Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00155)

Responding to Paul (Bazzer)

>Celibacy is an absolute RULE as regards *practical* Occultism.
>
>See, for example, "The Secret Doctrine", Vol II, 295/296.  Extract:
>    [snip]            During human
>life the greatest impediment in the way of spiritual development, and
>especially to the acquirement of *Yoga* powers, is the activity of our
>physiological senses.  Sexual action being closely connected, by
>interaction, with the spinal cord and the grey matter of the brain, it is
>useless to give any longer explanation".


I get it. If we stop using all our senses, we'll have the least impediment
to the way of spiritual development. The organs of smell, hearing and sight
are virtually extensions of the brain, and that of touch covers our whole body.

Where's the nearest sensory deprivation tank?

Murray

PS: Is this one of those blinds we're told about? If we scratch below the
surface, what's *really* going on here? Saying it's useless to give any
longer explanation is probably just a factual statement that a deeper
explanation would be almost guaranteed to be misunderstood by the public.
They just wouldn't have the background or insight to see the real picture.

We are 110-odd years down the track, and this is a kind of public forum ....
I wonder if we're still in that bracket? :-) It'll be touch and go. Maybe
what we really need to abstain from is making definitive statements based on
a few things we've read until we're qualified by a bit more first-hand
perception.



[Quoting Paul more completely]

>Celibacy is an absolute RULE as regards *practical* Occultism.
>
>See, for example, "The Secret Doctrine", Vol II, 295/296.  Extract:
>
>"The question is often asked, "Why should celibacy and chastity be a *sine
>qua non* rule and condition of regular *chelaship*, or the development of
>psychic and occult powers?  The answer is contained in the Commentary.  When
>we learn that the "third eye" was once a physiological organ, and later on,
>owing to the gradual disappearance of spirituality and increase of
>materiality (Spiritual nature being extinguished by the physical), it became
>an atrophied organ, as little understood now by physiologists as the
>spleen - when we learn this, the connection will become clear.  During human
>life the greatest impediment in the way of spiritual development, and
>especially to the acquirement of *Yoga* powers, is the activity of our
>physiological senses.  Sexual action being closely connected, by
>interaction, with the spinal cord and the grey matter of the brain, it is
>useless to give any longer explanation".