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 02.02.2012

Separation

  Compiled from TT by Annegret Liebig

      February 2012

Dear Temple-sisters and –brothers, dear friends,

We have heard of the sin of SEPARATION. But there are two sides to SEPARATION as to everything in the world. In the beginning of creation “all the hitherto composite, sleeping energies are aroused to action by “the word”, and SEPARATION between the different forms of energy occurs in perfect sequence.”

(TT I, p. 312) The plurality was born and unfolds itself in all its beauty and countless possibilities. Only by this process all men – when they first came to light – where given the free choice. How else could they have been capable to develop the will, that springs from the chance to make a choice? And how would they have been able to learn to discern good from evil, when they had no choice? It is supposed that we are able to learn, so the variety is not needed in all eternity.

 “Humanity is now evolving under a different phase of universal law from that which governed the birth and evolution of man in the earlier cycle. The law of differentiation – of combination – is pre-eminently active in the present race. ….. Those who pit their puny strength and selfish desire against Divine purpose and power must inevitably lose in the contest.” (TT I, p. 225)

 “There is one way and one only by which the higher and lower planes and states of life may be related, namely, by the re-forming of the bridge torn away when spirit and matter were SEPARATED: Man himself must build that bridge, and must build it of the substance of his own physical body and lower mentality. …. He must build it well and strong by untiring effort, and with the tools of self-sacrifice and aspiration, and must reduce the weight of each constituent molecule by conquering selfishness and lower desire while the bridge is in process of building.” (TT I, p. 211/2) A child’s heart and pious obedience to the divine laws is necessary.

 “Any position worth having, on either material or interior lines, seeks the man or woman because he or she has earned it; and it so seeks through the action of the cyclic law. It is “the least of these” who gain such recognition by reason of the child heart, the dividing line – the confining force – is giving way. Spirit has refined soul, soul is refining body. There has occurred a change in such a life that has reversed the action of the force formerly acting as repulsion, and the force of attraction is now drawing together and combining all three, body, soul and spirit, on a higher plane of life, and the position of such an entity in the cosmic scale is secured for all time.” (TT I, p. 221)

 “The kingdom of God is within you, and it is also within the central cell of the crystal, and the centre of any thing or condition; and so long as you are obedient subject to that central cell you will go on building the higher qualities, as the points of that crystal are built, by the same law, to final perfection of form. But such expansion of spiritual substance, as well as that of cellular life, is contingent upon the resident power in each atom to resist every exterior force that would tend toward SEPARATION from its kind; SEPARATION that would tend to frustrate the purpose of the Ego that dominates the mass and which alone knows the geometrical form which Divine Wisdom has set according to number for any mass of substance, and the equally potent power of non-resistance to the true building forces.” (TT I, p. 233)

 But there is a SEPARATION, serving the reconstructing forces: the DIVISION “of the sheep and the goats”.

 “No Avatar, no great leader of His people ever came to earth with an olive branch in His hand. Invariably He comes with a sword to DIVIDE the sheep and the goats,” to sunder the evils of ignorance from knowledge and truth. The olive branch materializes when the sword has done its work of SEPARATION, and the soul, stripped clean of its hindrances, its vile imaginings, bows its head and says, “Take me, use me, trample me if need be, only cleans me, purify me, lead me to the stream of living water that I too in turn may give life to those who follow me.” (TT I, p. 267)

 We read of the SEPARATION of the sheep and the goats in the following TT: “When the thirst for popular rule is upon a people that race or nation is nearing the apogee of development which that particular race or nation could reach as a body. It is preparing the way for the DIVISION of “the sheep and the goats” of that cyclic round, as was indicated by the prophet – the sheep to be removed by rebirth into some higher form of civilization, possibly on some other planet, figuratively speaking, “the right hand of God.” The goats – the passion-bound, brutish descendants – to take the “left hand” route to knowledge, the route of suffering, that they in turn may rise to a similar point to that attained by “the sheep.” Many of the nations of the earth are in the throes of such a preparation at the present time, hence the craze for popular government sweeping over the earth. The wise man stands back, looks on and listens, knowing the inevitable result.” (TT 128, p. 332/3)

 But for the disciple of the Masters it is appropriate to work for UNITY. SEPARATION is the reserved right of the Avatars, who have the appropriate mental range of vision.

 “It takes the great majority of the human race a long time to appreciate the fact that but a very limited number of its units have evolved to the degree where it has become possible for them to determine the exact truth regarding any phase of nature or any act of man.

The last word on any subject is seldom spoken. The basic cause of any action is very seldom determined.” (TT II, p. 93)

“By yielding to the forces of DISRUPTION and DISSENSION or by harsh criticism of each other over a national or religious issue such as no mere mortal mind could adjust, and to so yield despite the treasures of wisdom and knowledge which had been bestowed upon them, the very life of the group would be threatened.” (TT II, p. 75)

It is good to accept different opinions and to understand that an opinion is not the same as to know something for sure. Very wise heads have understood the fact, that they know, that they know nothing. They just guess.

Yours as always with love

Annegret