[MD] Unreality of Equality

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

Greeting Joseph,

[JCB]
People who spend most of there time at the biological are less evolved than
those that spend ost of there time on the social, and they less evolved than 
those who operate mostly on the intellectual. Hence not equal. Few can spot
this, few make it a question of value?

[Arlo]
Just feeling you out on this. I take it you would agree with the ancient maxim:
He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who
has an accurate knowledge of human conerns alone is a man among brutes. But he
who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy is a God among men.

Manly Hall comments on this (in The Secret Teachings of All Ages), saying "Man's
status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the QUALITY of his
thinking [italics, not capitals, in the orignal]. He whose mind is enslaved to
his bestial instincts is philosophically not superior to the brute; he whose
rational faculties ponder human affairs is a man; and he whose intellect is
elevated to the consideration of divine realities is already a demigod, for his
being partakes of the luminosity with which his reason has brought him into
proximity."

When I was reading Hall, this passage (and others) jumped out at me because of
its correlation with the biological, social and intellectual levels of the MOQ.
(Hall lived 1909-1990). 

Hall further posited that that the great mass of people were primarily "brutes
and men", that in every age only a "few minds" rose to the level of
"intellect". The great masses, then, in every age were "sheep", necessitating
exoteric, simplistic language to govern and guide them. While the "few" capable
of esoteric understanding would rise above and be capable of contemplating and
understanding the Divine. The Apostle Paul, in the Christian tradition, had
said of the former that they are children, to be fed with milk, while the
latter (the wise) were men to be fed with meat.

Is any of this in parallel with what you are saying? Or am I way off base?

Arlo