Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00181)

<<<<Brigitte: I have no problem with the above, and as you write "for her time, I think she did quite well" I'd like ad , she did. verry well.
But then with things like the above and almost the whole of the SD taken from the litterature of its time, with HPB as she writes herself "only adding the glue", but this is to modest in my opinion, 
she created a great synthesis giving evidence of the geniousness of her mind (and as the front cover of the SD itself says it is indeed a "synthesis"). But then why continue to insist Morya and KH wrote 
the book ?>>>

JERRY: I agree that it was/is an orginal synthesis. There are at least two possibilities for using Masters: (1) she used them to legitamize her writing. Authenticity is very important in magic and occult organizations. The Golden Dawn, for example, felt the need to legitamize their school too, using a German document that later led to their downfall. Or perhaps (2) she honestly believed they were helping her, either physically or mentally or spiritually in various ways and simply wanted to acknowledge their assistance. Or perhaps it was both of these?

The question of Masters, especially inner Masters and their psychic communion, relates closely with the idea of deities - do they exist as external entities, or are they psychic projections from our own minds? Crowley said that it was impossible to tell with certainty, but that from a practical standpoint the magic worked better if one believed in their external existence. I have had ideas stream into my conscious mind on ocassion, and do not yet know for sure if they came from external beings or from my own mind (the collective unconscious?). I once mentioned to my university tutor that no one seemed to know if a recollected past life indicated a real past life or was just a projection from the collective unconscious. His answer was that it made no real difference, that it could be from either, and that a good therapist had to work from the worldview of his patient (a somewhat Crowlian answer). So, I don't know if Masters actually do communicate psychically, or if we just commune with some kind of collective unconsciousness, and I am not sure that it really matters.


Jerry S.

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