Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00149)

Jerry S:

[writing to "Master D"]

>>In my own experience I have never encountered another being on any plane
>>other than the physical one we inhabit now.
>>
>
>Some Master you are!!  They are all over the inner planes if you
>listen carefully, you can't help but hear them.

Regardless of our development, there are other humans more
advanced than we are. They can be found about us in everyday
life, as well as on other planes.

The Masters are more advanced than us. There may be some
disagreement over *how advanced* they are, but that is only
one of terminology. Taking the most advanced human as the
Buddha, below him the Bodhisattvas, we have the Arhats and
Masters at a lesser stage of development. Then come Chelas,
Initiates, and then at our end of the scale the Seekers or
Aspirants.

We can take a certain class of people on this scale of
development and call them "Masters". When we argue over
if someone is developed enough to be a Master, we're
disagreeing where on the scale to describe people as
Masters. The scale exists, and if someone wants to call
people at a lower point on the scale as Masters, they
don't deny the scale of development or that people exist
higher on the scale, on a higher rung, one that others may
prefer to designate as "the Masters".

I'd expect a higher diversity of creatures and subjectivity
on the "higher planes". While it may be possible to
meet Masters there, there are far more other beings
and creatures to come across, many wanting to be to us
whatever we're looking for, happily pretending to be
Masters to the unwary.

We might also say that it may be possible to meet
a Mahatma on the Internet. Of the tens or hundreds of
million of users, perhaps one signs on, browses the web,
and even pens a few words of email. Anything's possible.
We could then say that Masters are on the Internet, and
that if you listen carefully, you can't help but hear
them. It would be true, but equally unlikely, compared
to the huge proportion of the Internet population that
aren't Mahatmas. I'd say the same with "inner planes":
there's the same huge proportion of the population that
aren't Mahatmas, with many more willing to pretend than
there are of the real thing, of genuine Masters.

It all comes back to karma, to an inward readiness,
to having given "the right knock", to being in a state
of development and potential use in the service of
humanity. If one is ready for a Teacher, one gets a
Teacher, and that Teacher is appropriate to ones need.
That could be in the form of a book, of a directed
stream of thoughts that impinge on one's thinking, of
a person that appears in one's life, or even an
unexpected series of setbacks in life that reshape one's
personality for the better.

As to their role as Teachers, though, I expect it's only
one of many things that they do. They are the elect of
humanity, the most advanced, the nearest to human
perfection. They may teach others that are a bit behind
them. But look at us. How many of us spend our time
as guru and teacher to others, as compared to the wide
diversity of life roles, careers, activities in life that
are offered us? A small percentage, perhaps. Reaching an
even higher development of mind and *innate humanness*,
the Masters, I'd think, would have an ever wider diversity
of things to do, and would be involved in doing them.

One important thing that they do, to a degree, but is
primarily the role of the Dhyani-Chohans, is something
that might be called "activity creating". (This is my
thinking on the subject, what's occurring to me as I
write this.) When something has been done many times,
time after time for centuries, there's a pattern of
thought etched in the akasha, an archetype created that
makes it possible for others to easily understand and
do the same thing.

Before the archetype is "carved" in the akasha, in the
background light of the world, it doesn't exist, in a
certain sense, and cannot be done. It is, at that time,
completely unconceivable, and there's no pattern of
life which allows for doing it.

These archetypes are experienced as instinct in animals
and as contents of the unconscious and important figures
in the psyche of humans. They form the basis of the
"game of life", helping to define the game board and
rules that we play by.

When new experiences are pioneered, new reaches of
thought explored for the very first time, touching upon
things which have never before existed, where the astral
light is a blank slate, we have what I was just calling
"activity making".

Given the time periods involved, with the Masters
representing Fifth Round consciousness, something
attained hundreds of millions of years hence, we have
an type of pioneering into thoughts, feelings, and
the doing of things of which we have little conception.
The huge edifice of knowledge and experience that is
being raised has been called the Tower of Infinite
Thought.

External physical life on our earth, Globe D, does
not allow for so far reaching an exploration of the
future possibilities of life. This exploration can be
done *inwardly*, in terms of consciousness, and on
other planes where the worlds allow for further
progress -- the other globes of our chain, which are
on the three higher planes of existence. The Mahatmas
become what they are, to a great degree, due to their
incarnation and experiences on those globes, on their
respective higher planes.

Can we meet those Mahatmas on the "inner planes"?
No, I don't think so, because they are embodied on
the other globes, each an objective world on its
respective higher plane, each world requiring an
appropriate "incarnation" and taking on of an
appropriate personality to that world.

We, as Globe D human personalities, can go no higher,
and our "inner planes" are the subjective realms,
the "spheres of effects" surrounding the physical
earth. It requires a considerable advancement to
find embodiment on one of the higher globes, and is
something that very, very few can attain, expect
in the Greater Initiations, like that of the
Winter Solstice.

There's a lot to talk about on the subject, but
I'm running out of time, and I'm sure you'll find
a number of points to discuss ...

-- Eldon