EQUAL justice to all and love to every creature is not the highest standard in Theosophy, co-founder H. P. Blavatsky maintained.
The Author of the Key to Theosophy said she held to a “far higher” standard.
Mme Blavatsky described that standard as “the giving to others more than to oneself , i.e. self-sacrifice.”
She also noted: “such was the standard and abounding measure which marked so preeminently the greatest Teachers and Masters of Humanity — e. g., Gautama Buddha in History, and Jesus of Nazareth as in the Gospels.”
“This trait alone was enough to secure to them the perpetual reverence and gratitude of the generations of men that came after them,” she insisted, noting “there are many instances to illustrate it in history.”
“Self-sacrifice for practical good to save many, or several people, Theosophy holds, is far higher than self-abnegation for a sectarian idea, such as that of ‘saving the heathen from damnation,’ for instance.”
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SO VERY WONDERFUL, THANK YOU, TW, FOR THIS POSTING. I AM TRULY LOOKING FORWARD TO AUGUST…NAMASTE ALL!
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