Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00225)

D. Porter wrote:
> Richard Alpert (Ram Dass). I was in Bangalore 2 years ago and witnessed Sai
> Baba smoking Hashish. HPB smoked it as well and although I know little of
> the ES, I'm willing to bet all the secrecy is just becuase they are
> consuming what the west considers illegal drugs.

	Hashish was not considered to be illicit until the 1930's.

	As far as the methods you have said you have used, you must realize
that the 4th root race had a very advanced system of magic. Much of it
still exists (the Mahatmas pointed out that the Australian Aborigines
have the remnants of that magic, which has been misinterprted as saying
that the Australian Aborigines are members of the 4th root race). Yes,
you can do quite a bit with kama-based magic. But it is a dead-end. When
the primary literature talks about the dangers of magic, it is the
temptation of sticking with the much easier to use kamic magic, rather
than going on to the evolutionary and much more difficult to use budhic
magic.

	Bart Lidofsky