Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00069)

If you are basically grounded in HPB and Judge, then I think you will be in for
quite a shock once you start looking into the later developments.  I think CWL's
Masters and the Path will give you a good idea of the ES tradition.  I remember in
the early 1970s we had a study group where we were comparing Blavatsky and
Purucker, and had been meeting for several years.  On of the members wanted to
know why I thought CWL was so different from HPB.  I pulled down Masters and the
Path and began reading CWL's description of an initiation he supposedly
witnessed.  I read it with a straight face and demeanor, but everyone was rolling
on the floor in hysterics before I got through the second page.
jhe

Lmhem111 wrote:

> In a message dated 98-03-06 15:00:51 EST, you write:
>
> << Even if they  embrace the entire corpus of theosophical literature, there
> is going to be a certain spin, a  certain interpretation >>
>
> I agree, jhe. When HPB's esoteric instructions were finally made public, and
> published in book form, they seem to be quite a difference in the presentation
> of some of the material. This was the so-called 3rd volume of the SD but later
> published separately as HPB's esoteric instructions in a Quest paperback. The
> Auric Egg takes a certain prominence in her once secret instructions yet no
> mention is made of it in Judge's Ocean of Theosophy. Have CWL and AB offered
> further later variations and additions of the teachings in the Esoteric
> School? Who knows except the members of that group.
>
> Lmhem111
>
>