Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00056)

In the early days of the Theosophical Society they used a gong to begin the
meeting.
I think there's something in having a bell to start and end a study group.
We know it's a regular practice for religious ritual. The tone of the bell
reaches up into the spiritual world. Those recorded bells in some church
steeples just aren't the same.

BTW Pelikan in his Secrets of Metals says the silver makes the best bells.

We can also use bells to seal a room for ritual (around the windows
and doors). I don't think that the bells do the sealing so much as the
operator ringing them. It is the will of the ringer that is made apparent in
the spiritual world by the tone of the bell. It somehow makes the link.

There is a similar ringing in the astral world (the astral bells).
The bell is also used at the beginning of the Christian Community Mass. I
don't have to mention the bell, book and candle of the exorcism.
It's also good to have a candle or open fire at the study group but this is
for another reason.

-Bruce

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