Theos-Talk Archives (October 1999 Message tt00000)

Dallas wrote:

> And where did you ever read that HPB wrote that she used mantras or
> prescribed them to anyone ?

Dallas, I guess it might hinge on how you define the word "prescribed".

My understanding is that HPB "prescribed" the use of certain mantras to her
E.S.T.S. students.
See her E.S. Instructions 1, 2 and 3.

In regards to meditation, Mahatma KH prescribed the following
to select members of the E.S.T.S.:

"Concentrate on the idea of the Higher Self, say for half an hour at
first.  Permit no other thought.  By degrees you will be able to
unite your consciousness with the Higher Self. . . .

"Your best method is to concentrate on the Master as a living man
within you.  Make His image in your heart, and a focus of concentration,
so as to lose all sense of bodily existence in the one thought.  The idea
of the Master will prove the best safeguard against spooks, etc. . . .

"Masters are those who are born with a Nirmanakaya in them.  Every one of
you
create for yourselves a Master.  Give Him birth and objective being before
you in the Astral Light.  If it is a real Master, He will send his voice.
If not a real Master, then the voice will be that of the Higher Self. . . .
"

Copies of the KH manuscript are among the papers of W.Q. Judge and Alice
Cleather.

Portions of this KH MS were published by Julia Ver Planck in Mr. Judge's
PATH magazine.  See issues of July 1889, pp. 102-3 and Sept. 1890, pp.
177-8.

Julia writes in the July 1889 issue:  ". . . let us read some remarks from
an Oriental adept which came into our possession many months ago."

Interested student should compare these KH quotes with the material
in Fragment I of the VOICE OF THE SILENCE.

Daniel