The Duty of the
Theosophical Movement
Is To Help Start Another Historical Cycle
Is To Help Start Another Historical Cycle
Carlos Cardoso
Aveline
* There are two aspects in learning. One is acquiring,
the other is letting go. In order to obtain celestial wisdom, one must renounce
earthly astuteness.
* The pilgrim can only go ahead on the path if he
leaves behind the landscape he is familiar with. We all have much to unlearn. Identifying
and rejecting illusion is as important as absorbing eternal knowledge. The
awakening of intelligence shows all things, beautiful and ugly: a karmic choice
is unavoidable at every step.
* No amount of elegant
excuses can legitimize disrespect, hatred or intentional violence. We stand
with goodness, with truthfulness and altruism. Inner peace and moderation
result from wisdom. Law and Ethics are of the essence.
* The whole world is in peace, as long as we are in
peace. In other words: into the extent that we are connected to our spiritual
soul, we are also in unity with the silent and occult harmony of the One Law
that rules Life everywhere. This sort of peace transcends conflict. It heals
the disease of naiveté. It unmasks illusion. It reduces the source of pain. It
teaches people how to leave aside the lack of discernment.
* Daily discipline gives the universal perception of
things a chance to go down to earth and to exist in peace and simplicity, in
humble silence, in a kind of nothingness and meaninglessness that promises the
plenitude of totality. The natural firmness of discipline reiterates that which
we already know to be good. Correct habits give us a stable basis for the higher
search and learning. An unchanging soil is needed by those who study the sky.
Defeating the Illusions
of Naiveté
* Theosophy is not separate from daily life or social
events. The state of human soul decisively influences the destiny of the outward
world.
* In different moments of History, various countries
take the lead and show the way. The very country that seems the most highly
civilized in one circumstance may become the main center of disorder a little
later. Social decay becomes unavoidable as soon as spirituality is dismantled
and despised and its moral values are abandoned for no apparent reason.
* Students of theosophy are invited to examine how conscious
has the theosophical movement been of its responsibility for the future of human
civilization. And how loyal it has been to Truth and to its Search, since Annie
Besant started talking to false masters and abandoned good sense in the beginning
of the 20th century.
* The true theosophical movement - much smaller than
the nominal one - stands at the higher and causal level of Karma. It has its
own responsibilities in the history of a civilization, which Helena Blavatsky
defines in the closing lines of her book “The Key to Theosophy”.
* Let us hope good willing people situated anywhere can
help start a new historical cycle based on ethics and sincerity. Morality sustains
civilized society. Its absence destroys it all.
Let us hope and work so that the social and political frauds (among them
the illusions of hatred, money-addiction, sex-addiction and drug-addiction)
will be duly unmasked in every country. May we help that happen in time to
avoid unnecessary pain.
* A renewed sense of duty is being born again. One must
not forget that the healing aspect of
the birth of a new cycle is largely invisible in its first phases.
* The act of being born again is often a dramatic
event at all levels - physical, emotional and spiritual. Most healing processes
are both painful and dangerous. The alchemy of rebirth, individual and
collective, is no simple issue. It requires high karmic temperatures and the transmutation
of substances. In such a context, one should think mainly of the best and
the highest - with sober realism and discernment.
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The above article
was published as an independent item in the associated websites on 20 June
2022. An initial version of it - with no indication as to the name of the
author - is part of the July 2020 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, pp. 8-9.
The last two paragraphs, however, come from page 14 in the same edition,
and were written by the same author.
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Helena Blavatsky
(photo) wrote these words: “Deserve,
then desire”.
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