Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00007)

Brigitte,

Did you want a para-by-para analysis or just general comments? The business, for example, of "every temple has a dark room ..." is bullshit given out to
attract the unwary and ignorant. And "the astral light is collected in a cup by willpower" is pure poetry because the astral light is not a physical
substance that one can gather and place anywhere.

After years of study and practice, one will come to be able to see through these kinds of outer trimmings and poetical fancies, and see what is really going on. Most of the mirror and crystal gazing descriptions are the very thing that Blavatsky, in other parts of her writings, warns readers against.

The mirror and crystal (and water sometimes) are simply devices used to allow the mind to imagine, to form mental images, and it is one's own
magical imagination that does the scrying - the trick is to be able to distinguish between detailed kama-manas descriptions (which are usually mental projections and not what is really going on) and less-detailed buddhi-manas descriptions.

Steve's final observation, that mirrors and such can actually work, is quite correct - they CAN, but probably the images seen will just be projections by
the scrier. I think that the work done by Dee and Kelly, for example, and some of the flying scroll work of the original Golden Dawn, ranks up there
with examples of true scrying.

Jerry S.

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In reference to earlier postings

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/4385

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/4433

Steve presented some (I think revolutionary) quotes from among others the "Mahatma Letters" indicating their familiarity with P.B.Randolp`s book
SEERSHIP. Knowing you probably dealt with the subject "scrying" during your John Dee books research , including its later forms in modern esoteric movements (Crowley ?), plus its modern versions in the humanistic psychology off shoots, could you pls comment on this :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/4488

And how you see it can make us understand Blavatsky,s inner workings, plus
occult/spiritual evolution, more ?

Thank you,
Brigitte


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