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> From: Leo Yuliawan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Beberapa kali milis kita menuliskan istilah TEOSOFI.....jujur saja....saya
> belum sepenuhnya mengerti apa definisi teosofi. Bagaimana cara pandang dan
> asal usul istilah ini...?
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> Adakah rekan yang bisa membantu saya menjelaskan sedikiiiit (beberapa
> paragraf) mengenai TEOSOFI.
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Assalaamu 'alaikum wr. wb.
Maaf, saya sendiri, seperti biasa juga nggak begitu tahu theosophy ini. Saya
melihatnya hanyalah sebagai suatu society, suatu kelompok masyarakat. Setahu
saya, diskusi dalam masyarakat theosophy itu tidak terikat kepada suatu
agama apapun, melainkan mempelajari ajaran kebijaksanaan dari agama apapun.
Mereka menggambarkan diri mereka sebagai pecinta kebenaran. Mereka
sepertinya adalah orang-orang yang tetap taat beragama dalam agamanya
masing-masing.
Di bawah ini saya kutipkan sedikit penjelasan FAQ dari site Theosophy
Society. Semoga berguna buat pak Leo.
THE MEANING OF THE NAME
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ENQUIRER. Theosophy and its doctrines are often referred to as a new-fangled
religion. Is it a religion?
THEOSOPHIST. It is not. Theosophy is Divine Knowledge or Science.
ENQUIRER. What is the real meaning of the term?
THEOSOPHIST. "Divine Wisdom," (Theosophia) or Wisdom of the gods, as
(theogonia), genealogy of the gods. The word theos means a god in Greek, one
of the divine beings, certainly not "God" in the sense attached in our day
to the term. Therefore, it is not "Wisdom of God," as translated by some,
but Divine Wisdom such as that possessed by the gods. The term is many
thousand years old.
ENQUIRER. What is the origin of the name?
THEOSOPHIST. It comes to us from the Alexandrian philosophers, called lovers
of truth, Philaletheians, from phil "loving," and aletheia "truth." The name
Theosophy dates from the third century of our era, and began with Ammonius
Saccas and his disciples (1), who started the Eclectic Theosophical system.
ENQUIRER. What was the object of this system?
THEOSOPHIST. First of all to inculcate certain great moral truths upon its
disciples, and all those who were "lovers of the truth." Hence the motto
adopted by the Theosophical Society: "There is no religion higher than
truth." (2) The chief aim of the Founders of the Eclectic Theosophical
School was one of the three objects of its modern successor, the
Theosophical Society, namely, to reconcile all religions, sects and nations
under a common system of ethics, based on eternal verities.
ENQUIRER. What have you to show that this is not an impossible dream; and
that all the world's religions are based on the one and the same truth?
THEOSOPHIST. Their comparative study and analysis. The "Wisdom-religion" was
one in antiquity; and the sameness of primitive religious philosophy is
proven to us by the identical doctrines taught to the Initiates during the
MYSTERIES, an institution once universally diffused. "All the old worships
indicate the existence of a single Theosophy anterior to them. The key that
is to open one must open all; otherwise it cannot be the right key."
(Eclect. Philo.)
Wassalaamu 'alaikum wr. wb.
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