He Who Wants to Truly Live Can
Always Do That By Acting in Responsible Ways
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Into a large
extent, the social, political and economic dangers now being faced by our
humanity are mere results of the relative failure of modern theosophical
movement. This idea may seem absurd only when superficially examined.
Politics and economics belong to the world of effects.
Human Karma is defined by the existence or not of a collective antahkarana, a
bridge or Jacob’s ladder leading to the world of universal ethics and celestial
wisdom. However, those who understand this basic fact are not numerous.
Only the practice of the honesty of the soul - in the
esoteric movement and other social sectors - will improve the life of the
nations, since without a collective antahkarana there is no real progress in
human history. The fact is mentioned by Helena Blavatsky in the last paragraph
of her book “The Key to Theosophy”. [1]
This is the issue examined in the symbolic dialogue
between Abraham and the Lord on chapters 18 and 19 of Genesis. The theosophical
movement depends on the Few who are not excessively dependent on the world of
consequences, and are able to act on the plane of the Causes.
Ten or twenty truly ethical individuals can do that
which a numerous political party, apparently well-intentioned, fails to
accomplish: to create good Karma. And as long as actual good Karma is not created,
no amount of propaganda campaigns will be effective.
With the exception of real statesmen, professional
politicians rarely make a great difference because they operate in the world of
effects.
No one, not even the best head of state, can do alone
something as important as the almost invisible mission of the authentic
theosophical movement and all citizens of good will: that is, to find, educate and
inspire into actual work the minimal amount of rightful men and women required
by the “Lord”, or the Law of Balance, to avoid disaster.
These are the souls who can place or keep human Karma
on a safe road toward a correct future. Only the rightful, the profoundly
honest, can define a healthy destiny for nations: this is the essential
teaching of the biblical story mentioned.
In a materialistic society, however, efforts to
improve the quality of life are mainly short-sighted and limited to the
physical plane. They obey to the general principles of blind selfishness,
including collective selfishness. Many a well-intentioned initiative fails
because it aims at benefitting one group at the expenses of the other sectors
of human community, or they cause an unsustainable damage to the natural
environment, which will revert against humans in general.
Theosophy, on its turn, changes reality from the
inside and in every direction.
It teaches us how to walk from childish, egocentric
ignorance all the way to a multidimensional awakening of ethics and wisdom. Three
luminous factors - justice, respect and mutual help - are potentially present
in all kinds of social relation. It is up to each citizen to take the first
step.
He who wants to truly live can always do that by
acting in responsible ways. Instead of complaining about the absence of a
collective antahkarana, the duty of theosophists and citizens of goodwill is to
expand and strengthen the invisible bridge with the higher realms of Nature, starting
with their own daily lives.
NOTE:
[1] See in our websites the articles “The Guardian Wall That Protects Mankind”
and “The Coming of the New Cycle”.
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Read also the
article “The Duty of the Esoteric Movement”.
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An initial
version of the above article was published in Portuguese in “O
Teosofista”, October 2012 edition, pp. 7-8. It had no indication as to
the name of the author.
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On 14 September 2016, 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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