundale, who was her residuary legatee and became the TS President, acquired HPB’s ring. On his death, Rukmini Devi came into possession of all his assets and affairs, and it is not known what happened to HPB’s ring and to whom it was transferred on the demise of Rukmini Devi. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Strangely, two rings particularly associated with HPB have disappeared from the memorabilia of the [Adyar] Theosophical Society. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The origin of the other ring, called the “Rose Ring”, is described by Col. Olcott in his <strong><em>Old Diary Leaves</em></strong> [<em>TPH</em>, <em>First Series, pp. 93-97</em>], and we summarize his account here. After a visit to Mrs. Mary Baker Thayer of Boston, known as the “Flower Medium” because in her presence flowers rained down, Col. Olcott handed to HPB a beautiful, half-opened rose sent by Mrs. Thayer “as a gift of the spirits”. As HPB held the rose in her hand and smelt the perfume, she had the faraway look associated with phenomena. At that moment, her host, Mr. Charles Houghton, a lawyer, entered and asked to have a look at the rose. On HPB’s handing it over to him, he suddenly said, “How heavy it is! I never saw a flower like this. See, its weight actually makes it bend towards the stalk!” When he gave the flower to Olcott to see, HPB exclaimed: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Take care, don’t break it!” </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">A point of light appeared in the heart of the rose and a heavy, plain gold ring leaped out, and the rose immediately straightened up. One evening a year and a half later, Mrs. W.H. Mitchell, the sister of Olcott, came for a visit and wanted to see the ring. After looking at it, she held it out towards HPB in the palm of her hand in order to return it. Instead of taking the ring, H.P. Blavatsky briefly closed Mrs. Mitchell’s fingers on the ring. On opening her hand, Mrs. Mitchell and everyone present saw that three small diamonds were set in a triangle on what had been a plain gold ring. This ring was lost around 1979. <strong>[4]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">At a meeting of the Executive Committee held on 12 October 1979, with Mr. John Coats, President of the Theosophical Society, in the chair, it was reported:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Two items had been stolen from the cupboard in Dr. Annie Besant’s Room, used to house certain historical items associated with Madame Blavatsky. Between two and three years previously, the Subba Row Medal given to Madame Blavatsky had disappeared. Approximately two weeks before the Executive Committee meeting, it had been discovered that the Rose Ring had also disappeared. As the cupboard had not been opened for over a year, it was not known exactly when the ring had been taken. The matter had been reported to the police and investigation was proceeding. Since then, all other items from the cupboard had been removed to a Godrej (steel) almira in the Archives Department.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">In the minutes of a later Executive Committee meeting held on 20 November 1979, also with President John Coats in the Chair, it was reported:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“... The police are checking the pawnbrokers’ records for the Rose Ring. The General Manager is to confirm that a photograph of the ring has been published in the police gazette. A facsimile of the Subba Row Medal which had been presented to HPB would be made at the headquarters of the TS in America, Wheaton, where several blank medals are being kept, and the facsimile would be brought to Adyar.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Apparently the Society was not destined to retain either one of these special objects, or the real HPB ring with the locket. <strong>[5]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">THE 2024 NOTES BY CCA: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Used for thousands of years by kings and spiritual leaders, the signet ring is a symbol of the holder’s position of power, and, in addition to being worn on a finger, it also functions as a small stamp to sign or authenticate signatures - and to seal written messages in their envelopes - with a special red wax where the image of the ring gets impressed. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[2] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">These are a few slices of green agate stones, similar to the ones belonging to the library of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/H.P.-Blavatskys-Signet-Ring_Aux.jpg" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/H.P.-Blavatskys-Signet-Ring_Aux.jpg" style="height: 244px; width: 623px;" /><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Agate stones have several occult properties, and they are said to protect <em>honest people</em> who have them. In “<strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/isis-unveiled-volume-ii/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/isis-unveiled-volume-ii/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Isis Unveiled, volume II</span></a></span></u></strong>”, pp. 600-601, HPB reveals that she used a special talisman which consisted of “a simple agate or carnelian”. One of the historical names of <u>carnelian</u> is precisely “carnelian agate”. The talisman had a triangle engraved upon it, within which were contained a few mystical words. Seeing the talisman was enough for some distinguished mystics to immediately decide to help HPB in whatever she needed. However, that “agate or carnelian” talisman was not the green agate ring here discussed by Radha Burnier. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[3] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">George S. Arundale was elected and took over the international presidency of the Adyar Society in 1934. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[4]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> This is a photo of the “flower ring”: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/H.P.-Blavatskys-Signet-Ring_Aux2.jpg" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/H.P.-Blavatskys-Signet-Ring_Aux2.jpg" style="height: 149px; width: 536px;" /><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">It was first published by H.S. Olcott on p. 96 of “Old Diary Leaves”, first series. (CCA) </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[5] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The final sentence of the article is significant. Such thefts of sacred objects in the Headquarters of the Adyar Society further deprived it from the <em>feeling of sacredness and mutual confidence</em> necessary to real theosophical work. In this as in other issues, Radha Burnier was frank and honest enough. The word SAT, TRUTH, engraved in HPB’s ring, is there for a reason. It refers to an unavoidable obligation. And it is not about absolute truth only. It states the need for absolute sincerity and good will in all things, in theosophical life. The distancing between Ethics and Adyar started during HPB’s life. HPB was sadly expelled from Adyar in the 1880s and had to start her work again from England. Since 1891, the distance between real theosophy and Adyar Society has slowly but constantly grown, with some exceptions here and there. In her article “<u><strong><em><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/why-i-do-not-return-to-india/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/why-i-do-not-return-to-india/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Why I Do Not Return to India</span></a></span></em></strong></u>”, Blavatsky admitted: “… <strong><em>Nor can I, if I would be true to my life-pledge and vows, now live at the Headquarters from which the Masters and Their spirit are virtually banished. The presence of Their portraits will not help; They are a dead letter</em></strong>.” HPB knew that <em>the </em>Law of Karma can never be cancelled. Every mistake is thoroughly corrected, and compensated, in due time. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">B</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">orn in 1923, <strong>Radha Burnier</strong> was the international president of the Adyar Theosophical Society for 33 years, from 1980 until 2013. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">I</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">nteresting information on <u>HPB’s rings</u> is to be found in the book “<strong>The Judge Case</strong>”, by Ernest E. Pelletier, Edmonton Theosophical Society, Canada, <u>Part I</u>, p. 323 (the occult influence of the ring helps William Judge), and <u>Part II</u>, pp. 115 through 119. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">enry Cornelius Agrippa</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> discusses the topic of magic rings in “<strong>Three Books of Occult Philosophy</strong>”, Kessinger Publishing Co., USA, 288 pp., Chapter XLVII, pp. 141-143.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he article “<strong>H.P. Blavatsky’s Signet Ring</strong>” was published as an independent item in the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists on 21 February 2024. It is also part of the February 2024 edition of “<strong>The Aquarian Theosophist</strong>” (pp. 1-4). Its first publication, however, occurred at “<strong>The Theosophist</strong>” magazine, Adyar, India, June 2001 edition, pp. 368-369, as part of the Editorial Section “<strong>On the Watch-Tower</strong>”. Notes have been added in 2024. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/why-i-do-not-return-to-india/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/why-i-do-not-return-to-india/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Why I Do Not Return to India</span></a></span></strong></u> (by HPB). </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-2007-2008-events-in-adyar/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-2007-2008-events-in-adyar/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The 2007-2008 Events in Adyar</span></a></span></strong></u> (by Pedro Oliveira).</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-aura-of-the-theosophical-movement/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-aura-of-the-theosophical-movement/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Aura of the Theosophical Movement</span></a></span></strong></u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-cure-for-envy-was-discovered/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-cure-for-envy-was-discovered/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Cure for Envy Was Discovered</span></a></span></u>.</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/psychology-and-ethics-are-inseparable/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/psychology-and-ethics-are-inseparable/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Psychology and Ethics Are Inseparable</span></a></span></u></span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/HPB_Aux..png" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/HPB_Aux..png" style="height: 215px; width: 445px;" /><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-13326074017832457362024-02-09T13:55:00.000-08:002024-02-09T13:55:49.000-08:00The Aquarian Theosophist, February 2024 <p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTwOIJMNOnafESuP5QE17YUHq85XP3kG8Uc4HvWG22VexjQkvRQIHaFCFkPz19im6sDQsWtxphz5zmG211ZuVL8GPRW1AK2iVjXETLU19QoUkGlmshyDFf9SVRUBRqBSP5bbAuyNFIlnk_K3Jw2oojfY1BIZ0PsW6Ks5u0BoSdclNpfMgph0MQfYuquQp/s16000/Capa_%20The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20February%202024.jpg" /></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span><p></p><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 22.0pt;">O</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ur February 2024 edition starts with an article by Radha Burnier, “<strong>H.P. Blavatsky’s Signet Ring</strong>”, to which we added this subtitle: <em>The Annotated Story of a Ring Shows the Need for Honesty Among Theosophists</em>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">On page five, <strong>The Invisible Power of the Sapphire</strong>: <em>Hindu Legend Says the First Sapphire Was the Tear of a God</em>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Page six presents the classic essay “<strong>Hypnotism, And its Relations to Other Modes of Fascination</strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Further topics: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>The Universal Rule</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Cahagnet’s Wife Gets to a High Level of Consciousness</strong>, by H. S. Olcott. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Thoughts Along the Road</strong>: The Right State of Mind Produces Health for the Body.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>The Ethics of Theosophy on Facebook</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>An Independent Effort (a Poem)</strong> - by Olga Attovna Fedorova.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>The Surprising Editorial Policy of the 19th Century ‘Theosophist’</strong>, by HPB. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Peace is Better than War - </strong>And People Are Opening Their Eyes. In a visit to Moscow, Tucker Carlson brings us to an honest conversation with the president of Russia.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">With 23 pages, the edition includes the List of New Items in our websites. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-February-2024.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-February-2024.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">Click Here to Read</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-February-2024.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-February-2024.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The Aquarian” for February 2024</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of The Aquarian was published on 09 February 2024. The entire collection of the journal is available <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">G</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves, and better understand the world. Invite them to join the study-group <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u> in <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Google Groups</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" class="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HPB_Aux..png" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HPB_Aux..png" style="height: 215px; width: 445px;" /><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-66346059772607190752024-01-11T13:56:00.000-08:002024-01-11T13:56:51.645-08:00The Aquarian Theosophist, January 2024 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8XK4LzZa54-Gqw_XCvpfst2p72Yukct0nhRmY2671yqgTul6zS71DpBCMuCDxZQ3DMdPzS7uAlM7m_Wdsw1noyMu7ZJMutnk-JFIXR7jtJ85-n6dZccwtMH-D1bI68i0Yqn57nhr0ELCD9Oh7k6QejGg6A_XrXq2W6uNzf3IZJkUB2gr01lcuhohzx7j/s16000/Capa_The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20January%202024.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">hat should we do, when worries and problems seem to block our path? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">On page one of the January edition you have the article “<strong>Obstacle, a Precondition of Willpower</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Jean des Vignes Rouges writes: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“<strong>Problems give you a great opportunity to strengthen your willpower. You must acknowledge, in fact, that it is the obstacle blocking your path that creates this phenomenon called <em>an act of will</em>. If your life always had a smooth track and never faced contradictions, you would soon become an amorphous, viscous, pasty being, a ‘noodle’!</strong>”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">On page three you have the article “<strong>Living in Harmony With the Sky</strong>”, by Joana Maria Ferreira de Pinho. Its subtitle: “There Is a Ladder We Need to Climb, in Order to Reach the Highest”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Page nine presents “<strong>The Truths of Life Revealed in Dreams</strong>”, by Steven H. Levy: our true enduring individuality is that of a Perceiver that transcends the body. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Other topics: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong>Alexandre Dumas and Social Conflicts: </strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Is Organized Hate an Unnecessary Epidemic?</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong>Thoughts Along the Road:</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Alexandre Dumas, or the Philosophy of the Musketeers</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong>The Implacable Truth:</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A Few Hard Facts From the Files of the Independent Lodge</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong>A Sage of the Himalayas:</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Some Words on Universal Wisdom</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With 22 pages, the edition includes the List of New Items in our websites. We wish you a nice reading.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-January-2024.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-January-2024.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Click Here to Read</span></a></span></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-January-2024.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-January-2024.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">“The Aquarian” for January 2024</span></a></span></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of The Aquarian was published on 11 January 2024, with Sun and Moon in Capricorn. The entire collection of the journal is available <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">G</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves, and better understand the world. Invite them to join the study-group <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u> in <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Google Groups</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><img alt="" class="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HPB_Aux..png" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HPB_Aux..png" style="height: 215px; width: 445px;" /><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">H</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div></div><p><br /></p>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-58983614697020442232024-01-09T05:21:00.000-08:002024-01-09T05:21:07.417-08:00The Notebook of Willpower<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: times;"> <span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Importance of
Written<br /></span><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Orders in the Education
of Your Will<br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Jean des Vignes Rouges</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9xD1rToocoHAx5wgWJhLEih1YpJCvX6QU3QJZ7N1py5GjikxGHKF6ea4yYcEIs3y5znkxCP9j1v8wIXhPtMfjESvSbTvD0m1fYtZQC-J-sAXs-oMx7yztjqRGkI0yg537P-64_JhXEklKiVw9ASeYLKqf2SJTPXt2M2PjENPeZenS4Aqll7eKNb0iZZc/s16000/The%20Notebook%20of%20Willpower.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">A</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> military custom consists of “reporting” every day, in other words, presenting yourself to your commander in a special room - the most beautiful in the barracks -, to receive orders: your instructions. It’s a good habit. So adopt it.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Where can you find this vigilant leader? In your “notebook of willpower”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The very fact of buying a beautiful, well-bound notebook will almost solemnly and joyfully mark the beginning of a new era: one during which you will proceed to methodically educate your will. Such an object will materialize your promise to yourself, your oath. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">You will write down many things as I often recommend to you: your resolutions, the list of the faults you must combat, the list of virtues to acquire in order of importance, the principles on which you will rely, the maxims to learn by heart, “key words”, formulas for suggestion, quotations, texts, questions like this one: “Was I calm today?” following which you will enter a sign of + or a –, depending on your assessment.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">You will also briefly record the result of your examinations of conscience, and the firm promises that follow them.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">All of this material will be carefully divided, of course, in chapters and paragraphs.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">At the right time, every day, make it a duty to read again a page or two of this notebook. You will thus give yourself the illusion of returning from your “Colonel” and studying his orders in order to carry them out in the best possible way. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">In fact, this “colonel”, this “regulation”, this “notebook of willpower” is the voice of your conscience which, you know, is made in part of social imperatives. So his authority is great. When you get into the habit of “transmitting the instructions” to yourself, your notebook will become a prestigious symbol. It will make you think of possible sanctions and rewards. It will be “the sacred rule” to follow.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">This process has the great advantage of involving visual memory more actively in self-education. It is, in short, the equivalent of the “blackboard” used in schools. <strong>[1]</strong> We know that, according to the most authoritative teachers, the best classes are those where the most chalk is spent.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Indeed, any idea placed before the eyes of students for a long time in written form, or symbolized by a drawing, becomes embedded more deeply in his mind and occupies a place closer to the action phase. It seems that the fact of tracing the signs of language is already a kind of impetus toward the life given to the idea; a preparation, a training of the muscles.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">So fill the pages of your notebook of the willpower. Once it is full, buy another one. But don’t put the old one in the garbage bin. Read it again, often. He still has orders, congratulations, and reprimands too, addressed to you.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">NOTE:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> This text is part of a book first published in the 1940s, when nearly every school used blackboards, and chalk to write on them. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">J</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ean des Vignes Rouges is the pen name of French military officer and writer Jean Taboureau, who was born on 29 April 1879 and lived up to 1970.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above article is available on the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists since 09 January 2024. It is also part of the December 2023 edition of “<u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/2023/12/the-aquarian-theosophist-december-2023.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/2023/12/the-aquarian-theosophist-december-2023.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Aquarian Theosophist</span></a></span></strong></u>”. “<strong>The Notebook of Willpower</strong>” was translated by CCA from the book «<strong>Dictionnaire de la Volonté</strong>», Méthode D’Éducation de la Volonté, Jean des Vignes Rouges, Éditions J. Oliven, Paris, 320 pp., 1945, pp. 54-55.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/true-concentration/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/true-concentration/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">True Concentration</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-blessing-of-self-discipline/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-blessing-of-self-discipline/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Blessing of Self-Discipline</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/jean-des-vignes-rouges/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/jean-des-vignes-rouges/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Click here to see other writings by Jean des Vignes Rouges</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-22031728312372510442024-01-08T10:24:00.000-08:002024-01-08T10:29:33.580-08:00Thoughts Along the Road - 73<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt;">Each
Instant Contains Eternity. The<br /></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155628689;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt;">Whole Cosmos Is Present in Every Atom.<br /></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155628689;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155628689;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155628689;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155628689;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQbJJQlVVewaVzIIKaEfGk4fOr0pzKfChIQO0bOSRVozvQLK73R8-AOd8fV5766pyItPdReNc0CVGUenL5ceI43n4e4Qy9Z_tveHNsZHyI40CFBOR7_lcGIcwhe8x37vfkhkz_jcnMvcJW0OJhCydcWGLcmsbMTrVHL83Z7QWhjbqatyrj353KVwSHj0yV/s16000/Thoughts%20Along%20the%20Road%20-%2073.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The sensible pilgrim knows that the</span></strong></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">whole Life is his teacher, and that his Teacher</span></strong></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">speaks to him through every aspect of life.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><span style="font-size: 24pt;">I</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">n the territory of noiselessness, sound is especially meaningful. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* On a blank page, every word counts. True insight is possible in the void of an open mind, for detachment is the basis of right perception. The cosmos needs no noise to teach us all we have to learn. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Anyone who is in touch with his own immortal soul is also in touch with the best in all things. Such an individual knows how to avoid harmful factors or to say No to them, for he has discernment, common sense - and a little bit of courage.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Some facts are hard to understand. For instance, through austerity, we find contentment. Through self-restraint, we achieve inner freedom. By being humble, we become morally great. With renunciation, one achieves plenitude. Voluntary simplicity is the source of happiness.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* The absence of selfish desire is an essential factor in the Journey. It increases one’s capacity to appreciate the natural beauty of life. It leads us to experience a silent, deep contentment in the face of everything around us. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* One must remember that each instant contains eternity. The whole cosmos is present in every atom.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17pt;">The Right Relationship with Outer Reality </span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Optimistic thinking does not depend on pleasant circumstances. It doesn’t come from easy victories. Optimistic thinking and feeling result from an inner contact with that which is good, which is ideal, true, and points to eternity.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* When new and better times come to us, they provoke several difficulties. There is not necessarily a lot of comfort when real progress takes place in one’s inner life. A degree of independence from circumstances is of the essence for the pilgrim who wants to move ahead.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* The right use of time is an art. It is also an essential part of the science that allows us to sow the seeds of a better future. Knowing something about the Law of Karma means to know the art of managing Time correctly - and of properly using our vital energies.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* By paying attention to the circumstances around, we can see what message life is trying to convey to us. It is not a message of attachment to personal comfort and routine. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Circumstances are not the enemies of spiritual intuition, and it is often through them that Life gradually leads us to attain a wiser vision of reality. It is frequently necessary to resist circumstances, or even to directly challenge them. But in most situations it is better to take advantage of every factor in life, including those which are contrary to us. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* One must learn lessons from obstacles big and small. The sensible pilgrim knows that the whole Life is his teacher, and that his Teacher speaks to him through every aspect of life. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* St. Anthony of Lisbon and Padua highlights that fundamental principle of discipleship which is taught in Matthew, 5, 23-24: “…<em>If you bring your gift to the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, Leave your gift before the altar and go your way; first be reconciled with your brother, then come and offer your gift</em>.”<strong>[1]</strong> The <em>altar</em> is the source of learning. One can only stand in the presence of the inner Source of wisdom if one is essentially in Peace with all beings.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">NOTE:</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">See the <em>Complete Works</em>, “Obras Completas”, St. António de Lisboa, in two volumes, </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Lello & Irmão Editores, Portugal, edition in Latin and Portuguese, 1987; vol. I, p. 692.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he article “<strong>Thoughts Along the Road - 73</strong>” was published as an independent item in the associated websites on 08 January 2024. An initial version of it is part of the August 2021 edition of “<strong>The Aquarian Theosophist</strong>”, pp. 12-13. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">P</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">rint the texts you study from the websites of the Independent Lodge. Reading on paper helps us attain a deeper view of philosophical texts. When studying a printed text, the reader can underline sentences and make handwritten comments in the margins that link the ideas to his personal reality.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-prayer-to-defend-my-soul/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-prayer-to-defend-my-soul/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;">A Prayer to Defend My Soul</span></strong>.</a></u></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/blavatsky-corrects-w-q-judge/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/blavatsky-corrects-w-q-judge/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Blavatsky Corrects W. Q. Judge</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Other writings of </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/carlos-cardoso-aveline/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/carlos-cardoso-aveline/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span></span></span><u><strong><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-to-strengthen-ones-will/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-to-strengthen-ones-will/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">How to Strengthen One’s Will</span></a></span></span></span></strong></u><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/star-angel-worship-in-the-roman-catholic-church/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/star-angel-worship-in-the-roman-catholic-church/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Star Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAINOt1R_8KBikcp9TBIG6YYvB88SSdts8Qav2jHosMz85pgm_nwpll-QBJuDJX2qxr5w67t7cehadBQhBjQKyB0xVq-VeWWoRyZE1LkVCORkLdJqAkd1sANLTfZecpXAGjydG12UOLl2GsXuRKY0jTn65b7ij4KwD0iW9pulTDIIbeIPWQgoP6Or22PFZ/s16000/HPB_Aux..png" /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div></div></span></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-16953418449458311312023-12-13T07:45:00.000-08:002023-12-13T07:45:03.848-08:00Ben Sira, Confucius, and the Future <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 22pt;">Self-Control is Better
than Controlling a City<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span><br /></span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwFn5HyYymQiv5OOsKI4yENtnloaDvlVhTEwFWBfcWIcWlaZOoc_yfwispDbNWdCPzabnwooGqnCOG6gc54h85LrfI5eWGkOUz902wb288ysEYy-W1YuO8Ll5vn_eViAvp1eWwvqZRCJnYJ2L4-a3yC08nednmiqiPpHx52E3djIAFwQY88P_sHgkGF2Uk/s16000/Ben%20Sira,%20Confucius,%20and%20the%20Future.jpg" /></div></o:p></span><b><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Chinese philosopher
Confucius, and a recent edition of Ben<br /></span></b><b><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Sira’s book. [Sources of
images: Wikipedia and Yale University Press]</span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">F</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">or some time an impression was created that humanity would be happier by getting rid of nations. It became a consensus for many that organized states and national borders were unnecessary. Multinational companies could successfully take care of our happiness, and they should do so. While governments are often corrupt and we have to waste precious time controlling them, big capital should be freed of any limits, since it is always altruistic and selfless. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Of course, we would have to promote a few painful regime changes here and there, in order to remove corrupt nationalistic autocrats and dictators. The splendid weapons developed by Western democracies would easily eliminate the enemies of free society. Meanwhile, a popularization of drug-addiction and other liberalities could add an extra sense of personal happiness to younger and older generations alike. Eternal bliss would be granted by the post-modern theology of consumerism and its seemingly unlimited technological possibilities. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The practical achievements of such a sophisticated utopia can now be seen, and we may describe them as sevenfold: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">1) The worship of indulgence has been causing a sort of moral collapse in society. That includes a largely silenced epidemics of mental depression and emotional disorders. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">2) As a result of collective anxiety, political life is largely based on personal accusations and campaigns against adversaries, as organized hatred replaces balanced debate. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">3) Instead of promoting mutual understanding, vast media organizations seem to work with one-sided views of reality that tend to stimulate the growing feelings of anxiety, fear and hatred. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">4) There is a growing crisis in democracies. The fragility of state institutions expands. The results of elections are often unaccepted. Ugly conflicts take place between judiciary systems and elected authorities. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">5) Chaotic migratory currents and inter-ethnic conflicts threaten to destroy Western nations from within. The subconscious feeling of uncertainty about the future adds extra weight to a dangerous state of alternation between aggressive euphoria and emotional frustration. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">6) Brutal asymmetric wars are promoted in the name of democracy and freedom, while more nuclear weapons get produced. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">7) Terrorism and antisemitism are growingly accepted as part of normal life in different continents. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Hannah Arendt’s concept of “the banality of evil” helps explain these seven groups of flowing events. As a community accepts its process of decay, self-destruction spreads from within. And how can we react to such a complex flow of facts? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">If trees can be known by their fruits, it does not seem to be a great idea to leave aside prudence and embrace unlimited internationalism. The cancellation of culture provokes an implosion of our historical perspectives, and brings about a feeling of contempt for our own nations. How could we then be surprised, if our sense of community is ridiculed, defeated, and destroyed? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Historical causation cannot be erased. There is a close relationship between that which has occurred and that which will take place. If people give up their past, people lose both their identity and their future. As soon as a community loses sight of the future it wishes to have, its behaviour is dominated by the blind search of short-term pleasure, and the mechanisms of self-destruction start to devour common life. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">There is an antidote to social self-cancellation, but it looks like unattractive to many post-modern citizens. It consists in recovering a feeling of respect for our own past. It requires cherishing the accumulated experience and the wisdom of nations, while learning from their past mistakes. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Could we find anything useful, for instance, in the ancient moral teachings of Ben Sira, the Jew? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Would Lao-Tzu, the immortal Chinese sage, have anything <em>new</em> to tell us? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Or Rabbi Bachya ibn Paquda, the Jewish thinker who wrote “The Duties of the Heart” in Spain around the year 1040? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Ancient philosophies tell us that rejecting moral teachings is but a pleasant form of short-term self-delusion. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">While many naïve persons believe they are the cleverest beings on Earth, real intelligence is prudent and modest, and avoids any excessive amount of self-indulgence. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The thought that present generations have much more knowledge than the sages of the past grants us a comfortable place in the territory of our own imagination. We can stay there until some disaster of vast proportions awakens us. We then realize that History is cyclic and not unilinear. Our evolution has to “start again” from time to time, on the basis of past lessons. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u>The Need to Be Born Again</u> </span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The apparently unlimited power of present-day opinions cannot resist the quiet strength of these humbling words from Ecclesiastes: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“One generation goes, another comes, </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">But the earth remains the same forever.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The sun rises, and the sun sets - </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">And glides back to where it rises.” <strong>[1]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">There is nothing really <em>new</em> under the stars, says ancient wisdom. No technological device can replace such a fact. The most infallible monetary philosophy of our time is as old - and as powerless - as any other form of self-delusion previously created by ourselves in other <em>gilgulim</em>, or cycles. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">For -</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“All streams flow into the sea,</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Yet the sea is never full;</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">To the place [from] which they flow,</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The streams flow back again.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">(…)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Only that shall happen,</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which has happened,</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Only that occur</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which has occurred;</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">There is nothing new</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Beneath the sun!” <strong>[2]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The fact of life’s constant renewal and cyclic rebirth remains eternally updated. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Evolution is regulated by an invisible Law of Justice and Equilibrium which transcends all possible descriptions. It cannot be photographed or defined in words. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">True, our human minds use to personify the Law. We give it, for instance, the form of a divine Lord, a fatherly being whose behaviour is sometimes compassionate, sometimes angry. If we look at the different religions, Eastern and Western, we see that such supreme Divinities are many around the world, and there is no shortage of gods in our planet. However, poetical personifications of Universal Law, as if it were a human being, are perfectly acceptable and correct. They constitute symbols, legends and hints pointing out to us a transcendent reality situated beyond the narrow world perceived by the five senses. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">On the other hand, subconscious inclinations are often independent from and oblivious to our “visible” or conscious thought and voluntary perceptions. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Good-willing people who consider themselves rational may be subconsciously inclined to find an excuse to justify they own love of self-indulgence. As they transcend the anthropomorphic images of cosmic divine intelligences, they take one step further: they jump into denying not only the literal reality of a <em>personal Lord of the Universe</em>, but also the essential, impersonal Law of Justice itself. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Fools never doubt they are supremely smart. In an imagined lawless Cosmos, the illusion of egotism reigns supreme, until the catastrophes come. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Whatever we sow, we harvest, and Obadiah, 15, says: “As you did, so shall it be done to you; your conduct shall be requited”. There is a moral law in the Universe, and it constitutes one of the main aspects of the regulatory system that leads all life. It makes sense to call the Law a Lord, as long as we remember the anthropomorphic image is a metaphor. There is a reason not to use personal names in vain, regarding the divine world. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Avoiding Blind Immoderation</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">By developing discernment, we overcome the dilemma between two extremes: the narrow belief in dead-letter, and the fool’s paradise of that automatic skepticism which rejects all moral teachings. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Old “tedious” truths have to be reexamined from a deeper point of view, before we accept they have several layers of substance and meaning. But the task is seldom easy, for sincerity to oneself seems to be nasty and challenging. Let us see an example. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Everyone would like to obtain short term peace by appeasing his outward (or inner) enemies - gluttony for instance. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Appeasement would be a means to believe in self-indulgence and to deny the seriousness of the obstacles we must face. The unpleasant old wisdom taught by Ben Sira, the Jew, destroys such charming illusions. The <em>wicked person </em>– to which Ben Sira refers - may stand as a symbol for the impure inclinations in one’s own soul: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“No good comes to him who gives comfort to the wicked, </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Nor is it an act of mercy that he does.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Give to the good person, refuse the sinner;</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Refresh the downtrodden, give nothing to the proud:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">No arms of combat should you give him,</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lest he use them against yourself;</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">With twofold evil you will meet</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">For every good deed you do for him.” <strong>[3]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">You should help those who deserve, not those who do not deserve, says ancient Roman philosopher Cicero in his “De Officiis”, Book I, item XIV, or p. 47 in the Loeb Classical Library edition. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The same idea appears with other words in the Chinese Analects of Confucius. Centuries before Christian age, someone asked Confucius: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“What do you think about the principle of rewarding enmity with kindness?” </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">And the sage answered by asking a question:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“With what, then, would you reward kindness? Reward enmity with just treatment, and kindness with kindness.” <strong>[4]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">One more reason not to appease injustice - be it in social life or our individual souls - is indicated in the Analects. Duke Ai (494-467 B.C.E.) inquired:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“What should I do to ensure the contentment of the people?”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">To this, Confucius answered:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“If you promote the upright and dismiss the ill-doer, the people will be contented; but if you promote the ill-doer and dismiss the upright, the people will be discontented.” <strong>[5]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">We must promote right actions, then, in our mental world and the social reality around us. It is never a good idea to appease evil or injustice. Ben Sira adds: “Do not abase yourself before a fool”. <strong>[6]</strong> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Duties of the Heart in Chinese Schools</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">For many people, another tedious act consists in investigating the source of life’s renewal, or the origin of human happiness. Boredom in this case is due to the fact that understanding life requires reasoning. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The topic is examined in fascinating ways by Rabbi ibn Paquda in his neoplatonic treatise “Duties of the Heart”. The philosophy of Confucius works along similar lines. Centuries ago, the followers of the Chinese philosopher taught these surprising facts to children in schools: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The ancient people who desired to have a clear moral harmony in the world would first order their national life. Those who desired to order their national life would first regulate their home life; those who desired to regulate their home life would first cultivate their personal lives. Those who desired to cultivate their personal lives would first set their hearts right. Those who desired to set their hearts right, would first make their wills sincere. Those who desired to make their wills sincere would first arrive at understanding. Understanding comes from the exploration of knowledge of things.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">From this we have a healing chain of causation that leads to peace. It sounds like a mantra, or a poem, or a prayer:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“When the knowledge of things is gained, then understanding is reached. When understanding is reached, then the will is sincere. When the will is sincere, then the heart is set right; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated. When the personal life is cultivated, then the home life is regulated; when the home life is regulated, then the national life is orderly, and when the national life is orderly, then the world is at peace.” <strong>[7]</strong> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">There are shorter ways to say the same. We all remember that, according to classical Judaism, <em>self-control is better than controlling a city</em> - Proverbs, 16:32 -; and “grace is better than silver and gold” (Proverbs, 22:01). </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">NOTES:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ecclesiastes, 1: 4-5, in “Tanakh, the Holy Scriptures, the Jewish Bible”, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia-Jerusalem, copyright 1985, 1624 pp., see p. 1441. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[2] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ecclesiastes, 1: 7-9, in “Tanakh, the Holy Scriptures, the Jewish Bible”, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia-Jerusalem, copyright 1985, 1624 pp., see pp. 1441-1442. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[3] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Wisdom of Ben Sira”, a new translation with notes by Patrick W. Skehan, the Anchor Yale Bible, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, copyright 1987, printed in the USA, 620 pp., see Chapter 19, “Care in Choosing Friends”, p. 242. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[4] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Analects”, Confucius, Dover Thrift Editions, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1995, 128 pp., see p. 88, Book XIV, chapter XXXVI. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[5] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Analects”, Confucius, Dover Thrift Editions, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1995, 128 pp., see Book II, chapter XIX, p. 8. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[6]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “The Wisdom of Ben Sira”, a new translation with notes by Patrick W. Skehan, chapter 8, page 174.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[7]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “The Importance of Living”, by Lin Yutang, The John Day Company, New York, copyright, 1937, printed in the USA in 1939, 459 pages, see page 94. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above article was first published on the theosophical blog at “<u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ben-sira-confucius-and-the-future/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ben-sira-confucius-and-the-future/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Times of Israel</span></a></strong></u>”. It is available on the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists since 13 December 2023. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/einsteins-theory-of-happiness/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/einsteins-theory-of-happiness/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Einstein’s Theory of Happiness</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Awakening from the Opium Wars</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-awakening-of-the-third-eye/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-awakening-of-the-third-eye/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Awakening of the Third Eye</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/u-f-o-crews-and-theosophy/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/u-f-o-crews-and-theosophy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">U.F.O. Crews And Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Hitler’s Science, and Science Today</span></a></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-90075697978544365902023-12-08T14:28:00.000-08:002023-12-08T14:28:06.863-08:00The Aquarian Theosophist, December 2023 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMn5RRe59c_Zt_5pVUocYRsZ8NBwSrrLdi4igEEpcVGMDa3E9mibjQ_42jhhlHteehNL2RiYwjO_MFLffdzAgsLL00v0z-Qh8z_uxgCtfbZrPWQ0klvYtiYSGNlGKPAgd44-mR9FSpQz4WIIikc1_dP2LRvwvn_is20E9ucfscEC8cM5w7lYz6gZpXUNkP/s16000/Capa_%20The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20December%202023.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span></div><p></p><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">A</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">fter six months of retrograde movement, on 7 December 2023 <strong>Neptune</strong> clearly started a new phase of direct movement, as it approaches the sign of <strong>Aries</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The opening article of the present edition is “<strong>As Neptune Approaches Aries: The Master of Compassion is in Direct Movement to the Territory of Innovation</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">On page 3 you have the article “<strong>Reincarnation, a Doctrine of Hope</strong>”, by Steven H. Levy, whose subtitle is “<strong>The All-Inclusive Law of the Cycles of Souls</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Page six presents the largest article in the edition, written by O. S. Marden: “<strong>Making Dreams Come True</strong>”. The article says: “<strong>Your Next Step is Right Where You Are, in the Thing You Are Doing Today</strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Other topics: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Independent Theosophy on Facebook</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Christmas Then and Christmas Now</strong>, by H. P. Blavatsky. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Thoughts Along the Road: The Combination of the Immediate and the Eternal</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Ben Sira, Confucius, and the Future</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>The Notebook of Willpower - </strong>The Importance of Written Orders in the Education of Your Will. An article by the French thinker Jean des Vignes Rouges (1879-1970). </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Who Can Actually Seize a Spiritual Opportunity? Understand the Divine World</strong>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">With 22 pages, the edition includes the List of New Items in our websites. Have a happy read. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-December-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-December-2023.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">Click Here to Read</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-December-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-December-2023.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The Aquarian” for December 2023</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of The Aquarian was published on 08 December 2023. The entire collection of the journal is available <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">G</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves, and better understand the world: invite them to join the study-group <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u> in <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Google Groups</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ould you like to spread theosophy (and ethics) in today’s world? Send the <u>Aquarian</u> to your friends, and tell them to write to the editors asking for a <u>free subscription</u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj94ZG2MEg3WBh9VPUsxMxGSloPDoA-W6pHe2hEz2g_GHIC1wEQG78Te1gXMQImJJq5mU68Xoo916T71hnpI-RjIqYmN_UYJPA2KwN1jkdJXXzxA33xLaG6VUvBtapaESTQZmwAwfmRl4vaBr9Zi57gOtChnMfQV6oiOu2ZXfphTN5SSrWESauiaT5_-rIb/s16000/HPB_Aux..png" /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-33782764638049288062023-11-20T13:11:00.000-08:002023-11-20T13:28:51.055-08:00The Letter of the Maha-Chohan<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 22pt;">A Key to Understand the
Future<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">A Mahatma of the
Himalayas</span><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span><o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="587" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOp-zEhO-9nILe5HXrg223BJ7B5GNtXNDwTsEUOkoLLoiBFvdWIey_ohgONJ1IF5RzAWRZ1UCm-Ql-7hsnkCLYeIPEM__hLFfemc7bi7C0uMaK-Ly0S-Nu_dvUuee2tZnnC2h7XIHUoJK1CgLLWFvECakZNl-4UJPOFIOkWqQckP1kbc4ZvCYbjUgcc4Qd/s16000/The%20Letter%20of%20the%20Maha-Chohan.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;">1. Introduction: the Importance of the Document</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">istorical records show us that in 1881 one of the Masters of the Wisdom who directly guided the Theosophical work in its pioneering phase decided to seek advice, and consulted his own teacher. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Master of Masters</span></span></u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> was then heard. The topic was the nature, the goal and the direction of the movement that was being started. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The sage who was consulted is called by the Masters simply <u>Chohan</u>. The word “Chohan” means “Lord”. Since then, this same Sage has often referred to as “Maha-Chohan”. One of H. P. Blavatsky’s teachers once called him “the rock of the ages”. At another point, this Eastern sage referred to the Chohan as “<u>the one for whom the future is like an open page</u>”. <strong>[1]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">After the consultation with the Maha-Chohan, the Master gave an account of the conversation. This text is the most authoritative description of the Mission that should be fulfilled by the authentic theosophical and esoteric movement, not only in the following decades, but also in the following centuries. It contains an extraordinary and encouraging prophecy about the cultural and historical progress of our humanity. Unlike so many “prophecies” that limit themselves to announcing disasters, the text points the way to the victorious human transition (not without sacrifices) to a new era of planetary fraternity.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Letter of the Maha-Chohan has special importance - among other reasons - because we find in it central elements of information about the religion of the future. It defines the general lines of a religiosity that should become more visible during the 21st century. There was, however, a doubt regarding the exact content of the letter in a decisive passage. The text transcribed by C. Jinarajadasa in the volume “<strong>Letters From the Masters of Wisdom - first series</strong>” says: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Theosophical Society was chosen as the corner-stone, the foundation of the future religions of humanity”. <strong>[2] </strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The passage may lead the student to a few questions. Will there be, in the future, several religions competing with each other? Or will there be a single global religion, which will have, however, a non-authoritarian character?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The original of the Letter of the Maha-Chohan disappeared, and there is more than one copy of it. In the early years of the movement, transcriptions of the Letters of the Mahatmas were privately circulated among students. The <strong>Pasadena Theosophical Society</strong> published the version of the text that can be seen in the <strong>British Library</strong>. In it, the document refers to the <u>future religion</u>, in the singular form:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Theosophical Society was chosen as the corner-stone, the foundation of the future religion of humanity”.<strong> [3]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In this case, the Master would have stated that the religion of the future will be only one - naturally not in the bureaucratic sense of the word, for it will inevitably welcome cultural diversity.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In order to directly check and verify the facts, we took steps to obtain an authentic copy of the most authoritative version of the Letter of the Chohan that exists in the world. This is, no doubt, the copy made in pen by Alfred Sinnett himself, the British journalist and theosophist who received it from the Master. The document is now in the <strong><em>Additional Manuscripts</em></strong> sector of the British Library, in London, under the title of <strong>Mahatma Papers</strong>. Its shelfmark identification is <strong>ADD.45289A</strong>. In May 2009, a complete certified copy of manuscript <strong><u>ADD.45289A</u></strong> was obtained from the British Library.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Direct examination of the letter, on page 53 of Sinnett’s manuscript, confirms the fact that the correct sentence is:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Theosophical Society was chosen as the corner-stone, the foundation of the future religion of humanity.” </span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnZzNvsw-iMuE-lwYv3P2mmEx6QW5B3gbnKi6-8QewHBtdYh93ufcxthQtG98lZC0Iz9P03VjwvhQ-BTRUYxXe7YpBamK8cakyz_IXlkqPhJJXHNL5a2UIqaBFLDLyuECScY-KTOv_wFBv_MC_lVogC7Q6EX4PVYtCbK5ChtjaSBSFwwoLpAT7aIWU81tQ/s16000/The%20Letter%20of%20the%20Maha-Chohan_Aux1.jpg" /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><strong style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partial view of Sinnett’s transcription of the lettter, with the words “of the future religion”</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Such a confirmation is important for several reasons. One of them is that even today most theosophical publications - including those focused on original theosophy - continue to publish the erroneous version of the sentence, which refers to “religions”, in the plural, as in C. Jinarajadasa’s version.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is also important to note that, in the last sentence of the letter, there is a reference to “the true philosophy, the true religion, the true light”, in the singular form.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The religion of the future is a philosophical religion, a wisdom-religion. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is only one, which means universal, but it is not authoritarian, and therefore it includes the principle of diversity. It is based on the direct perception and experience of the law of brotherhood that unites all beings. Internally one, it can be seen as externally multiple.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We transcribe below the full text of the prophetic Letter of the Maha-Chohan, in Jinarajadasa’s version, with the correction in the sentence referring to the religion of the future.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(Carlos Cardoso Aveline) </span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;">2. The Complete Letter of the Maha-Chohan</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="605" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59zrrrRPRyKwlqVKsrtTjXjBUhjyL-_Fo159Ty0LfkVfntZCpTdBCG-0jMWcm3EQu79bYsTx1HR7Y2agd68-QJVdPVHxXazL1QcvxzbwJUhu6M_PDANDDfi2Vbsp6cvVC0-z4SMsOt9UeZedjQ0DrxHdI0X6Koocu47MZ9k6YKK8lT3AHzgTOx8hdbloh/s16000/The%20Letter%20of%20the%20Maha-Chohan_Aux2.jpg" /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Original title and opening lines of the letter, in the copy made by A. P. Sinnett</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;">Several Good Reasons Why the T.S. </span></span></em></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;">Should be a Brotherhood of Mankind</span></span></em></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;">For the Simla Eclectic T.S.</span></span></em></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he doctrine we promulgate being the only true one, must, supported by such evidence as we are preparing to give become ultimately triumphant as every other truth. Yet it is absolutely necessary to inculcate it gradually, enforcing its theories, unimpeachable facts for those who know, with direct inferences deduced from and corroborated by the evidence furnished by modern exact science. That is the reason why Colonel H.S.O., who works but to revive Buddhism, may be regarded as one who labours in the true path of theosophy, far more than any other man who chooses as his goal the gratification of his own ardent aspirations for occult knowledge. Buddhism stripped of its superstitions is eternal truth, and he who strives for the latter is striving for Theo-Sophia, Divine Wisdom, which is a synonym of truth.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For our doctrines to practically react on the so-called moral code, or the ideas of truthfulness, purity, self-denial, charity, etc., we have to popularise a knowledge of theosophy. It is not the individual and determined purpose of attaining oneself Nirvana (the culmination of all knowledge and absolute wisdom) which is, after all only an exalted and glorious <em>selfishness</em> -but the self-sacrificing pursuit of the best means to lead on the right path our neighbour, to cause as many of our fellow-creatures as we possibly can to benefit by it, which constitutes the true theosophist.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The intellectual portions of mankind seem to be fast drifting into two classes, the one unconsciously preparing for itself long periods of temporary annihilation or states of non-consciousness, owing to the deliberate surrender of their intellect, its imprisonment in the narrow grooves of bigotry and superstition, a process which cannot fail to lead to the utter deformation of the intellectual principle; the other unrestrainedly indulging its animal propensities with the deliberate intention of <em>submitting </em>to annihilation pure and simple in case of failure, to millenniums of degradation after physical dissolution. Those “intellectual classes”, reacting upon the ignorant masses which they attract and which look up to them as noble and fit examples to follow, degrade and morally ruin those they ought to protect and guide. Between degrading superstition and still more degrading brutal materialism, the white dove of truth has hardly room where to rest her weary unwelcome foot.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is time that Theosophy should enter the arena; the sons of theosophists are more likely to become in their turn theosophists than anything else. No messenger of truth, no prophet has ever achieved during his life time a complete triumph, not even Buddha. The Theosophical Society was chosen as the corner-stone, the foundation of the future religion of humanity. To achieve the proposed object, a greater, wiser, and especially a more benevolent intermingling of the high and the low, of the Alpha and the Omega of society, was determined upon. The white race must be the first to stretch out the hand of fellowship to the dark nations, to call the poor despised “nigger” brother. This prospect may not smile to all, but he is no Theosophist who objects to this principle.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In view of the ever-increasing triumph and at the same time misuse of free-thought and<em> liberty</em> (the universal reign of Satan, Eliphas Levi would have called it), how is the combative <em>natural </em>instinct of man to be restrained from inflicting hitherto unheard-of cruelty and enormities, tyranny, injustice, etc., if not through the soothing influence of a brotherhood, and of the practical application of Buddha’s esoteric doctrines?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For as everyone knows, total emancipation from authority of the one all-pervading power or law called God by the priests - Buddha, Divine Wisdom and enlightenment or Theosophy by the philosophers of all ages - means also the emancipation from that of human law. Once unfettered and delivered from their dead-weight of dogmatic interpretations, personal names, anthropomorphic conceptions and salaried priests, the fundamental doctrines of all religions will be proved identical in their esoteric meaning. Osiris, Chrishna, Buddha, Christ, will be shown as different names for one and the same royal highway to final bliss Nirvana.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mystical Christianity, that is to say that Christianity which teaches self-redemption through our own seventh principle - this liberated Para-Atma (Augoeides) called by the some Christ, by others Buddha, and equivalent to regeneration or rebirth in spirit - will be found just the same truth as the Nirvana of Buddhism. All of us have to get rid of our own Ego, the illusory apparent <em>self</em>, to recognise our true self in a transcendental divine life. But if we would not be selfish, we must strive to make other people see that truth, to recognise the reality of that transcendental self, the Buddha, the Christ or God of every preacher. This is why even exoteric Buddhism is the surest path to lead men towards the one esoteric truth. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As we find the world now, whether Christian, Mussulman or Pagan, justice is disregarded and honour and mercy both flung to the winds. In a word, how, seeing that the main objects of the T.S. are misinterpreted by those who are most willing to serve us personally, are we to deal with the rest of mankind, with the curse known as the “struggle for life”, which is the real and most prolific parent of most woes and sorrows and all crimes? Why has that struggle become the almost universal scheme of the universe? We answer, because no religion, with the exception of Buddhism, has hitherto taught a practical contempt for this earthly life, while each of them, always with that one solitary exception, has through its hells and damnations inculcated the greatest dread of death. Therefore do we find that struggle for life raging most fiercely in Christian countries, most prevalent in Europe and America. It weakens in the Pagan lands and is nearly unknown among Buddhist populations. (In China during famine and where the masses are most ignorant of their own or any religion, it was remarked that those mothers who devoured their children belonged to localities where there were the most of Christian missionaries to be found; where there were none, and the Bonzes alone had the field, the population died with the utmost indifference.) Teach the people to see that life on this earth even the happiest is but a burden and an illusion, that it is but our own <em>Karma</em>, the cause producing the effect that is our own judge, our saviour in future lives, and the great struggle for life will soon lose its intensity. There are no penitentiaries in Buddhist lands, and crime is nearly unknown among the Buddhist Thibetans. (The above is not addressed to you, <em>i.e.</em>, A.P.S., and has naught to do with the work of the Simla Eclectic Society. It is meant only as an answer to the erroneous impression in Mr. Hume’s mind of the “Ceylon work” as no theosophy.)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The world in general, and Christendom especially, left for two thousand years to the regime of a personal God, as well as its political and social systems based on that idea, has now proved a failure. If the Theosophists say: “We have nothing to do with all this; the lower classes and the inferior races (those of India for instance in the conception of the British) cannot concern us and must manage as they can”, what becomes of our fine professions of benevolence, philanthropy, reform, etc.? Are these professions a mockery? And if a mockery, can ours be the true path? Shall we not devote ourselves to teaching a few Europeans, fed on the fat of the land, many of them loaded with the gifts of blind fortune, the rationale of bell-ringing, cup-growing, of the spiritual telephone and astral body formations, and leave the teeming millions of the ignorant, of the poor and despised, the lowly and the oppressed, to take care of themselves and of their hereafter as best they know how? Never. Rather perish the T.S. with both its hapless founders than that we should permit it to become no better than an academy of magic, a hall of occultism. That we the devoted followers of that spirit incarnate of absolute self-sacrifice, of philanthropy, divine kindness, as of all the highest virtues attainable on this earth of sorrow, the man of men, Gautama Buddha, should ever allow the T.S. to represent the <em>embodiment</em> <em>of selfishness</em>, the refuge of the few with no thought in them for the many, is a strange idea, my brothers.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Among the few glimpses obtained by Europeans of Thibet and its mystical hierarchy of “perfect Lamas”, there is one which was correctly understood and described. “The incarnations of the Boddisattva, Padma Pani or Avalokitesvara and of Tsong-ka-pa and that of Amitabha, relinquish at their death the attainment of Buddhahood - <em>i.e.</em>, the <em>summum bonum</em> of bliss and of individual personal felicity - that they might be born again and again for the benefit of mankind.” (R.D.)<strong>[4]</strong> In other words, that they might be again and again subjected to misery, imprisonment in flesh, and all the sorrows of life, provided that by such a self-sacrifice, repeated throughout long and dreary centuries, they might become the means of securing salvation and bliss in the hereafter for a handful of men chosen among but one of the many races of mankind. And it is we, the humble disciples of these perfect Lamas, who are expected to allow the T.S. to drop its noble title, that of the Brotherhood of Humanity, to become a simple school of psychology. No, no, good brothers, you have been labouring under the mistake too long already. Let us understand each other. He who does not feel competent enough to grasp the noble idea sufficiently, to work for it, need not undertake a task too heavy for him. But there is hardly a Theosophist in the whole society unable to effectually help it by correcting the erroneous impressions of the outsiders, if not by actually propagating himself the idea. Oh, for the noble and unselfish man to help us <em>effectually</em> in India in that divine task. All our knowledge, past and present, would not be sufficient to repay him. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Having explained our views and aspirations, I have but a few words more to add. To be true, religion and philosophy must offer the solution of every problem. That the world is in such a bad condition morally is a conclusive evidence that none of its religions and philosophies, those of the <em>civilised</em> races less than any other, have ever possessed the <em>truth</em>. The right and logical explanations on the subject of the problems of the great dual principles - right and wrong, good and evil, liberty and despotism, pain and pleasure, egotism and altruism - are as impossible to them now as they were 1881 years ago. They are as far from the solution as they ever were; but to these there must be somewhere a consistent solution, and if our doctrines will prove their competence to offer it, then the world will be quick to confess <em>that </em>must be the true philosophy, the true religion, the true light, which gives <em>truth </em>and nothing but the truth.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">NOTES: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1] </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Regarding the reference to the future being “like an open page”, see “<u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letters From the Masters of the Wisdom - First Series</span></a></strong></u>”, letter 16, to H.S. Olcott, page 45, upper half. On the reference to the Chohan being “the Rock of Ages”, see “<u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-mahatma-letters/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-mahatma-letters/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Mahatma Letters</span></a></span></strong></u>”, Letter IX, first paragraph, page 38. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[2] </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Letter 01 in “<u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letters From the Masters of the Wisdom - First Series</span></a></strong></u>”. See the lower half of page 04. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[3] </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“View of the Chohan on the T.S.”, a text included in the volume “<strong>Combined Chronology - For use with ‘<em>The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett</em>’ and ‘<em>The Letters of H.P.B. To A.P. Sinnett</em>’</strong>”, by Margaret Conger, T.U.P., Pasadena, California, USA, 1973, 48 pp., see especially page 44. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[4] </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Rhys Davids. (Note by C. Jinarajadasa, the editor of “<u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letters From the Masters of the Wisdom - First Series</span></a></strong></u>”)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above text was published as a separate item in the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists on 20 November 2023. It is also part of the November 2023 edition of “<strong>The Aquarian Theosophist</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;">Note by the Editors</span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he fact is widely recognized that the text “<strong>The</strong> <strong>Letter of the Maha-Chohan</strong>” can be considered the inner Charter of the theosophical movement. According to the <strong>Independent Lodge of Theosophists</strong>, the direct teachings of the Masters of the Wisdom constitute the most important part of the theosophical literature. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/leaving-the-masters-aside/" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmr__TgBgMEhEU7B-0dt9Ln1uPn4sglLqrrS1UotQgUf47Z8n1l_g9owY2qBtQXmTzMSwUboulQoFDmGLUkeZfAgltBZmHpbrOiaHp5boSl3w0R7xe3hn3xfwt4E5_fxLarLPqJMaeszKmrbL9KPugVDs_xywZ_0DQYCiRgqn4kMElhzMrbAIBbAVirsRR/s16000/The%20Letter%20of%20the%20Maha-Chohan_Aux3.jpg" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/leaving-the-masters-aside/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/leaving-the-masters-aside/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Leaving the Masters Aside</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/storks-the-phoenix-and-rebirth/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/storks-the-phoenix-and-rebirth/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Storks, the Phoenix, and Rebirth</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/lever-to-move-the-world/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/lever-to-move-the-world/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">A Lever to Move the World</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-battle-of-truth/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-battle-of-truth/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Battle of Truth – twelve prophetical statements</span></a></span></strong></u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></o:p></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-4554371640896947582023-11-12T13:24:00.000-08:002023-11-12T13:24:19.518-08:00A Two-Minute Meditation <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> <br /><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">Strengthening the
Purpose of One’s Soul<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span><br /></span></span><span lang="ES"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPAEnArdjSyWfBZyhsxEGSKhvYmN1eYT5BCJ8pfpZzbPDjVsJuSGT5s5hGxfvUQtqChc3CY1jdqU-gfjcHoaunSnV1XbwN-vyI2BtIXBq6fqFxfD6f1Kiezh4IwvuXfeyNa5VuAauZUSPjP15nBmYc6crKZIy1ce8HJrYKNfkCwZ6Pg16-cwpn-vdRcv01/s16000/A%20Two-Minute%20Meditation.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-size: 24pt;">O</span></span></span><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">m.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">I reject any attachment to personal feelings, except the feeling of <em>inner</em> peace.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">The main purpose of a pilgrim illuminates and organizes the facts of his life, and reveals to him their real meaning, according to the level of wisdom and experience he has attained already. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is why his purpose in life must be spiritual. He has to be a friend of eternity, if he wants to make real progress. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">The physical body, a loyal tool, is serene. I don’t desire or expect anything on the short term: I say <u>thanks</u> instead.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Free from short-sighted desire, one’s spiritual purpose attains a silence that is both brief and immense. One of my protections is the habit of rejecting falsehood.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the territory of noiselessness I find the absence of any time that can be measured or described. The eternal source of plenitude is here. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">The sound of silence contains the music of the spheres, and makes the brilliance of knowledge flow without borders. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">I observe therefore the strength of the spiritual soul. I tune in to her. Her purpose is my purpose. I elevate myself, I purify and simplify my life, and work in harmony with the highest in everything.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Om, Shanti. Om. Namaste. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span></span></span><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above prayer was published in the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists on 12 November 2023. It is also available in Portuguese language: “</span></span></span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/meditar-dois-minutos/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/meditar-dois-minutos/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Para Meditar Dois Minutos</span></a></span></span></span></strong></u><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">”. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span></span></span><span style="color: #010101;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-prayer-to-defend-my-soul/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-prayer-to-defend-my-soul/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;">A Prayer to Defend My Soul</span></strong>.</a></u></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span></span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/on-seeing-the-mistakes-of-others/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/on-seeing-the-mistakes-of-others/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">On Seeing the Mistakes of Others</span></a></span></span></span></strong></u><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span></span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/abandoning-the-sociological-delusion/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/abandoning-the-sociological-delusion/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Abandoning the Sociological Delusion</span></a></span></span></span></strong></u><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Other writings of </span></span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/carlos-cardoso-aveline/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/carlos-cardoso-aveline/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span></a></span></span></span></strong></u><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></o:p></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-61753808517501539492023-11-10T13:32:00.001-08:002023-11-16T12:08:37.857-08:00The Aquarian Theosophist, November 2023 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGdmEU4ZRDNH8DYzCy-xTyUvkki2RZMZITJEZa8hV4djQ3La24P61UANwcYdjCKS4dg55yoMEL8Anov_O82J6TkDAnyIAuZjcjknY9duT203uD_neCQzbZid_LeqgaMxOL0rGzaVnnL9zDJSi8b7iKKpmPLC-Vv3CITI7Gh-HQh4trXH3QvOUV6Lae4AZ/s16000/Capa_The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20November%202023.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he opening article of the Aquarian for November is probably the most important text in the theosophical literature of all time. The “<strong>Letter of the Maha-Chohan</strong>” constitutes a unique document for a number of reasons, and a safe Key to understand human past and future. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The document can also be considered the <u>inner Charter</u> of the theosophical movement. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">On page 8 we have the note “<strong>Reject Artificial Intelligence, Develop an Authentic Understanding</strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Other topics: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Organizing the Effort: Three Phases of Daily Discipline.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Peace, Study and Brotherhood - an article by Steven H. Levy.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* The Prayer of a Lodge - Strengthening Our Common Good-Will.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* How Blavatsky Saw the Failure of Christianity.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Independent Theosophy on Facebook.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* HPB: Science Is Often More Fanatic Than the Clergy.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Thoughts Along the Road - The Moral Causes of the Present State of the World. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* The Causes of War, and of Peace.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">With 23 pages, the edition includes the List of New Items in our websites. The editors hope you have a happy read. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-November-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Aquarian-Theosophist_November-2023-.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">Click Here to Read</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-November-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Aquarian-Theosophist_November-2023-.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The Aquarian” for November 2023</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of The Aquarian was published on 10 November 2023. The entire collection of the journal is available <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">G</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves, and better understand the world: invite them to join the study-group <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u> in <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Google Groups</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ould you like to spread theosophy (and ethics) in today’s world? Send the <u>Aquarian</u> to your friends, and tell them to write to the editors asking for a <u>free subscription</u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWyF6cVnsDLA-W2hkPdosYredXAfhg8y057bfp_ENqVMBppdDbqMzjCvH7PjfdYrAxFw1exI71Uikt3BuEEiWDwhSwepXE6WC6O202Nv_3njP9uaWkCui5UAkJ6ZwAl6izGz58RDY7jScAkAAzz9uaYnAFurKxpNPQPtMWM4DAnFeqTN9XFyJBTvns-XIG/s16000/HPB_Aux..png" /></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div><p></p>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-36059768052902807022023-11-09T08:25:00.001-08:002023-11-09T08:25:41.861-08:00The Causes of War, and of Peace <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> <br /><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 22pt;">As Soon as Hysterical
Hatred is Defeated, a New<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 22pt;">Chain of Causation is
Needed that Leads to Peace<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span><br /></span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinj6bM-zw1aZaE18Rm2eAxQc8Lk8lUVxocdra-SW4YcXtvL8SF4YcbCcCp6XQ67UR-ufDwVpdWdOSpbXloVAgZt6TX378E402baZkmPR_QfbVNo1bBc3qtRJtWU-BLzkzCYvLksodM0WjBBlh1OKjgswUDLrCALUxXIVLzHZss9UXPGt_CLxUDMOlDkZzK/s16000/The%20Causes%20of%20War,%20and%20of%20Peace.jpg" /></div></o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Close up of the temple
in the Holyland Model of Ancient Jerusalem</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ars certainly have severe consequences, but they belong into a large extent to the world of effects. One must examine their Causes. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The origin of terrorism and military conflicts must be found in human soul. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A war is more than “the continuation of politics by other means”. It is also an outward expression of spiritual ignorance. The road from ignorance to war has a series of stages. Its steps make a complex Chain of Causation, a succession of unfortunate causes-and-effects.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The absence of spiritual wisdom and ethical knowledge leads to blind ambition, and produces an immoderate attachment to short-term pleasure. These two exaggerations stimulate ill-will and produce injustice. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">From injustice comes hatred. A blind antagonism then destroys the ability to coexist in peace. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Thanks to such a subtle disaster, political conflicts that should be moderate become narrow-minded and “unconditional”. Intolerance becomes the guiding principle in the life of communities. Civil wars and conflicts among nations are the natural results from this kind of situation. People want to fight “to the end”. The goal is the “total defeat” if not the elimination of the other. Antisemitism is the perfect example of such a spiritual disease. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Therefore, if one is to remain realistic, the number one priority for people of good-will cannot be to “immediately stop all wars”. Let us see four practical reasons for this. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ONE.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Choosing impossible goals makes no sense. Friends of peace do not have the actual power to immediately stop military conflicts. Once a war starts, it can only be stopped after it has produced its main effects and is objectively ready to come to an end.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">TWO.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As military conflicts are mainly mere effects, their causes must be eliminated before they disappear. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">THREE.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">History shows that some vicious forms of ignorance use to start wars - or to provoke them by disguised means. In such cases, appeasement does not work, and postponement often makes things worse. Brutal forms of hostile ignorance must be militarily defeated so as to leave no one in doubt. And such victories are not a beautiful thing to see. We have an example of this in the Second World War. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was in ruins at the end of the war, in May 1945. The population of the country had been severely reduced, and the reason for this is simple: Nazis and terrorists who worship death have no problem whatsoever in seeing the destruction and the suffering of the populations which are controlled by them. They may even be proud of it, and make propaganda about it, in order to promote their own ends. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">An extremist strategy based on political and psychological sadism-masochism (a style of propaganda often used to manipulate entire populations) is both cruel and victimist. A sadistic mind immediately interprets every act of respect and dialogue coming from its chosen enemy as a sign of mere weakness, and as a tendency to surrender. The more concessions you make to such an adversary, therefore, the more he sees you as weak, and as deserving his contempt and aggression. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">FOUR.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Unfortunately, on the other hand, wars must be recognized as a tool which dysfunctional societies use to provoke their own disappearance. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Economic and military wars provide a transition from an old civilizational structure - which cannot sustain its own weight any longer - toward a different and renewed kind of <em>social contract</em>, more adapted to the requirements of the soul’s evolution and growth. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">At the same time that the past dies, the future must be born. Otherwise, the past will keep repeating itself in a vicious circle. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Whenever a way of living among nations destroys itself through military and economic conflicts, the spiritual task of good-willing people includes therefore helping start a new Chain of Causation, a dynamic set of actions and reactions that will produce both justice and peace, for the two are inseparable. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One must expand once more the connection between human life and the One Law that rules the Universe. This is not said out of blind faith. Practical life shows that the real source of peace consists in building and preserving an inspiring interaction with the divine world and its ethics of respect for Life. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It was said elsewhere that “It is by regaining one’s conscious contact with the Universe that one heals oneself from spiritual blindness and its numerous forms of visible suffering.”<strong> [1]</strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Once the sociological expressions of hysterical ignorance are defeated, how could a new chain of causation occur? Let us see one possible path among thousands of possibilities. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1) From the fact that someone is free from hatred in his mind, comes good will. 2) From good-will, lucidity and an expanded horizon are born. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3) A lucid point of view opens the door to friendship and brotherhood. 4) From brotherhood, honest cooperation emerges. 5) Sincere mutual help paves the way to common prosperity. 6) Once a shared well-being occurs, peace among nations becomes unavoidable. 7) This, however, will only occur into the extent that a sense of equilibrium and the practice of moderation are preserved. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There will be a significant amount of mistakes, of course. But modesty protects good sense. Accumulated experience slowly gives us the wisdom we need. Unceasingly life renews itself, and a living, dynamic peace is the natural result of one’s ability to learn. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">NOTE:</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> From the article <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-healing-power-of-universality/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-healing-power-of-universality/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Healing Power of Universality</span></a></span></u></strong>. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above article was first published on the theosophical blog at “<strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-causes-of-war-and-of-peace/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-causes-of-war-and-of-peace/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Times of Israel</span></a></span></u></strong>”. It is available on the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists since 09 November 2023. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-politics-of-hysteria/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-politics-of-hysteria/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Politics of Hysteria</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-world-war-in-our-minds/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-world-war-in-our-minds/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The World War in Our Minds</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Hitler’s Science, and Science Today</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-universality-of-temple-mount/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-universality-of-temple-mount/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Universality of Temple Mount</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/freud-on-freedom-from-delusion/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/freud-on-freedom-from-delusion/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Freud on Freedom From Delusion</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/old-prophecies-and-atomic-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/old-prophecies-and-atomic-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Old Prophecies and Atomic War</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/theosophy-and-the-second-world-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/theosophy-and-the-second-world-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Theosophy and the Second World War</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIb0a_1EWGZBDA2XzQbVsYmTDHhyphenhyphenqnswpLZ7Y_GXqWMirXLX7sTDpwzLSeytov0taISRKmJeKHN6p29KAdM65g1N_Le0L-f7xjOoE3RtHkO_7I2nSRzXigEjb12hBnCzJy82xMl7V3LhNfWhLu_ff13dqqfO5gfcZnrR4blhC6rAm3wTspbcn2-WrYdLl/s16000/HPB_Aux..png" /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">H</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div></span></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-78996550785643759222023-11-01T11:29:00.001-07:002023-11-01T11:33:05.493-07:00Hitler’s Science, and Science Today <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: times;"> <br /><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 22pt;">Machines are Glorified,
While Human Life<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 22pt;">Is Treated As Something
of No Great Value<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="ES"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="621" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeY_dusihcP2UOi5-3XWi0mgZtXqwkUdQgpvtDHmogD5pilSSK-rlpsEJAhjt9saH1EgHVmxynnroLjjOz5I5FJGQW9E4BK08Eil_dFuumFlHN86CjA06Fv4ASSzb7T_SKiXGHZ3YlpfJ1347rINk6JLmYAYQVby1wox20PsKnAbnvmao5t8FYeuBtSsVT/s16000/Hitler%E2%80%99s%20Science,%20and%20Science%20Today.jpg" /></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">I</span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">n the final chapters of his 2003 book “Hitler’s Scientists”, John Cornwell makes a revealing comparison between the science of 21st century and the science of Nazi Germany, in the 1930s and 1940s. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Let us see a few examples of similarity.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Advanced techniques of propaganda, developed in “scientific” ways, lead public opinion and regulate a large part of social relations, now as then. Goebbels, the Nazi, has new generations of smart disciples. Minds are influenced in subconscious ways.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Sophisticated weapons and undeclared wars are a top priority in global politics and international economy. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Biological weapons are the object of expensive scientific research in rich Western countries in the 2020s, as in Nazi Germany, during the 1930s and 1940s. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Euthanasia and other weird “medical” practices and experiences are fashionable in both periods. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Machines are glorified, while human life is treated as something of no great value (think of abortion). </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Technology is a great source of fascination to everyone.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Systematic, organized hatred is a central feeling in politics, side by side with a blind worship of “famous” people or supposedly powerful personalities.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">As science is now largely used in ways similar to those of Hitlerian Germany, scientists behave as if they were irresponsible children who have no ethical obligations, and make their top priority to obtain high salaries. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">John Cornwell writes:</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The tendency has been for scientists to ignore [ethical principles], as did Hitler’s scientists, by withdrawing into a cocoon of ‘irresponsible purity’.” <strong>[1]</strong></span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">As a result, the members of the military scientific elite in Nazi Germany never lost their jobs. As soon as they were defeated as Nazis, they became “democratic”. Hitler’s scientists were never judged by anything they did. Nobody called them criminals. Just the opposite: they were immediately hired by the United States to go on with their military-scientific activities in highly comfortable positions in North America. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">However, nations face moral choices and confront ethical dangers. Morality is linked to discernment, and therefore important to the defense of a country. As a warning sign, the opening page of Cornwell’s book shows this single sentence by Rabelais: </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul”.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The axiom is correct, and the ruin of the soul has several layers of consequences. First, it destroys lucidity and good sense. Then the absence of a strong sense of ethics and clear common goals produces the gradual ruin of nations. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Feverish periods in History as the 1930s and the 2020s may be recurrent. They may be highly destructive. Yet they cannot last long. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Human soul is still eternal, while illusions are short-lived. Truth prevails. Dishonesty uses to destroy itself, but the law of justice and equilibrium is central in life. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">For those who care about the future, a calm discernment is of the essence. The book by John Cornwell has great usefulness for anyone who knows that true intelligence never separates from ethics. It is a valuable instrument for people of goodwill to better understand the world in our century, and to develop adequate actions. </span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">NOTE:</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></span></strong><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “Hitler’s Scientists”, John Cornwell, Penguin Books, 2003, 535 pp., see p. 461. </span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above text is available at the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists since 01 November 2023. It was first published on 9 April 2023 at the theosophical blog in “<u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Times of Israel</span></a></strong></u>”. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more:</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/freud-on-freedom-from-delusion/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/freud-on-freedom-from-delusion/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Freud on Freedom From Delusion</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Awakening from the Opium Wars</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/old-prophecies-and-atomic-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/old-prophecies-and-atomic-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Old Prophecies and Atomic War</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-world-war-in-our-minds/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-world-war-in-our-minds/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The World War in Our Minds</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <u><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/theosophy-and-the-second-world-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/theosophy-and-the-second-world-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Theosophy and the Second World War</span></a></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-58672574935590586842023-10-10T14:43:00.000-07:002023-10-10T14:43:23.718-07:00The Aquarian Theosophist, October 2023<p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKvipMfW6wsr-XKyVoASNqlrtcZOpOgiUM3RhsVXewfzp-9944Mha1i06ciWL5LuI5oQL_JXqSVuVWzkswMpYh0FhvHZfe3fvtt0i2CQgTUK2HacRWqjKXdndNDAHMeYms5H-_zFKldNH1DrPAw372tlgPeR7oQz2PwfnZruugIeHfxh38SgbVcdDd1Do/s16000/Capa_The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20October%202023.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span></div><p></p><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he opening article of the Aquarian for October is “<strong>The Symbol of the ILT: the divine presence amid the outward duality of the world</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">On page three we bring a few paragraphs by Patrick J. Buchanan: </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<strong>North-America in the 21st Century: did the abandonment of morality unleash a sea of misery?</strong>” </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Page 6 presents an article by Olga Attovna Fedorova: “<strong>Writing the Book of One’s Life: If We Were Told That All Our Thoughts Are Being Recorded</strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Other topics: </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>An Excerpt from the Book ‘Moscow the Third Rome’</u></strong> - by Nicolas Zernov.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>Theosophy and the Metaphor of War</u></strong>.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>Thoughts Along the Road</u></strong>: firmness and discernment in the struggle for Wisdom. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Leaving the Masters Aside</span></u></strong> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">- organized ignorance in the theosophical movement. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>Message from a Teacher: First Prepare Yourself </u></strong>- be sure you are ready, before seeking Discipleship.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>The Training of the Mind</u></strong>: realizing the dynamic unity between oneself and the Cosmos, by Steven H. Levy.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>The Few Make the Difference</u></strong>.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u>The</u></strong></span> <strong><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Chinese I-Ching and the Seven Principles</span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> - by Helena P. Blavatsky.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>As The World Renews Itself</u></strong> - now is the time to awaken.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u>Israel, the Old New Land</u></strong>: universal and platonic Ideas in the novel by Theodor Herzl.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With 23 pages, the edition includes the </span></span><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">List of New Items</span></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> in our websites. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-October-2023-.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-October-2023-.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Click Here to Read</span></a> </span></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-October-2023-.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-October-2023-.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times;">“The Aquarian” for October 2023</span></span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of </span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Aquarian</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> was published on 10 October 2023. The entire collection of the journal is available </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">G</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves and the world. Invite them to join the study-group <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u> in <u><strong><span style="color: #000066;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Google Groups</span></a></span></strong></u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">e believe in creative action. If you want to <u>help spread theosophy and ethics in today’s world</u>, send the <strong><em>Aquarian</em></strong> to your friends and tell them to write to the editors making a <strong>free</strong> subscription. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div><p><br /></p>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-63662998254148114912023-10-05T09:10:00.001-07:002023-10-05T09:13:04.069-07:00A Brazilian Hero in Russia <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> <br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">On the Practical
Effects of the<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">Presence of an Ideal
in One’s Life<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilyUgYdDrqnP5bbQ3MEWSEbNJWcYONPgGDJX4pUl6XQ88At94v0V_z-I8jkE4STFBMgJIfTVIA-QrykatHJMy7Bokvc0T_m5NIQq5TuNlVduESIVIJLS_oWBiKVlNRqbU3rX7rIGIeTrQe4ghemSHtqllDrBgDcfVl0NzGHF08fBQ-ApU5rYfHHa28KV_5/s16000/A%20Brazilian%20Hero%20in%20Russia.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">D</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">edicating one’s life to a noble and transcendent goal produces a special kind of magnetism, and also a generous amount of Karmic tests. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">An elevated ideal has its own substance, albeit subtle, and it stands miles apart from the small myopic games of short-term personal interest.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">My father, Carlos Lima Aveline, lived in Russia in 1970-1971. He had been invited to spend as much time as he wanted there. He was 58 years old and was among the heroes of the non-violent struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil. He had survived prison. He had left prison to the surprise of both jailers and military authorities. But now it was essential to take some time to rest in Russia. He needed to restore his strength and health, while a return to his country was calmly prepared. <strong>[1]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">One day, while walking in a certain city not far from Moscow, the “Old Man” saw a couple standing on the street, arguing. Both the young man and the girl were aggressive. The dispute was unpleasant. Their angry voices profoundly contradicted the image that the Old Man had of an ideal society. Following a natural impulse, he went up to the couple. He used a language of his own - combining Portuguese, French and Russian - to order them to stop the discussion. The two immediately obeyed: having concluded that the Old Man was some sort of authority, they wanted to show him their personal documents. With a gesture and perhaps a smile he dismissed them. The Old Man was not there as a formal authority: he had simply acted as a human being. “In a socialist country, a couple doesn’t argue in the street.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The presence of an ideal in our lives places the big and small gestures of everyday existence in a larger and brighter context. This often creates embarrassing situations, as in the above example.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The influence of an elevated ideal makes it necessary to avoid any significant mistake towards anger, laziness and other forms of personal failure. “The ideal is the great propelling force of the will”, says Jean des Vignes Rouges in his extraordinary “Dictionnaire de la Volonté”. In theosophy, if we have an ideal, we must defeat its opposite.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">If we seek a noble goal, good habits are a duty. Correct and moderate actions become natural, and every time we make unnecessary mistakes, there is a feeling of remorse. An unrefined interference in defense of mutual respect can be an obligation - as long as we know how to accomplish it in a helpful way.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anytime, anywhere, fulfilling one’s ethical duty is a source of contentment, and this is true for a simple reason: a lasting happiness arises from having peace in our conscience.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">NOTE:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Non-violent heroes were many, in the resistance against the 1964-1985 dictatorship. In order to know more about some of the heroic episodes in my father’s life, see the book “Pau de Arara - a Violência Militar no Brasil” (“Pau-de-Arara, Military Violence in Brazil”) by Bernardo Kucinski and Ítalo Tronca, Fundação Perseu Abramo, 247 pp., São Paulo, Brazil, July 2013, pp . 155-157, Documents 3 and 4. Like other members of the family, I had the honor of directly participating in several episodes. (CCA)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“</span><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;">A</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Brazilian Hero in Russia</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">” </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">was published at the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists on 5 October 2023. The article is available in two other languages. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Portuguese: <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/um-heroi-brasileiro-na-russia/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/um-heroi-brasileiro-na-russia/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Um Herói Brasileiro na Rússia</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Spanish: <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/un-heroe-brasileno-en-rusia/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/un-heroe-brasileno-en-rusia/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Un Héroe Brasileño en Rusia</span></a></span></strong></u>. See it in the theosophical blog at “<u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-brazilian-hero-in-russia/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-brazilian-hero-in-russia/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Times of Israel</span></a></span></strong></u>”: <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-brazilian-hero-in-russia/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-brazilian-hero-in-russia/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">A Brazilian Hero in Russia</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-spiritual-side-of-brics/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-spiritual-side-of-brics/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Spiritual Side of BRICS</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Russia, Wisdom and World Peace</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-we-fabricate-scapegoats/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-we-fabricate-scapegoats/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">How We Fabricate Scapegoats</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/ilin-the-anticommunist-who-was-saved-by-lenin/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/ilin-the-anticommunist-who-was-saved-by-lenin/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Il’in, the Anticommunist Who Was Saved by Lenin</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">C</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">lick to see other articles on </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/category/russia-ukraine-theosophy-and-helena-blavatsky/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/category/russia-ukraine-theosophy-and-helena-blavatsky/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Russia, Theosophy and Helena Blavatsky</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HPB_Aux..png" src="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HPB_Aux..png" style="height: 215px; width: 445px;" /><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; 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Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-20200696568454478482023-09-22T09:39:00.001-07:002023-11-01T09:14:13.782-07:00Thoughts Along the Road - 72 <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;">The Purity of One’s
Heart Brings About<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 22pt;">Perseverance,
Detachment, and Humbleness<br /></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span><br /></span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="621" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4Ea-9SNeLoTztBNmHLdHQMBK_entCFZmjUr-5gPjkItzjqqGHQVZfrKgVLqFbYshd1pqB6f5Q72_iILLR6YF-5gdzoDcHveCmReBXo76IHQSrays5j-zKg30eqMCZ-oCG60Og2TBAqavEIRvuPWxisORqfJ8pjRwLywwsgECRoWbtznv_nA6LnD5NcDC/s16000/Thoughts%20Along%20the%20Road%20-%2072.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><span style="font-size: 24pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">here is no need to say “Amen” to the numerous forms of ethical decay that surround us. Not at all. It is better to say “Amen” to the noblest part of our own conscience, and identify and abandon all the mechanisms of socially organized idiocy, the established consensus of the absence of ethics, and other jewels of technocentric modernity. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Selfishness is a passing nightmare. Humanity is invisibly guided by fraternal feelings, and right now all of us are immersed in the law of mutual help. There is no power stronger than the power of selfless goodwill.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*</span> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What is the result of getting attached to personal gratification on the physical plane and on the realm of feelings? The desire to feel surrounded by this and that particular form of comfort softens one’s will. It dissipates internal strength and makes one a slave of bad habits. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Physical and emotional discomfort teach us detachment. They strengthen one’s will, dispel illusions, increase one’s realism and allow us to walk the path of truth. The blessing is inward, the wounds are outward. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Victory is not for those who love comfort above all else, for victory requires sacrifice. Eternal wisdom is beyond the reach of those who prefer to live in indulgence. Through the practice of austerity, an indispensable magnetic force is gathered.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* The bliss of the spiritual soul does not depend on personal victory or defeat. Regardless of circumstances, the truth-seeker remains in direct contact with his inner self, whose substance is peace and contentment. He is happy to be humble.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17pt;">Brotherly Advice to William Judge </span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* In 1879, when William Judge needed friendly advice, Damodar Mavalankar - who assisted Helena Blavatsky in many ways - wrote in a letter to him:</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* “I’m very sorry to hear you write so disparagingly to Madam Blavatsky about your feelings and the state of your mind. Is it not surprising to see that a man like you after having made some progress in the study of Theosophy should despair at the very moment he is about to enter the very threshold of true knowledge? It seems to my mind ridiculously strange that a very thirsty man should be in quest of water and that when he has found it he should instead of drinking it, turn his back against it and fly from the only place where he can quench his thirst.” <strong>[1]</strong> </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Near the end of the letter, Damodar adds: “Do not therefore despair but go on with confidence, and success is at hand.”</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* William Judge was 28 years old. Damodar Mavalankar was 22. It is said in mystical traditions that <em>purity of mind and heart</em> brings about humbleness, detachment, contentment - and perseverance. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17pt;">The Theosophical Chessboard </span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* W. Q. Judge wrote: “The plain unvarnished truth, which hurts no one save the man who denies it, is that H. P. Blavatsky was the head, front, bottom, top, outskirts, past and future of the Theosophical Society. We were all but pawns on the chessboard.</span></span></span> <span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What is the use of permitting vanity to influence us toward denying the facts?” <strong>[2]</strong> </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 17pt;">The Decision to Improve Oneself</span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Can a pilgrim effectively train himself? </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In his “Dictionnaire de la Volonté</span><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #010101;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">”, French author </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Jean des Vignes Rouges gives us this advice: </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* “Make the decision (…) that in all circumstances of your life you will endeavor to consider as an essential duty the obligation to become stronger, more active, more self-controlled, more devoted to others, more noble, more intelligent, more virtuous, in order to ensure the integral expansion of your being. This will result in a sense of personal dignity. You will be aware of being a <u>person</u>, that is to say, an individual endowed with well-defined original qualities, towards whom you have duties.” </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Jean des Vignes Rouges goes on:</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* “This feeling of your dignity, cultivate it in every way. Tell yourself once and again that you are perfectible. Think about your privileges as a human being. An animal can only indefinitely repeat those acts that are necessary for its preservation; you, on the other hand, are capable of inventing new forms of behavior; a sacred anxiety torments you and pushes you towards a grand destiny. There is within you, in your soul, deep within yourself, a mysterious intuition which you must obey in order not to lose your life.” </span><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[3]</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* The same principle is taught by the Masters of the Wisdom. In one of his letters, while giving advice to a Western student, an Eastern Mahatma reproduces these verses from Tennyson: </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">These three alone lead life to sovereign power.” <strong>[4]</strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Self-reverence, here, is an impersonal attitude of respect towards one’s higher self or spiritual soul. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">NOTES:</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement”, compiled and annotated by Sven Eek, TPH, India, second printing, 1978, copyright 1965, 720 pp., see p. 25. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[2]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> These words are quoted with due bibliographical sources in the article “</span><u><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-main-founder-of-the-movement/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-main-founder-of-the-movement/" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Main Founder of the Movement</span></a></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">”. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[3]</span></strong> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">From </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“</span><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dictionnaire de la Volonté</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, by Jean des Vignes Rouges, Éditions J. Oliven, Paris, 320 pp., 1945, see pp. 166-167. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[4] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">See “</span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/letters-from-the-masters-of-the-wisdom-first-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Letters From the Masters of the Wisdom - First Series</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">”, pp. 205-206. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he article “<strong>Thoughts Along the Road - 72</strong>” was published as an independent item in the associated websites on 22 September 2023. An initial version of it is part of the July 2021 edition of “<strong>The Aquarian Theosophist</strong>”, pp. 15-16. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">P</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">rint the texts you study from the websites of the Independent Lodge. Reading on paper helps us attain a deeper view of philosophical texts. When studying a printed text, the reader can underline sentences and make handwritten comments in the margins that link the ideas to his personal reality.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-prayer-to-defend-my-soul/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-prayer-to-defend-my-soul/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;">A Prayer to Defend My Soul</span></strong>.</a></u></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/blavatsky-corrects-w-q-judge/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/blavatsky-corrects-w-q-judge/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Blavatsky Corrects W. Q. Judge</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/abandoning-the-sociological-delusion/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/abandoning-the-sociological-delusion/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Abandoning the Sociological Delusion</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* Other writings of </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/carlos-cardoso-aveline/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/autor/carlos-cardoso-aveline/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Carlos Cardoso Aveline</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/star-angel-worship-in-the-roman-catholic-church/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/star-angel-worship-in-the-roman-catholic-church/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Star Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church</span></a></span></span></strong></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVgP2WofVfd3XTfEqSRJxBiU5-lF4JtZ2OpP-GvZuWtarC2I-huQOrbsgWyxIQh8CJ1F6h69a1ll8zSaYVjHe5EoTRWyWAjD9rO0mGjUzXe79B9ujENipU7rw1wNHZBaHhkZo8yA06MOoSsfun9CH-0EZpIvi0APtk6fvXfdsqI1A_XuZtfKutYBiPutN/s16000/HPB_Aux..png" /></div></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div></div></span></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-32085158782701341792023-09-08T14:49:00.001-07:002023-09-11T09:33:12.678-07:00The Aquarian Theosophist, September 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip56-XivMYZPwIUBvfyXrWeU3mzecROLIuE9RK0_4KJ317z4QYrmgWItkL1fUo1rqywZUGyuKPpJtA7-gCJ5-iDVgTBOdrr4dQeS7DyHSz9M6PH894MvbHVjvysLlNi35b5xAy03ufPwmUKmiMDJe-ETbcRYnEN-9eJGlgH6p8GvEjIzOole1yAhl-uTD6/s16000/capa_%20The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20September%202023.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></div><p></p><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">N</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">othing can stop the inner progress of life. All forms of noise are useful lessons in the art of producing harmony. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The opening article of our September edition is “<strong><u>The Natural Law of Cooperation</u>: Dogs Bark as the Caravan Moves on</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">On page three we have a link to “<strong><u>That Man Might Arise</u></strong>”, by Andrew Rooke. Page 4 presents “<strong><u>The Emerging Global Community</u></strong>”, by Julius K. Nyerere. In a prophetic text, Nyerere describes the need for peace and points to the future ahead. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“<strong><u>The Theosophy of BRICS</u></strong><u>:<strong> Opening the Door to the Brotherhood Among Nations</strong></u>” is on page 6. On page 7, a Socratic question: “<strong><u>Have Rich Western Nations Robbed Africa for Centuries?</u></strong>” It may be time now to re-establish justice. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Page 8 presents “<strong><u>Beijing Wants Something Back from London</u></strong>”. The subtitle is “The United Kingdom Should Return the Objects It Stole from China”.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Other topics: </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u>Unity, Diversity and the BRICS</u></strong>: Togetherness in Different Cultures, by Olga Attovna Fedorova.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u>The Sign of Virgo</u></strong>: A Time to Organize Life.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u>A Warning to All Esotericists</u></strong>: How the Karmic Law Operates as One Seeks for Theosophical Wisdom, by Helena P. Blavatsky.<strong> </strong></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u>Thoughts Along the Road</u></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">: On Attachment to Pleasant Habits and the Karma of Theosophical Groups. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u>From the Editorial Note to a Letter by Blavatsky</u></strong>: On the Living Aura of the Effort.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(HPB’s Own Magnetic Fluid Gave Life to the Aura of the Theosophical Movement.) </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u>The</u></strong></span></span><u> <strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Need for a Non-violent Economy</span></span></strong></u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, by “The Theosophical Movement” magazine.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With 23 pages, the edition presents the </span></span></span><u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">List of New Items</span></span></u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> in the associated websites. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-September-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-September-2023.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Click Here to Read</span></a> </span></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-September-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-September-2023.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">“The Aquarian” for September 2023</span></a></span></span></span></u></strong></div></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of </span></span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Aquarian</span></a></span></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> was published on 08 September 2023. The entire collection of the journal is available </span></span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">G</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves and the world. Invite them to join the study-group <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></u></strong> in <u><strong><span style="color: #000066;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Google Groups</span></a></span></strong></u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">e believe in creative action. If you want to <u>help spread theosophy and ethics in today’s world</u>, send the <strong><em>Aquarian</em></strong> to your friends and tell them to write to the editors making a <strong>free</strong> subscription. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div></div><p><br /></p>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-3706624017914910692023-09-04T12:05:00.000-07:002023-09-04T12:05:11.078-07:00Non-violent Economy <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Only Lasting
Solution to Human Misery<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">Will Be An Inner Change
in the Hearts of Men</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #20124d; font-family: times; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #20124d; font-family: times; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Theosophical
Movement</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="623" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihF_Y0Xju9Ow-wh6WccgkZfVXOOh8spRnUNEfGkP5ibnO3lPJPEIIYKqzP16spuI5uttM50V3GkbNFue-Lc1jfnYeARIQUMIjeHG6vuVRdQM6p6m9Oo-2bhVfctTXclDgeQdMmV4j4EqHa_OrzPQeoagX2OHZRw9TCwbr9eWVQ8KhabdoEQT13bGvPsFEL/s16000/Non-Violent%20Economy.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>“Mahatma” Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><div align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The following article is reproduced</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">from “<strong>The Theosophical Movement</strong>” magazine, </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mumbai, India, November 2022 edition, pp. 23-29. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 24pt;">E</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">very subject worthy of study must somehow connect back to the amelioration of the human condition as its stated end goal. What is socially irrelevant is entirely pointless. Furthermore, from our own lived experience, human life and condition is a whole and not simply the sum of its parts. However, when we apply modern inductive analytical tools for its study, we naturally decompose it into various aspects and study them in isolation. And researchers go so far down the rabbit hole in their chosen field, that they lose connection with the very purpose of their endeavour.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In such a reductionist environment, depending on the mental disposition of the cycle, one or more aspects tend to take on outsized importance. And as it stands, the zeitgeist of our times is Economy. This is likely a self-evident fact for most people but to show its universality, we can use the following simple illustration.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The year 1918 saw the last pandemic of Spanish Flu which was very similar to our present day COVID crisis. It took a similar toll on human life, disrupted the functioning of society and also caused economic damage. However, the newspaper headlines of the time read, “Churches, schools, shows closed”, “Epidemic of Influenza Threatens Whole World”. They tried to objectively capture the subjective human misery wreaked by Spanish Flu. In modern times, newspaper headlines for COVID read, “China market falls on COVID woes”, “COVID-19 Economic Impact Could Reach $8.8 Trillion Globally”, and so on.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Economics has taken on such importance that we even measure human misery or happiness using dollars. In fact, there is such a thing as the Human Misery Index which only takes into account the economic indicators of unemployment and inflation. While, the World Happiness Index gives the largest weightage to real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, so countries such as Bhutan do not even figure on the list. Economics is verily the ruling aspect of the post-industrial human condition!</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Since the aim of Theosophy and that of the Masters behind it, is to “<em>work for the liberation or salvation of mankind</em>”, an examination of the ruling aspect of current social condition, namely Economics, is a relevant subject for discussion.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The underlying philosophy of economics is based on the fact that all sentient beings pursue happiness. But being materialists, they define happiness as the consumption of goods and services, leading to an increase in material comforts. In this system, one can define the worst possible state as that which causes misery for everyone involved with no silver-lining. And the best possible state is that which creates the greatest good for everyone without any collateral damage or ill side-effects. An action is judged as good, if it incrementally moves the current state in the direction of the utopian good state and away from the dystopian bad state. Some people are equipped with skills to move the current state more towards the good state than others. These people are economically rewarded and those who act in a way that moves towards the bad state are punished. Those that are consistently good, get consistently rewarded and move up the social ranks. Thus, the formation of deep social hierarchies is inevitable in this system of meritocracy. The desire of individuals to move up the ladder manifests as greed and that which is coeval with it, the fear of moving down the ladder. This greed and fear manifests at the macro-economic scale as cycles of Boom and Bust.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A rather disingenuous argument is put forth in popular thought that the current fragile, interdependent, debt-fuelled economies of nations help maintain the prevailing uneasy peace on earth. It is claimed that since World War II, which saw the birth of the new world economic order, there have not been any large-scale wars. But a sober analysis shows that the current economic order is imbued with violence.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">At the individual level, almost every one of us as kids have been shown a destitute person on the streets and warned that if we do not study and make something of our life then we would end up like him on the street. As such, the rat-race in schools is the first manifestation of violence inflicted by our economic order. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span> </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Workplaces of today are factories of exploitation. Workers commute through noxious traffic and spend all of their life energy at work. We hear people talk about work-life integration, but the truth is, life is work and work is life. At the end of the day, it leaves them no time or energy for higher inclinations or pursuits. Stuck between the <em>greed</em> of a better life and the <em>fear </em>of a destitute one, workers willingly sacrifice themselves on the altar of social mobility.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">At the community level, urbanization is driving before our very eyes the largest displacement of population in Indian history. Rural communities are being destroyed. There are many cases where the only inhabitants of the village are elderly people whose children are all in urban centers or abroad. At the government level, there is heavy taxation and even corruption. Those in power prey on the common man and benefit from that exploitation. Law only exists for those without money or power. At the global level, more advanced countries use debt-traps to undermine the sovereignty of smaller countries to gain access to their resources or for geo-political advantages. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As Leo Tolstoy puts it, “Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.” At every level, the current economic order wreaks violence. Alternatives such as communism and socialism have both monumentally failed as an experiment. In democracies, neo-liberal thought processes purport to solve the ills of the current economic order by taxing the rich and re-distributing the wealth to the poor. But ultimately, there appears to be no political solution to immorality.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">To find a solution to the violent system of economics, we can look no further than the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi, for inspiration and guidance. For him, life was one-whole and so he based all of it on two simple ideals: Truth and Non-violence. Everything else followed from these two simple ideals. J. C. Kumarappa who was associated with Gandhiji for almost all his life, imbibed these ideals and gave expression to them under Gandhian Economic Thought.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In this system, there are five classes of economies based on their moral disposition. At the lowest is the Predatory economy. Like the tiger of a forest, it lives at the expense of another’s life. Colonialism is an expression of such an economy which consumes sovereign countries for its survival. At the human level, it is represented by assassins and mercenaries.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One level above is the Parasitic economy. Unlike a predator, a parasite does not kill its host but lives at its expense while adding no benefit. Neo-colonialism would fall in this category because it sucks the life-blood of countries without undermining their sovereignty and existence. Thieves and bureaucrats under a license-raj seem to represent this state in society.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The next higher level is the Enterprising economy which is a balance of taking and giving or producing and consuming. Most nations and individuals belong to this economic moral quality. In this case, there is both an assertion of individual rights and an assumption of responsibility to various degrees. Some birds are said to embody this ethos in the forest. They give back to the jungle economy by building nests that other birds can use but they defend against other birds while they themselves are nesting.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The economic category of the next higher moral quality is called the Gregarious economy. This category is characterized by bees which work for the sole benefit of their respective colony. They produce in abundance as compared to their consumption and as a result the benefits of their industry overflow to those even outside their community. A bee asserts very little of its own individual rights and is almost entirely subservient to the needs of the larger colony or its responsibility. At the human stage, a well-functioning and cooperative joint family operates in this way.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The economic order of the highest moral quality is called the “Mother” economy. It is characterized by the selfless, unconditional, self-effacing service and sacrifice of a mother for her child. The only expression of this ideal in nature is of mammalian mothers for their children. There are no examples of countries that embody this economic system and it was Gandhiji’s dream that India be the example to the world that such a system was indeed efficacious.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Gandhiji believed that it is only in such a system that Swaraj or true independence was ever achievable where one system of tyranny when defeated will not be immediately replaced by another of a slightly different disposition. Such an ideal society would be a stateless democracy or an enlightened anarchy, where social life has become so perfect that it is self-regulated or self-ruled.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The preamble of the American Declaration of Independence holds an echo of this sentiment: “<em>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness</em>.” Theosophists posit that the Masters of Wisdom have been working behind the scene to aid humanity since its childhood and that their unseen influence is behind every major milestone of humanity. The declaration of American independence is one such event which laid the keynote for the formation of a nation where a newer and higher race of men is set to evolve. As such, the word “liberty” in the declaration, meaning a state of being liberated, should be taken to mean Swaraj. However, the zeitgeist of modern America gives this word a connotation rather of <em>sweccha</em> or to do as one pleases. This is diametrically opposite to the true meaning of Swaraj as we will see later. Hence, the correct understanding of the word Swaraj is the key that unlocks the expression of the Mother economy.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Swaraj means self-rule, “<em>swa</em>” means self and “<em>raj</em>'” means rule. The depth one finds in the meaning of this compound word will be proportional to the depth of one’s understanding of the word “self”. Freedom fighters alongside Gandhiji took “self” to mean the nation state of India. That if a democratically elected, local government ruled India instead of the British that Swaraj would be achieved. This is a noble but a narrow, political understanding of the term. In today’s materialistic times, “self” has popularly been taken to mean one’s personality that is bestowed with a name and form, leading to the American conception of personal liberty or <em>sweccha</em>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">However, in Theosophy, we make the distinction between the illusory or personal self and the real or Higher Self. The former is physical, thinking and acting nature while the latter is the recording, non-acting and spiritual nature. In the <em>Bhagavad-Gita</em>, these are referred to as <em>Kshetra</em> and <em>Kshetrajna</em> and also as <em>Deha</em> - the physical body with its corresponding principles and <em>Dehi</em> - the indwelling spirit. In <strong><em><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-secret-doctrine-volume-ii/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-secret-doctrine-volume-ii/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Secret Doctrine</span></a></span></u></em></strong> (vol. II, p.109) H.P.B. says that “It is a strange law of Nature that, on this plane, the higher (Spiritual) Nature should be, so to say, in bondage to the lower. Unless the Ego takes refuge in the Atman, the ALL-SPIRIT, and merges entirely into the essence thereof, the personal Ego may goad it to the bitter end.” We see a similar metaphor in <strong><em><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-voice-of-the-silence/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-voice-of-the-silence/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Voice of the Silence</span></a></span></u></em></strong>: “Yea, ignorance is like unto a closed and airless vessel; the soul a bird shut up within. It warbles not, nor can it stir a feather; but the songster mute and torpid sits, and of exhaustion dies.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">On this plane, our real self is in bondage to the illusory self but in a pathological case of Stockholm syndrome, we ignorantly identify ourselves with our captor and do his bidding. From the Theosophical perspective it becomes clear that true Swaraj is only attained when the Ego has freed itself from such false identification, thus bringing the lower entirely under the influence of the higher, to the point where all actions of the lower are completely guided by the higher. As <em>Light on the Path</em> says, this is only accomplished when the Ego willingly “puts the bit into his own mouth” where the reins connected to it are held by the Higher Self. Such is also the hidden meaning of the prayer in <em>Matthew</em> (VI:9-13), “Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” This calls for an appreciation of our true nature and striving to live as the Higher Self and not as our personal ephemeral self.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Since the Higher Self is in essence the Universal Self, one who identifies with it, identifies with ALL and will strive for others as men now strive for themselves. When many units of a community embody this ideal, it unlocks the Mother economy. It is an economy in which people have given up greed and hence eliminated its twin - fear. No child fears that its mother may not feed it the next day and hoards food. Similarly, such a community would see no need of ownership and would embrace trusteeship as a natural corollary of the Mother economy. It is not that a Mother economy results in Swaraj but rather that true Swaraj unlocks the Mother economy.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Similarly, we read in <u><strong><em><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-key-to-theosophy/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-key-to-theosophy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Key to Theosophy</span></a></span></em></strong></u>: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“To seek to achieve political reforms before we have effected a reform in human nature, is like putting new wine into old bottles. Make men feel and recognize in their innermost hearts what is their real, true duty to all men, and every old abuse of power, every iniquitous law in the national policy, based on human, social or political selfishness, will disappear of itself. Foolish is the gardener who seeks to weed his flower-bed of poisonous plants by cutting them off from the surface of the soil, instead of tearing them out by the roots. No lasting political reform can be ever achieved with the same selfish men at the head of affairs as of old.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The only true and lasting solution to human misery is to change the hearts of men. That change must come from within. The aim and purpose of Theosophy is to work on the moral and causal planes to bring about true Swaraj, first at an individual level and then collectively as a society. It is only then will we live to enjoy a truly non-violent economy.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he article “<strong>Non-violent Economy</strong>” was published in the associated websites on 04 September 2023. Links to a few classic works of Theosophy were added. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 20pt;">C</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">lick to see the collection of the Indian magazine “<strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.ultindia.org/magazine/previous" href="https://www.ultindia.org/magazine/previous" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Theosophical Movement</span></a></span></u></strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div></div></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000099; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-19956120867592223352023-08-31T09:10:00.000-07:002023-08-31T09:10:13.582-07:00That Man Might Arise<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> <br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Universal Wisdom in
the Myths of the<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Maori, the Native
Peoples of New Zealand<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span></o:p></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Andrew Rooke</span><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG594eVZMDjup1t7hkQ1tBfqqx5isJ4J_Gzlez1JugDqKasbGx-tNWY8SMIqyaF-RlxLEKbXi_MA5oMfjDx-IuILrDpx1HOgQeaO8sfmiKmCZPEKmmSg_UimmSy7tTFUG0e-it2gfK9EnctJQlbTSetj079rxdQx2SyabKr67AHFsSuYl2OJEd8k94wefZ/s16000/That%20Man%20Might%20Arise.jpg" /></span></div><p></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>A Tohunga, a wise man of the Maori people, near the carved image<br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>of a god. Source: Te Ara, the Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand.</b></span></span></div><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">H</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ow marvelous is the diversity of man’s approach to universal and absolute ideas. Throughout the world peoples of all ages have sought to express man’s sacred heritage through the light of symbology designed to appeal to different ranges of cultural experience. One can often lose grasp of the golden thread of universality running through this vast panorama of myths, stories, and symbols if the still voice of intuition is allowed to be imprisoned in the molds of mind by unthinking loyalty to one’s own educational and cultural background and the lack of an attempt at empathy with our brothers of other nations.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It seems to me that the so-called primitive peoples of the world have been trying for a long time now to paint their own graphic portraits of man’s spiritual heritage, but we have often lost the opportunity to enhance our own understanding in the avalanche of our own prejudices and an overemphasis on the outer forms of what we have come to understand by “civilization”. There is no more poignant example of this than the myopic view taken by many Westerners in approaching the myths of the native peoples of New Zealand - the Maori. Their beautiful myths relating to the creation of the world and man have a wealth of color and depth to add to our feel for the spiritual roots of mankind, if we but have the eyes to see and the ears to hear the voice of the <em>tohunga</em> (wise men) reciting the age-old <em>karakia</em> or sacred myths.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is said by the wise men that before the beginning there was a vast period of Nothingness, <em>Te Kore</em>. Then came the eternity of <em>Te Po</em>, when time was enshrouded in the great Night, the great Unknown. During this immense period of utter darkness, forces moved slowly and incomprehensibly to bring the universe into being. In some Maori traditions these universal forces are described as parts of a great tree, as they were by the Chaldeans, the Scandinavians, and the Hindus, who depict Brahma as the vast overspreading tree of the universe. In other versions they are given names suggestive of the different kingdoms of architects and builders of the manifest universe: <em>Te Kune</em>, the conceiving; <em>Te Pupuke</em>, the flowing forth; <em>Te Hihiri</em>, the persevering; <em>Te Mahara</em>, the power of thinking; <em>Te Hinengaro</em>, the mind; <em>Te Manako</em>, the desiring.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Encompassing and unfolding this great darkness was and is <em>Io-matuakore</em>, Io the Parentless - the Supreme Being who has existed for all time, who created no being yet was the origin of the universe and the kingdoms of lower gods. (Cf. Elsdon Best’s monograph, <em>Some Aspects of Maori Myth and Religion</em>, Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 23-26; also his monograph <em>Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori</em>.) During the time when the Maori adhered to the old ways, even to speak his name was thought of as a sacrilege, so reverenced was the supreme symbol. The priesthood of Io consisted of a small number of initiated men highly trained in the esoteric lore and ritual, whose duties included the memorization and recitation of the ancient traditions of the Maori people.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Before the creation of even the lower gods, came the first glimmer of light struggling weakly through the blackness of Te Po. Gradually the heavens became light and <em>Rangi nui</em>, the Sky Parent, seeing the Earth Mother, <em>Papa tu a nuku</em>, far below him desired her. The primal parents were joined and their offspring were numerous (70 in some traditions), supernatural beings all male and all representative of the different forces active on the earth and the various expressions of sentient life thereon. Yet the creation was imperfect, for darkness shrouded the Earth Mother as Rangi the Sky Father still closely embraced her. Their sons clung to the side of Papa for an age, dreaming of the light and freedom denied them by the union of sky and earth.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">From the first division of time unto the tenth, and to the hundredth, and to the thousandth, all was darkness. The black sky lay upon the earth and made her barren, and in vain did she seek her offspring in the likeness of the day, or of the night. - Antony Alpers, <em>Maori Myths and Tribal Legends</em>, p. 16</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">At length six of the supernatural beings spawned by Rangi and Papa grew weary of the darkness and argued heatedly amongst themselves whether to separate their parents by force “that man might arise”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The fiercest of them, <em>Tu-matauenga</em>, the god of war (and also representative of the spirit of man), was the first to speak out suggesting that the brothers slay their parents. But <em>Tane-mahuta</em>, the god of the forests, growth, and fertilization, had another plan: “Nay, not so. It is better to rend them apart, and to let the heaven stand far above us, and the earth lie beneath our feet. Let the sky become as a stranger to us, but the earth remain close to us as a nursing mother”. (Sir George Grey, <em>Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race</em>, p. 2) Five of the brothers agreed to this plan but <em>Tawhiri-matea</em>, god and father of the winds and storms, fearing that his kingdom would be overthrown, that the earth would become too beautiful and, jealous of his brother Tane as “author of the day”, alone dissented and was later to seek refuge in his father the Sky and wreak a fearful revenge on his brothers.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">An age passed as the brothers formulated plans by which their parents might be separated and man called into existence. Then each of them rose in turn to assume the challenge of this awesome task. Even Tu, the god of war, with all his ferocious strength could not hack them apart. It became the turn of Tane, god and father of forests, who slowly applied himself with all his strength - the power of growth - and lo! Sky and Earth were separated and the multitude of beings crawling on the face of the Earth Mother, Papa, first saw light. Thus the old Maori saying: “It was the fierce thrusting of Tane which tore the heaven from the earth, so that they were rent apart, and darkness was made manifest, and so was the light” (Grey, p. 3). The power of growth had rent spirit and matter into the manifest duality, to bring light and freedom of expression to the offspring of the One, now moving freely on the breast of their nursing mother, Papa, the Earth.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Yet the creation was incomplete, for although Tu, the god of war, symbolizing the spirit of man, roamed free, there was no vehicle to give man form in this new world of life. Again the task fell to Tane, this time in his aspect of universal husband, to create woman and thus institute the condition called by the Maori <em>ira tangata</em>, human life, where before nothing had existed but <em>ira atua</em>, the supernatural condition of the gods. In a striking parallel to the Biblical story of creation, Tane fashioned woman from earth “red with the blood of the sinews” that once had fastened Rangi and Papa. Into this lifeless image of clay Tane breathed spirit and the power of thought obtained from Io the Supreme God and thus <em>Hine-ahu-one</em>, the Earth-formed Maid, the precursor of the ira tangata, came into being. From her union with Tane was born <em>Hine-titama</em>, the Dawn Maid, and thence all the races of man.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Many early Western observers looked upon this marvelous symbolism with embarrassment and repulsion or cited it as the confused ramblings of an isolated, primitive mentality. Latterly Freudian analysts have seen this powerful expression of universal truths in terms of the so-called Oedipal conflicts in man. Yet if one looks briefly at the myths of other races and makes an attempt to empathize with this form of stating man’s spiritual heritage, the grand universality of the ideas emerges. In one version of the Egyptian traditions of the creation, the deities Nut (the Sky) and Seb (the Earth) are forced apart by their son Shu-Heka, the god of the air. In the Sumerian epic the Sky Father An and the Earth Mother Ki are separated by their son Enlil, again representing the god of the air. Amongst the traditional peoples of Africa and North America similar legends are told by the wise men. The Zuni Indians of New Mexico tell us that in the far-distant past, compassionate beings seeking that the earth become fitter for life, lifted the Sky Father with their “strong cloud-bow” (Philip Freund, <em>Myths of Creation</em>, p. 59). Yet as the old Maori tohungas (wise men) patiently teach us in their beautiful symbols, Rangi the Sky, and Papa the Earth, still grieve for their lost love, rent apart that their offspring might stand upright in the light of self-conscious striving. Surely this yearning for conscious union of spirit and matter is reflected in the hearts of every son and daughter of Rangi and Papa.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The soft warm sighs of her [Earth’s] loving bosom still ever rise up to him, ascending from the woody mountains and valleys, and men call these mists; and the vast Heaven, as he mourns through the long nights his separation from his beloved, drops frequent tears upon her bosom, and men seeing these, term them dewdrops. - Grey, p. 9</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above article is available at the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists since 31 August 2023. Copyright © 1976 by <strong>Theosophical University Press</strong>. The text was first published by <strong>Sunrise</strong> magazine, USA, in November 1976. Its publication by <strong>The Aquarian Theosophist </strong>and the websites of the ILT was authorized by the T.U.P. and the author in August 2023.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkuVneKITQpM3Tyzn6DwDE2uZIYSQejAPiTvmELW_hhu9vmt2NKIteVkXhJxJ_MV3_7jv-mA8hx_Q3Mh-I7DbRNx9MTpLX-3RW2k4Xe4i1CG3KhulXizoUzaZx-dzAYFkx5wNEDvMp6CR9-b2r0gv60Mqc7FBzm14j7v2euNEvLcqcgs0GKSw7q3GfdoQR/s16000/That%20Man%20Might%20Arise_aux.jpg" /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ndrew Rooke is the editor of the quarterly online magazine <strong>Theosophy Downunder</strong>, available at no cost or obligation by emailing: <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="mailto:theosophydownunder@hotmail.com" href="mailto:theosophydownunder@hotmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">theosophydownunder@hotmail.com</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-arusha-declaration/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-arusha-declaration/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Arusha Declaration</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; 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margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-we-fabricate-scapegoats/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-we-fabricate-scapegoats/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">How We Fabricate Scapegoats</span></a></span></strong></u>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Russia, Wisdom and World Peace</span></a></span></strong></u>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; 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Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-77872848890417655702023-08-22T01:41:00.001-07:002023-08-22T01:41:22.361-07:00The Spiritual Side of BRICS <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;">A Planetary
Brotherhood of Mankind Means<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;">Cooperation Between
Different Civilizations</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Carlos Cardoso
Aveline</span><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0w6KWtD_x7cIfh8PC6xBNq82ONYwUVnzffG8bCPlOr3VaS3cW9P9N_47l8rMLxC6Syl00FI1IzkiOxD29nU-fqJKAyau6vU5IHbxesz7PeWo3qGGubfV2cSbIGnhu6UMRnmc8scyjAqhvm4-t4jpjrsghd2f6EKskm9lHPW0FHF1a6Z-O7oRbiVPgzh2/s16000/The%20Spiritual%20Side%20of%20BRICS.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /></span><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">umanity does not create problems that it cannot solve. Every form of ignorance disappears in due time, but the search for wisdom remains. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">We created Nazism, and we defeated it. Our countries created the nuclear nightmare - whose origin, by the way, is Nazi - and we will leave this nightmare behind, too. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The existence and continuous production of new nuclear bombs in arsenals which are capable of destroying life on Earth deeply affects our subconscious perspective of the future. Who can fully enjoy life, and raise a family, and educate his children in peace, while being surrounded by weapons which could eliminate human life in a few hours, starting any time? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Julius Nyerere, the legendary African leader, wrote in the 1980s:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“In the modern world, peace is indivisible. Technology has made it so. A war in which just a fraction of nuclear weapons were used would cause a nuclear winter and make life impossible throughout the Earth. All life would cease in Tanzania, Sweden, Argentina, Mexico and Greece - none of which possess nuclear weapons - just as it would in the states which do hold nuclear weapons.” <strong>[1]</strong> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Recent researches and production of “tactical” nuclear weapons seem to be an attempt to make the atomic suicide feasible, by giving it a modest and gradual starting process. But the basic facts remain. It is not possible to live in peace in the presence of nuclear arsenals. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">A former President of Brazil, Mr. Michel Temer, was representing his country as he said, in 2014 during an international summit on nuclear security:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“A world that accepts nuclear weapons will always be insecure. It is essential to eliminate such weapons, which, because of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of their use, remain a permanent threat to humanity.” <strong>[2]</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">How then can we get rid once and for all from the suicidal atomic nightmare?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">We did our best after we had the appearance of an end to the Cold War in the beginning of the 1990s. We tried a unipolar system. We would have one and only superpower. Such an extraordinary country would kindly lead and manage the world for us. It would help the United Nations preserve the balance and equilibrium, and mutual respect among nations. Such a country, of course, would not behave as an aggressive nation abusing the rights of other countries, fomenting wars, transferring to others its own economic failures, or conspiring to promote regime change in sovereign states. It would not behave as a brutal and corrupt kind of world police. No. Not at all. It would be a loyal, respectful nation.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">But we failed. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">In the 2020s, it is clear to a growing number of citizens worldwide that we need a multipolar world, and not one nation which has the monopoly of global leadership. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Living under the “diktat” of one single country is not a great idea after all. We need a system of checks and balances in the planet. This can only be provided by a multipolar and multidimensional process of leadership, based on equilibrium, open to change, capable of promoting religious and cultural diversity among nations, instead of fighting diversity. How can this take place by nonviolent means? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">BRICS is the emerging global proposal of peace and cooperation. It is a practical process slowly started several years ago, and not a theoretical idea. It is a down-to-earth bridge to the future, and it excludes no one. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">In April 2023, a new idea became visible to everyone around the globe: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Brazil’s [President] Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called on BRICS nations to come up with an alternative to replace the dollar in foreign trade, supporting China’s crusade against US [unilateral] global dominance.” <strong>[3] </strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">BRICS is a coalition of contrasting nations. It celebrates diversity and mutual help. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The name BRICS stands as an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. These five countries have a combined area of some 40 million square kilometers, or about 26% of the world’s land surface and more than 40% of the global population. But several influential countries in Latin America (as Argentina) and other continents (as Saudi Arabia and Iran) are already closely cooperating with BRICS. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">There is no room in the BRICS for racism or antisemitism. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">A planetary brotherhood needs mutual respect, good will and cooperation among contrasting civilizations. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The goal of the theosophical movement is to form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, opinion, sex, religion, caste or color. And brotherhood begins in the realm of good will. It has nothing to do with uniformity. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">In spirituality and social life, just as in Nature, diversity is healthy, but monoculture is suicidal. A key rule to be established and followed among civilizations, starting from the 2020s, is “<u>live and let live, respect life, preserve cultural contrast</u>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Other useful ideas:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Give up the sick vicious circles of violence, and remember they begin in thought. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Abandon the nightmare of continuous wars and ceaseless preparation for war. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Learn to live in peace with yourself, and with others. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* Preserve the natural environment everywhere, for the planet is small, and your grandchildren deserve a safe globe to live. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">NOTES:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “The Gaia Peace Atlas”, Survival into the Third Millennium, Foreword by the UN Secretary General, General Editor Dr. Frank Barnaby, PAN Books, London, Sidney and Auckland, copyright 1988, 272 (large size) pages, see page 78. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[2]</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “<strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/brazil-on-nuclear-proliferation/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/brazil-on-nuclear-proliferation/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Brazil on Nuclear Proliferation</span></a></span></u></strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[3] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">See the news<strong> <u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-13/lula-supports-brics-currency-to-replace-dollar-in-foreign-trade#xj4y7vzkg" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-13/lula-supports-brics-currency-to-replace-dollar-in-foreign-trade#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">here</span></a></span></u> </strong>(retrieved 22 August 2023).</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above article was first published in April 2023 at the theosophical blog in “<u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-spiritual-side-of-brics/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-spiritual-side-of-brics/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Times of Israel</span></a></span></strong></u>”. Since 22 August 2023 it is available at the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hitlers-science-and-science-today/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Hitler’s Science, and Science Today</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/old-prophecies-and-atomic-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/old-prophecies-and-atomic-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Old Prophecies and Atomic War</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/no-more-hiroshimas-and-nagasakis/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/no-more-hiroshimas-and-nagasakis/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">No More Hiroshimas and Nagasakis</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/freud-on-freedom-from-delusion/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/freud-on-freedom-from-delusion/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Freud on Freedom From Delusion</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/awakening-from-the-opium-war/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Awakening from the Opium Wars</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div></div></div><br /><br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-41879241585851713962023-08-20T03:26:00.001-07:002023-08-20T03:28:20.009-07:00The Arusha Declaration <div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">TANU’s Policy on<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Socialism and
Self-Reliance<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Julius K. Nyerere and
the TANU</span><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="633" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLnPOWLqSpSXJuEsUq6Mq86KjiDkGrVnVhqqNlXVHP4YR5umJg1JE9FPLTNTQShS8sd3tT8_k3JC8CIxFt0jXm7oo5FH8l7aVRJ-Zsj6g7zZPXhtFvt6FvY2BKt3MRVQjDWW3A_rHccBG6M5V8fFxK9UjYPKpd2_qS10Myz4a2wmuadIOafloWEVzndHR/s16000/The%20Arusha%20Declaration.jpg" /></div></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Julius K. Nyerere
(1922-1999) and Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;">A 2023 Editorial Note</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">here is more theosophy in <em>The Arusha Declaration</em> of 1967 than one would see in a superficial reading. The <em>socialism</em> it proposes is similar to that “socialism of the noblest and highest type”, the <em>altruistic socialism of self-sacrifice</em> which Helena Blavatsky sees in Buddha and Christ. <strong>[1]</strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The <em>ujamaa</em> socialism of Julius Nyerere has ancient roots. It is the traditional, primitive, nonviolent socialism which renounces hatred, and can transcend money-centered economic relations. It aims at the self-reliance of communities. It has much in common with eternal wisdom and expresses the law of universal brotherhood. It reveals to us the spiritual heredity of ancient Africa. It also teaches us about our own future; for time is cyclic, and the most accurate patterns and seeds of the future must be found in the past.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is wrong therefore to say that the experience of ancient African <em>socialism of solidarity</em>, which took place in Tanzania under the leadership of Nyerere, failed or must be forgotten. The opposite is true. It was a victorious experience anticipating the luminous times when humanity will be wiser than in the centuries of blind materialism and money-worship. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There is a bridge between Sociology and Theosophy. In other words, a vast common ground exists among Eastern esoteric philosophy, political philosophy, social psychology and the history of nations. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A profound similarity unites all forms of social action that are based on solidarity, and they constitute the spiritual and inner side of socialism. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How can one better understand, for instance, the mystery of Russian and Asiatic forms of wisdom and civilization? Or develop a better notion of the Andean spirituality, with its philosophy of human unity with Nature? How can the researcher see the higher dimension of the traditional African ways of looking at the world? </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One must develop comparative studies of these outwardly different living traditions. All of them are closely interrelated: they have a common essence. They are at the source of all human utopias. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Into a large extent, Marxism has failed in its attempts to explain these spiritual-economic formations, for no materialism, either communist or capitalist - is able to understand the evolution of economies.<strong>[2] </strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Everyone’s economic behavior directly depends on states of mind, both on individual and collective levels of action and perception. There is no separation between spirit, states of mind, and economic relations. The three are one. Our individual and collective views of life make economic facts take place. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A spiritual mind creates a spiritual economy. And since time immemorial there has been a <em>mode of production</em> of <em>spiritual communities</em>. This form of society is broadly taught in the Acts of Apostles. It is pursued even today by the Amish and other Mennonite or Anabaptist Christian groups. It can be found around the world and in world history in many diverse times and forms. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The <em>Arusha Declaration of Tanzania </em>formulates some of the fundamental principles of the spiritual and economic worldview of human societies, which is centered on the fundamental law of universal brotherhood, and constitutes a key to the better future whose ideal it is our duty to keep alive, until it happens. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">eaders must remember that the acronym TANU means <em>Tanganyika African National Union</em>, the main political party in the struggle for independence in Tanzania, which took place by gradual steps during the first half of the 1960s. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(Carlos Cardoso Aveline)</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Arusha-Declaration.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Arusha-Declaration.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Click to read</span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Arusha-Declaration.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Arusha-Declaration.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">‘The Arusha Declaration’</span></a></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">NOTES:</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[1] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">See “<u><strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-key-to-theosophy/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/the-key-to-theosophy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Key to Theosophy</span></a></span></strong></u>”, by Helena P. Blavatsky, page 79. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">[2] </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">However, it is an insightful experience to examine the approach of Marxian philosophy to the ideas of “primitive communism” and “Asiatic mode of production”. Marxist viewpoints regarding pre-capitalist modes of production highlight facts of undeniable usefulness for a theosophical examination of social structures. Examine for instance * “<strong>La Russie</strong>”, par Marx et Engels, traduction et préface de Roger Dangeville, Union Générale D’Éditions, Paris, 1974, pp. 256-259, and the whole volume; * “<strong>Sobre el Modo de Producción Asiático</strong>”, Maurice Godelier, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ediciones Martinez Roca, S.A., España, 1969, 269 pp.; * “<strong>Obras Escogidas</strong>”, Marx-Engels, two volumes, Editorial Progreso, Moscú, 1966, especially volume two, pages 506-509; * “<strong>Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation</strong>”, by Karl Kautsky, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1897, and Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, New York, US, 1966, 294 pages. * “<strong>Fundamentos da Filosofia</strong>”, V. G. Afanássiev, Edições Progresso, 1982, Printed in Russia, 430 pages. Modes of production are examined starting on page 221. * “<strong>Princípios Fundamentais de Filosofia</strong>”, Georges Politzer, Guy Besse, Maurice Caveing, Editora Fulgor, SP, Brazil, 1962, 396 pp., especially from p. 219. * “<strong>Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844</strong>”, by Karl Marx, Dover Publications, New York, 2007, 208 pp., see especially pages 136-141 on the <u>deification of money</u> in capitalism. * In the “<strong>Manifesto of the Communist Party</strong>”, Chapter III, Marx refers to “reactionary socialism”, “feudal socialism”, “clerical socialism” and so on. Other Marxian references to the topic are numerous. (CCA)</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he 31-page booklet “<strong>The Arusha Declaration</strong>” was published in the associated websites on 20 August 2023.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead more: </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/racism-in-the-name-of-theosophy/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/racism-in-the-name-of-theosophy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Racism in the Name of Theosophy</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-heroic-legend/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-heroic-legend/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">A Heroic Legend</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-we-fabricate-scapegoats/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/how-we-fabricate-scapegoats/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">How We Fabricate Scapegoats</span></a></span></u></strong>. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Russia, Wisdom and World Peace</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgzx2UX2CVNMAMkLyd7Av39gosn0tpYtJTURP4O8ZUBo5Sji48_RgPOrUsWVocJlXpzd-4bgFF2ZAZTZ0NSBolW7TxuwRqw-dIMrHiBufmGdVpXcD0zRBYgqqvnM_4m0Y08vnK3RbCu2arlUQc9Z2uNwloUN4Z0YWQVRAeQ9kpqE7roUIj3D6shV2ws6q6/s16000/HPB_Aux..png" /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these revealing words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></div></span></span></div>
Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-82206038104762629732023-08-11T13:42:00.004-07:002023-08-14T09:18:24.509-07:00The Aquarian Theosophist, August 2023<p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzhszOJ78B6ieNk1hb-RP0PC-DkTkWLauYcy4MMmCznkFjKduokkd1-O--KA9IxC4rQXXvqEsb31YZEKQopG6s4CHop1TACbY-sTMnfDCH0rObl7gktLIfKdzO_xQ-SppR7F4_1FO-GDWaxjTi9Z3HN1fqe7A6iaeY0mSiTUvnamW4vvwN1J0_r49-IGv/s16000/Capa_The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist,%20August%202023.jpg" /></span></div><p></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">hat about authentic spirituality coming from Africa?</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The opening article of our August edition is “<strong><u>Work Hard, Rejoice, and Love Life</u>: an Excerpt From African Esoteric Philosophy</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">On page two we present “<strong><u>Intercultural Harmony Among Nations</u>: Muslims Want Peace in Africa</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Page four presents “<strong><u>An Offer to the Lord of Light</u></strong>”, whose subtitle is <em>From the Wisdom of Africa: The Fifth Prayer of the Truth-Seeking Man</em>.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The article “<strong><u>You Are Headed Toward Your Ideal</u></strong>”, by O. S. Marden, is on page six. Its subtitle recommends: <em>Daily Remember the Moral Heroes Who Inspire You</em>. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Other topics: </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>In Portugal, the Pope Defends Life,</strong> <strong>Attacks War, Condemns Euthanasia</strong>.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Russian Thinkers, on the Science of Willpower</strong> - a selection of thoughts made by Olga Attovna Fedorova, our friend and associate who lives in Moscow.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Thoughts Along the Road</strong>: When Ignorance Becomes Talkative, Opinions Start Playing a Key Role in Life. </span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">* <strong>Spiritual Light in the United States</strong>: The Wisdom of William Penn.</span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong>The Triumph of Moscow</strong>:</span> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-size: 18px;">Russia and the Mystery of the Third Rome in Christian Tradition.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With 23 pages, the edition presents the </span></span><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">List of New Items</span></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> in the associated websites. </span></span></div><div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-August-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TheAquarianTheosophist_August_2023.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Click Here to Read</span></a> </span></span></span></u></strong></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Aquarian-Theosophist-August-2023.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TheAquarianTheosophist_August_2023.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">“The Aquarian” for August 2023</span></a> </span></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he above edition of </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Aquarian</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> was published on 11 August 2023. The entire collection of the journal is available </span><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" href="https://www.theaquariantheosophist.com/p/list-of-contents-in-this-blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">HERE</span></a></span></span></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">G</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ive your friends a practical tool to better understand themselves and the world. Invite them to join the study-group <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">E-Theosophy</span></a></span></u></strong> in <strong><u><span style="color: #000066;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" href="https://groups.google.com/g/e-theosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Google Groups</span></a></span></u></strong>. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">e believe in creative action. If you want to <u>help spread theosophy and ethics in today’s world</u>, send the <strong><em>Aquarian</em></strong> to your friends and tell them to write to the editors making a <strong>free</strong> subscription. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">000</span></span></div>Joana Maria Pinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10102092540234712081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2185475325618687529.post-5209337090146747822023-08-06T12:43:00.002-07:002023-08-12T12:48:31.023-07:00A Heroic Legend<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">How the Holy Mountains Let Out of<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Their Deep Caves the Mighty Heroes of
Russia<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">N. Misheyev</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglmvAq6biZmzehGmYtTX9kxaq3ZSTylHbQbZZLYAwIEHbxryqNAgz3MyfzHjXN-L2Sqn0gc-uybNZK4MFuhvHaL8uEpa3RY3DeBziancvLfqGsbf3UrYNKar0OVqU_RdRHCJCdEmkY1WMBpLEwl4JA3uUsWveiOwNhs3-7tu8RBsX9eLjris2oXAzHvsFX/s16000/A%20Heroic%20Legend.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br data-cke-eol="1" /><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">00000000000000000000000000000000000000000</span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A modern bylina [<em>traditional epic oral </em></span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><em><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">poem from Russia</span></span></em><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">], taken down by N. </span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Misheyev from an old peasant in the extreme </span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">North of Russia, and translated by Gleb Struve </span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">and Bernard Pares. Published by <u>The Centenary </u></span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Press</span></span></u><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, London, UK, in March 1935, with 31 pages. </span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</span></span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;">A 2023 Editorial Note</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he modern legend told in the present poem is about the need to awaken the higher nature of persons, and the higher nature of communities. The fact that it belongs to Russian culture and to Christian tradition serves us as an example, but the duty to awaken is universal and belongs to every nation, philosophy and religion. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The life of the hero is an aspect of the higher levels in human consciousness. The spiritual disciple, the learner who seeks wisdom, must challenge the long-established routines of ignorance in his own life, and the life of his community. Theosophy shows that there is a heroic dimension - or probationary aspect - in the decision to try to help the immortal sages who help mankind. Helena Blavatsky wrote that the Twelve Labors of Hercules are a symbol of discipleship and initiations. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A mountain represents the higher levels of consciousness in their impersonal, limitless and unspoken dimension. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As for the metaphor of sleeping for decades or centuries in a cave inside a mountain, it may work as a symbol of our reincarnation process. It also refers to the fact that our spiritual nature is largely asleep. Our higher potentialities will have to awaken, in due time, and the same applies to every nation on Earth. We are all largely asleep at the feet of the Mountains of Wisdom, which point to Heaven. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mountains are seen as <em>grandfathers</em> and spiritual teachers in the Andean tradition. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In a psychoanalytic perspective, on the other hand, being asleep in a cave at the bottom of a mountain refers to the prison of human consciousness in “the unconscious”, that is, subconscious levels of perception. From these we must liberate ourselves in order to become warriors of truth: in other words, in order for us to have the courage to look at the facts, without taking refuge in childish illusions. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As to the various divine characters who help the warriors awaken in “<strong>A Heroic Legend</strong>”, they stand for the sacred teachers of eternal wisdom. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(Carlos Cardoso Aveline)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/A-Heroic-Legend.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/A-Heroic-Legend.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Click to read</span></a></span></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/A-Heroic-Legend.pdf" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/A-Heroic-Legend.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">‘A Heroic Legend’</span></a></span></span></span></u></strong></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">he 31-page booklet “<strong>A Heroic Legend</strong>” was published in the associated websites on 06 August 2023. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ead More: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/russia-wisdom-and-world-peace/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Russia, Wisdom and World Peace</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-russian-philosopher-looks-at-the-mountains/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-russian-philosopher-looks-at-the-mountains/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">A Russian Philosopher Looks at the Mountains - Ivan A. Il’in</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/history-of-russian-philosophy/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/history-of-russian-philosophy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">History of Russian Philosophy - N. O. Lossky</span></a></span></u></strong>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* <strong><u><span style="color: #0000cc;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-history-of-russian-philosophy-volume-one/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-history-of-russian-philosophy-volume-one/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">A History of Russian Philosophy, Volume One - V. V. Zenkovsky</span></a></span></u></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*<strong><span style="color: #0000cc;"> <u><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-history-of-russian-philosophy-volume-two/" href="https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/a-history-of-russian-philosophy-volume-two/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">A History of Russian Philosophy, Volume Two - V. V. Zenkovsky</span></a></u></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpAbcyNg7hq8CdgILkbQJElIIYGfDIka7J6-i23vlQdC_8T7QX2Oniu3z6RXOKDMLFfQhAOKm7MgXFLSUy9TDAPDO0pxjdmF1JQyeJ5UIqoJ-Pa0SQ4PBdSKFUhvpWIIWkar__stpoYBJwkQ-ZmNt_XxFOcF-tgsBllyvXjkfGsm5yfVoJg36G6grWUGQ/s16000/HPB_Aux..png" /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">H</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">elena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these revealing words: “<strong>Deserve, then desire</strong>”. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">000</span></span></div></div></span></div>
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