Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00071)

May 8, 2003


WHITE LOTUS DAY


In grateful memory



WHITE LOTUS DAY 2003



H. P. B. -- WHO WAS SHE ?



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 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."
[ SECRET DOCTRINE 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 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 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 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 19


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


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


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


"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 282-3

DTB