Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00036)

You have hit it on the head.

Every Hindu ritual contains invocations and most of them ending with
invocation for the welfare of Humanity.

mkr


At 01:37 PM 2/7/1998 EST, you wrote:
>Many early theosophists were members of the Order of the Golden Dawn and
>Masonry. Even HPB was associated with a branch of European Masonry. In these
>esoteric orders, invocations in connection the various rituals were a matter
>of course. If it was OK then, why wouldn't it be OK now? Invocations, that
is.
>
>Secondly, to visualize a protective white light about oneself for purposes of
>protection or to invoke the healing devas in the event of illness is not an
>uncommon practice among occultists nowadays. I do it myself.
>
>Lmhem111
>