FROM THE EFFORT OF PATRICK CHOUINARD

BROTHERHOOD: Thoughts on Brotherhood by Blavatsky, Bailey, Roerich, Hilarion, Steiner, and Manly Hall
H.P. BLAVATSKY:
If theosophy prevails in the struggle and its all-embracing philosophy strikes deep root into the minds and hearts of
men; if its doctrines of reincarnation and karma, in other words, of hope and responsibility, find a home in the lives
of the new generations, then, indeed, will dawn the day of joy and gladness for all who now suffer and are outcast.
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Laura Winzeler Thank you for this compilation, Patrick Chouinard

12 November 2013 at 09:04 Like 1

Bonnie Orgren Yes, thank you Patrick, for this contribution. It seems possible to me that the
huge number of people joining together on fb to find inspiration, guidance, further world unity
on different levels have brought in with us in our soul memories' experience in many different
schools or brotherhoods and are reaching out now with expanded hearts to feel our way to the
synergy you have talked about. The world is now filled with many who have come back to keep
expanding the will to good. Their efforts can be seen in many movements like the return to
biodynamic farming, the rapid growth of organic and permaculture methods, holistic health,

cognitive therapy[ very Buddhist or science of mind] heart centered therapies, online
meditations, the list could be very long. A common theme appears to be respect for unity and the
head/heart connection. Isn't that why we are participating here?
12 November 2013 at 17:24 Like 6

Luis Augusto Weber Salvi There is no very positive this bias anarchist Blavatsky, distinct from
other Theosophists sought perhaps without much skill, but DK / AAB rather craved with
criterion in their prophecies and teachings. However HPB redeemed himself through works such
as "The Voice of Silence", which puts the Compassion as the "Law of laws". A world without
the participation of the humble only exists in the imagination of mystics.
12 November 2013 at 18:50 Like 6

Patrick Chouinard Luis, I think I know what you mean about HPB. I feel the same way (see my
post today: More Inclusiveness & Humility Needed...). I much appreciate your words about
humility.
13 November 2013 at 08:34 Like 2

Luis Augusto Weber Salvi Humility before Heaven, and compassion in the face of the earth
(and forgive me if Google translates poorly, he he)
13 November 2013 at 09:32 Like 2

Patrick Chouinard I am a messenger of Light. I am a pilgrim on the way of love.

I do not walk alone, but know myself as one with all great souls,
& one with them in service.
Their strength is mine. This strength I claim.
My strength is theirs and this I freely give.
A soul, I walk on earth. I represent the one. DK (reposted from Anna Farrell - thanks Anna!)
13 November 2013 at 11:16 Like 6

Rae Lake Yes, Patrick, aren't we all. As a messenger of Light, we don't waste our time 'fighting'
darkness. i walked out of a meeting on Sunday when the speaker was getting worked up about
winning the war against evil, etc. So boring. Evil is a characteristic of the material world of
force. It's our environment. Instead, increase the light. And so many worry about the 'increasing
influence of Satan'. What a waste of energy. Dk asked us to work entirely positive. As the light
grows we can see deeper into the problems that surround us. No biggie. I never avoid stupidity
but will walk out if it gets too enmeshed in fear and conflict symbols. It takes two to maintain
any conflict. I drop my end of the rope and poof, it's gone.
13 November 2013 at 12:22 Like 6

Patrick Chouinard Yes, Rae, I hear you! A focus on doom and gloom - on the darkness - is not
at all constructive, and feeds a very destructive thoughtform that we must counter with a positive
spirit: This is not the time for gloom, despair or depression. If you give way to these, you
become negative and destructive focal points in your environment. If you truly believe that the
spiritual life is fundamental in the world today, if you do believe that divinity guides the
worldand if you are convinced that the heart of humanity is sound are these not adequately
potent ideas to hold us joyously steady? The Externalization of the Hierarchy
In this time of stress and strain, my brothers, I would remind you that there is no need for the
sense of futility or for the registration of littleness. The new groups of disciples are Seed Groups;
they are in the dark or growing stage and in the process of expansion - growing silently. This
stage is most important for, according to the healthiness of the seed and its ability to cast strong
roots downwards and to penetrate slowly and steadily upwards towards the light, so will be the
adequacy of the contribution to the New Age which is upon us. I would emphasize that fact to
you. The New Age is upon us and we are witnessing the birth pangs of the new culture and the
new civilization. DINA 1
16 November 2013 at 00:29 Like 5

Patrick Chouinard Rudolf Steiner: The only question now is what are the ways and means
by which humanity may attain spirituality, that is, the overcoming of materialism, and at the
same time reach what may be called the bond of brotherhood, the expression of universal human
love. One might imagine that universal human love need only be stressed strongly enough, and
that then it must come about or that one should found Unions which aim at the goal of a
universal human love. Occultism is never of this opinion. On the contrary! The more a man
speaks of universal brotherly love and humanity, becoming in a sense intoxicated by them, the
more egotistic he becomes. For precisely as there is a lust of the senses so is there a lust of the
soul; and it is in fact a refined voluptuousness to say: I will become morally higher and higher.
This, to be sure, is not a thought which creates the ordinary conventional egoism, but it does lead
to a subtle form of egoism.

It is not by emphasising Love, Sympathy, that they are generated in the course of mankind's
evolution. Mankind will be led to that bond of brotherhood far rather through something else,
namely, through spiritual knowledge itself. There is no other means of bringing about a universal
human brotherhood than the spreading of occult knowledge through the world. One may talk
forever of Love and the Brotherhood of Man, one may found thousands of Unions; they will not
lead to the desired goal, however well intentioned they may be. The point is to use the right
means, to know how to found this bond of brotherhood. Only those whose lives are grounded in
universal occult truth, valid for all men, find themselves together in the one truth. As the sun
unites the plants which strive towards it and which yet remain individually separate, so must the
truth to which all are striving be a uniform one, then all men find themselves together. But men
must work energetically towards truth, for only then can they live together in harmony." (thank
you Joldos for sending me this important quote from Rudolf Steiner on the establishment of
brotherhood)
17 November 2013 at 22:37 Edited Like 1

Luis Augusto Weber Salvi Very important indeed, the "ideal" of "Brotherhood" has been used
so fragile and insignificant sentimental without their proper spiritual foundations, hence the
importance of the Trinity! For this, I quote one of the "pearls" of an important perennialist:
"In our day, hoping to elevate human society to the level of religious ideal, religion stoop to the
level of what is humanly accessible and reasonably achievable, but that is nothing both from the
point of view of our intelligence as integral our chances of immortality. The uniquely human, far
from being able to keep in balance, always leads to sub-human. "
Frithjof Schuon, "ON THE ANCIENT WORLD."
18 November 2013 at 01:49 Like 1

Oskar Holmgren great reading!

18 November 2013 at 03:04 Like 2

Rae Lake Patrick, got the flu so read only first few lines above. i don't think the point of life on
this planet is 'attain spirituality...overcome materialism'. That struggle, that duality, is the whole
point of us coming here. That struggle perfects us like nothing else could. Hooray for the
struggle. What we are called upon to do is to create, here and now, a culture that rejoices in light
and understanding, in love for the planet and all that is in and on it, so that in two hundred years
a civilization will emerge based on that culture, and that civilization should last until the next
millennia. So build away! oops, just realized I'm not supposed to be on this particular group any
more.

19 November 2013 at 03:22 Like 2

Bonnie Orgren Co-creators we are.

19 November 2013 at 03:26 Like

Giorgio Malanga FRATELLANZA : Pensieri sulla Confraternita di Helena Blavatsky , Bailey ,

Roerich , Hilarion , Steiner , e Manly Corridoio
Alte pressioni BLAVATSKY :
[ T] religione che da sola sar convenientemente corrisponde al nostro carattere religioso innato
sar un sistema universale di fratellanza umana sulla base della conoscenza che noi siamo
essenzialmente divino , un sistema che riscalda i nostri cuori con la consapevolezza che non c'
nulla fuori di noi che pu salvare o dannare noi, che siamo noi stessi che, solo, deve e pu
operare per la nostra salvezza.
Il nostro " Dio" non una divinit intra- comico , ma il cosmo stesso , l'anima della natura , il
suo spirito e il suo corpo, il nostro credo di essere PANTEISMO quindi trascendentale . ... La
nostra Divinit una manifesta universale , assoluta Principio di Umanit , come in natura , lo
Spirito in entrambi essendo uno e indivisibile - da qui la vera fratellanza spirituale dell'uomo .
Con noi , l'uomo figlio degli Dei ( non di Dio) , e l' antenato nel presente ciclo di ancora pi
grandi dei, in un ciclo futuro . ( BCW 11:409-10 )
E ' onnipresente e latente nel Kosmos , infinito come se stesso . Troviamo la sua manifestazione
unica veramente attiva in tutta l'umanit , composta com' di scintille randagi , finite nella loro
durata obiettivo , eterne nella loro essenza , uscenti da quel Cuore senza inizio n fine . Pertanto,
l'unico Dio che dobbiamo servire l'umanit , e il nostro unico culto dovrebbe essere l' amore del
nostro prossimo . ( BCW 8:88 )
[ P] er [ un teosofo ] non c' bisogno necessariamente riconoscere l'esistenza di Dio, speciale o
una divinit . Una necessit ma adorano lo spirito della natura vivente , e cercare di identificarsi
con esso . Riverire quella Presenza , la Causa invisibile , che ancora sempre si manifesta nei
suoi risultati incessanti , l'intangibile , onnipotente e onnipresente Proteus : indivisibile nella sua
essenza , e la forma eludendo , ma che appare sotto ogni e qualsiasi forma , che qui e l , e
dappertutto e in nessun luogo , tutto e niente , onnipresente ancora uno, il ripieno Essence ,
vincolante , di delimitazione , che contiene tutto, contenuto in tutti. ... [ T ] il suo riconoscimento
equivale ad ammettere che non solo l'umanit - composta com' di migliaia di corse - ma tutto
ci che vive e vegeta , in breve , tutto ci che , fatto della stessa essenza e la sostanza ,
animata dalla stesso spirito , e che, di conseguenza , tutto in natura , sia essa fisica o morale ,
legato in solidarieta ' . ( HP Blavatsky , BCW 2:102 , 11:128 )

24 November 2013 at 06:00 Like 1

Giorgio Malanga Agni Yoga :

Fratellanza 1937
Fratellanza , 5 . Se si immette un raduno di persone con le parole , amici e colleghi di lavoro , la
maggior parte guarder con sospetto. Ma se avete il coraggio di chiamarli fratelli e sorelle , allora
molto probabilmente si sar denunciato come aver pronunciato terms.People inammissibili volte
stabiliscono confraternite , ma tali istituzioni superficiali e pomposi non hanno nulla in comune
con la grande idea di Fratellanza . Cos la gente inizia comunit , cooperative, vari sindacati e
societ , ma nelle loro fondamenta non ci sar nemmeno la fiducia semplice . Di conseguenza ,
queste strutture sono molto lontane da quella Fratellanza che sarebbe un'unione forte e salda di
fiducia.
Pu essere che in questo momento certi cuori pi fini sono gi sognando la creazione di
organizzazioni in cui la fiducia sarebbe la pietra angolare . Non pu essere ribadito che tutto
male , quando l'occhio umano vede solo alcuni dei dettagli dell'epoca avvicina . Dopo i
frammenti di antichi simboli si pu osservare la vitalit dei concetti di base . Proprio quando dal
punto di vista terreno tutto stato trasgredito , pu essere che allo stesso tempo sono gi nati pi
belle concetti.
Fratellanza , 110 . Se la sensazione superamento della Fratellanza difficile nella condizione
terrena , tuttavia Fratellanza interamente accessibile ad ogni mente aspiranti . Non c' bisogno
di fare qualcosa di complicato di esso , se siete in grado di desiderare per il prossimo niente che
non vuoi per te stesso . Cos, ogni giorno, in ogni attivit, in ogni pensiero , uno pu essere
affermato nella realizzazione di Fratellanza .
Fratellanza , 130 . Brotherhood sulla terra impossibile! Cos esclamare quelli pieni di egoismo .
Fratellanza sulla Terra impossibile, dicono i distruttori scuri. Brotherhood sulla terra
impossibile , sussurrare il velleitario . Cos fanno molte voci cercano di negare i fondamenti
dell'Essere . Eppure , tante vere Confraternite sono esistiti in epoche diverse , e niente era in
grado di tagliare corto la loro esistenza . Se la gente non vede qualcosa , quindi per loro non
esiste . Tale ignoranza pu essere tracciata dai tempi antichi fino ad oggi . Niente pu costringere
un uomo a vedere se lui non vuole vedere. E ' tempo di capire che non solo il visibile che esiste
, ma che il mondo pieno di realt invisibili .
Fratellanza , 176 . Si dovrebbe capire che le forze delle tenebre sono in lotta costante contro la
Fratellanza. Ogni ricordo , anche piccola , circa Fratellanza sar violentemente assalito . Tutto
ci che pu portare alla Fratellanza sar condannato e diffamato . Pertanto , dobbiamo stare in
guardia .
24 November 2013 at 06:01 Like 1

Giorgio Malanga ALICE BAILEY ( Il Tibetano )

Tutti i gruppi di discepoli , che lavorano dentro o fuori di un Ashram , dovrebbero essere in
stretto rapporto telepatico e, quindi, fornire un terreno di formazione per lo sviluppo di questo
tipo di sensibilit . La prima cosa che deve essere stabilito in un gruppo di discepoli l'amore e
la fiducia , perch senza di che non vi pu essere vera transfert del pensiero . Dove l'amore e la
fiducia non esistono , devono essere assolutamente e coscientemente sviluppato . ( Djwhal Khul ,
dina1 , parte V , Fase II)
Quando un membro di un gruppo , come un gruppo per la guarigione , parla dello sviluppo di
coscienza di gruppo , si riferisce al suo particolare gruppo di fratelli , e al suo gruppo di come
unit di diverse anime . Non dimenticate che tale unit di per s un concetto separativo dal
punto di vista del tutto pi grande , ma serve una funzione utile, membri del gruppo di
formazione a pensare in termini pi ampi ... Se si pu davvero sentire, pensare e funzionare come
un'unica unit - diverse personalit e un'anima sola - sar quindi relativamente facile estendere il
concetto ad una pi ampia inclusivit ...
I membri devono imparare a rispondere , come gruppo , per le stesse idee spirituali , mentali e
umani , e quindi altalena - come unit telepatica " - in un treno unita di pensiero. Essi hanno ,
come gruppo , per essere preoccupato per le stesse cose che sono indicate dal l'anima del gruppo
, e non da una persona del gruppo , in quanto tende a essere il caso . Devono imparare , come
gruppo , di tenere la mente salda nella luce - la mente del gruppo , e non le loro menti
individuali.
Nel usando l' immaginazione per questo scopo , dovete coltivare il potere di ignorare le forme
esteriori e di concentrarsi sulle linee interne di luce che uniscono fratello a fratello , gruppo a
gruppo , e regno in regno nell'espressione della Vita di Dio Se stesso . E ' l'immaginazione
creativa che produce un organismo integrato gruppo eterico e che consente di vedere questo
corpo gruppo di forza e di luce come una forma completa e come una espressione del gruppo di
intelligenza, volont e lo scopo - ma non la volont e lo scopo del mente dominante o la mente
del gruppo. Questi possono quindi lavorare sul piano fisico in giusta espressione .
Tuttavia, quando i membri del gruppo sono occupati principalmente con le proprie idee , i loro
progetti , i loro problemi , e come possono usare qualsiasi luce e la conoscenza possono essere
ricevuti , negano ogni possibilit di tale uso creativo dell'immaginazione unita . Per diventare
completamente liberi da questo richieder molto attenta coltivazione e la dedizione per l'anima .
Perch allora cos estremamente difficile ... a lavorare insieme come gruppo ... Perch, come
individui e come gruppo sono prevalentemente personale nelle loro relazioni individuali e inter gruppo . Questo pu manifestarsi in forti critiche di ogni altro , o di se stessi , in una sicurezza
vivida di rettitudine personale ... Come allora dovremmo procedere ? Vorrei sottolineare che
ogni membro del gruppo che , come individuo , libero dalle debolezze di sopra della
personalit e da questi atteggiamenti , tuttavia, conosce ( e giustamente gioisce ) che partecipa ,
come membro del gruppo , in qualit di gruppo . Questa una delle difficolt accidentali di
lavoro di gruppo . Per partecipare e stare ancora liberi dalla debolezza , per riconoscere che i
successi o insuccessi dei singoli membri del gruppo sono del tutto la propria storia , per

condividere e tuttavia non essere dominata dalle potenti pensieri e le idee dei membri pi potenti
del gruppo sempre un problema .
Faccio notare questo perch , in questo prossimo et in cui il lavoro di gruppo sar notevolmente
sviluppata , sar di valore per capire situazioni di gruppo e problemi, e poi andare avanti per il
lavoro di gruppo insieme a quelli che sono i tuoi articoli con cui lavorare. Sar quindi il migliore
e pi saggio per esperienze passate , e fuso in gruppo attraverso la sofferenza e le limitazioni in
comune e la capacit acquisita di fallimento giustamente soddisfatte. Quindi cerchiamo ci sia
vero amore , in silenzio , senza lamentarsi , non critico e costante , essere il tuo obiettivo e la
qualit della vostra vita di gruppo . Poi , quando c' lavoro da fare , si lavora come unit con il
cuore e la mente come uno. ( Djwhal Khul , Esoteric Healing , pp , ,355-58 )
24 November 2013 at 06:01 Like 1

Giorgio Malanga HILARION : GRUPPO SOUL / GRUPPO PROGRESS

Per non si pu pi raggiungere l'altezza di sviluppo a cui si aspira , da solo, di uno di un singolo
alveare di api pu raggiungere la statura di un uomo da solo . Tu sei parti di un unico gruppo
Anima, come gli atomi dei vostri corpi sono una parte di voi stessi , e finch tale gruppo Anima
frenato da una predominanza di alcuni uno o pi dannosi forze , tutte le sue singole parti sono
trattenuto a poco nella misura in cui essi sono diventati responsabili per lo stesso , con " le cose
che hanno fatto o lasciato incompiuto ". Cos , a poco nella misura in cui si partecipe nel fare
sbagliato di quegli altri , unendosi con loro , countenancing loro atti malvagi , o deliberatamente
ignorando i loro effetti - solo a questo punto li stessi e posizionare sotto moderazione .
Sarete ancora chiederete al vostro disprezzo di e indifferenza per le parole di un grande Maestro ,
"L'uomo fa rete in tempo reale a se stesso da solo " , per il significato spirituale delle parole
cos ben oltre il significato materiale importanza e la veridicit da essere al di l confronto . Sia
che mai raggiungere il centro materiale del lavoro di tempio e diventare associati con i tuoi
compagni c' o non c' , se sei cos isolato come non mai di incontrare un altro membro del
Tempio nella vostra incarnazione attuale , resta il fatto che tu sei una delle parti costituenti un
unico gruppo Anima , altrimenti non hai mai sarebbe stato spinto ad unirvi con il corpo del
Tempio , per sei stato sotto la guida di quell'anima dal momento che uno dei suoi galassia di
stelle guardato sopra la vostra prima apparizione sulla terra. ( Insegnamenti del Tempio , Amore
di ideali )
Gli uomini cercano e trovano associazione insieme con lo scopo di lavorare , per meglio sfruttare
come pure per l'aiuto e la protezione reciproca , ma pi si possono mantenere le linee gerarchiche
naturali , la pi pura sar loro principi religiosi . Come molti altra met ha detto verit , l'idea un
po ' prevalente di crescita e sviluppo individuale sta portando molte menti brillanti fuori strada.
Se Dio , l'uomo celeste , tutto in tutto , ogni atomo di forza , la sostanza e la materia ha una sua
funzione particolare e il luogo in quella grande entit. La forza e la sostanza che funziona
naturalmente nel cuore non possono funzionare nello stomaco . Entrambi gli organi sono
altrettanto necessarie , ma non potrebbero esistere senza l'altro , e nessuno uomo una singola

cellula del grande corpo dell'umanit possono esistere o raggiungere il massimo sviluppo
possibile prescindere dalla sua natura .
Mi riferisco al concetto sopra espresso , di sviluppo individuale alla perfezione , come una mezza
verit , perch vero solo sul piano spirituale superiore , dove la perfetta unit nella diversit
ottiene , e dove le funzioni di coscienza senza ostacoli da tempo e spazio . Fino a quando l'uomo
pu imparare ad abitare con i suoi fratelli in pace e unit sulla terra , assolutamente impossibile
per lui a dimorare con Dio in quel cosciente at- one-ment che costituisce la perfezione ... Come
vapore compresso oltre un certo grado scoppier a pezzi il ricettacolo che ha tenuto in sicurezza
prima di raggiungere quel grado , cos la forma astrale dell'uomo possono essere scoppiare a
pezzi dalla forza incontenibile o potenza generata in quella forma dal raggiungimento
dell'illuminazione cosciente , se non di un uso universale . ( TOT , Lezione 17 )
24 November 2013 at 06:01 Like 1

Giorgio Malanga Rudolf Steiner :

Nelle scuole occulte , tre parole sono usate per caratterizzare il New Age , l'et del nuovo , pi
tardi razza umana. Nel dominio della vita comune , la parola "fratellanza ", l'amore fraterno .
Ecco perch la Societ Teosofica ha preso Fratellanza Universale come principio fondamentale
nei suoi oggetti dichiarati , perch lo scopo della Societ Teosofica a fare i preparativi per la
vita nella sesta razza . L'uomo poi sentire felice solo quando la felicit non si acquista, a scapito
di altri . Questa la vera moralit .
La nostra scienza materialistica . Questo sar diverso nella prossima sottorazza . Ci stiamo
sforzando per una diversa forma di scienza , vale a dire per " pneumatologia . " L'insegnamento
riguardante lo spirito , spirituale, sar dominante nella nuova razza . E nella sfera della religione
principio dominante sar qualcosa che non possibile ancora oggi , perch l'intelletto sta nel
modo . L'uomo si percepire l' esistenza di un mondo divino -Spirit . Questo il principio
religioso libera della prossima gara . Fraterno , pneumatologia , Self - Autorit in materia
religiosa , questi tre principi caratterizzeranno la gara futuro che sta lentamente preparata
all'interno della nostra stessa vita . Una Corsa Settima assumer ben diverse forme di vita , di cui
parleremo in un'altra occasione . ( Rudolf Steiner )
Quando si valutano i gruppi esoterici di questo periodo , la guida pi affidabile la loro
accettazione della responsabilit del Grande Piano . Il progresso non ordinariamente per la
promozione della persona , ma per il dispiegamento del progetto universale . La vera scuola
esoterica lavoro ancora verso la meta del Mondo Commonwealth . Il Piano resta utopistico , e il
discepolo avanza attraverso i gradi di un legittimo avviare sistema in fase di preparazione , non
per l'emancipazione personale , ma come uno strumento per la liberazione dei suoi simili . Manly P. Hall
24 November 2013 at 06:01 Like 1

Patrick Chouinard Thanks Giorgio for translating these quotes!

12 December 2013 at 22:04 Like

Margaret Sue Turner Wright Hello Patrick Chouinard, I have been reading some of your
wonderful posts here, and wondered if you had heard of Eugene Fersen? He may have known
HPB, I have always wondered. His book, Science of Being deals with this and many similar
issues. [Not to be confused with scientology or divine science etc] Eugene was born in Russia
and known as Svetozar, the name his Mother called him and the wounded soldier/patients called
him in the war during his time of nursing to them.
18 December 2013 at 21:06 Like

Patrick Chouinard Hi Margaret. Thank you for your kind words. I have not heard of Eugene
Fersen but I will definitely google himenjoy discovering new sources of inspiration! much love
and light to you!
19 December 2013 at 02:25 Like 1

Maritza Bettocchi I am very grateful and appreciate your work and good will ; )
19 December 2013 at 08:51 Like 2

Patrick Chouinard Wow! Thanks Martiza! I appreciate that and the joy of connecting with you
too!
19 December 2013 at 12:31 Edited Like

Maritza Bettocchi : )
19 December 2013 at 10:33 Like

Patrick Chouinard Working Positively: Accumulated energy cannot be annihilated, it must be

transferred to other forms, or be transformed into other modes of motion; it cannot remain for
ever inactive and yet continue to exist. It is useless to attempt to resist a passion which we cannot
control. If its accumulating energy is not led into other channels, it will grow until becomes
stronger than will, and stronger than reason. To control it, you must lead it into another and
higher channel. Thus a love for something vulgar may be changed by turning it into a love for
something high, and vice may be changed into virtue by changing its aim. Passion is blind, it
goes where it is led, and reason is a safer guide for it than the instinct. Stored up anger (or love)
will find some object upon which to spend its fury, else it may produce an explosion destructive
to its possessor; tranquility follows a storm. The ancients said that nature suffers no vacuum. We
cannot destroy or annihilate a passion. If it is driven away, another elemental influence will take
its place. We should therefore not attempt to destroy the low without putting something in its
place, but we should displace the low by the high; vice by virtue, and superstition by knowledge.
[HPB, Magic, page 126, Hartmann ]
4 January at 22:48 Like 2

Rae Lake Yikes, poor Patrick. Hope you aren't taking this too personally? In my opinion the
best/quickest way to counteract lower effects is SIMPLE BOREDOM. Works for me. It's an
attitude you can apply any time to any temptation.
5 January at 04:56 Like

Patrick Chouinard Well Rae, we wouldn't be tempted if we found the objects that tempt us
boring. I think the idea put forth here by HPB is to transfer our interest or motivaton to a higher
level so that eventually these lower temptations will seem boring to us in comparison. Love ya
5 January at 07:08 Like 4

Rae Lake Yes, but I find we ourselves are always in total charge of our curiosity, and our
interest in things. We call the shots.
5 January at 07:59 Like 1

Christopher See wonderful Patrick Chouinard I just love the way you are able to bring the many
teachings together. Always looking forward to your posts
5 January at 14:10 Like 4

Rae Lake Had time to go thru your complilations. Well done, Patrick. And for many years I held
the thought in mind that only we can expell ourselves from the Light.
5 January at 23:15 Like 2

Patrick Chouinard Thanks Christopher and Rae, and I am happy to see you both posting here
more too. Dear Rae, I'm afraid I cannot agree - unfortunately most people are not in control or
calling the shots, not until the mental body is developed, the will, awarenes of soul-purpose,
etc...Until then the astral body is pretty much running the show and this phase is characterized by
internal conflict (opposing drives, desires, aspirations, intentions, etc). But you know all this
already.
6 January at 08:05 Like 3

Brie Wilkinson The freedom to disagree! Now that's group work. In my view, right human
relations can be demonstrated beautifully when we can disagree without competition. However,
in order to do that we often need to get past our own elemental influences. Feeling those
influences with an honesty of mind can be both liberating and stablizing. It's the true practice of
taming a horse, symbolic of the personality.
8 January at 01:35 Like 4

Patrick Chouinard Right on Brie, and the ''elemental influences'' is usually just our pride - to be
more specific: intellectual pride.
8 January at 03:20 Like 3

Patrick Chouinard Where the light of truth is called in, glamor automatically disappears, even
if only for a temporary period. But, again, difficulty arises because few people care to face the

actual truth, for it involves eventually the abandonment of the beloved glamor and the ability to
recognize error and to admit mistakes, and this the false pride of the mind will not permit. Again,
I would assure you that humility is one of the most potent factors in releasing the illuminating
power of the "mind, as it reflects and transmits the light of the soul. The determined facing of the
factual life and the stern recognition of truth - coldly, calmly and dispassionately - will greatly
facilitate the calling in of the flood of illumination which will suffice to dispel glamor.
~ Glamor - A World Problem
8 January at 09:47 Like 4

Brie Wilkinson Perfect! I just have to get my elemental to agree!

8 January at 10:05 Like 3

Rae Lake Yup, did a tee shirt saying "ENLIGHTENMENT is the process of ceasing to be
deluded". For me, that's how it works.
8 January at 10:49 Like 1

Bonnie Orgren Please more excerpts from "Glamor", a major problem as people are becoming
more enamored of "mine". Thanks Patrick for that post.
8 January at 18:38 Like 2

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9 January at 02:36 Like 1

Patrick Chouinard ''Students need to remember that devotion to the Path or to the Master is not
enough. The Great Ones are looking for intelligent cooperators and workers more that They are
looking for devotion to Their Personalities, and a student who is walking independently in the
light of his own soul is regarded by Them as a more dependable instrument than a devoted
fanatic. The light of his soul will reveal to the earnest aspirant the unity underlying all groups,
and enable him to eliminate the poison of intolerance which taints and hinders so many; it will
cause him to recognise the spiritual fundamentals which guide the steps of humanity; it will force
him to overlook the intolerance and the fanaticism and separativeness which characterise the
small mind and the beginner upon the Path, and help him so to love them that they will begin to
see more truly and enlarge their horizon; it will enable him to estimate truly the esoteric value of
service and teach him above all to practice that harmlessness which is the outstanding quality of
every son of God. A harmlessness that speaks no word that can damage another person, that
thinks no thought which could poison or produce misunderstanding, and which does no action
which could hurt the least of his brethren this is the main virtue which will enable the esoteric
student to tread with safety the difficult path of developmen.'' AAB, Esoteric Training in the
Period of Transition
23 January at 22:45 Like 2

Yogi G Easyanonda SOUL infused restraint and excellence in working in groups, giving wisely
is the Path of Service Today indeed, to briefly quote: "A great safeguard for you exists
in the elimination of all personality problems
yours or those of anyone else
from your current meditation project;
that project you will have to set for yourself each year, and adhere to it.
Its theme must grow out of the work of unifying
out of the work you have set yourself.
My brother, link humility with that task;
seek not to link groups with your group,
but recognise your group and all other similar groups
as parts of a worldwide spiritual movement which
(when it reaches momentum) results in unity for all.

A super-organisation which emphasises unity is the last thing to be desired ...."

(piscean energy 6th ray base? y.g.)
a multiplicity of living organisms
held loosely together by cooperation,
constant communication and
possessing identity of goal and of purpose
is what the world needs today....
I assign you no specific meditation. Work out your own, but let it adhere to the general concept
with which I have constantly presented all of you. You can (on your own and as an accepted
disciple) seek entrance into the life of the Ashram and thus contact me. This may take time, but
the link is strong and elastic (ponder on that term) and adherence to the rules will ensure success.
My blessing rests upon you and on your aspiration."
Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II, Alice A. Bailey, p. 315
23 January at 23:16 Edited Like 3

Patrick Chouinard Excellent quote Yogi, and very pertinent to the topic. Yes, '' superorganizations'' (organized around a dominant personality) are the way of the past. Thanks Yogi!
There's so much practical wisdom in the DINA books isn't there? I'm finding all kinds of things
there these days that I missed before. Here is another one I love which also relates to
''brotherhood'': ''When there is evidenced a constantly critical attitude towards other workers in
the field of world service and where there is a capacity to see only selfishness and fault and to
impute wrong motives and to believe evil, then the true aspirant refuses to be swayed and goes
serenely on his way.
In the coming cycle I emphatically tell you that the true work will be carried forward (the work
of creating world unity) only by those who refuse to be separative and whose words are watched
so that no evil is spoken; these are the workers who see the divine in all and refuse to think evil
and impute evil; they work with sealed lips; they deal not with their brothers affairs, nor reveal
that which concerns them; their lives are coloured by understanding and by love; their minds are
characterised by a trained spiritual perception and that spiritual awareness which employs a keen
intellect as the corollary of a loving spirit.''
24 January at 01:35 Like 2

Patrick Chouinard Oops, that last quote is from A Treatise on White Magic (New Age Groups
and Training)
24 January at 01:37 Like 1

Anna Farrell What a wonderful thread-thank you all....the following extract seemed to me to
very much compliment the quote above from TWM(New Age Groups and Training)-so sharing
here...
'The Law of Cleavages applies to the life of form as the Law of Loving Understanding applies to
the world of the Soul. As the name implies, the Law of Cleavages refers to the distinctions, the
divisions and the separations that have been part of the past Piscean Age. Necessary and
beneficial for individuation and the development of the lower concrete mind, this Law of
Cleavages now needs to be subordinated to the higher Aquarian Law of Loving Understanding
which energizes the heart center and thus seeks to unify and bring harmony out of conflict.
The Law of Loving Understanding may seem as a sentimental phrase, but it is a scientific
expression of a great evolutionary development in human consciousness. This law emphasizes
the eternal brotherhood of humanity and the relationship of all souls to the Oversoul. Writing in
Destiny of the Nations about the effect of this law on the nations of the world, the Tibetan
Master Djwhal Khul affirms the changes destined to become part of our reality in this Aquarian
Age, if humanity but hearkens to the opportunity.
"The functioning of the Law of Loving Understanding will be greatly facilitated and speeded
during the Aquarian Age.it will eventuate later in the development of a world-wide
international spirit, in the recognition of one universal faith in God and in humanity also as the
major expression of divinity upon the planet and in the transfer of the human consciousness from
the world of material things to that of the more purely psychic. This will lead in time and
inevitably to the world of spiritual realities."
As the heart centre within each human being and within the collective humanity awakens and
opens, so shall we see a demonstration of this Law of Loving Understanding on a planetary
scale.....
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24 January at 02:05 Edited Like 3

Patrick Chouinard Love it! Thanks Linda - always deeply appreciate your contributions and
participation here.
24 January at 07:55 Like 1

Yogi G Easyanonda dear Rae Lake when in a fourth ray project, it is fun to test our emotional
balancing mechanism (breath, contemplative silence, see the ultimate divine flower yet to unfold
in all, and to sense others as the self) and know we all have been there, so when the better
judgement "clicks in" while compassionately taking in the periodic tirades of identification with
the dweller and "it's" concerns with "evil" (the hiding of the Light of the oOone), please tread
lightly away from the scene of blindness, as bystanders may accuse you of walking on water ....
people do sometimes "sleep walk and talk" until the call from within blesses them with a search
for real answers to real or imagened problems ... i weep for the children and other innocents who
partake of blindness, but i do hear, and venture to trust in the fact that great human and angelic
masters from long ago "graduated" from this school planet to become "children" in the next
school; so then i wonder if time is relative; and just being in this "big mess" must shurley mean
that we are here to test and prove awesome compassionate loving serving power ... : ) .......
Namast3e
24 January at 13:40 Edited Like 2

Yogi G Easyanonda hmm, a new discipline for me: read all posts before playing at the
keyboard.... love you , my new virtual family circle
24 January at 13:54 Like 2

Yogi G Easyanonda energy follows thought

24 January at 15:17 Like 2

Patrick Chouinard Very touching Yogi. Much love

24 January at 21:01 Like

Rae Lake Dear Yogi. Both enjoy and appreciate your comment above. Well reminded.
24 January at 22:54 Like

Rae Lake Dear Yogi G, read your comments several times now and understand. I think there is a
sort of inflow of more experienced souls that takes place during each eon, each transitional
period between astrological ages. My thought is they come in to help poor little humanity
through this series of changes in their awareness. Consider the so-called expansion of
consciousness of several decades ago as the transition, among many but not all, as yet, from
purely nationalistic loyalties to planetary commitment. What a big change is being experienced.
But the ongoing one is from an age that began with the exploration of unknown oceans, into our
exploration next of mostly unknown solar system. Big, wonderful changes to help with, to play
with, to experience. So glad to hear from you again.
25 January at 07:46 Like 2

Patrick Chouinard If theosophy prevailing in the struggle, its all-embracing philosophy strikes
deep root into the minds and hearts of men, if its doctrines of reincarnation and karma, in other
words, of hope and responsibility, find a home in the lives of the new generations, then, indeed,
will dawn the day of joy and gladness for all who now suffer and are outcast. For real theosophy
is ALTRUISM, and we cannot repeat it too often. It is brotherly love, mutual help, unswerving
devotion to truth. If once men do but realize that in these alone can true happiness be found, and
never in wealth, possessions, or any selfish gratification, then the dark clouds will roll away, and
a new humanity will be born upon earth. Then, the GOLDEN AGE will be there, indeed.
But if not, then the storm will burst, and our boasted western civilization and enlightenment will
sink in such a sea of horror that its parallel history has never yet recorded. (Blavatsky Collected
Writings 11:202)
Union is strength. It is by gathering many theosophists of the same way of thinking into one or
more groups, and making them closely united by the same magnetic bond of fraternal unity and
sympathy that the objects of mutual development and progress in theosophical thought may be

best achieved. . . . [W]here two or three are gathered in the name of the SPIRIT OF TRUTH
there that spirit of theosophy will be in the midst of them.
[T]he T.S. cannot be destroyed as a body. . . . [N]either friend nor enemy can ruin that which is
doomed to exist, all the blunders of its leaders notwithstanding. That which was generated
through and founded by the high masters and under their authority if not their instruction
MUST AND WILL LIVE. Each of us and all will receive his or her karma in it, but the vehicle
of theosophy will stand indestructible and undestroyed by the hand of man or fiend. . . .
Belief in the masters was never made an article of faith in the T.S. But for its founders, the
commands received from them when it was established have ever been sacred. And this is what
one of them wrote in a letter preserved to this day: Theosophy must not represent merely a
collection of moral verities, a bundle of metaphysical ethics epitomized in theoretical
dissertations. Theosophy must be made practical, and has, therefore, to be disencumbered of
useless discussion . . . It has to find objective expression in an all-embracing code of life
thoroughly impregnated with its spirit the spirit of mutual tolerance, charity and love. (BCW
7:160-1, 164-5, 169-70)
[T]he masters have said this is a transition age . . . We are working for the new cycles and
centuries. . . . Hence we are not working for some definite organisation of the new years to come,
but for a change in the manas and buddhi of the race. (LHM 2:8)
Mahatma KH: The chiefs want a brotherhood of humanity, a real universal fraternity started;
an institution which would make itself known throughout the world and arrest the attention of the
highest minds. (Mahatma Letter 24)
2 February at 00:14 Like

Morai Spring "....world of meaning is the antechamber to the "Circle of Liberation. This "Circle
of Liberation" is ever entered by the individual initiate, and has been down the ages, but now, for
the first time, it is being entered by humanity itself and as a whole. Humanity, entering this
circle, will be confronted by the first major lesson: the Unity of the One Life. This form of
presentation will be more easily recognised by the masses than such phrases as Brotherhood,
Relationship, Fraternity." DINA II, pg 320
2 February at 07:25 Like

Rae Lake Yes, Morai, particularly note the lines: "Humanity, entering this circle, will be
confronted by the first major lesson: the Unity of the One Life. This form of presentation will be
more easily recognised by the masses than such phrases as Brotherhood, Relationship,
Fraternity." Absolutely agree. Personally, I try to avoid most of the esoteric terms whenever
possible. There's always more than one way to say things, even among ourselves, and simpler is
always better.

2 February at 09:20 Like 1

Rae Lake And by the way, of course, that Unity to be recognized as the One Life includes all
other Kingdoms of Nature, not just human, although it is we who must accept this unity.
2 February at 09:22 Like 4

Rae Lake I've always been fasinated that D.K. says the Christ had 'Kingdom consciousness'.
Always tried to emulate that possibility.
2 February at 09:40 Like 4

Adam Al DeFranco wow-- "kingdom consciousness."

2 February at 23:06 Like 1

Patrick Chouinard If there is one truth more important than another to be learned in the
consideration of the foregoing statements, it is the irrefutable fact of the brotherhood of man, and
the importance of maintaining brotherly relations with all men. You cannot injure another, no
matter what the provocation, without laying a stone in your own pathway. You cannot assist
another without clearing away some obstruction to your own development. (Hilarion, Teachings
of the Temple, The Seven Rays of Evolution)
4 February at 10:24 Like 6

Rae Lake When one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the
stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet
removed not the stumbling stone
Kahlil Gibran, on Crime and Punishment, The Prophet
4 February at 10:55 Like 5

Morai Spring One of my favorite Poets; thank you Rae.

4 February at 18:17 Like 1

Bonnie Orgren "Unity of the One Life" thank you Rae for simplicity, the contemplation of that
phrase reveals all.
4 February at 19:36 Like

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6 February at 08:46 Like

Patrick Chouinard We live a code of criticism and condemnation with small appreciation of the
works of others. Sects and creeds build up walls about themselves, and only heroic souls in
whom spiritual perceptions are truly awake can rise above these imaginary limitations. Think
back over the books that you have read and recall how seldom it is that any writer speaks well of
another. Each man, firm in his own opinions, gives scant courtesy to the opinions of others.
There are many teachers in this world who instruct with words, but only a few who instruct with
the noble example of generous deeds.
The true purposes of mysticism are to perpetuate, interpret and apply the idealism of the race.
Men turn to religion for guidance, encouragement and solace. We want religion to stand back of
us when we try to live honest lives. We want to know that there exists somewhere in the world a
body of united people who are upholding spiritual values in a world of crumbling material
manifestations. We are all seeking inspiration. We want ideals. We want a worthy purpose to
unite us in action. We desire to establish in this vale of tears a spiritual structure which shall be
elevated above the humdrum. We want to go out into life recognizing our spiritual institutions as
oases in a desert of materialism.
Civilization is in the throes of a great reconstruction period. As never before in recorded history
men are seeking solutions to imminent and eminent problems. Church and State alike are
reaching out to grasp something that is secure, something they may cling to when the world they
have known passes into oblivion.

During the period of the great World War metaphysics lost a great opportunity to make a
permanent contribution to the race by allowing itself to be broken up by internal disruptions and
controversies. Organizations which should have been dedicated to the unselfish service of
mankind instead wasted their energy in vain wranglings over personal issues of little if any
importance.
Our present crisis is far greater than the World War. The whole civilized world is struggling
against selfishness and corruption. A new and great opportunity is at hand for the application of
spiritual solutions to material problems. It is the duty of all spiritually enlightened individuals to
forget all differences, sacrifice all personal ambitions, and rededicate themselves to the great
ideals which brought their various orders and societies into existence.
During the great boom period immediately preceding the present economic crisis even mystical
organizations were infected by the bacilli of wealth, personal ambition and exploitation.
Personalities eclipsed principles and individuals and organizations departed from those simple
truths which are the essentials of intelligent living. Then came the collapse. Material values
dropped like plummets to an unfathomable depth. Ambitions were scattered to the winds and the
race was confronted with problems which can only be solved through a restatement of spiritual
values and a rededication of men and organizations to principles of enlightenment and truth.
Both H.P Blavatsky and Max Heindel gave their lives in a beautiful service to the spiritual needs
of the race. Both went to early graves, broken by responsibility and persecution. Each has left as
a legacy to unborn generations a metaphysical literature which shall survive the visissitudes of
time.
- excerpts from Manly P. Hall's introduction to Max Heindel's booklet Blavatsky and The Secret
Doctrine , little essay on H.P. Blavatsky and "The Secret Doctrine" published in 1933
7 March at 18:51 Edited Like 4

Rae Lake Beautifully stated, thanks, Patrick.

7 March at 13:35 Like 3

Rolly Velarde Quantum physics has made us see the invincible and it is only a matter of time
that the divine wisdom taught in Theosophy and brought about by the masters through HPB will
be common knowledge. Then, Universal Brotherhood will no longer be a desperate dream as we
awaken to an inevitable reality. Your compilation and summation Patrick is indeed
PROPHETIC.
7 March at 14:19 Like 3

Patrick Chouinard Hi Rolly! Great to hear from you! Your eloquent wisdom has been missed!
7 March at 18:54 Like

Bonnie Orgren The fact that we now have the beneficent vision of quantum physics is a sign,
"as without, so within." Universal brotherhood is the dream but I wouldn't characterize it as a
"desperate dream" as if the awakening were in a future time period. It is rapidly occurring in so
many ways if we focus on how it is arising in our lives and communities. It includes all life, not
just human lives. It is our relationship to the Earth, to sustaining life; soil, water, plants, our
relationship to money and power and sharing, brotherhood is seen in the devotion of teachers,
mentors and group sharing. The children of today are "seeded" with an intrinsic recognition of it.
Wondrous times are here and will flourish with right thought and intention.
7 March at 20:28 Like 2

Rolly Velarde Thanks Patrick for the kind words.

7 March at 21:29 Like 1

Rolly Velarde And to Bonnie, thank you for your positive thought. It supplants the hopelessness
we are still experiencing in this materialistic world and affirms the progress in our spiritual
evolution. How I wish I may experience the realization of Universal Brotherhood where all of us
live in peace, love and harmony.
7 March at 22:06 Edited Like 3

Bonnie Orgren Thanks Rolly, having chosen a difficult life pushes one to focus on the positive.
But seeing right human relationships arising does bring joy. I'm blessed to have grandchildren
and be able to observe their friends too, see the efforts of the local schools. There is a great focus
on community and such effort by so many people to bring about the dream.
7 March at 22:10 Unlike 3

Rolly Velarde Yes, I can also see that in our TSP where young members are increasing.
7 March at 22:13 Like 2

Patrick Chouinard Wonderful encouraging words Bonnie and Rolly. Love unites (wisdom sure
helps too). It seems clear to me that diversity is the way of Nature, and a good thing, but all is
moving towards a "unity-in-diversity" (Chardin's "noosphere"). Such anyway is the hope, and
since "God is One" and we are all "one in God" ("in God we live and breath and have our being"
as the apostle Paul expressed it) in essence anyway, if not yet in expression, there is reason to
hope. Having faith in that ultimate outcome (eventual unity based on love through the spiritual
growth of humanity) is very important I think, and makes a difference. We can pray and meditate
for it, and ask that we be an instrument for this unity. Operating on the assumption that we are all
inter-connected (even our very thoughts affect each other) then another very important way we
can further unity is to "think with love" and be non-separative mentally. (DK often emphasizes
the importance and impact of holding the thought-form of "we are One" in our mind and lovingly
sending that image out in meditation.) Non-separativeness extends to appreciation of differences
and tolerance, and transcending "tribalism" (us vs. them, me vs. you); love and fellowship
casting out hatred and feelings of exclusivity. There is no field with more division than religion
(interesting how there is far more unity among scientists!), so another way we can foster unity is
not only appreciating and respecting differences, but emphasizing commonalities - the "Golden
Rule" - and above all to be an example of that Rule. We are called to be channels of the unifying
power of love.
7 March at 22:30 Edited Unlike 2

Rolly Velarde Picking-up from your post Patrick and collating this exerpt from an article I read,
reveals the relevance of HPB's teachings. The ancient Rishis in India thousands of years ago has
already said that energy, or soul, is separate from matter, and that the universe is made of energy
pure energy which was there before man and other material things like the earth came along.
However at the end of the seventeenth century Newtonian physics became the corner-stone of
science, and it was based on the theory that there is only matter and nothing else the whole
universe is a machine, made of matter, and so are we. Medical science is still stuck in the
Newtonian concept, even though the rest of science has now moved on to quantum physics.
Quantum physics says that as you go deeper and deeper into the workings of the atom, you see
that there is nothing there just energy waves. It says an atom is actually an invisible force field,
a kind of miniature tornado, which emits waves of electrical energy.
Those energy waves can be measured and their effects seen, but they are not a material reality,

they have no substance because they are well, just electricity. So science now embraces the
idea that the universe is made of energy.
7 March at 22:46 Like 2

Bonnie Orgren Patrick, your summations are so comprehensive and inspiring, thank you for the
expenditure of time and energy to put so much in context. I'm happy too Rolly has joined in the
dialogue. Is it possible to format comments to be more accessible? The threads get sooooo long it
almost discourages feedback. My computer is older and it takes time to scroll way down and find
the comment.
7 March at 23:06 Like 1

Bonnie Orgren Rolly, I think you meant to say is that the Rishis said energy or soul is not
separate from matter. The Mother saw everything as a warm golden light. Last night I was
reading and trying to understand Aurobindo's perception of the "bedrock" of matter, talking
about the supramental as the Vibration that creates and recreates Matter....it "Is what can
transform the Earth....the key to the Transformation, the key to overcoming the laws of Matter by
using the Consciousness within Matter-Consciousness above is Consciousness below. Noosphere
Patrick?
7 March at 23:33 Unlike 2

Patrick Chouinard Again, a great share Rolly. I appreciate the references to physics - alas, my
head hasn't been thinking along scientific lines for a while now, so it is very refreshing and
needed! It gives an important perspective. Well, as you already said Rolly, Brotherhood (excuse
that old male-exclusive word gals!) or rather UNITY is already a fact in Nature (we are all
energetically interconnected, interdependent, etc.), just not yet in general human consciousness,
attitudes and behavior. Certainly the mental understanding of that unity, based on new scientific
knowledge, can be helpful in affirming the fact in human consciousness, but how many people
are conversant with the latest scientific breakthroughs in physics? Not many, and even those who
do know still have to overcome selfishness, self-centeredness and the pride of "my way is best;
my perspective is the right one..." etc. Nevertheless, ideas have power, and even DK says that the
coming ""world religion" (not a monolithic Church, but rather a "unity-in-diversity") will be
based on a new "mental unity" of humanity. There will be a consensus about certain
fundamentals, and the next big "discovery" for science is the fact of the SOUL. If this was
universally acknowledged, with all its implications, it would certainly have an impact. It's
already known by many scientists, but there are those who oppose its acceptance in academia.
We, however, can spread and teach these scientific breakthroughs directly (not to mention the

Ancient Wisdom), bypassing these biased skeptics (scientific fundamentalists). This is already
being done effectively on the Internet (Youtube, etc) and this is very encouraging.
8 March at 00:08 Unlike 2

Rae Lake Hi, Rolly. I consider Matter to also be another form of force/energy, so there is no
separation in Life except the terms we put upon it.
8 March at 00:48 Edited Unlike 3

Patrick Chouinard Bonnie, great that you bring Aurobindo in, as he has a wonderful vision and
approach to achieving "brotherhood" that parallels the Ageless Wisdom of HPB, AAB, and AY
(because he is of the same stream!). I found this excellent summary: "Sri Aurobindo did not
work for humanity on the basis of the religious ideal of human brotherhood, or equality or
liberty, but, he saw all humanity as the self-same being and personality of the one supreme
Divine Consciousness. And for realising this vision of man and mankind and to make it not a
remote probability but an immediate possibility, Sri Aurobindo concentrated all his yogic
energies in bringing down the Dynamic Force of the Divine: the Supramental Consciousness and
Power. He believed strongly:
Family, nationality, humanity are Vishnus three strides from an isolated to a collective unity.
The first has been fulfilled, we yet strive for the perfection of the second, towards the third we
are reaching out our hands and the pioneer work is already attempted.
But, Sri Aurobindo did not stop short with these three steps of Vishnu: he took the fourth stride
the step from humanity to divinity. Man must exceed himself if he is to fulfil himself. A new
combination has to be found for family and nationality and even humanity. That connotation, Sri
Aurobindo says, is divinity. (NKG 4/358)
Up until now man has been striving to raise himself both spirituality and materially through his
own imperfect ways such as science, technology, philosophy, occultism and arts and also
through narrow religious ideology and theology seeking help from lower powers than the Divine.
So, mans progress has been slow, tardy and full of wars and suffering. And, at present, mankind
has reached a cul-de-sac, a crisis of consciousness. Mind is unable to extend any solution nor
solace to his war-battered psyche and his materialistic death-traps. That is why Sri Aurobindo
seeks to transcend the Mental Man and bring down the Supramental Man who alone can deliver
the suffering soul of mankind, bringing him peace and prosperity both inner and outer.
This surpassing into the new Supramental Consciousness will not, of course involve the whole of
humanity in the beginning. It is sufficient to have the forerunners representing all nations of the
world, all cultures of the earth who would aspire and work for this new creation beyond man...

The old world is founded on the egoism; the new creation will be founded on the soul within
man, the divine element that integrates the individual as well as unifies the universal. As this
soulconsciousness increases and takes control of mans outer activities and the ego-centred
consciousness expressing itself in demoniac ways, the animal propensities in man will diminish
and then vanish, giving way to the New Man. As such individuals increase in every part of the
globe, a society based not only on co-operation, but on a consciousness of oneness will emerge
eliminating all suicidal competitive elements. In the long run even the nation-souls will bind
themselves in a Federation of Free Nations. (Dr. Ananda Reddy, Sri Aurobino: Pioneer of the
Universal Mind)
8 March at 03:23 Unlike 2

Patrick Chouinard Science, Matter, And Nature: "While science is engaged, with ample
justification, in highlighting the distinguishing characters, the 'discontinuities and discreteness of
the elements of Nature, there is a level of reality which is continuous and yet to be grasped by
the physical senses and science.' What is this level of reality which is continuous? It is to
understand that Nature has immense potentialities; it is like a sleeping God. If awakened, it can
raise all the elements that constitute it, including man, through the different levels of existence
material, vital, mental, and beyond, i.e., the supramental. This is possible only if we first of all
realize that beneath the diversity and uniqueness of the different elements in Nature, there is an
essential unity that not only allows for this diversity, but even supports it. Which means if the
diversity of elements in nature is fundamental, equally fundamental is the unity that runs through
these diverse elements.
One of the important assignments for the scientific man of today would be to engage in tracing
out this unity, while he is justifiably busy engaged in his methods of categorizing, classifying,
differentiating, etc. Otherwise, it is in danger of remaining just a mass of formulae, ignorant of
the foundation of being, and a poor instrument to perfect our nature or our life:
our science itself is a construction, a mass, of formulas and devices; masterful in the
knowledge of processes and in the creation of apt machinery, but ignorant of the foundations of
the being and of World-being, it cannot perfect our nature and therefore cannot perfect our life.
Of course the larger problem remains: whether science will arrive at the ultimate truth, or any
ultimate truth. To this too, Sri Aurobindo makes a rather insightful remark:
one might ask whether science has arrived at any ultimate truth; on the contrary, ultimate truth
even on the physical plane seems to recede as science advances.
Which makes us remember the astute remark of George Bernard Shaw: Every true scientist is a
metaphysician, and that of Albert Einstein: Science without religion is lame; religion without
science is blind. By religion, may we add, Einstein most probably meant spirituality,
compassion, morality, and the ennobling aspects of religion (not its dogmatic and fanatical
manifestations). How best to make science collaborate (if not combine) with philosophy and with
spirituality and the other ennobling aspects of religion (especially compassion and brotherhood)
is an important task before the votaries of science today.
At the same time, let us realise that Science, with its methods and approach, is the favourite
whipping boy of most philosophers. So much so, we suspect it is in danger of becoming immune

to even philosophy's legitimate pleas. However, a happy meeting ground would be a realization
of each other's limitations and, more important, working together in an atmosphere of intellectual
integration, wherein the insights of philosophy could become heuristic and algorithmic models
for scientific experimentation. For, let's face it, if science cannot lay claim to being the sole
guardian of humanity, neither can philosophy.
This challenge and realization has to be accepted by both sides for the sake of the welfare of
society and at times for, if nothing else, its very
survival." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151446/

Humanity at the Crossroads: Does Sri Aurobindo Offer an Alternative?

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Patrick Chouinard Bonnie, regarding the length of this thread, all I can think of to help would
be to delete all comments not relevant to the topic of "Brotherhood". I'll see what I can do.
8 March at 03:33 Like

Patrick Chouinard "The body of man is to be respected, made immune from violence and
outrage, and fortified by science against disease and preventable death. The life of man is to be
held sacred, preserved, strengthened, ennobled, and uplifted. The heart of man is to be held
sacred also, given scope, protected from violation, from suppression, from mechanization, freed
from belittling influences. The mind of man is to be released from all bonds, allowed freedom
and range and opportunity, given all its means of self-training and self-development and
organized in the play of its powers for the service of humanity. The challenge that Sri Aurobindo
throws to orthodox or organized religion is but appropriate: That man must be sacred to man,
regardless of all distinctions.
"A religion that uplifts man on the spiritual plane, that helps acknowledge and bind the essential
humanity across ideological/cultural/geographical boundaries, without spreading hatred or
superiority/exclusivity amongst its followers, that alone can be a true religion. Moreover, in
sustaining and perpetuating the outer symbols and structures of religion, man may forget to
resurrect the inner spiritual symbols and structures, which alone can sustain true religiosity. Such
symbols, when honestly searched for, will only lead to respect for all humans and even all living
forms. It will also forge mutual respect and understanding of the diverse religions of the world
and help generate a quest to underscore the essential spiritual unity which underlies these diverse

religious strands.
"Also, any religion which neglects the advancement of man's spiritual quest so as to sustain its
dogmas and rituals and to command blind obedience will, in the final analysis, turn out to be
promoting a false God. Sri Aurobindo's accent on the religion of humanity is to make organized
religion beware of the dangers of fossilization...This reminds us of another great contemporary of
Sri Aurobindo, Gandhi, and what he said about the practical aspect of religion:
Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no
religion." (Shakuntala A. Singh, Humanity at the Crossroads)
8 March at 03:52 Edited Like

Rae Lake Give notice if you delete thread. I will copy it because it's too interesting. What I want
to know, is there a way to pull the original poem or comment back into it's smallest first
presentation. Once I open it out I can't ever get it to close back up again. Makes thread seem ever
so much longer. I'm not complaining about the thread though.
8 March at 04:58 Like

Steven Asia Rae no threads related to BBR are ever deleted - I don't know how to view the long
original post without opening it - sorry
8 March at 06:06 Like

Bonnie Orgren Patrick, please don't delete anything, just wondered if different headings might
be inserted? Otherwise I'll just use my laptop more.
8 March at 06:45 Like 1

Bonnie Orgren Appreciate the Aurobindo information and the book title.
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