Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00374)

> Told by whom? And based on what evidence? Or, is this more of the 
garbage spewed out by AAB and her imaginary DK? My 20 year 
comparative study of both the Secret Doctrine and the Treatise on 
White Magic have never shown any reasonable relationship between the 
two teachings. In fact the contradictions 
> stand out in more places that I was ever be able to count. And 
while the SD, 
> based on rational Hermetism and sound scientific thinking, is 
clearly 
> decipherable through studied intuition tempered by reason, the TWM 
is a 
> garbled mess of phony mysticism, irrationally linked to the 
mystical 
> references in the SD, and without any connection to the rational 
physical and 
> metaphysical order of the universe... Designed (sincerely, I would 
imagine) 
> to foster a blind faith in the personal God and savior favored by 
AAB, based 
> on her early brainwashing by her parent's Christian biases, along 
with AB and 
> CWL and their "Liberal Catholic Church" nonsense -- that was 
completely 
> repudiated by their supposed "Messiah" JK. Then along came AAB 
who conjured 
> up DK, and put him in the fall guy role a live messiah could never 
have 
> gotten away with. Fact is, I studied AAB before I got to the SD, 
and when I 
> found almost total disagreement with the Hermetic as well as the 
Tibetan 
> Buddhist teachings, I then went to the SD and found the real 
truth, 
> undistorted, and entirely consistent with fundamental principles, 
first page 
> to last. Not to say, however (discounting AAB's personal biases 
and 
> prejudices) that the humanistic and "good will" motives behind the 
AAB 
> teachings are not worthwhile.

Steady on old chap, lest you blow a few petals off your solar 
plexus! 

You make some excellent points in the rest of your tirade, but this 
first bit is a load of codswallop. The fact that you subscribe to 
the rubbish on Pinenet says it all. 

"The slower method of research is the safer at present. In the next 
century and early in the century an initiate will appear and will 
carry on their teaching. It will be under the same "impression" for 
my task is not yet completed and this series of bridging Treatises 
between the material knowledge of man and the science of the 
initiates has still another phase to run."

"Letters on Occult Meditation followed next. These indicated a 
somewhat new approach to meditation, based not on devotion to the 
Masters but on a recognition of the soul in each person. This was 
succeeded by A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. This book was an expansion 
of the teaching given in The Secret Doctrine on the three fires—
electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction—and it was an awaited 
sequence; it also presented the psychological key to The Secret 
Doctrine and is intended to offer study to disciples and initiates 
at the close of this century and the beginning of the next century, 
up until 2025 A.D."

"Towards the end of the century and during the first few decades of 
the twenty-first century, teaching anent Shamballa will be given 
forth. The effort of the abstract mind of man will be towards the 
comprehension of this, just as the [Page 262] goal of hierarchical 
contact marks the present effort of the disciple. "

P.