Theos-Talk Archives (May 1998 Message tt00529)

Lmhem111@aol.com writes
>In general, I feel that there is a hierarchy of high initiates, adepts, a
>communion of saints, as it were, which is the end-result of effort expended in
>many (and in some cases, not so many) incarnations on earth. Pierre Teilhard
>de Chardin says there is an Omega point in the noosphere towards which we
>are
>all moving. In theosophy, this is the evolution in consciousness which leads
>us to a series of initiations. At some point we reach a stage where we can say
>we have "graduated" (Mahatmaship).

This, in my view, and my experience, is a very romantic view of the
case.  To me, that there are higher intelligences who know more than
we do is a probable fact.  As for "Initiations" - well we have one of
these whenever we make a new start on something.  To initiate is to
start a process.  I have never found a hierarchy, only different
intelligences working at different levels.  Those I have "met" would
seem to reagrd the very idea of "hierarchy" as elitist and an obstacle to
understanding.

Alan
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