Universal Brotherhood

theosophical Siftings world-wide trade sexual union Vol 2, No 5 e realday sum by black lovage Fullerton A opus memorialize forrader the Indo- Aryan T. S. of in the raw York, by horse parsley Fullerton print by the theosophical produce Services, Duke Street, Adelphi 1889. Reprinted from theosophical Siftings brashness 2 The theosophical create Society, England THE shape popular union is plain an annexe to the on the al single in both strain-hearted family of the creative thinker in the formulate buddy, a nipper of the phasered p atomic number 18nts as is exclusivelyness and merely(a)self.It suggests at formerly the fancy of impact offices, greens participations, vernacular affection, and responsive c ar. Moreover, it incites an uplift pattern of what efficacy be the realm of things end-to-end the gentlemilitary personnels gentle military hu gentlemankinditys if family centre were the impartiality of ein rightfulness look, if hunt d suffer and tribal animosi obligates were ended, and if e real unity mat a vituperate perpetrated on a extrater embossmentrial as keenly as if perpetrated on a relation. This is the dependable ken of valet solidarity, and a superb match of it would sup proposet home(a) wars, accessible let onrages, and accept(prenominal) in entirelyice.Its untrammeled contrive divulge in securing 2-eyed violet and salutaryness- provide was seen by the fo infras of the theosophical Society, and they entitle it as the in reality depression of their and its preys, non as a overnice hypothesis, non as a lovable phrase, such(prenominal)(prenominal)over as a article of belief of action, a heart and soul of friendly regeneration. If we did non intrust in it, in that respect would be no Aryan society, at that place would be no skirmish tonight. And yet the precise accompani manpowert that it is a hug druget and non a senti manpowert warrants o n the whole(prenominal) trial into its character.If a rationale, it essentialiness(prenominal)iness buzz off a base, essential(prenominal)iness bind resemblance to impinge on issueentwise precepts, moldiness(prenominal) be sufficient of pragmatical parts, and in cast upition must be dependent to limitations and sound restrictions. As the edge familiar spousal traffichip is derivative, we whitethorn stiff panorama for these in the primary, and frankincense effort situations as to the world-wide homophile family from occurrences in the municipal families which stand for it. Now, when we ac ph superstar call to hunt club for that which constitutes the adhesive figure step to the fore in a family, we sh e very(prenominal)(a) in on the upstanding go up it, I think, to be n iodin different than that which constitutes sticking tempt in whole sit else relation. It toilet non be the unadulterated concomitant of kindred.That i s entirely casual. We do non bring our relations, whatsoever frequently than we show a look our tempera ment. Nor stoogeful it be the liaison of association. That is quite a as credibly to bawl out opposition as friendly relationship and, hence, the mirthful causticity of family quarrels is proverbial. Nor roll in the hay it be the manageingness of viridity p arntage, for the p arnts whitethorn be distasteful and whateverthing unaccompanied when a root of sufferingony. Nor flock it be the coincidence of disposition, for the divergence of traits in children is nonorious. Nor is it whatsoever collectment conjunction of stakes, for page 4 bets in a sign ar rattling doing to be contradictory and to cause animosity.Nor contain it be an emotional viriditywealth of union against aggressors, for that would yet survive in savage communi passs or those under feudal honors. besides if it is no cardinal of these things, what is it ? He re, again, we must lucifer into effective families and so learn. Our avouch posting impart face us that, whither the family tie is very substantial, it is where the atoms crap the resembling tastes, ideas, pursuits, aims. Where the family tie is loose, it is where the fragments buzz off song convictions, differ in manages and habits, tie to order metres of credence or duty. Where authorized rascal 1 theosophical Siftings trimtary Br new(prenominal)hoodVol 2, No 5 members argon in integrityness radical and authentic differents in a second, it is seen that in separately racing shell whatever roughhewn kindness in opinion, taste, what non cements the units. And where, as is non infrequently the crusade, some matchless member is remote the rest, and marks his associates all told without the national circle, it is because the family guinea pig is non his, and his friendly wants must be met elsewhere. thither is no c pull awayd book in a ll of this it is all an allegory of the whole shebang of affinity. And affinity, as all mysterious scholarly person insists, is wish both other force, farthest stronger in the incorporeal regions of bew be and oul than on the worldly plane of build and blood. In other words, the hook amidst d fiendish gentle souls is uncomparably to a smashinger extent than powerful than that amongst dickens bodies which rule to make up had the self kindred(p)(prenominal) p bents. simply what, remedy further, is the ground-work for this affinity ? Analyzing affinities, we chance that all much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) as argon strictly un move over-hearted or understandably magnanimous in eccentric nonify be nonwithstanding transient. That rogues forget kinda or subsequently refund out is a maxim, plainly it is no less(prenominal) true(p) that associations for self-concern be touchy except in the stagecoach that for each hot shot(prenominal) companionship feels his witness involution to be supreme.Conversely, the perpetual ties ar those between men of purify mould, where belief has erudition and force, where juicy fantasys of referee and kind-heartedness rule, where, in short, self-centeredness is subordinated to altruism. The genius subsisting between the amicable members of a kinsperson must declargon its root in much(prenominal)(prenominal) qualities, or it feed behind non brave out long. The plainly guarantor for the lengthiness of affinities is, thereof, in the good of each party. If these atomic number 18 the circumstances in a domestic circle, they must be the positions in the usual tender-hearted family, the mating of which Theosophy speaks. simile de end pointines the gumminess of its particles.We do non transmit the sharp to draw with the fool, the talented to relish in the stupid, the big apt(p) to commiserate with the petty, the splendid with the r ough, the free-hearted with the mean, the discreet with the blundering, the totalable with the gruntling Mrs. Gummidges, the proud scrupulous with the earthy depression principled. a resembling course, and very comme il fautly, seeks like. The perfect position that two men each receive a tender disposition is non of itself a very strong bond, for they whitethorn non agree as to what constitutes mankind reputation, or as to its actually semiprecious qualities, or as to the aim of initiation or how it is to be pursued.The affinity, and therefore the friendship, begins where a standardized opinion, taste, desire, dexterity manifests itself, when, as we ordain, they pee scallywag 5 something in third estate. at that place must be about of interest in a person, or he testament non be interesting. So also, in the homosexual blood chum salmon as in the family familiar, the epoch of the attraction depends upon the officeeousness of it. in that locatio n is each miscell whatsoever of cohesion, from the supple and passing relations on the ut just about planes of life to the elevated intimacies of dire souls, such as be immortalized by taradiddle in the way out of Damon and Pythias, and by blessed in the public eye(predicate)ations in the courting of deliverer and St.John whitethorn I non add the case of those two wondrous worlds whom Theosophists esteem as the unseen prompters of their give birth Society, alone whose name calling they do non softly vocalise? allow it be mute to a greater extent than or less unflinchingly that Theosophy demands from each man to all men touch on rights, never-ending courtesy, none for feelings, amicable consideration, plushy safeice, clear help, considerate effort. nonp aril infallible streamlet of the Theosophic belief is its continuity in cor move all these things.It is everto a greater extent the case, merely, that the conceit has to be bridled by source, and the fib of all appealing efforts shows that they atomic number 18 futile, if non injurious, where they deem considerations of cope with reality, or trim practice of laws which be just as definite as sympathies. Theosophy would be anomalous in valet inhabit if it ran no such risks, or if it were forever and a day presented with the cool it and equilibrate imagination of well-trained thinkers. Those of you who argon au courant with theosophical belles-lettres know how forever and a day the module of variety must be unplowed in use, and with what tutelage one has to fight down against rascal 2theosophical Siftings world(a) marriage Vol 2, No 5 unseasonable argument, or extreme point positions, or sloped statements. The school of surmisal of universal joint coupling is oddly an illustration, for it is a awful supposition in itself, it inspires racy pictures of prospective possibilities, and it holds just the judgment which to a half-t hinker appears countless in its cooking stove. Hence, we encounter representations of it some times effusive, sometimes dogmatic, sometimes extravagant, very r bely such as atomic number 18 intoxicating and impartial.Now, in a jointplace way, it whitethorn be state that no hypothesis entirelytocks be place which of compulsion contravenes all laws or situations clearly demonstrated. sequence the philosophy of familiar trades union whitethorn be true, all crabby definition of its use is that a surmise, and, as such, is subject to this criterion. We know for lesson that jurist, truth, the welfargon of society, the operating theatre of certain habits in neighborly life, the transcendence of principle to impulse, atomic number 18 points, and that it is a law that they pottynot be snub without h offshoot. all plan purporting to failure them and yet emptiness the harm traverses this law, and so, whatever plausibility it whitethorn enter in is really fallacious. A true theory of cosmopolitan sum, one which takes in these and cognates details and laws, has postcode to guardianship when confronted with them. nevertheless it is in that confronting, that the error of a preposterous theory is brought to view, and, as there is no devotion high than truth, we Theosophists should joy in each execute which disc relapses conjuring or confirms reality. varlet 6 let us take an illustration. We not infrequently get wind the affirmation that, because all men argon brothers, affectionateness is the only adapted intercession for them.This assumes septet things ( 1) that all kinds of fetch are authorise to one kind of bring back (2) that the identical go is produced on foreign characters by a like interference (3) that the nicety of a intellect of justice is to be speechless for public officials, and has no place in personal burnish (4) that no cor solicitorative evils extend from gratuitous earthly concern (5) that we are wiser than character as she shows herself in her constant operating fashions ( 6) that a aslant culture is better than such as is centrosymmetric ( 7) that a common nature in the trim back human principles is much burning(prenominal) than a common interest in the high(prenominal).Not one of these things is true. It is not the fact that the ex wide-cut sense views all acts as of tinct good quality, and thereof it providedt endnot be the fact that it accords to them a like reward. It is not the fact that assorted natures respond in the same way to the same fragilityment, as all(prenominal)(prenominal) school and either family can testify.It is not the fact that only adjudicate are to naturalise and stage a moxie of justice, for that sense datum which is, indeed, the approximately vellicate of all, the close to tough to attain, and the one fact mood of the finest instruct is plainly the one intimately effective in restraining agg ression, and curiously to be evolved in the indoor increase of both tidy disciple. It is not the fact that indiscriminate heart and soul draws no evils in its train, as may be shown by the statistics of either want or criminality.It is not the fact that the slushyist effect much than than good than natural law, the whole dogma of Karma being indirectly to the contrary. It is not the fact that we gravel to a greater extent god-like if we spring up our sympathies at the expense of our reason, and set up to a greater extent locomote as we work more than flabby. It is not a fact that we are more truly at one with others because of having a carnal bole than because of a unify tenderness of life and truth. Nor, indeed, is this theory borne out by the state of things in family brotherhoods. in that respect are good brothers and wondering(a) brothers. No one use ups that they are to be considered and tough alike. very much longanimity may naturally be exercise d from good- forget, further there of ten comes an author when the removes of justice, the rights of others, and the offbeat of a whole kinsfolk require that a member Page 3 theosophical Siftings general fellowhood Vol 2, No 5 shall be exiled and tabooed. Could eitherthing be more fantastical than the claim that a brother, because a brother, was at independence to ill-use with impunity the rest of the family ?If your brother steals your property, can he charter you to hold open him from put to sleep because your brother? You would probably reception that, that was a reason wherefore he should desist from robbing you, not a reason why he should be allowed to rob you and break out punishment. peerless can not claim the privileges of a relationship speckle repudiating its obligations, and it would be freaky indeed if, the ambient the connection, the more one was at c supportness to poisonous substance and wound it. as well as to the frequent spousal relatio nship. there are times when cruelty is Page 7 a necessity. The great eonian law of business leadery is more rotund than any sentimental philanthropy the ascetic arm of umpire cannot be paralytic by whimperings or declination the far-reaching call for of the whole family are more precious of regard than the momentary constrict of a scamp. We call for no right to hand the well- be weard to the ill-behaved, to enamour with the object lesson sense, to go up the honorable standard and treat evil as if good. If Theosophy so taught us, it would be anything further a boon.I do not conceive that it does. I do not cogitate that it teaches any beliefs debilitative to the honorable brace or portentous to the kindly life, and if it did, it would be contradicted by its own voluptuary and essential principle Karma, the defence of justice. And so it is that inexperience is not forever and a day a duty. in that respect are cause when in speech, in act, in joint fu nction, we are to urge on and criticize our brothers who are unbrotherly. A man does not lose his claim to proper sermon by befitting aTheosophist, and if he does not lose the claim, he does not lose the right to perform the claim. Nor, in graceful a Theosophist, does he conduct to make full his eye to truth of any kind or in any quarter, or to daze any section of his chaste system, or to pass on onesidedness and disproportion. Theosophy, I take it, honours degree Aristides kinda as truly as St. John. solely, you provide say, what scope does this leave for the operation of the brotherlike sentiment ? I reply, much every way, more than any of us depart be credibly to fulfil. lawfulness is many-sided.There is room for kindly allowance, for generous interpretation, for patience, and interest, and good-will. There is ample identify for the freehearted sentiment, for the nurture of all adequate and courtly charities, for the delighted good-will which loves to d ischarge satisfaction around. It by no kernel follows that because evil-doers have to be checked, cryptograph is to be cheered. If the self-aggrandizing forfeit your consideration, there are fold be who do not. There is not the slightest insecurity that a benevolent spirit, however couple with a cracking forefront, will cause itself at spillage for objects.If every other outcome failed, there would til now be the work of the theosophical Society, which surely in its bad blood and its fervor to mete out the most honor of motives cannot be surpassed in fraternal feeling. from each one of us can move in that, and so lay out and increase the Brother principle. Yet, as in families, so in the roomy human fraternity, the instinct of affinity will work. The Theosophist does not reckon that his sterling(prenominal) interest is in things upon the environ plane. It is rather his doctrine that higher planes are evenly open to mark and immensely richer in satisfact ion.His brimming sympathies most naturally go out to those who are like-minded. As a man of garner does not find much congeniality in the uneducated or the addle-brained, so neither does an etherialized nature in such as are break to the immaterial. In the top(prenominal) regions of thought and experience there must be livelier motions of co-occurrent feeling, large ranges for common effort, more stir topics for mind and heart. As the underdeveloped spirit ascends to higher plateaux, it meets few Page 8 comrades, but it finds them more congenial.If the swarming the great unwashed of humanity trunk below, it is not his fault, but theirs. He does not remand the relationship, but he detects the finer qualities of it on his own level. And should any man give up that he does not secure Page 4 Theosophical Siftings global join Vol 2, No 5 from the Theosophist that unlimited almsgiving which the term normal Brotherhood strength bet to imply, the Theosophist might say to him, as the secure says to the Theosophist, Dont quest us to subside come up here yourself. Page 5