Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00080)

Mark Jaqua wrote:

> > "Nothing Short of full confidence in us, in our good motives, if
> > not in our wisdom, in our foresight, if not omniscience - which
> > is not to be found on this earth - can help one to cross over
> > from Ones land of dream and fiction to our Truth land, the region
> > of stern reality and fact."
>
> I think this quote might be misleading, and that it concerns
> mostly direct chelas working under an adept in Blavatsky's
> school, and also maybe certain initiations.  I don't think it
> applies to "lay-chelas" and other aspiring students, generally
> speaking.  Maybe this would be agreed with.

This quote is from a letter K.H.  wrote to A.P.  Sinnett( ML-64)
who was not a 'direct chela' nor was he working or in training
under any adept, at best he may be called 'lay-chela'.  So the
advice that K.H.  gave him applies also to general students.  The
only person in the west I know of that K.H.  accepted as his
chela is C.W.L.

The quote will be misleading indeed if it is interpreted as the
masters require that we should not use our discernment and
blindly depend on them which they never mean, in one of his
letters K.H.  wrote "If I were to demand that you should do one
thing or the other, instead of simply advising, I would be
responsible for every effect that might flow from the step and
you acquire but a secondary merit."