Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00009)

"CHANGELESS SERVICE
 ...There are other cycles within this archetype for service.
 The one we would consider here is the "Hundred Year Cycle" of
 the Theosophical Movement It is linked to a decision made in
 the 14th century, when, under the auspices of Tsong Kha Pa,
 whom H.P.B. stated was a "reincarnation" of Gautama the
 Buddha, the great Lodge of Adepts vowed to take advantage of
 this hundred year cycle to bring additional facts before the
 "Western Races" of mankind; races, which earlier, had severed
 themselves from the truths of ancient wisdom.
 This service was begun and a duty initiated to bring to their
 brothers in the "West" an increased perception of the Higher
 Self, of the Divinity that is enshrined in each man-mind. ...
 The Adept, known to us as H.P. Blavatsky, spearheaded the
 fifth mission of this nature in the West..."

The above quote is from the November THEOSOPHY magazine. Over the
years I have seen similar passages from ULT & other Theosophical
groups. It is not clear to me that HPB's mission was only the
fifth mission to the West. Does this mean that before Je
Tsongkhapa's time, ca. 1400, the West received no Messengers from
the Occult Brotherhood or even the Tibetan branch of it?

In HPB's article "The Cycle Moveth" (Blavatsky: COLLECTED WRITINGS
12, 120) she wrote: "...messengers [are] sent out westward
periodically in the last quarter of every century -- ever since the
mysteries, which alone had the key to the secrets of nature, had
been crushed out of existence in Europe by heathen and Christian
conquerors..."

The European Mysteries were "crushed out of existence" -- long
before 1400.

In B:CW 14, 294-95; in HPB's article "The Last of the Mysteries in
Europe" she said: "The first strokes if its [the Mysteries'] last
hour sounded in the year 47 B.C. ... It was during the first
century before our era, that the last and supreme hour of the
Mysteries had struck." First Alesia and then Bibractis in Gaul
were "plundered and razed." Bibractis "was the last city in Gaul
wherein died for Europe the secrets of the Initiations of the Great
Mysteries..." She also mentioned that the beginning of the end of
the European Mysteries began with the conquests of Alexander the
Great around 320 B.C.

So Messengers to the West have been sent from the Lodge since at
least the beginning of the Christian era -- some 2000 years --
perhaps longer.

Best,

--
Nicholas <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
 The cause of pain is vice; the cause of happiness is virtue.
 -- Patanjali