Theosophy Trust - MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Humanity has been cursed by false and distorted ideas of whether the consequences of one's actions inexorably return to oneself – as in the Eastern traditions – or whether one can short circuit one's responsibility of one's thoughts, feelings and outward actions (such as words). Many think by confessing one's "sins" to a priest or a therapist that one can thereby escape the results of those sins, or that the effects that flow from a particular action can be avoided by the giving of money to churches or some other form of sacrifice. All of these perverted attitudes rest upon the assumption – never clearly and openly stated – that the Law is something that is outside of us, that it is external to our nature, and thus in the hands or control of some external beings or forces. Robert Crosbie put the matter in this vein: "The ideas we entertain of the Supreme, of Law, of Nature, and of our own Being govern the actions we perform. When we were ch

Writing of the relationship of any one individual life to the life of All, Robert Crosbie writes: "The life of each of us is the Universal Life. Many imagine that Life means existence in a physical body, and that only; that outside of physical existence there is no life. But Life includes all things and forms from the highest spiritual down to life in its grossest form; it is the same Life all through, common to all. It is the One Life, the One Spirit in each and all, so that in each being of every grade there lies the potentiality of All- Being. There is that in each which is beginning less and endless, which is changeless; and that, though illimitable, invisible, inconceivable, can be realized by every human being. Some illustrations will bring this fact forcibly to our minds. We speak of ourselves, of our identity. We say, "I was a child; when I was a young man or woman; when I was middle-aged; as I am today; as I will be in the future." Now, what is That