Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00120)

Hi Dallas

In response to your:

>Some ask if they can contact the Masters I see from recent postings.  Is
>this not premature ?  Is it not like the freshman in college asking if the
>President of the University will give him time to meet and handle his
>questions -- before he or she has acquired the wisdom to know what to ask
>and why that time is to be given to them.

The literature documents the pathologies well enough, but I think that
anybody with the problems you refer to would hardly be moving towards them
in any sense that matters, let alone arriving.  My own original question
was simply about *approaching* the Adepts - on closing the gap.

The distance between us and them, between "your world and ours" - "quite a
different world" - as one of them wrote, is far less physical than inner.
Call it a psychological distance perhaps, or one of quality and scope of
intent. It is a distance which is closed in the measure that our view
widens beyond small concerns, our compassion kindles and our thought
deepens - above all, perhaps, to the degree that we find the desire to be
of value and service to other beings, rising within our being and unfolding
into action.

This is the real journey towards them, and to arrive must be to see with
their vastness of vision, respond with their immensity of heart, and wield
the "thunderbolt" of their thought .... and the fact that we can begin to
conceive of them at all is perhaps the surest sign that we have what it
takes to get there. Something to set our compasses by.

Murray


For those who want to know, the first quote (re world) is in letter 2 in
the two main accessible editions of The Mahatma Letters. I couldn't find
the thunderbolt one tonight but maybe somebody would like to tell us where
it is.


>Some ask if they can contact the Masters I see from recent postings.  Is
>this not premature ?  Is it not like the freshman in college asking if the
>President of the University will give him time to meet and handle his
>questions -- before he or she has acquired the wisdom to know what to ask
>and why that time is to be given to them.  Are any of us so important ?  We
>may think we are important, but does that make it necessary for the Masters
>to arrive at our doorstep ?  And if a Master should visit us, have we the
>knowledge to recognize one ?  Is this not one of the reasons why people who
>are either curious or impatient desire such contact -- and if they should be
>granted it, would they, like "poor Brown" (in MAHATMA LETTERS) recognize, be
>frightened, and turn away from the opportunity ?  Each one ought to answer
>themselves on this subject.
>
>The answer is yes and no.  As we advance in knowledge and usefulness we will
>find that opportunities arise that give us such contacts.  Are we fitted to
>recognize them?  Anyone who has read MAHATMA LETTERS will recollect the
>several conditions under which such contact may be made.  We may also be
>sure that if our work and progress in active brotherliness continues we will
>attract the attention of the Wise and we will receive such "help" as we
>deserve.  Such is the great law of assistance to all.  But it does not
>satisfy the merely curious.