THE LIGHT BEARER
SUMMER - 2014
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the Logo is the Egyptian cross, or Ankh, whispering of the breath of life. It is the resurrection of the Spirit.
Volume 20.7
Any and all opinions, ideas, and concepts expressed in this magazine are strictly those of the authors. If I have put in something of yours for which I did not give credit, please let me know that I might do so. May every Theosophical Student find inner wholeness.
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‘Divine Wisdom’ . Our Seal has 7 elements which represent the spiritual unity of all life. “Om”, at the edit Compiler-Margaret Mason top, is a word which “creates, sustains, and Johnson transforms”. Remember this as you use it in your meditations. Very ancient is the whirling cross or how How the Universe is ‘Swastika’ within the circle below the ‘Om’. Manifested – H.P.B. (Swastika is a compound of SU—a particle meaning Tim Congratulations Tim Boyd! ‘auspicious,’ blessed,’ ‘virtuous,’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘rightly’; and ‘astika’ derived from the verb-root AS— quest The Question – Helen to be; hence ‘that which is blessed and excellent.’- Pearl (poem) ‘Swa’ is one’s Self.) Inside the whirling energy of the Swastika, all is the stillness we hope to find Canada Canada – S.E. Price within our meditations. Our serpent swallows its tail conv Conversations with Radha to the right, representing constant new beginnings. Burnier –Pedro Olivira With each pattern of habits we overcome, we do likewise. All things are made new. Triangles trans Transmitting Compassion represent the ‘Trinity’; be they Will, Wisdom and - Krishnamurti Activity; Father, Holy Spirit and Son; Shiva, Vishnu Yogi Yogi Maharishi’s Timely Quote and Brahma or some other completion. When the downward dark triangle represents descent into why Why? matter, the upward white triangle holds the journey of the Spirit. Note the 12 sides. Mathematics is one key to understanding the written word. Central inside
Stand in your Truth. Allow others to stand in theirs.
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Editorial Notes from M. Mason- Deep and moving is Suzanne Price’s Johnson; Compiler poem, “Canada”. Loving the Natives as we do, and not wanting our “Nothing is higher than the Truth”. government to further bad karma to But what is Truth? In my reality, Canada, I hope that everyone will truth is always changing. How can it send loving thoughts and prayers be anything else when all life is their way. movement? Many thanks to Naftaly Ramrajkar So I asked my Higher Self. “What is for e-mailing “Conversations with truth?” Radha Burnier” by PEDRO OLIVIRA. You will notice that Radha is called The answer seems to be that Truth is Radhaji. Krishnamurti is Krishnaji. the essence of all things. Then what is ‘the essence’, I ask my Self? The reply I asked for guidance on what to put is unmistakable. The essence of all into this magazine and thereafter I things is Love. found on the internet a quote on ‘Transmitting Compassion’ by Our beloved H.P.B. speaks of the Krishnamurti and Yogi Maharishi importance of learning the laws of Mahesh’s ‘Timely Quote’ from 1979. the universe. Many clues are given. We have much to think about. May each of us find some time to send loving thoughts of harmony, light and To understand the universe, we must happiness to all. May learned understand ourselves first and I wisdom lead to inner happiness, know, as I work at uncovering very awareness, and wholeness. May we prickly and hard to endure emotions; all have a good summer. at their bottom I always find love.
Helen Pearl’s poem is on finding Ho'oponopono Prayer: answers through the right question I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I to ask. She also sent a fun poem love you. using Dandelions as a metaphor for aging with humility.
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Boyd served for several years as president of the *TOS in America. For 25 years he worked with a group helping troubled youth in the Chicago area. More recently, Tim’s involvement with the TOS* and the Chushul orphanage in Tibet led to an audience with the Dalai Lama which resulted in the TS in America
http://www.tswiki.net/mywiki/index.php?title=Tim_Boyd sponsoring his visit to Chicago in July of 2011 for a two day event attended by ten- The ‘Light Bearer’ would like to thousand people. The event raised more congratulate our new international than $400,000, all of which was donated President, Tim Boyd. to educational projects aiding Tibetan Theosophy’s new international communities worldwide." President, Tim Boyd, has been given much love to share. In her T0S* news update, Lorraine Anderson informs us: *TOS is an international Theosophical Organization created to do good works in the world. If you would like “”No stranger to the work of the to join, write Lorraine Christensen : [email protected] Theosophical Order of Service, Tim
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How the Universal Mind is Manifested Vol 10, Stanza 1, sloka 3; p.317-319 of Blavatsky Collected Writings
Sloka (3). . . . .UNIVERSAL MIND Pralaya, it is just as though there were WAS NOT, FOR THERE WERE NO no mind at all, because there is nothing AH-HI (celestial beings) TO to contain or perceive it. There is CONTAIN (hence to manifest) IT. nothing to receive and reflect the ideation of the Absolute Mind; Q. This sloka seems to imply that therefore, it is not. Everything outside the Universal Mind has no existence of the Absolute and immutable Sat (Be- apart from the Ah-hi; but in the ness), is necessarily finite and Commentary it is stated that: conditioned, since it has beginning and A noumenon can become a end. Therefore, since the “Ah-hi were phenomenon on any plane of existence not,” there was no Universal Mind as a only by manifesting on that plane manifestation. A distinction had to be through an appropriate basis or vehicle; made between the Absolute Mind, and during the long night of rest called which is ever present, and its reflection Pralaya, when all the existences are and manifestation in the Ah-hi, who, dissolved, the “UNIVERSAL MIND” being on the highest plane, reflect the remains as a permanent possibility of universal mind collectively at the first mental action, or as that abstract flutter of Manvantara. After which they absolute thought, of which mind is the begin the work of evolution of all the concrete relative manifestation. The lower forces throughout the seven AH-HI (Dhyan-Chohans) are the planes, down to the lowest—our own. collective hosts of spiritual beings who The Ah-hi are the primordial seven are the vehicles for the manifestation of rays, or Logoi, emanated from the first the divine or universal thought and will. Logos, triple, yet one in its essence. They are the Intelligent Forces that give to and enact in Nature her “Laws,” Q. Then the Ah-hi and Universal while themselves acting according to Mind are necessary complements of laws imposed upon them in a similar one another? manner by still higher Powers; ...... This hierarchy of spiritual Beings, A. Not at all: Universal or Absolute through which the Universal Mind Mind always is during Pralaya as well comes into action, is like an army—a as Manvantara; it is immutable. The “Host,” truly...... * Ah-hi are the highest Dhyanis, the Logoi as just The Commentary suggests that the said, those who begin the downward Ah-hi are not themselves the Universal evolution, or emanation. During Mind, but only the vehicle for its Pralaya there are no Ah-hi, because manifestation. they come into being only with the first radiation of the Universal Mind, which, A. The meaning of this sloka is, I per se, cannot be differentiated, and the think, very clear; it means that, as there radiation from which is the first dawn are no finite differentiated minds during of Manvantara. The Absolute is
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dormant, latent mind, and cannot be “Universal Mind was not,” because otherwise in true metaphysical there was no vehicle to contain it. perception; it is only Its shadow which becomes differentiated in the Q. What are the higher powers collectivity of these Dhyanis. which condition the Ah-hi?
Q. Does this mean that it was A. They cannot be called powers; absolute consciousness, but is so no power or perhaps Potentiality would be longer? better. The Ah-hi are conditioned by the awakening into manifestation of the A. It is absolute consciousness periodical, universal LAW, which eternally, which consciousness becomes successively active and becomes relative consciousness inactive. It is by this law that they are periodically, at every “Manvantaric conditioned or formed, not created. dawn.” Let us picture to ourselves this “Created” is an impossible term to use latent or potential consciousness as a in Philosophy. kind of vacuum in a vessel. Break the vessel, and what becomes of the Q. Then the power or Potentiality vacuum; where shall we look for it? It which precedes and is higher than the has disappeared; it is everywhere and Ah-hi, is the law which necessitates nowhere. It is something, yet nothing: a manifestation? vacuum, yet a plenum. But what in A. Just so; periodical reality is a vacuum as understood by manifestation. When the hour Modern Science—a homogeneous strikes, the law comes into action, something, or what? Is not absolute and the Ah-hi appear on the first Vacuum a figment of our fancy? A pure rung of the ladder of negation, a supposed Space where manifestation. Meeting held at 17, nothing exists? This being so, destroy Lansdowne Road, London, W., on the vessel, and—to our perceptions at January 17th, 1889, Mr. T.B. any rate—nothing exists. Therefore, the Harbottle in the Chair.- H.P.B. Stanza puts it very correctly; * The Secret Doctrine, Vol. I, p. 38.
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The Question
In the liquid harmony of light, I seek the befitting question.
This must be asked in order to unleash it's answer held deep in paradox. In wholeness.
Fresh dialogue, allowed, erupts in flow of extending queries, each to produce their significant replies.
Fresh dialogue accepts the new. That must breakthrough to my reflection's query.
Where question meets resolution, time stands still. Helen Pearl
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CANADA
This strong and bountiful land So wide in Breadth So deep in depth Compassed by 3 Great Waters North, East and West Oh Splendid Mother Breasts ripe and full of generosity To Earth’s Wanderers!
OH Indian Brothers How you loved her Passing round her Boundaries With Sacred Words And held her in Esteem Lived and died in dignity Upon her fair body
Your Seasons were filled with Songs and Rites of recognition For Her great Wonders Medicine Men and Women Kept links with the Sacred Currents, Their hearts touching the pulse Of Nature’s Hidden Meaning Close to Her Heart you lived Embraced by Her
But then a Great Cycle ended, Your Peace and harmony disturbed By Brash new Foreigners Some came, to take with Greed and War. Some came with Hopes of a brighter day. Some came lashed by incessant oppression Of their personal beliefs Some came so starved and desperate Close to the edge of Death Their lands blighted and empty of succour Political refugees, hounded by cruel rulers Anxious to abide in this peaceful land of plenty
Since 500 yrs. They came Sometimes in small bands Other times in great waves Like the Ocean in Storm Season. S.E. Price
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Conversations with
Mrs Radha Burnier
PEDRO OLIVIRA
FROM 1983 until shortly before her passing day Today). As a young Theosophist I met Eunice I had the great privilege of holding and Felix Layton in Rio de Janeiro in July 1981 conversations with Radha Burnier, the and told Felix of my work of translating the President of the Theosophical Society. Most of President's articles. He said: 'That is the best these conversations took place at Adyar, the way to come to know a person's mind.' International Head quarters of the Society, between 1992 and 1996 when I served as In April 1983, the President visited my home international Secretary of the TS. Others took town of Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil. place between 2001 until the present time. During the lunch in the house of her hostess I asked her the following question: 'In The Key to Soon after Radha Burnier was elected President Theosophy’ HPB mentions a new torchbearer of the TS, in June 1980, I started translating her who would come in the twentieth century? What articles in The Theosophist, beginning with her is your view about such a statement?' She Inaugural Address which was published in the replied: 'In my opinion the new torch-bearer is August 1980 issue of the magazine. This work Krishnaji. I know that some members do not continued for almost five years and each article, agree with it, but that is my opinion.' During this including her 'On the Watch-Tower' notes were visit she gave a public lecture for more than 400 published in the Brazilian Section magazine 0 people at an educational institution in the city Teosofista. Later on, a compilation of her besides addressing TS members. articles was published under the title Sociedade In August 1987 she again visited Porto Alegre Teosofica Hoje (The Theosophical Society and delivered a public lecture at the Auditorium
The Light Bearer Sumer` 2014 9 The Light Bearer Satyat Nasti Paro Dharma—There is no Religion Higher than Truth `` of the State Legislative Assembly which was the Convention. On 6 January 1992 I went to her packed to capacity. I mentioned to her that I had house and we sat on the verandah overlooking recently read in a theosophical magazine that the sea. She said: 'I think that people of your age she had been offered the position of President should come to Adyar and stay for two years or Emeritus of the International Centre at Naarden, so. Here they could learn about the significance The Netherlands. Her reply was quite firm: 'I of Adyar to the work of the TS, the work Annie have informed them that I will not lend my name Besant did for this Centre and also learn about to a nominal fonction. If they want the Centre to the deeper work of Society. I would like you to have a real connection to Adyar they should come and work as the Secretary of the Society agree that the President of the TS should also for two years. After that you can work be the President of the Centre.' In 1988, at a anywhere.' I said: `Don't you think I am too meeting at Naarden, the Presidency of the young for this position?' She said: 'You are Centre was formally offered to Mrs. Radha young but not too young.' Burnier as President of the TS, thus consolidating the link between the Centre and I arrived at Adyar on 26 March 1992 and went Adyar. to see the President the next day in her office. She said: 'I am about to send out the notice of In October 1989, I attended the School of the your appointment [as international Secretary] to Wisdom at Adyar, with Rohit Mehta as Director. all departments. But before I do that there is I had some brief meetings with the President at something I need to tell you. You are going to her office and she invited me to be one of the serve as Secretary of the Society while you are speakers at a Convention symposium on N. Sri still young. Some people may start to flatter you, Ram, as December 1989 marked the centenary saying that you give good talks, etc. Remember of his birth. The symposium was chaired by Mr this: no matter what other people say you are Achyut Patwardhan. what you are. If we are honest with ourselves we will see that there are many impurities within In July 1990 I attended the 'Human that need to be dealt with.' Her words had an Regeneration' seminars at Naarden. They impact on me and I still remember the attracted people from different countries and earnestness in her eyes when she spoke them generated great interest. While there she to me. To put it simply, this was one of the most mentioned that there was need for more important pieces of advice I have received in international speakers in the TS and said that this life. perhaps I could help in this work. When I mentioned that I was still struggling with my Between March 1992 and October 1996, when spoken English she said that I could be I left Adyar, I used to meet her regularly in her understood while speaking in English and that office. She made it clear to me that I should that was sufficient for the time being. She said consult with her on matters of importance. I she would arrange for me to give some talks in therefore went to her office several times each Europe next year on my way to Adyar. week to show her some correspondence and obtain her advice on certain difficult matters In November 1991 I visited England, Spain, before I could address them. But one of the most Portugal, where I gave talks, and the Naarden valuable aspects of my regular visits to the Centre in Holland, where I participated in a President's Office was not only her advice on dialogue. When I arrived at Adyar in December administrative matters but also the 1991 for the HPB Centenary Convention, the conversations I had with her on a number of President said she would like to talk to me after subjects, ranging from Adyar, Annie Besant, N.
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Sri Ram, to the essential work of the TS and to usual ones were being performed like Masonic Krishnaji and her contact with him. Below I try to rituals, the Ritual of the Mystic Star, ES convey some of the conversations I had with the meetings, etc. He said: 'It is none of these.' He President during one of the most significant then asked her: 'Has anything been changed periods in my life. here?' Radhaji then told him that during John Coats' administration many changes had been John Coats, the sixth President of the TS, died made including the two pillars which were on 26 December 1979. As determined by the shifted from their original location near the six- Rules of the TS an international election took pointed star to the entrance. 'That's it!', he said, place in which Rukmini Devi Arundale and 'there were magnetized jewels under them. Radha Burnier were the only candidates. Mrs. They should not have been moved.' After an Bumier was declared elected in June 1980 and absence of forty-seven years from Adyar he was assumed office on 17 July 1980. When the aware of a change that had taken place without results were declared Mrs. Burnier was in his knowledge. Switzerland and on being informed about them she decided to go to Saanen to see Krishnaji. After she offered him some orange juice and Sunanda Patwardhan who, along with others, they talked for a while in her house, Krishnaji left was with Krishnaji at that time said that he was in the car with Radhaji accompanying him. jubilant at the news. He said to Mrs Burnier, When the car was about to reach the main gate `Radhaji, now you are the President and I am he asked her: `What are you going to do now?' the Vice-President', to the smiles of those Radhaji said: 'I will walk back', to which Krishnaji present. He had said that if Radhaji was elected said: 'No, we will drive you back.' When the car President of the TS he would visit Adyar again, started off from the main gate area Krishnaji after an interval of forty-seven years! In October asked her: `Radhaji, do you believe in the 1980 he was welcomed by the President, the Masters?' Radhaji replied: `Yes.' Krishnaji said, Vice-President and many workers of the TS at with emphasis: `What do you mean by saying the main gate of the compound. From there he 'yes'? Do you know that Annie Besant's life was walked, at a vigorous pace, through the entirely different because of it?' There was compound up to Parsi Quarters, the President's silence for some time after which Krishnaji again residence. asked: 'So Radhaji, do you believe in the Masters?' Radhaji replied: 'Yes, Krishnaji, I do Later on Krishnaji expressed the opinion to believe in the Masters.' `Good', he said. Radhaji that the ES should be closed down. She mentioned to him: `Why should the ES be One morning, after transacting administrative closed down? It is not telling its members about business, the President mentioned to me: their occult status, probation, Initiation and so 'Annie Besant once told my father that there is a on, repeating what happened in the 1920s and hand behind the TS, protecting it. This hand is after. The ES is solely imparting teaching to its still here and in the future, if the TS deserves it, members on the nature and qualifications for the this hand will still be there.' The certainty in her spiritual Path.' Radhaji mentioned that after eyes made me feel that she was talking about hearing her views Krishnaji dropped the subject. something that she knew, and not merely While walking along with her and with others, quoting someone else's opinion. Krishnaji said to her on seeing the Garden of Remembrance: 'Something is not right.' He then On another occasion she mentioned that when asked her what kind of ceremonies were being she and Krishnaji were walking on the Adyar held at Adyar and she told him that only the beach she noticed two boys from a kuppam (a
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words or gestures. One may sit quietly under a Our inability to listen not only to what a person beautiful tree, or on the seashore, not speaking says, but to what he or she is, to hear what a a word to a companion, but there can be tree communicates — for the tree also communication. We receive a message about communicates — is a great sadness of which his very being and therefore we are in mutual we are not aware. When we do not listen, there relationship. Listening, communication, is no relationship. But for a mind which relationship, all hinge together and form one perceives and is receptive, there is a subtle form inner state without which life loses its richness. of communication that is not dependent on -Radha Burnier By Pedro Olivira
Do not be as some builders who leave their work when the sunshine ceases and the cold winds blow and the rain sweeps upon them and the thunder and the lightning play around them. Be not as some builders who, seeing others run for shelter, hurry away with the crowd, leaving the building alone in the storm. The true builder, intent upon the building, knows not when the sun shines, knows not whether others are working by his side of he is alone. Come sunshine, come storm, he lays brick upon brick. Called to the laying of bricks he lays them, be the weather foul or fair, be he alone or be he among many. You have been called to help in the building. Build. - The Pilgrim. The Theosophist, January, 1935.
(Picture by George Hodan freefoto.com/ jpeg. publicdomainpictures.net) Old Age, with a Wink
A fluff of dandelion seedlings sent it's vortex into the unknown.
“Old age,” he grumbled, “is for the birds.”
“Old age,” she seeded, “is to learn tolerance!”
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J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
Transmitting Compassion
relationship between these two, not theoretically, but If I am concerned with compassion, with love, actually? with the real feeling of something sacred, then how That which conforms can never flower in is that feeling to be transmitted? Please follow this. goodness. There must be freedom, and freedom If I transmit it through the microphone, through the comes only when you understand the whole problem machinery of propaganda, and thereby convince of envy, greed, ambition, and the desire for power. It another, his heart will still be empty. The flame of is freedom from those things that allows the ideology will operate, and he will merely repeat, as extraordinary thing called character to flower. Such you are all repeating, that we must be kind, good, a man has compassion, he knows what it is to love - free -all the nonsense that the politicians, the not the man who merely repeats a lot of words about socialists, and the rest of them talk. So, seeing that morality. any form of compulsion, however subtle, does not So the flowering of goodness does not lie bring this beauty, this flowering of goodness, of within society, because society in itself is always compassion, what is the individual to do? corrupt. Only the man who understands the whole What is the relationship between the man structure and process of society, and is freeing who has this sense of compassion, and the man himself from it, has character, and he alone can whose mind is entrenched in the collective, in the flower in goodness. traditional? How are we to find the J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/Compassion
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Why do we have a swastika on our Logo?
Have you ever wondered what a swastika is doing in to be; hence ‘that which is blessed and excellent.’ The our Theosophical Logo? We are a group seeking Swastika is a very archaic and sacred symbol which can wholeness through wisdom. What have we to do with be found in the religious relics of every ancient nation, the misused, degraded swastika of the inhumane for it depicts the whole story of the cosmos and man, Holocaust? The following is what I have found in my their contrasting dual aspects, the four directions of research. space, the revolution of worlds, cyclic progression, and the union of spirit and matter at the heart of An answer appears in W.Y Evans Wentz’s edition of things. In H.P. Blavatsky’s words”: ‘‘The Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines”. ‘Swati’ in Tibetan-Sanskrit means “Let this book be auspicious. “Within its mystical precincts lies the master-key Let this book be of good omen to all to whom it shall come.” (Page 251 footnote 6 and page 340. I like that. which opens the door of every science, physical as well as spiritual. It symbolizes our human A better answer comes from within glossary: ‘Sanskrit Keys to the Wisdom-Religion’, by existence, for the circle of life circumscribes the Judith Tyberg: four points of the cross which represent in
“A ‘Swastika’ is a mystical cross with its arms bent at succession birth, life, death and immortality.”– right angles suggesting a whirling motion; also it is a Secret Doctrine, ll, 5567 symbol of good fortune and blessing. (In Sanskrit,) Swastika is a compound of SU—a particle meaning ‘auspicious,’ blessed,’ ‘virtuous,’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘rightly’; and ‘astika’ derived from the verb-root AS—
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Yogi Maharishi Mahesh’s Timely Quote
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi during a 1979 visit to the Maharishi University of Management campus in Fairfield Iowa.
This is a very precious time for the world. Everything depends on how our awareness is; just don’t let it be shaken.
Our awareness is the basis of all these transformations. More than ever before, time demands we remain completely ourselves. It is a very tender, delicate time for us—we should not become angry, indifferent, or sad; we should just be like an ocean. The evolutionary power is waking up. We shake it, then leave it; then after some time shake it again. Each time a new level of purity, awakening is added. – Maharishi
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1. Theosophy is not a religion. A main purpose is to form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. 2. Theosophy encourages the study of Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Science. 3. We are to investigate unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man.
The official motto of the Society is: Satyan Nasti Paro Dharma : There is no Religion Higher than Truth
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