Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00377)

ES OR DS

What is it that you really want?

In Practical Occultism, H.P.B. made it very clear as to
what is expected of the aspirant. In no place in
did she refer to the ES in Practical Occultism. She
mentions being in the company of other lay disciples
who actually may not be ES members.  They may be
those that you study with, teach or even those that
you may live with; contemplate this possibility.
Divine Sapientia or Divine Magic it would appear that
all of the answers are present in H.P.B.'s remarks in
PRACTICAL OCCULTISM.  As to the ES perhaps in
her day the when she was the ES Head  what you
seek might be be found there but....Let those who
complain that they have learned little in the Thesophical
Society (or seek entrance to the Es)*  lay to heart the words
 written the  Path  for last February: "The key to each degree is the aspirant
himself ."  It is not "the fear of God" which is
"the beginning of Wisdom," but the knowledge of SELF which
is WISDOM ITSELF."
"How grand and true appears, thus, to the student of
Occultism who has commenced to realize some of the
foregoing truths, the answer given by the Delphic Oracle
 to all who came seeking after Occult Wisdom words repeated
and  enforced again and aagain by the wise Socrates:
MAN KNOW THYSELF. BCW Volume 9, Pg. 155.
PRACTICAL OCCULTISM  this may shed more light,
Divine Light/Wisdom for you then all of the ES Circles
upon the globe. ..."to be as united as the fingers on
one hand" she said.  I just  do not see that not
anywhere, not even in the apparent actions of
ES Circles of which you speak.  United....a word that
has become as forgotton as a genuine Ideal of
Universal Brotherhood.

* inserted by SAGE

-SAGE