It Is By Doing Our Best and Correcting
Mistakes That We Build a Luminous Future
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
In celebrating
the birth of Jesus, the present civilization adopts as a model of perfection a
sage who tried to save mankind from spiritual blindness and unnecessary pain.
Those who have real respect for Jesus and wish to
celebrate Christmas in honest ways must, therefore, avoid gluttony during the festivities.
A reasonable amount of sincerity commands one to keep away from excess in indulgence.
The Gospels narrative shows the life of Jesus as a
stern lesson in voluntary simplicity. The Master teaches about renunciation of
attachment to comfort. He gives us an example of a personal existence based on
noble ideals.
Christmas celebrates a kind of outward poverty which
makes it possible for us to attain a secret intimacy with the entire universe.
The second part of December is a blessed time of the
year. On the other hand, these special
days seem to make challenging feelings like anxiety, fear, anguish and hatred
more visible. During the last moments of the 12 months cycle, we are confronted
by that which is most luminous in human soul, and most obscure, and sad.
It is up to us to produce the transmutation of
selfishness, under the light of eternal wisdom. There is many a lesson to
learn. Pain and compassion prepare the alchemical rebirth of the New Year.
There will be a chance to start again. It will be possible to avoid mistakes.
Life invites us to try our best and to be born again from within.
The Art of Producing the Future
Building that which is new and rejecting whatever has
ceased to work are necessary actions in every cycle and aspect of life. Our relation to the past and the future
silently renews itself all the time. When the Karma and the Dharma of a better
future are ready to operate, they replace the “present” and invite it to become
part of the past.
It is our duty to create morally healthy structures on
the various levels of life. Wrong inclinations must be corrected and
compensated by putting their opposites in due action. By building wisdom, we
defeat ignorance. Selfishness is eliminated through altruistic efforts; and
with the arrival of a new 12 months cycle human beings are born again on a subtle
level.
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The above article
adapts the two short texts published with no indication of the name of the author
in the December 2016 edition of “O
Teosofista”, pages one and two.
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On 14 September 2016, after examining the
state of the esoteric movement worldwide, a group of students decided to found the
Independent Lodge of Theosophists.
Two of the priorities adopted by the ILT
are learning from the past and building a better future.
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