Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00531)

Friday, December 28, 2001

Dear Friends:

Perhaps the following will be of help in considering the nature
of H P B and the importance of her work for the world:

Dallas

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H P B and the MASTERS


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Recently there have been some queries and controversy concerning
H P B --

Is she alive or is she dead?

Perhaps some of these quotations about her and her work given
from the perspective of the MASTERS OF WISDOM -- the ELDER
BROTHERS -- will be of help.

Theosophy has been called

History Of The Development Of The Spiritual Nature Of Mankind.


Patanjali, an ancient sage wrote:

"The Universe, including the visible and the invisible, the
essential nature of which is compounded of purity, action, and
rest, and which consists of the elements and the organs of
action, exists for the sake of the soul's experience and
emancipation....

The soul is the Perceiver; is assuredly vision itself pure and
simple; unmodified; and looks directly upon ideas.

For the sake of the soul alone, the Universe exists.

Although the Universe in its objective state has ceased to be, in
respect to that man who has attained to the perfection of
spiritual cultivation, it has not ceased in respect to all
others, because it is common to others besides him.

The conjuncture of the soul with the organ of thought, and thus
with nature, is the cause of its apprehension of the actual
condition of the nature of the universe and of the soul itself.

The cause of this conjuncture is what is what is to be quitted,
and that cause is ignorance."
PATANJALI'S YOGA SUTRAS, pp. 25-27 rendition by W. Q. Judge


More importantly, the contention has been that Theosophy as a
body of information and historical facts is inaccurate, even
deceptive. Detractors have raised old calumnies and slanders
that were put quashed, and put to rest, decades back, but they,
the modern detractors, depend on the ignorance and apathy of the
public in the matter of determining the truth by reference to the
documents that embody the history of events concerning Theosophy,
and its significant effect on Science, and world thought.

Each reader or investigator has to make their own decisions. They
have to do the investigation themselves, or, they place
unverified trust on the dicta of others.

There are some, today, who claim legitimacy for repeating
slanders, calumnies and adverse speculations concerning this
modern Sphinx -- H. P. Blavatsky -- because the person concerned
is physically dead. They say that they have a right to claim
anything they please, now that the individual is unable to
refute, or offer a defense.

I find that some of their accusations lack the decency of
fairness -- a "level field" -- where calumnies already refuted
are carefully placed today, in juxtaposition with the proofs
offered of their inaccuracy. To me this has the appearance of
cowardice. I cannot see any fair-thinking individual who would
subscribe to the defense for such actions, as they offer -- it
being supposedly legitimized by the sophistry that the death of
the individual concerned, opens the field for slander without
fear of protest, retaliation, or the need for presenting the
"opposite side."


The Masters have offered the necessary criteria for us to
consider in regard to Theosophical methods of work and personal
duty:

"A band of students of the Esoteric Doctrines, who would reap any
profit spiritually must be in perfect harmony and unity of
thought. Each one individually and collectively has to be
utterly unselfish, kind and full of good-will towards each other
at least--leaving humanity out of the question; there must be no
party spirit among the band, no backbiting, no ill-will, or envy
or jealousy, contempt or anger." LETTERS from the MASTERS OF
WISDOM, (I) p. 16-7


Others believe that the SPIRIT which incarnated in that body,
known to all as Mme. H. P. Blavatsky, continues, alive and
powerful -- depending on her wisdom -- Deathless, they claim
the immortal Spirit continues its majestic progress, ever onward
to higher and wider spheres of wisdom and assistance to the Human
Race. And as the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT was founded to provide
this, this is still supported

Such Beings, and, that bright Spirit known to us as H P B, once
like we are, determined that they would know all that this world
and Universe offered. They decided to investigate the hidden
laws and powers of interactive Nature. Theosophy is the record
of their endeavour. The SECRET DOCTRINE give an outline of its
breadth and depth. [ see SECRET DOCTRINE I 272-3 ]

The fundamental doctrines of Theosophy are: 1.) the immortality
of all Spiritual Souls; 2.) the common bond of Karma which
serves as a basis for interaction, as it unites the causal motive
for action with the exact results returning to the individual
that generated them; 3.) a process of evolution that is
continuous and extends from the smallest part of the vast
UNIVERSE to its utmost limits, the least has the same potentials
of the most advanced; and 4.) a common goal named SPIRITUAL
PERFECTION, which is open to all, and embraces all that can be
known of the Universe and its uncountable components. That is
Universal WISDOM.

It is hoped that some of the information given below will tend to
make clear an understanding of the respect given to H P B by some
of her contemporaries, and by Those whom she named her "Masters."

Dallas TenBroeck

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H P B -- Her Mission and "Position"


As we look back at the life and work of H. P. Blavatsky, we her
students, recall with gratitude the debt that we owe to her.
Except for her work and devotion we would possibly never have had
the opportunity that has been ours to know about Theosophy, and
to be able to study it.

A number of her students have left on record their appreciation.


We offer some of these for consideration:

"...the [Theosophical] movement has grown most in consequence of
the effort of those who are devoted to an ideal, inspired by
enthusiasm, filled with a lasting gratitude to H.P.Blavatsky.
Their ideal is the service of Humanity, the ultimate potential
perfectibility of man as exemplified by the Masters and Adepts of
all ages, including the present...if it had not been for her the
T.S. with its literature would not have come into existence." (W
Q Judge, Articles (U L T) Vol. II 20-1)


One may well ask if there is a possibility of our contacting the
Masters and HPB, and the answer is that we have their philosophy
and teachings as they were originally recorded. Anyone who
studies those puts themselves into contact with HPB and the
Masters. A close student once wrote:

"...for those who have studied in the right way plenty of proof
has been offered; for others that proof exists within themselves
The former class has had tangible evidence in the way of letters
and appearances of the Adepts before their eyes; the latter
concluded long ago that the Masters are necessities of
evolution...in the West the idea of the existence of the Adepts
and of Their connection with our movement was first brought
forward in this century [the 19th] and in our Society by
H.P.Blavatsky, who, consistently throughout her career, has
declared that the Adepts--whom she was pleased to call her
Masters--directed her to engage in this work and have always
helped and directed her throughout...


They have adopted the TS as one of Their agents in this century
for disseminating the truth about man and nature...Their motive
is to help the moral--and hence external -- progress of humanity,
and their methods to work from behind the scenes by means of
agents suited for the work...the agency is not restricted to one
person, but that all sincere lovers of truth are used to that
end, whether they know it or not...the personal effort put forth
by the members will not account for the spreading of the
movement...As the Masters exist, so They help us; and as we
deserve, so will They repay."
(WQJ ARTICLES (ULT) Vol. II pp. 79-80)


"...while the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY movement of today was
distinctly under the care of the Adepts, it was not the only one
through which effect was sought to be made on the race-thought
and ethics, but that in many different ways efforts were
constantly put forward ...she insisted that the T S wears the
badge...of the Eastern and Ancient Schools...the old and united
Lodge of Adepts ...[It would be reasonable to say]...that
Brotherhood has the knowledge and power... to use every agency
which is in touch with humanity." WQJ ARTICLES (ULT) Vol. ,
Vol. I, pp. 244


Mr. W. Q. Judge, who collaborated closely with HPB and Col.
Olcott, and was one of the three Founders of the THEOSOPHICAL
SOCIETY who supported it until their death, wrote:

"I think that the way for all western theosophists is through
H.P.B. I mean that as she is the T.S. incarnate--its mother and
guardian, its creator--the Karmic laws would naturally provide
that all who drew this life through her belonged to her, and if
they denied her, they need not hope to reach [Masters], for how
can they deny her who gave this doctrine to the western world?
They share her Karma to little purpose if they think they can get
round this identification and benefit, and [Masters] want no
better proof that a man does not comprehend their philosophy.
This would, of course, bar him from [Masters] by natural laws (of
growth)...[those] who undervalue her gift and her creation, have
not imbibed the teaching and cannot assimilate its benefits. She
must be understood as being what she is to the T.S., or
Karma...is not understood, nor the first laws of occultism."
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME , p. 110


After the physical death of Mme. Blavatsky on May 8th 1891, in
answer to a friend, he wrote:

"...we believe that H.P.B. will be for some time occupied in
training a new instrument, and one not so young as to be useless
at the present cyclic crisis...she left everything in order. All
things were planned out, and evidence was abundantly had to the
effect that she knew her departure was near... looking upon her
as an Adept, whose chief work was done outside of the objective
body, it was reasonable to suppose that she is now enabled to
use, upon higher (or inner) planes of being, the power previously
expended in the maintenance of that body."
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, p. 155 [U L T Edition]


HPB had written in this regard:

"That for several years I will not be able to help it [the T S]
on, and steer its course, because I will have to act in a body
which will have to be assimilated to the Nirmanakaya, because
even in occultism there are such things as a failure and a
retardment and a misfit..." HPB -
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME , p. 281


In another article, Mr. Judge wrote:

"...but H.P.Blavatsky, who then as afterwards was really the
central figure, has for the present left this life. The first
great change, then, between seventeen years ago and now is the
removal from the scene of the personage who, for so long was the
pivot of the whole movement...[in 1879] upon the advent of the
two pioneers in Asia [ HPB and Col. Olcott, who went to India as
a Committee for the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY based in New York ]
...in order that the influence of the mysterious and distant East
might react upon the West and enable us to bring to light again
important religious and philosophical truths. This reaction
came, and manifesting in America with full force, a host of
Branches began to arise...all with one accord must draw their
chief inspiration from the life, the labors, and the words of
that wonderful and still faintly understood woman, Helena, P.
Blavatsky." WQJ Art. II 148 "SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO," Path,
Nov. 1892


Regarding HPB, the Adepts wrote:

"...They say that the Ego of that body she uses was and is a
great and brave servant of the Lodge, sent to the West with a
mission with full knowledge of the insult and obloquy to be
surely heaped upon that devoted head; and they add: 'Those who
cannot understand her had best not try to explain her; those who
do not find themselves strong enough for the task she outlined
from the very first had best not attempt it.'" WQJ ART II 18)


And Mr. Judge added:

"[As to H. P. B.]... those who cannot understand her had best not
try to explain her...she knew...that high and wise servants of
the Lodge have remained with the West since many centuries for
the purpose of helping it on its mission and destiny. That work
it would be well for members of the T. Mvt. to continue without
deviating, without excitement, without running to extremes...the
truth of the soul's life is in no special quarter of the
compass..."
(LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME , p. 76)


According to HPB:

"...there are certain persons on this earth, living and working
as ordinary human beings and members of society, whose informing
divine part is so immeasurably high in development that they as
such high beings have a definite status and function in the
"supersensuous regions."

To this Mr Judge added:

"...she herself was such a case, and that "H P B" whether hourly
in the day or at night when all around was still, had a "status
and function" in other spheres where she consciously carried on
the work of that high station, whatever it was...[She wrote in
one place] " I am conscious day and night, and have much to do
and to endure in both these existences from which you, being
half-conscious, are happily saved."	WQJ ART I 616


What then was the nature of HPB's Mission? The following is one
person's view:

"...when the great leader is H.P.Blavatsky, a whole host of
principles and postulates as to certain laws of nature cluster
around her name. For not only was she one who brought to us from
the wiser brothers of the human family a consistent philosophy of
the solar system, but in herself she illustrated practically the
existence of the supersensuous world and of the powers of the
inner and astral man...and theory or assertion touching on her
relations with the unseen and with the Masters she spoke for
inevitably opens up the discussion of some law or principle.
Many things were said about H.P.B. in her lifetime by those who
tried to understand her, some of them being silly and some
positively pernicious. The most pernicious was that made by
[A.P.S.] in London in the lifetime of H.P.B. and before the
writing of the Secret Doctrine, that she was deserted by the
Masters and was the prey of elementals and elemental forces...if
true, then anything she might say as from the Masters which did
not agree with the opinion of the one addressed could be disposed
of as being only the vaporing of some elementals."	WQJ ARTICLES
(ULT) Vol. II 13

"H.P.Blavatsky was the head, front, bottom, top, outskirts, past
and future of the theosophical society...Not only was H.P.B.
predominant with us in 1875, but she is yet."
WQJ Art II 161 "A Reminiscence," PATH, Feb. 1893 / Mar. 1895



HOW OTHERS LOOK ON H.P.B.?


"H.P.B. was the Messenger from the Great Lodge to the western
world. W.Q.J. was a co-founder and co-worker with H.P.B. from
the beginning. It will be well to remember that HPB and WQJ were
not accorded the positions They held through any authority, but
through recognition of Their knowledge and power. They were sui
generis; all others are but students. Those who belittle Judge
will also be found belittling HPB." F P 5


"HPB was the Direct Agent of the Lodge--and this is explicitly
stated to be the fact by the Master K.H. ...then we must go to
the records left by Her and Her Colleague, W.Q.J., for direction
in all matters pertaining to the Theosophical Movement."	F P 34


"In the introduction to the SECRET DOCTRINE, H.P.Blavatsky
boldly affirms the existence of a great Fraternity of Men,
Adepts, who preserve the true philosophy through all changes, now
revealing it, and again, at certain eras, withdrawing it from a
degraded age; and emphatically she says that the doctrine is
never a new one, but only a handing on again of what was always t
he system... [Further she adds] in the twentieth century of our
era scholars will begin to recognize that the S.D. has neither
been invented nor exaggerated, but, on the contrary, simply
outlined; and finally, that its teachings antedate the Vedas."

"...the Messenger from the great Fraternity--she herself being
the one for this Century--she observes significantly: that "In
Century the 20th some disciple more informed, and far better
fitted, may be sent by the Masters of Wisdom to give final and
irrefutable proof that there exists a science called Gupta-Vidya;
and that, [it] the source of all religions and philosophies now
known to the world...is at last found."	WQJ ART II 81-2



HOW DO THE MASTERS LOOK AT H.P.B.?


"...imperfect as may be our visible agent...yet, she [HPB] is the
best available at present, and her phenomena have for about half
a century astounded and baffled some of the cleverest minds of
the age."	MAHATMA LETTERS , p. 9-10


"After nearly a century of fruitless search, our chiefs had to
avail themselves of the only opportunity to send out a European
body upon European soil to serve as a connecting link between
that country and our own...my brother M. made to you through her
a certain offer...you had but to accept it, and at any time you
liked, you would have had for an hour or more, the real
baitchooly to converse with, instead of the psychological cripple
you generally have to deal with now."
M L 203-4


"On the 17th of November next [1882] the septenary term of trial
given the Society at its foundation in which to discreetly
"preach us" will expire. One or two of us hoped that the world
had so far advanced intellectually, if not intuitionally, that
the Occult doctrine might gain an intellectual acceptance, and
the impulse given for a new cycle of occult research...consent
was given for the trial. It was stipulated, however, that the
experiment should be made independently of our personal
management; that there should be no abnormal interference by
ourselves. So casting about we found in America the man to stand
as leader--a man of great moral courage, unselfish, and having
other good qualities. He was far from being the best, but...he
was the best available. With him we associated a woman of most
exceptional and wonderful endowments. Combined with them she had
strong personal defects, but just as she was, there was no second
to her living fit for this work. We sent her to America, brought
them together--and the trial began. From the first both he and
she were given to clearly understand that the issue lay entirely
with themselves. And both offered themselves for the trial...For
6 1/2 years they have been struggling against such odds as would
have driven off any one who was not working with the desperation
of one who stakes life and all he prizes on some desperate
supreme effort. Their success has not equaled the hopes of their
original backers, phenomenal as it has been in certain
directions. In a few more months the term of probation will end.
If by that time the status of the Society as regards
ourselves --the question of the "Brothers" be not definitely
settled (either dropped out of the Society's programme or
accepted on our own terms) that will be the last of the
"Brothers" of all shapes and colors, sizes or degrees. We will
subside out of public view like a vapour into the ocean. Only
those who have proved faithful to themselves and to Truth through
everything, will be allowed further intercourse with us..."	M L
263-4


"You can never know her [HPB] as we do, therefore--none of you
will ever be able to judge her impartially or correctly. You see
the surface of things; and what you would term "virtue," holding
but to appearances, we--judge but after having fathomed the
object to its profoundest depth, and generally leave the
appearances to take care of themselves. In your opinion H.P.B.
is...a quaint, strange woman, a psychological riddle...We on the
other hand, under the garb of eccentricity and folly--we find a
profounder wisdom in her inner Self than you will ever find
yourselves able to perceive...we...light daily upon traits of her
inner nature the most delicate and refined, and which would cost
an uninitiated psychologist years of constant and keen
observation, and many an hour of close analysis and efforts to
draw out of the depth of that most subtle of mysteries--human
mind--and one of the most complicated machines,---H.P.B.'s
mind--and thus learn to know her true inner Self."	M L 314


"The Lhas or adept alone possesses the real, his mind being en
rapport with the Universal Mind. The Lhas has made a perfect
junction of his soul with the Universal Mind in its fullness,
which makes him for the time a divine being existing in the
region of absolute intelligence, knowledge of natural laws or
Dgyu..."	HPB to APS 376


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, Vol. 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 p. 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 p. 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 , p. 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 p. 19


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


"The Masters are not Eastern nor Western, but universal."
LETTERS p. 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 p. 87


"...the image of the Master is the best protection against lower
influences; think of the Master as a living man within you."
LETTERS p. 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 53-4


"...if it were possible to alter the state of things and to make
a peaceful earth and a right humanity without following the law
of evolution, they would willingly do it, but mankind can only be
altered step by step. [The Masters] have also stated that they
do not make themselves objectively known to believers in them
except in those cases where those believers are ready in all
parts of their nature, are definitely pledged to them, with the
full understanding of the meaning of the pledge. But they have
also stated that they help all earnest seekers after truth, and
that it is not necessary for those seekers to know from where the
help comes so long as it is received...The Masters do help
powerfully, though unseen, all those who earnestly work and
sincerely trust in their higher nature, while they follow the
voice of conscience without doubt or cavil."	FORUM ANSWERS
75-76


"...remember what was long ago said--that the Master would manage
results. You must not manage, precipitate, nor force...As chelas
and students conceal rather than give out your inner psychic
life, for by telling of it your proper progress is hindered...By
gentleness, detachment, strict attention to duty, and retiring
now and then to the quiet place, bring up good currents and keep
back all evil ones...A steady mind and heart stands still and
quiet until the muddy stream rolls clear."	WQJ LETTERS p. 84


"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 p. 282-3



THE INNER MASTER -- SELF-DEVELOPMENT


"Every form on earth and every speck (atom) in Space strives in
its efforts towards self-formation to follow the model placed for
it in the "Heavenly Man"...Its [atom's] involution and evolution,
its external and internal growth and development, have all one
and the same object--man; man is the highest physical and
ultimate form on this earth; the MONAD in the absolute totality
and awakened condition--as the culmination of the divine
incarnations on Earth."	S D I 183


"This 'Conscious Entity' Occultism says, comes from, nay, in many
cases is, the very entire essence and esse of the high
Intelligences condemned, by the undeviating law of Karmic
evolution, to reincarnate in the manvantara." S D II 248


"Rudimentary man...becomes the perfect man...when, with the
development of "Spiritual fire,"...he acquires from his inner
Self, or Instructor, the Wisdom of Self-Consciousness, which he
does not possess in the beginning." S D II 113


"The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits of no
privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego
through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of
metempsychoses and reincarnations."	S D I 17


"...our own work, in and on ourselves, each one...has for its
object the enlightenment of oneself for the good of others...so
as to make of each a centre from which...may flow out the
potentialities for good that from the adept come in large and
affluent streams...As we use the moment, so we shift the future
up or down for good or ill; the future being only a word for the
present, not yet come, we have to see to the present more than
all...The race is in a transition state...the only way we can
alter it is by such action now as makes of each one a centre for
good, a force that makes "for righteousness," and that is guided
by wisdom...we each one have a greater fight to wage the moment
we force our inner nature up beyond the dead level of the
world..."	LETTERS 71


"Self-Consciousness belongs alone to man and proceeds from the
SELF, the Higher MANAS...whereas the psychic element (or
Kama-Manas) is common to both animal and human being...no
physiologist...will ever be able to solve the mystery of the
human mind, in its highest spiritual manifestations, or in its
dual aspect of the psychic and the noetic (or the
manasic)...unless he knows something of, and is prepared to admit
this dual element...to admit a lower (animal), and a higher (or
divine) mind in man...the "personal" and the "impersonal" Egos."
HPB ART II 9-10


"...conscious communication with one's Master can only be
accomplished after long training and study. What a student has
to do is to fit himself to receive this training."
LETTERS 111


"...he who enters the secret Path finds his peace and pleasure in
endless work for ages for Humanity...with his added sight and
knowledge, he must always be seeing the self-inflicted miseries
of men...the wider sweep and power of soul make what we call
sacrifice and woe seem something different."	LETTERS 116


"It is not high learning that is needed, but solely devotion to
humanity, faith in Masters, in the Higher Self."	LETTERS 97


"...the door is always opened to the right man who knocks. And
we invariably welcome the newcomer;--only instead of going over
to him he has to come to us. More than that: unless he has
reached that point in the path of occultism from which return is
impossible, by his having irrevocably pledged himself to our
association, we never--except in cases of utmost moment--visit
him or even cross the threshold of his door in visible
appearance."
M L 8-9


"...whenever and whatever is possible will always be done for you
unurged; hence never to either ask for, or suggest it,
yourself-- (avoid my having to refuse a friend) ...to teach
(others in Britain)...through your kind agency...I have never
undertaken to convince them of the extent of our powers or even
of our personal existence."	M L 337


"Every human being contains within himself vast potentialities,
and it is the duty of adepts to surround the would-be chela with
circumstances which shall enable him to take the "right-hand
path," if he have the ability in him...until he has passed that
period [of probation] we leave him to fight out his battles as
best he may; and have to do so occasionally with higher and
initiated chelas such as H.P.B., once that they are allowed to
work in the world, that all of us more or less avoid...We were
all so tested; and while Moorad Ali--failed--I, succeeded. The
victor's crown is only for him who proves himself worthy to wear
it; for him who attacks Mara single handed and conquers the
demon of lust and earthly passions; and not we but he himself
puts it on his brow...there is no such other difficult struggle.
If it were not so, adeptship would be but a cheap acquirement."	M
L 318


"...let him rid himself of the Maya that any man living can set
up "claims" upon Adepts. He may create irresistible attractions
and compel their attention, but they will be spiritual, not
mental or intellectual...nothing draws us to any outsider save
his evolving spirituality... The supreme energy resides in the
Buddhi, latent--when wedded to Atman alone, active and
irresistible when galvanized by the essence of "Manas" and when
none of the dross of the latter commingles with that pure essence
to weigh it down by its finite nature...When the ancient founders
of your philosophical schools came East, to acquire the lore of
our predecessors, they filed no claims, except the single one of
a sincere and unselfish hunger for truth."	M L 341-2


"Masters never cease working, but they cease at times from such
public efforts as were made at the establishment of the T.S.
Before that they were working with individuals" [ WQJ quoted by
RC, FP 388 ] ...In this work, natures are intensified, good and
bad come to the surface. The "cleaning-up" process is gradual
and each must do his own work of elimination when such work is
seen to be needed. The barriers to help from Masters are in
ourselves and nowhere else."	F P 399


"At times they come to nations as great teachers and "saviours,"
who only repromulgate the old truths and systems of ethics. This
therefore holds that humanity is capable of infinite perfection
both in time and quality, the saviours and adepts being held up
as examples of that possibility."

"From this living and presently acting body of perfected men
H.P.Blavatsky declared she received the impulse to once more
bring forward the old ideas, and from them also received several
keys to ancient and modern doctrines. Added...to the testimony
through all time found in the records of all nations we have this
modern explicit assertion that the ancient learned and
humanitarian body of adepts still exists on this earth and takes
an interest in the development of the race."
WQJ ARTICLES I pp. 1-2


"Under the protection and assistance and guidance of this Society
of Adepts are the disciples of each one of its members. These
disciples are divided into different degrees, corresponding to
the various stages of development; the least developed disciples
are assisted by those who are in advance of them, and the latter
in a similar manner by others, until the grade of disciple is
reached where direct intercourse with the Adepts is possible. At
the same time, each Adept keeps a supervisory eye upon all his
disciples. Through the agency of the disciples of Adepts many
effects are brought about in human thought and affairs, for from
the higher grades are often sent those who, without disclosing
their connection with mysticism, influence individuals who are
known to be main factors in events about to occur."	ECHOES 29


"...the disciple of the Adept knows that...he is supposed to
concentrate into a few lives the experience and practice which it
takes ordinary men countless incarnations to acquire....he leaves
behind the hope for reward so common in all undertakings.
Nothing is gained by favor, but all depends upon his actual
merit. As the end to be reached is self-dependence with perfect
calmness and clearness, he is from the beginning made to stand
alone...solely in his own company. But this produces no
selfishness, because, being accompanied by constant meditation
upon the unseen, the knowledge is acquired that the loneliness
felt is only in respect to the personality."
ECHOES 32-33


"But, hiding themselves under an exterior which does not attract
attention, there are many of the real disciples in the world.
They are studying themselves and other human hearts. They have
no diplomas, but there resides in them a consciousness of
constant help and a clear knowledge of the true Lodge which meets
in real secrecy and is never found mentioned in any directory.
Their whole life is a persistent pursuit of the fast-moving soul
which, although appearing to stand still, can distance the
lightning; and their death is only another step forward to
greater knowledge through better physical bodies in new lives."
ECHOES 33


"The real object to be kept in view is to so open up or make
porous the lower nature that the spiritual nature may shine
through it and become the guide and the ruler...it is the real
man, who is the HIGHER SELF--being the spark of the
Divine--overshadows the visible being, which has the possibility
of becoming united to that spark. Thus it is said that the
higher Spirit is not in the man, but above him...The object of
the student is to let the light of that spirit shine through the
lower covering...all selfishness must be eliminated from the
lower nature before its divine state can be reached...When
systematically trained in accordance with the aforesaid system
and law, men attain to clear insight into the immaterial,
spiritual world, and their interior faculties apprehend truth as
immediately and readily as physical faculties grasp the things of
sense, or mental faculties those of reason..."They are able to
look directly upon ideas."	EPITOME 13-14


"...the members of our Great Lodge have full information unknown
to those outside the Lodge, of the "conscious efforts to obtain
knowledge of principles and laws" on the part of good men and
women, and in this search that help is frequently extended but is
not seen or recognized, although it is felt and has its results."
FORUM ANSWERS 50


"...since the MAHATMA is but an advanced occultist, who has so
far controlled his lower "self" as to hold it more or less in
complete subjection to the Cosmic impulse, it is in the nature of
things impossible for him to act in any other but an unselfish
manner. No sooner does he allow his "personal self" to assert
itself, than he ceases to be a MAHATMA...The law of Cosmic
evolution is ever operating to achieve its purpose of ultimate
unity and to carry the phenomenal into the noumenal plane, and
the MAHATMAS, being en rapport with it, are assisting that
purpose...they alone have got to the basic knowledge which can
determine the right course and exercise proper discrimination.
And for us...it will be evident that, as soon as the least
feeling of selfishness tries to assert itself, the vision of the
spiritual sense, which is the only perception of the MAHATMA,
becomes clouded and he looses the "power" which abstract
"knowledge" alone can confer. Hence the vigilant watch of the
"will" we have constantly to exercise to prevent our lower nature
from coming up to the surface..."	THEOS. MVT. Vol. X, p. 138-9


"A perfect man is not made to order but is a product of
evolution. Wisdom is not a matter of book-learning but of
growth. General rules for conduct can be given, but to apply
them properly, the power of discrimination is necessary...A
virtue, practiced without moderation, becomes a crime. To know
how to find the point of equilibrium is the great secret of the
Adept, that cannot be told but must be learned by experience,
when sagacity and goodness will be united in wisdom."	HPB --
THEOSOPHIST 1885, THEOSOPHY, Vol. 47, pp. 441-2


"The whole individuality is centred in the three middle
Principles or third (MANAS), and fifth (ASTRAL BODY) principles.
During earthly life it is all in the fourth (KAMA-MANAS), the
center of energy, volition--will...the individuality
survives...to run its seven-fold and upward course [ it ] has to
assimilate to itself the eternal-life power residing but in the
seventh (ATMA), and then blend the three (4th, 5th & 7th) into
one--the 6th (BUDDHI). Those who succeed in doing so become
Buddhas, Dhyan Chohans, etc... The chief object of our struggle
and initiations is to achieve this union while yet on this
earth."	M L 77-8


"Happy the man physically pure, for his external soul (astral
body, the image of the body) is pure, it will strengthen the
second (the lower Manas), or the soul which is termed by him the
higher mortal soul, which, though liable to err from its own
motives, will always side with the reason against the animal
proclivities of the body. In other words, the ray of our Higher
Ego, the lower Manas, has its higher light, the reason or
rational powers of the Nous, to help it in the struggle with
Kamic desires."	HPB ART I 27-8


"Force any one of the "Masters" you may happen to choose; do
good works in his name and for the love of mankind; be pure and
resolute in the path of righteousness (as laid out in our rules);
be honest and unselfish; forget your self but to remember the
good of other people--and you will have forced that "Master" to
accept you."	L M W (I) p. 33



THEOSOPHICAL OBJECTIVES


"...the chief object of the T S is not so much to gratify
individual aspirations as to serve our fellow men...in our view
the highest aspirations for the welfare of humanity become
tainted with selfishness if, in the mind of the philanthropist
there lurks the shadow of desire for self benefit or a tendency
to do injustice, even when these exist unconsciously to himself."
M L 7-8

"...we are not working for some definite organization of the new
years to come, but for a change in the Manas and Buddhi of the
Race...Masters could give now all the light and knowledge needed,
but there is too much darkness that would swallow up the light,
except for a few bright souls, and then a greater darkness would
come on."	LETTERS p. 72


"At present the main fundamental object of the Society is to sow
germs in the hearts of men, which may in time sprout, and under
more propitious circumstances lead to a healthy reform,
conductive of more happiness to the masses than they have
hitherto enjoyed." HPB	KEY 257

"It is the rich who have to be regenerated, if we would do good
to the poor...Work, therefore, to bring about the moral
regeneration of the cultured classes before you attempt to do the
same for ignorant younger brethren..."	HPB ART I 103-5


"[ The T S has as its mission ] to furnish to the West that which
it can never get from the East; to push forward and raise high
on the circular path of evolution now rolling West, the light
that lighteth every man who cometh into the world--the light of
the true Self, who is the one true Master for every human being;
all other Masters are but servants of that true One; in it all
real Lodges have their union." LETTERS p. 75


"As a change in thought of a people who have been tending to
gross atheism is one always desired by the Sages of the Wisdom
Religion, it may be supposed that the wave of spiritualistic
phenomena resulting now quite clearly in a tendency back to a
universal acknowledgment of the soul, has been aided by the
Nirmanakayas. They are in it and of it; they push on the
progress of a psychic deluge over great masses of people. The
result is seen in the literature, the religion and the drama of
today. Slowly but surely the tide creeps up and covers the once
dry shore of Materialism..."	ECHOES 28


"Essentials are the only things on which true occultism and
Theosophy require an agreement..."	LETTERS 70


"There must be an adherence to the program of the Masters. That
can only be ascertained by consulting her [HPB] and the letters
given out by her as from Those to whom she refers. There is not
much doubt about that program."..."This is the moment to guide
the recurrent impulse which must soon come and which will push
the age toward extreme atheism or drag it back to extreme
sacerdotalism, if it is not led to the primitive, soul-satisfying
philosophy of the Aryans."..."We must follow this program and
supply the world with a system of philosophy which gives a sure
and logical basis for ethics, and that can only be gotten from
those to which I adverted." ..."By our unity the smallest effort
made by us will have ten-fold the power of any obstacle before us
or any opposition offered by the world."..."Our destiny is to
continue the wide work of the past in affecting literature and
thought throughout the world, while our ranks see many changing
quantities but always holding those who remain true to the
program, and refuse to become dogmatic or give up common sense in
Theosophy. Thus we will wait for the new messenger, striving to
keep the organization alive that he may use it." WQJ - THE FUTURE
AND THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY - quoted by RC, FP p. 153 --
[WQJ ART II p. 145-6]


"The theory is widely known among the members of the Society that
at the close of each century a spiritual movement is made in the
world by the Mahatmas, which begins with the last 25 years of the
century and does not in that form begin after the close of 25
years until the last quarter of the following period...The
Masters are governed by the law of action and reaction and are
wise enough always not to do that which might result in undoing
all their prior work. The law of reaction applies as much to the
mind of man as to physical things and forces. ... In the West,
following the historical cycles, a great and definite effort is
made among the people--for instance, as the Theosophical
Society--so as to aid the psychical and spiritual development in
man..."


"At the end of the 25 years the Masters will not send out in such
wide and sweeping volume the force they send during the 25 years.
But that does not mean they will withdraw. They will leave the
ideas to germinate in the minds of people at large, but never
will they take away from those who deserve it the help that is
due and given to all... During all the centuries there have been
many persons who have had direct and valuable help from Masters,
and to suppose that at the end of our first 25 years all of that
will be finished is an absurdity in itself."	WQJ ART II 76-7


"A band of students of the Esoteric Doctrines, who would reap any
profit spiritually must be in perfect harmony and unity of
thought. Each one individually and collectively has to be
utterly unselfish, kind and full of good-will towards each other
at least--leaving humanity out of the question; there must be no
party spirit among the band, no backbiting, no ill-will, or envy
or jealousy, contempt or anger." L M W (I) p. 16-7

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