Theos-Talk Archives (September 2000 Message tt00021)

I read a recent article in the local newspaper that is
of interest to Theosophists. It is from a list of
predictions for the coming century. The predictions
are by Gerald Celente, from his THE TRENDS JOURNAL.
It predicts that:

> A new world religion will arise. Based more on
> something loosely defined as "spirituality" than
> on specific creeds, it will appear in the next
> generation.

This ties in with the idea that theosophical groups
(and the Theosophical Movement) have a role to play in
the future of western civilization. 

I anticipate key theosophical ideas making their
way into the mainstream of popular thought, taking
on a life of their own as they work their way into
various renovations in art, music, religion, the
sciences, philosophy, and politics.

Someone might object and rightly say that many of
the great ideas we see people coming up with have
no direct traceable connection with members of any
theosophical group. And those members may often be
uneducated and lacking in discernable talent.

But the ideas resonate in the thought atmosphere
of the earth, and have an influence on any who
are receptive. They may be talented in expressing
the ideas, but cannot claim to cause and own the
ideas they give voice to.

It might be said that when a thought is first
realized, when a new way of understanding is
first arrived at, something new is created in
the world. And this extending of the boundaries
of the knowable, pushing back the ignorance of
the not-yet-known, is what one of the works of
the Adepts is described as. We read of how
countless generations of Adepts have explored
the unknown, learning and passing down by
personal experience the learning of their
predecessors.

The role that many Theosophists have played in the
past, and can still play, if they are up to it,
are as pioneer thinkers, pioneer perceivers of
reality, innovators in experience that goes outsides
the bounds of ordinary life.

To the extent that we boldly go beyond the
observable, reaching beyond the vistas painted
in our special writings to grasp something more 
-- to that extent we brighten the world. And this
is especially so if we can find some means of
creative expression in which we live out what
we invite into our lives and inwardly perceive.

Some members of theosophical groups, and many
more people who perhaps have never heard the
word "Theosophy," all share in this adventure.
We have a particular advantage of a change to
work with modern reexpressions of the Mysteries,
in words of great recent writers like Blavatsky.
They may have their other advantages, other
avenues of discovery that we haven't been
fortunate enough to have come across.

Theosophists are participants in the movement
to bring new life to the West. And some still
do that work. Others may have missed it and
be working in the dark, not knowing how close
they are to the magic, the sparkle, the
vital spiritual wind that is sweeping the
earth.

-- Eldon


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