Dear Readers
Welcome to this month’s AQ, and thank you for all your contributions over the summer months. We start with “Degrees of realized knowledge” - its simple, direct theosophy speaks to the heart.
Have a look what else is inside:
Contemplating “What is War?” on p 3 … it comes to mind that the coming together of something good with something bad is a very creative moment.
“Oriental Philosophy & Literature” by H.P.Blavatsky p 3, “since human nature is ever identical and as there is but one Absolute Truth, it is possible to effect a reciprocal alliance for the research of that basic Truth.”
The rival to the Bible, p 6. The scattered parts of what is probably the oldest known Bible are being reunited for the first time. It is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What’s left out?
Solar Plane flies day & night with no fuel, no pollution, p 6. Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard has unveiled a prototype of the solar-powered plane he hopes eventually to fly around the world.
The Financial Crisis and the Role of Managers, p 10, a Correspondent writes from Austria on “Understanding the Human Element in Economic Crisis” and the role managers are playing.
Conference opening panel
On p 11 there a some early pictures from the ULT Conference in LA and a paragraph on ‘The AQ and you’ and other selections.
Wednesday Study class before the conference
Wisdom In Action, p 12, has the timeless advice ’Do not try to open up conscious communication with beings on other planes… danger lies that way and because of the power and disposition of the dark forces to simulate beings of Light.’
If you can, please do print off a copy (double sided, if the printer does it) and leave it out for others. Spread the word, we may only be a few, but “a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump”, or as science has it, ”the hundredth-monkey effect”.
Happy reading,
The Editors
Degrees of realized knowledge
“I have found that doing what comes, with all my heart, mind and strength, in time brought me to another place and opportunity and always to a better advantage.
“I have seen in many the attitude, “I don’t like this,” or, “I must have something better”, lead to perpetual change, dissatisfaction and poor results, invariably.
swan by ancient temple
“On the other hand, I have seen those whom neither sickness nor any other cause could deter, nor diminish their courage and efforts, gain success, the reason being that no opportunity was overlooked and no effort too great for them. It was really an unconscious fulfilling of karma on their part.
“Both are interwoven and interblended at every point. The student should see clearly that his present existence is his opportunity to live and learn as well as learn to live to the best advantage; it contains and presents the opportunities which, if rejected, will come before us in one form or another until we realize that a step forward can be taken in no other way than by over-coming obstacles and thus, defects. How wonderfully and perfectly this works.” (R Crosbie)
