Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00895)

In the letter from the Great Master (that is just posted), there are two
statements which caught my attention.

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1. "As we find the world now, whether Christian, Mussulman, or Pagan,
   justice is disregarded, and honour and mercy are both flung to the
   winds."
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2. "And it is we, the humble disciples of these perfect Lamas, who are
   expected to allow the Theosophical Society to drop its noblest title,
   that of the Brotherhood of Humanity, to become a simple school of
   philosophy! 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 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 erroneous impressions of outsiders, by himself actually
   propagating this idea. Oh! for noble and unselfish men to help us
   effectually in that divine task! All our knowledge, past and present,
   would not be sufficient to repay him."


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Several questions that comes up are:

1. When we all the wars and killing that is going on around the world in the
name of nationalism, religion and pure politics, are things improving around
the world?

2. Again and again, in many of the Mahatma Letters to Sinnett, the need for
the establishing a Brotherhood of Humanity is mentioned as the most
important objective of Theosophical Society. It is because of this, I
believe, the First Object of the TS is this. Much valuable information was
given out by HPB and other writers dealing with Man and the Universe. There
seems to be an implication even then in 1880, there was some great emphasis
on "school of philosophy" while unequivocally this letter states that what
was expected of all of us is to work towards this noble idea of Brotherhood
of Humanity. They were looking for noble and unselfish persons to help them
in this very important task and how very grateful They are to any one who
gives a helping hand in this task.

3. Considering the non increase in the membership (and possibly gradual
decline), is there something that all of us are not doing right? Is there
too much emphasis placed on the philosophy and not many are turned on to be
unselfish to work towards the noble idea of Universal Brotherhood of Humanity.

Let us brain storm on the above and any related and relevant items. May be
we can learn from each other as to how we can more effectively work towards
this noble idea of Brotherhood of Humanity.

I welcome *all* discussion - from novices, experts, lurkers and all posters
of messages.

Cheers

        MK Ramadoss