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The girasas are a higher kingdom that ascend us in the same way that we ascend the animal kingdom (a lower one). Jesus does a fantastic job of introducing them to us. I don't know of any of the other teachers who talk so extensively about the "kingd…
I would like to invite you to read my webpage. Perhaps that will help you understand my position.
Brenda
Could you summarize you ideas in few sentences so that I can understand the basic concepts you wish to share
Group for the discussion on the writings of Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. Members are requested to kindly keep the discussion focused on the writings of these two great occultists.
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- Please visit my webpage. I am working to communicate a new theory of evolution as I found it written in THE SECRET DOCTRINE and supported by SAINT GERMAIN FOUNDATION writings and dictations.
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Criticism of other Religions and Scientific Discoveries of which many are still unaware
Some people have been writing to me criticism of The Saint Germain Foundation and "I AM" Temple and claiming that girasas and subraces don't exist. (I have deleted the posts from my page.)
I didn't realize that this is what you consider a theosophical attitude. Since my research involves a study of the 7 races and subraces as given in THE SECRET DOCTRINE, I use these terms to describe my findings, discovery of a new kingdom and new method of "evolving."
This is a campaign that I am engaging on… Continue
I didn't realize that this is what you consider a theosophical attitude. Since my research involves a study of the 7 races and subraces as given in THE SECRET DOCTRINE, I use these terms to describe my findings, discovery of a new kingdom and new method of "evolving."
This is a campaign that I am engaging on… Continue
Posted on January 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — 6 Comments
Testing (after reading and learning for myself) to find someone who learned before I did:
Does anyone recognize this prayer? What do you know about the followers who use this prayer in their practice?
"First you gave me a highly qualified Spiritual Guide
Under whom I studied and practised Dharma.
When through following misleading advice I came close to entering wrong paths,
You immediately hooked me back into the correct path.
O Duldzin, King of the Dharma, I thank you for your kindness.
Your body is the synthesis of all Sangha Jewels,
Your speech is the synthesis of all Dharma Jew… Continue
"First you gave me a highly qualified Spiritual Guide
Under whom I studied and practised Dharma.
When through following misleading advice I came close to entering wrong paths,
You immediately hooked me back into the correct path.
O Duldzin, King of the Dharma, I thank you for your kindness.
Your body is the synthesis of all Sangha Jewels,
Your speech is the synthesis of all Dharma Jew… Continue
Posted on December 26, 2008 at 12:57pm — 4 Comments
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- At 12:33am on April 18, 2009,
Anand Gholap said… - I am fine, Brenda. It is nice to see articles on Theosophy in New York Times. At the time of Annie Besant, Theosophy had become famous in India and abroad.
Best
Anand Gholap
- At 9:02am on March 4, 2009,
Rene Wadlow said… - The Goddess of March
Rene Wadlow *
Be ever watchful, wanderer, for the eyes that gaze into yours at the bend of the road may be those of the goddess herself. Oracle at Delphi
March 8 is the International Day of Women and is placed under the sign of the goddess of the month of March — Minerva. Minerva derives her name from the Latin mens (mind), and so she has a special relation to teachers and artists, especially players of a flute. Tradition has it that Minerva is a transformation of an earlier Etruscan and Sabine goddess taken over when Rome was established. She has also taken symbols and meanings from the Greek Athene, especially the owl as a sign of seeing in the dark, what is usually hidden or instinctive. Minerva is she who brings from the darkness into the light.
Minerva symbolized Rome as Athene, Athens. Minerva’s face was put on Roman coins and as such she travelled to the Roman provinces, becoming Britannia in England. She has come down through the centuries as the goddess of learning. In the US Library of Congress Great Hall, she holds a scroll on which are inscribed “Agriculture, Education, Commerce, Government, Economic” — all these are gifts from Wisdom’s store.
Minerva’s essential gift is understanding the relation between mind and matter. Minerva’s owl, creature of the night and symbol of the goddess’s dark and underworld power which see can see at night is also related to the reasonableness of day.
It is this ability to bridge the dark and the light that is so frightening to men. They have in the Middle East and the Westernized world banished the goddesses to be replaced by a less multi-form male god. This is the thesis of Johann Jakob Bachofen, a 19th century Swiss scholar from Basle, working largely alone and drawing on Greek and Roman mythology. He held that the myths showed clearly that there had been an earlier period of social organization that was a matriarchy, a time when society was founded on family, equality and peace whose defining characteristic was love of the mother, and the most heinous crime was matricide.
Then came patriarchy which found the earlier system so intolerable that the memory was repressed to the subconscious where, Bachofen thought, the memories live on in myth and dreams. See: J.J. Bachofen Myth, Religion and Mother Right (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967).
C.J. Jung knew of the work of Bachofen and used some of Bachofen’s reproductions of symbols in his own writing on the feminine — the anima. For Jung, the life energy takes on a myriad of feminine forms: now young, now old, now mother, now maiden, now a good fairy, now a witch, now a saint, now a whore. She draws man into life with her Maya (power of illusion in Hinduism), and as Sophia, she “leads the way to God and assures immortality. She is the archetype of life itself.”
It is this ‘saving role’ of the feminine which makes uneasy the religions whose prophets are all men. In the current, fundamentalist form of Islam, the woman must be covered, isolated, accompanied by a male relative. Women are not the symbol of learning. In fact, they should not go to school at all. These reactions which can take the extreme forms of ‘honor killings’ and the closing of schools for women are a rising tide among the Taliban and others who share the same fears.
These fears have deep causes and are not limited to the Islamic world. To transform fears into rational knowledge is not an easy task, but Minerva in some early representations, had thunderbolts in her hand (a symbol usually associated with Jove.) Thus transformation will not come without conflict. The aims of the International Day of Women were well set out by Bella Abzug, a member of the US Congress and political feminist, in her talk to the UN World Conference on Women (1995)
“Change is not about simply mainstreaming women. It’s not about women joining the polluted stream. It’s about cleaning the stream, changing stagnant pools into fresh, flowing waters.
Our struggle is about resisting the slide into a morass of anarchy, violence, intolerance, inequality and injustice.
Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic and ecological crisis. For women in the struggle for equality, there are many paths to the mountain top. Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams. Our violence is about creating violence-free families. And then, violence-free streets. Then, violence-free borders.
For us to realize our dreams, we must keep our heads in the clouds and our feet on the ground.”
* Rene Wadlow, Representative to the UN, Geneva, Association of World Citizens
- At 2:24am on February 22, 2009,
Nabil Naser said…
- Hi Brenda
- At 1:34pm on December 29, 2008,
Nelda Samarel said… - Hi Brenda,
We don't have a "job board" because we don't have any employment opportunities here. A few of the residents who contribute to the community receive a small subsidy; other than that, we have no funds for salaries.
Happy New Year!
Nelda
- At 3:16am on December 23, 2008,
mallika said… - dear brenda tucker
of course you are my friend.no i do not dislike the idea of turning to buddism.i myself have read a lot of buddhist literature but had to beyond hem.compassion is not an end to sorrow.one has to look beyond it.conflict,buddhism has no answers.zen buddhism has answesrs, i might have gone to zen for answers.my teachers from kanchipuram were different.i have been through at least five different schools of thought before i made such a comment.feel free to talk.i can answer with an open mind.
urs sincerely
mallika
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