Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00111)

Hi Mauri,

I knew the quote you were talking about, but I have looked and looked 
on the collected writings cd-rom (in the mahatma letters) for 1897 
and coulnd't find it, untill I thought - what if it isn't in the 
Mahatma Letters - and let the cd-rom search be done on everything. 
And lo behold: it turned up. It is in the Esoteric Instructions (and 
also in Volume III of the Secret Doctrine, and I'll quote part here:
>> Let every member know, moreover, that the time for such priceless 
acquisition is limited. The writer of the present is old; her life is 
well-nigh worn out, and she may be summoned "home" any day and almost 
any hour. And if her place is even filled up, perchance by another 
worthier and more learned than herself, still there remain but twelve 
years to the last hour of the term末namely, till December the 31st, 
1899. Those who will not have profited by the opportunity (given to 
the world in every last quarter of a century), those who will not 
have reached a certain point of psychic and spiritual development, or 
that point from which begins the cycle of adeptship, by that day末
those will advance no further than the knowledge already acquired. No 
Master of Wisdom from the East will himself appear or send any one to 
Europe or America after that period, and the sluggards will have to 
renounce every chance of advancement in their present incarnation末
until the year 1975. Such is the LAW, for we are in Kali Yuga末the 
Black Age末and the restrictions in this cycle, the first 5,000 years 
of which will expire in 1897, are great and almost insuperable.
As to the relations of the Masters to this Section, it may be further 
said, paradoxically, that with Them everything is possible and 
everything impossible. They may or may not communicate personally on 
the outer plane with a member, and those who are continually wishing 
to receive "orders" or communications directly from Them on this 
plane, either phenomenally or otherwise, will in all probability be 
disappointed. The Masters have no desire to prove Their power or 
give "tests" to anyone whatever. And the fact that a member has 
concluded that a crisis of some kind or other is at hand, when, 
according to his wise opinion, the Master or Masters ought to speak 
and interfere personally, is no sound reason for such an outward 
interference.
It is, however, right that each member, once he believes in the 
existence of such Masters, should try to understand what their nature 
and powers are, to reverence Them in his heart, to draw near to Them, 
as much as in him lies, and to open up for himself conscious 
communication with the guru to whose bidding he has devoted his life. 
THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE BY RISING TO THE SPIRITUAL PLANE WHERE THE 
MASTERS ARE, AND NOT BY ATTEMPTING TO DRAW THEM DOWN TO OURS.
Inasmuch as growth in spiritual life comes from within, members must 
not expect to receive any other communications than those through 
H.P.B. The additional help, instruction, and enlightenment, will come 
from the inner planes of being, and will, as said, always be given 
when deserved.>> p. 492 Volume XII, BLAVATSKY: COLLECTED WRITINGS

So all though this does say the general line of help will end, for 
those deserving, help might come after 1899. Aparently Annie Besant 
was deserving enough to get that final letter. 

Katinka 

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mauri <mhart@i...> wrote:

> One might wonder where one might find references to that letter?
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/lastkh.htm

> I was under the impression that the Mahatmas clearly enough 
> stated, in one of their letters (Daniel or Dallas might know which 
> one), that they would not be corresponding with anybody after 
> HPB's passing. Or am I mistaken?