Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00122)

Sherab quotes G. de Purucker as saying:
> From: sherab@telocity.com
> "... First, then, the fact of the esoteric succession of
> teachers in 
> the Theosophical Society, Headquarters Point Loma, from
> H.P.B. to the 
> present time, does not imply that such a succession of
> teachers could 
> not exist in any other esoteric or quasi-esoteric body or
> Theosophical Society. There is nothing whatsoever that is
> exclusive 
> about the fact. Succession, in the sense used, is simply
> a statement 
> of a natural fact, that when the call is sufficiently
> strong, and the 
> hearts and minds of the members of the T.S. are
> sufficiently loyal to 
> our Masters and their teachings to make the call
> sufficiently strong, 
> then the teachers will be ready when their times come in
> the serial 
> order or succession. If degeneracy should at any time set
> in, or 
> the 'link' with the Lodge be at any time broken, it is
> extremely 
> doubtful, indeed highly improbable, that the serial
> succession of 
> occult teachers will in such case continue without
> interruption. This 
> is the essential part of the matter..." G.deP.

Now this *messenger*-stuff is interesting. Alice Bailey and
Benjamin Creme also claimed (and claim) to be messengers.
On Blavatsky-archives Nicholas Weeks wrote an article about
that:
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/baileyal.htm

I think some of the quotes and comments he has apply to de
Purucker as much as they do to Bailey. For instance he
says:

>> Many people are eager to have a constant presence of
godly elder brothers guiding their lives and civilization;
which happens to be just what Bailey and Leadbeater and
much of the New Age promises, thus its popularity.
Spiritual evolution, says Theosophy, takes place because of
our "self-induced and self-devised efforts," {The Secret
Doctrine, TUP, vol. 1, 17} not from our prayers and
invocations for Christ and his Hierarchy to govern
civilization. >>

He also quotes the Mahatma-letter to Annie Besant (written
in 1900, to be found on my website) which says:

>>Is the worship of a new Trinity made up of the Blessed
M[orya], Upasika [HPB] and yourself [Besant] to take the
place of exploded creeds? We ask not for the worship of
ourselves... The cant about "Masters" must be silently but
firmly put down. Let the devotion and service be to that
Supreme Spirit alone of which one is a part. Namelessly
and silently we work and the continual references to
ourselves and the repetition of our names raises up a
confused aura that hinders our work. >>

and In 1882 HPB's Master Morya wrote: 

>> A constant sense of abject dependence upon a Deity which
he regards as the sole source of power makes a man lose all
self-reliance and the spurs to activity and initiative.
Having begun by creating a father and guide unto himself,
he becomes like a boy and remains so to his old age,
expecting to be led by the hand on the smallest as well as
the greatest events of life... The Founders (31) prayed to
no Deity in beginning the Theosophical Society, nor asked
his help since. Are we expected to become ... nursing
mothers...? Did we help the Founders? No; they were helped
by the inspiration of self-reliance, and sustained by their
reverence for the rights of man, and their love for a
country [India]... Your sins? The greatest of them is your
fathering upon your God the task of purging you of them.
This is no creditable piety, but an indolent and selfish
weakness. Though vanity would whisper to the contrary,
heed only your common sense. >>{Letters From the Masters of
the Wisdom, First Series, 107.}

This same goes for the assumption that someone is a
messenger and that if people are faithful, someone will
appear that will help you in your struggle. This is
something that De Purucker advises, and which is
fundamentally outside of the HPB/Mahatma-system. 

Katinka

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