Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00122)

Hi all of you,

Here is part 
2 of 3 in a series 
on the Ancient Wisdom and their connections in the past and today.

(Just a remark on the postings of Dallas. Thanks Dallas. I wonder where ULT are going.)

---

"Q: Does a teacher appear in a group which already exists, or does he not?

A: He may or he may not. He comes to fulfil a law. He may revalidate the working bases of a derelict group.

Q: Why does he do this?

A: In response to an inexorable need.

Q: Does the group always recognise him?

A: Certain people generally do. It will depend upon the apparatus of perception which they have. The onus on him is not primarily to preach, but to make himself available to the perception of the people.

Q: Does he need the support of such groups?

A: Both parties can benefit, because there is no such thing as solitary work. Even a derelict group can be producing semi-consciously a quantity of necessary force ('substance') which we might say goes to waste unless it is correctly used.

Q: How can we account for the dramatic rise of teachers who purport to have been 'called' to bring, for instance, spirituality to mankind?

A: Do not generalise about this. One form is the result of physical laws. A group of people can engender necessary force (substance) already mentioned. They do not know what to do with it; they may not even really know what it is. An individual, who has another development analogous to their own, may contact this force (distance has no relevance here) and make use of it. Now we have the amusing and also tragic situation in which (a) force is raised by a certain group, (b) it is perceived and empolyed by someone else, (c) this temporarily reinforces, through vampirism, the 'teacher' who becomes prominent, (d) because of the similarity of this person with their own defective tradition, the victim group think that he is their teacher, (e) they join him, not realising that he seems to be like them because he is using their own nutrition !
What you call a movement is part of an organic, natural development. It takes on local colour because of the culture in which it grows. It cannot be imported together with the local colouring. It may attain a certain degree of necessary force in its location, but its spread into other areas is conditional upon two vital factors:

(1) That it takes root naturally and becomes naturalised in the fresh culture.
(2) That there is a need for it in the new culture.

The latter condition is operative only when there is a teacher, adequately commissioned to provide a formulation in that area.

Q: So there is no point travelling to seek knowledge, since it seems that one must wait until a teaching is offered to one?

A: This is not what I meant. In your terms, the proces is something like this. Certain individuals may be 'called' to make journeys, in order to aquire certain capacities. This call which you have too easily assumed to be an act of personal volition, is the result of natural conditions. Such people are attracted, we might almost say, 'imported', to be a centre of teaching when this is necessary, in order to fit them for their task. There are different varieties of such individuals. They are 'called' from one cultural area to another precisely when it is necessary for the teaching to be projected in an area of similar cultural background to their own. They become the instrument of the transmission of the teaching into a fresh culture.

Q: Will this process be described by the teacher to his followers?

A: The teacher will describe to his followers exactly what is ncessary for them to know in order to attain a development which it is his duty to assist. His task is not to provide geographically, biographical or mysteroius stimulation except for multiple purpose. Remember, that what he does is itself conditioned by necessity and is largely in a realm which is not perceived by the unregenerate."

Well, 'vampirism' is not a proper manner of acting. So where are the best teachers at Theosophy or Ancient Wisdom today ? On holiday ?

Are politicans just vampires? Are some of them acting spiritually or by the use of Ancient Wisdom at all? Or is it only half-hearted performance?

Feel free to comment on the above.

from
M. Suflight with peace and love...


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]