Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00191)

Phillips:
>the time [ca. 1400] was now ripe for the open work of the Theosophical
>Movement to begin in Europe. Ever since that time, during the last
>quarter of every century an effort has been made to bring the work of
>the Theosophical Movement before the public.

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.

Once again,

Best,