Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00096)

Friday, June 13, 2003

RE: Ancient Buddhist Esoteric Schools: VOICE -- MAHAYANA


Dear Marko and Friends:

1

If you have a copy of the VOICE OF THE SILENCE by H P B, the
Introduction will give you a survey of the esoteric ancient
Buddhist schools -- MAHAYANA.

The VOICE OF THE SILENCE is a Mahayana text. It needs careful
study by all of us.

Available at http://www.blavatsky.net for reading and
downloading.


2

It might also be good to secure access to the THEOSOPHICAL
GLOSSARY and the VOICE OF THE SILENCE by H P B

More details are given there. See TRIPITAKA, GAUTAMA BUDDHA,
MAHAYANA,


Voice is available at: ULT-Phoenix Lodge Web-site to read and
download

E-mail Address(es): phxultlodge@hotmail.com

Best wishes,

Dallas



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-----Original Message-----
From: phtep [mailto:phtep@hotmail.com]
Sent:	Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:46 PM
To:	theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Theos-World Re: G de P re "Esoteric Buddhism"

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mauri <mhart@i...> wrote:
> Quoting from THE DIALOGUES OF G DE P, VOL. 2,
> PAGE 208:
>
> <<Those of you who are students of Theosophy will
> see the logical, absolutely logical, necessity of an
> esoteric teaching, of an esoteric School wherein the
> deeper teachings are given: the profounder, broader,
> larger secrets of the Universe and of man's constitution,
> which cannot be given out publicly because they
> cannot be understood without at least some real
> esoteric training. When H. P. B. spoke in later years in
> her Secret Doctrine about the mistake that was made in
> the name of Sinnert's Esoteric Buddhism, it was a very
> wise and clever thing that she did. Every word that she
> wrote was true, yet it was a deliberate 'pulling of the
> wool' over the eyes of those who thought they knew so
> much, that it blinded them and thus they could not see
> the truth. I have used the same policy myself. When I
> find that an esoteric teaching is being argued about, or
> mocked at, or misconstrued, then instead of trying to
> remedy the situation by denying it, or explaining it, I
> say something like this: "Why yes, of course, this is the
> way to look at it," apparently but not really agreeing
> with the proud brain-minds who cannot because they
> will not see. It is an ancient rule in our School that
> when a teaching is misunderstood or is in danger of
> being abused, then it must be veiled. This is a wise
> thing to do. When H. P. B. said that if Mr. Sinnett had
> only called his book Esoteric Bodhism, or Esoteric
> Budhism, meaning 'Esoteric Wisdom,' it would have
> rightly expressed the teachings of the Masters, as far as
> it went, she made a true statement. Nevertheless, the
> title first given to the book was right, for it was indeed
> the esoteric teaching of the Lord Buddha which was in
> the background of the Masters' minds when they gave
> to Mr. Sinnett the knowledge that he received. It was in
> very truth Esoteric Buddhism.>>

But were there any esoteric schools of buddhism in the history of
buddhism, like gnostics and platonics were in western tradition?

-Marko-




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