Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00074)

May 6th 2000


WHITE LOTUS DAY 2000


    Who was She ?


H.P.B. on herself


"I never gave myself out for a full-blown occultist, but only for
a student of Occultism for the last thirty or forty years.  Yet I
am enough of an occultist to know that before we find the Master
within our own hearts and seventh principle--we need an outside
Master...I got my drop from my Master (the living one)...He is a
Saviour, he who leads you to finding the Master within yourself.
It is ten years already that I preach the inner Master and God
and never represented our Masters as Saviours in the Christian
sense."  [ HPB to Dr. Hartmann = PATH X p. 367]


"...as I venerate the Master, and worship MY MASTER--the sole
creator of my inner Self which but for His calling it out,
awakening it from its slumber, would never have come to conscious
being--not in this life, at all events..."	  Letters of HPB to
APS,  p. 104


On the Secret Doctrine


"The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the
ancient and prehistoric world."
[ SD I xxxiv ]

"These truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation, nor
does the author claim the position of a revealer of mystic lore
now made public for the first time in the world's history."  [ SD
I vii ]

"We give facts and show land-marks:  let the wayfarer follow
them.  What is given here is amply sufficient for this century."
[ SD II 742 ]

"There are more secrets of Initiation given out in the
Introductory Chapter than in all Isis...Fancy Masters giving out
the secret of the "Divine Hermaphrodite" even ! and so on."
 HPB Letters to A.P.Sinnett, p. 172-3 ]



MASTERS and their "Position"


"We have offered to exhume the primeval strata of man's being,
his basic nature, and lay bare the wonderful complications of his
inner Self...and demonstrate it scientifically...It is our
mission to plunge and bring the pearls of Truth to the
surface...For countless generations hath the adept builded a fane
of imperishable rocks, a giant's Tower of INFINITE THOUGHT,
wherein the Titan dwelt...emerging from it but at the end of
every cycle, to invite the elect of mankind to cooperate with him
and help in his turn enlighten superstitious man...until that day
when the foundations of a new continent of thought are so firmly
built that no amount of opposition and ignorant malice guided by
the Brethren of the Shadow will be found to prevail.  But until
that day of final triumph, someone has to be sacrificed--though
we accept but voluntary victims.  The ungrateful task did lay her
[HPB] low and desolate in the ruins of misery, misapprehension,
and isolation:  but she will have her reward in the hereafter for
we never were ungrateful..."  M L 51


"...our true progress lies in fidelity to Masters as ideals and
facts."...I think a constant reliance on Masters as such ideals
and facts--or either--will lead the T S on to greater work...I
belong to that class of persons in the T S who out of their own
experience know that the Masters exist and actually help the T
S...I am not acting impulsively in my many public statements as
to the existence of Masters and help from Them.  It is done under
an old order of Theirs and under a law of mind.  The existence of
Masters being a fact, the assertion of that fact so often made in
America has opened up channels in men's minds which would have
remained closed had silence been observed about the existence of
those Beings...Experience has shown that a springing up of
interest in Theosophy has followed declaration, and men's minds
are more powerfully drawn away from the blank Materialism
teaching."  WQJ Art II 43


"Concentrate the mind upon the Masters as ideals and
facts--living, active, beneficent Beings, working in and on the
plane of causes.  Meditate upon this exclusively, and try to
reach up to Them in thought."    	F P 13-14


"...no worker, however feeble or insignificant, is outside the
range of Master's eye and help."	WQJ Art II 47


"...I can swear it, the Masters are watching us all, and, without
fail, when we come to the right point and really deserve, They
manifest to us.  At all times I know They help and try to aid us
as far as we will let Them.  Why, the Masters are anxious (to use
a word of our own) that as many as possible may reach to the
state of power and love They are in.  Why, then, suppose They
help not?  As They are Atman and therefore the very law of Karma
itself, They are in everything in life, and in every phase of our
changing days and years.  If you will arouse your faith on this
line you come nearer to help from Them than you will recognize."
LETTERS 68


"...fix your thoughts again on Those Elder Brothers, work for
Them, serve Them, and They will help through the right
appropriate means and no other.  To meditate on the Higher Self
is difficult.  Seek, then, the bridge--the Masters."
	LETTERS 112


"...the great Adepts live in the plane of our inner nature, it
must follow that they might be actively helping every one of us
after the date referred to, and we, as physical brain men, not be
conscious of it on this plane."	LETTERS 115


"...between adept and chela--Master and Pupil--there gradually
forms a closer tie;  for the psychic interchange is regulated
scientifically...as the water in a full tank runs into an empty
one which it is connected with;  and as the common level will be
sooner or later reached according to the capacity of the
feed-pipe, so does the knowledge of the adept flow to the chela;
and the chela attains the adept-level according to his receptive
capacities.  At the same time the chela, being an individual, a
separate evolution, unconsciously imparts to the Master the
quality of his accumulated mentality.  [ we ] always ascertain
independently and for ourselves whether the ideas so reflected in
us are right or wrong."	   Letters From the Masters of Wisdom
(I) p. 82-3


"the Master-Soul is one"...  [Thou art THAT.]   VOICE 54


"...the light of the ONE MASTER, the one unfading golden light of
Spirit, shoots its effulgent beams on the Disciple from the very
first.  Its rays thread through the thick dark clouds of
matter..."	VOICE 19


" the best and most important teacher is one's seventh principle
[Atma] centred in the sixth [Buddhi]."   LETTERS 96


"The Masters are not Eastern nor Western, but universal."
LETTERS 109


"And whoever therefore wants to see the real MAHATMA, must use
his intellectual sight.  He must so elevate his Manas that its
perception will be clear...His vision will then be bright and he
will see the MAHATMAS wherever he may be, for, being merged into
the sixth and seventh principles, which are ubiquitous and
omnipresent, the MAHATMAS may be said to be everywhere."  HPB Art
I 294


"Just now the best and biggest work by us poor children is on
this plane with the great aid of Master, Whose simple single will
keeps the whole organization [in being], and acts as its support
and shield." 	LETTERS 87


"the image of the Master is the best protection against lower
influences;  think of the Master as a living man within you."
LETTERS 164


"The whole sweep, meaning, and possibility of evolution are
contained in the word Mahatma...those great souls who have
triumphed before us...but just because they are of the human
race."
	WQJ ART II 39


"A Mahatma is not only an Adept, but much more...This does not
mean a noble-hearted man merely, but a perfected being, one who
has attained to the state...when time and space are no obstacles
to sight, to action, to knowledge or to consciousness...to
possess information of a decidedly practical character concerning
the laws of nature, including that mystery for science--the
meaning, operation and constitution of life itself..."    ECHOES,
p. 23


"...more help could be given to the movement in America because
the fact of their existence was not concealed from motives of
either fear or doubt...Occult help from Masters requires a
channel just as much as any other help does...the persons to be
acted on must take part in making the channel or line for the
force to act, for if we will not have it they cannot give it.

Now as we are dealing with the mind and nature of man, we have to
throw out the words which will arouse the ideas connected with
the forces we desire to have employed.  In this case the words
are those which bring up the doctrine of the existence of Adepts,
Mahatmas, Masters of Wisdom.  Hence the value of the declaration
of our beliefs."	WQJ ART II 41


Q.:--	"What then are the Adepts doing?

A.:--  (a)     Assisting all good movements by acting on men from
behind the scenes through mental influence.

       (b)     Preparing as many men and women who are fit for it
so that they may, in their next incarnation, appear in the world
as active devotees to the good of the Human Family.

       (c)     Spreading now, through impulses given in many
places which must not be mentioned, a philosophy of life which
will gradually affect the race mind, and in particular the
active, conquering Western peoples, thus preparing the whole
people to change and evolve yet further and further until evils
disappear and better days and people reappear."      	WQJ
Articles  II  54


"The Occult Science is not one in which secrets can be
communicated of a sudden...till the neophyte attains to the
condition necessary for that degree of illumination to which, and
for which, he is entitled and fitted, most if not all of the
Secrets are incommunicable.  The receptivity must be equal to the
desire to instruct.  The illumination must come from
within...Fasting, meditation, chastity of thought word and deed;
silence for certain periods to enable nature herself to speak to
him who comes to her for information;  government of the animal
passions and impulses;  utter unselfishness of intention, the use
of certain incense and fumigations for physiological purposes,
have been published as the means since the days of Plato and
Iamblichus in the West..."	M L 282-3


	Some phrases used by HPB, and others in regard to Theosophy are:

"The Cause of Sublime Perfection.   " A Republic of Conscience."
"A body of Learners."

"The Accumulated Wisdom of the Ages."   "A philosophy of those
who think or who drive themselves to think."

"Theosophy is for those who want it, and for no others."
"Theosophy is the Theory of Everything."

"The selfish devotee lives to no purpose."  "It is the philosophy
of the rational explanation of things."

"The Universal Law of Correspondence and Analogy."


	Some statements concerning HPB and her Work by contemporaries:


1889 --  The New York Times, Jan 6 1889.  --  From a Reporter:
 HPB at Work in England. ]
"She scarcely ever leaves the house and from 6:30 o'clock in the
morning until evening is constantly engaged in writing articles
for her magazine "Lucifer", or other  theosophic publications,
replying to correspondence, and preparing the matter for further
forthcoming volumes of her gigantic work, "The Secret Doctrine."
(720)


Bonggren, J. -- "How H.P.B. Taught Us." The Beacon, (N.Y.) June
1922.  [ How HPB Taught ]
"In her teaching H.P.B. used the method by which she herself had
been taught:  the method of the Masters.   She gave us problems
to solve, always with some hints of solution;  in fact, that
there were seven different keys to use, each of them leading to a
different result, the results being actual facts on their own
plane, all of them." (726)


Buck, J. D. -- "H.P.B. as seen through her Work."  Lucifer 8, p.
46  June 15 1891.
"I found her in the face of her immense knowledge never egoistic,
and not only from every sign and all reliable information, free
from all personal pride or ambition, but rejecting everything
offered to herself in the way of adulation or revenue." (737)


Burrows, H.  --  "What She is to Me."  Lucifer 8, p. 46  June 15
1891.  (In the spring of 1889)
"She whom we were there to see was a stout unwieldy lady, playing
Russian 'Patience,' and keeping up a stream of conversation on
nearly every subject except the one which was just then nearest
our minds...I went to her a materialist, she left me a
Theosophist, and between these two there is a great gulf fixed.
Over that gulf she bridged the way."  (741)


Clark, O. I.  --  "HPB and World-Wide Thought."  T. Forum, June
1949
"To know what influence H.P.B. had it is necessary to know the
state of public opinion when she began her work...Due to her
writings, words which were rarely, if ever, heard of before her
time are now in every sphere of public thought, such words as
intuition, karma, reincarnation, mahatmas, cosmic-consciousness,
the electrical constitution of matter, and many other things."
(739)


Hall, M. P.  --   "H.P.B.  The Russian Sphinx."	The Phoenix.
1931-2.
"Madame Blavatsky's greatest miracles are her books and by her
writings she is elevated far beyond the reach of her
calumniators.  Her literary accomplishments and not materialized
teacups are the hall marks of her genius...Remove H.P.Blavatsky,
and the structure of modern occultism falls like a house of
cards.  "The Secret Doctrine" contains practically all that is
known on the subject of occultism that it is possible to print,
and every page is a veritable treasure house of esoteric lore."
(857)


Hubbe-Schleiden,  Dr. W. --  "Reminiscences " - C. Wachmeister --
Oct 1885, Jan 1886.
"I do not estimate the value of H.P.B. from the phenomena she
produced (and I saw many of them) but from her teachings, and
these I consider to be of the greatest importance, almost
inestimable."
(885)


Jaggannath, R --  Dec 1882  --  "HPB As I Saw Her"
[He states that he questioned her for 3 days on problems that the
National Secular Society of England considered insoluble.  "To my
great astonishment she took up question after question, and
answered each most elaborately and satisfactorily...In three days
she shattered my seven years knowledge of atheistic theories."
(892)


Johnston, C. --  Lucifer Vol. 8,  p. 46,  June 15 1891
"She was a personality of such magnitude as to divide the world
into her adherents and her opponents, leaving none indifferent
between;  the test of the force of her nature is as much the
fierce animosity of her enemies as the loving devotion of her
friends."  (915)


Judge, W. Q.  --  Path, June 1891 p. 65-8   "HPB -- A Lion
Hearted Colleague Passes."
"Her aim was to elevate the race.  Her method was to deal with
the mind of the century as she found it, by trying to lead it on
step by step;  to seek out and educate a few who, appreciating
the majesty of the Sacred Science and devoted to 'the great
orphan Humanity,' would carry on her work with zeal
and wisdom;  to found a Society whose efforts--however small
itself might be-- would inject into the thought of the day the
ideas, the doctrines, the nomenclature of the Wisdom Religion."
(925)


Keightley,  Dr. A. --  "Account of the Writing of the S. D. "
(1893)  "Reminiscences of H.P.B."
"What struck me most in the part I was able to read during my
short stay was the enormous number of quotations from various
authors.  I knew that there was no library to consult and I could
see that H.P.B.'s own books did not amount to thirty in all, of
which several were dictionaries and several works counted two or
more volumes."  (941)


Keightley, B. --  "What HPB did for Me." --  Lucifer 8, p. 48,
1891
"She would take the clothes off her back, the bread from her
mouth, to help her worst, her most malicious foe in distress or
suffering.   Had the Coulombs ever turned up in London between
1887 and 1891 in distress and misery, she would have taken them
in, clothed and fed them."  (945)


Neimand, J. --  "Madame Blavatsky at a Distance."  Lucifer, Vol.
8,  p. 47,  July 1891.
"Although in the flesh she remained unknown to me, she alone of
all the world's Leaders gave me Truth, taught me how to find it,
and to hold it 'against the world.'  The soul that can work such
a miracle at a distance is no minor ray;  it is one of the great
Solar Centres that die not, even though for a time we miscall it
Helena Blavatsky."  (948)





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