Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00054)

THE GREAT SACRIFICE

He is the "Initiator", called the "GREAT SACRIFICE". For sitting 
at the threshold of LIGHT, he looks into it from within the circle of 
Darkness, which he will not cross; nor will he quit his post till the 
last day of this life-cycle. Why does the solitary Watcher remain at 
his self-chosen post? Why does he sit by the fountain of 
primeval 
Wisdom, of which he drinks no longer, as he had naught to learn 
which 
he does not know - aye, neither on this Earth, nor in its heaven? 
Because the lonely, sore-footed pilgrims on their way back to 
their 
home are never sure to the last moment of not losing their way in 
this limitless desert of illusion and matter called Earth-Life. 
Because he would fain show the way to that region of freedom 
and 
light, from which he is a voluntary exile himself, to every prisoner 
who has succeeded in liberating himself for the sake of 
mankind, 
though but a few Elect may profit by the GREAT SACRIFICE. 
It is under the direct, silent guidance of this MAHA - (great) - 
GURU that all the other less divine Teachers and instructors of 
mankind became, from the first awakening of human 
consciousness, the 
guides of early Humanity. It is through these "Sons of God" that 
infant humanity got its first notions of all the arts and sciences, 
as well as of spiritual knowledge; and it is they who have laid the 
first foundation-stone of those ancient civilizations that puzzle so 
sorely our modern generation of students and scholars. 

H. P. BLAVATSKY

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