Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00001)

Hallo all of you,



My views are:

1.
The nearest exponent of the Esoteric philosophy "is the Vedanta as expounded
by the Advaita Vedantists," (Secret Doctrine, I, p. 55). (Bhagavad-Gita, W.
Q. Judge, p. 108)
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/ve-vz.htm

Vedanta is not for everyone to learn.


2.Quoting The Secret Doctrine:
Sri Sankaracharya, the greatest Initiate living in the historical ages,
wrote many a Bhashya on the Upanishads. But his original treatises, as there
are reasons to suppose, have not yet fallen into the hands of the
Philistines, for they are too jealously preserved in his maths (monasteries,
mathams). And there are still weightier reasons to believe that the
priceless Bhashyas (Commentaries) on the esoteric doctrine of the Brahmins,
by their greatest expounder, will remain for ages yet a dead letter to most
of the Hindus, except the Smartava Brahmins. This sect, founded by
Sankaracharya, (which is still very powerful in Southern India) is now
almost the only one to produce students who have preserved sufficient
knowledge to comprehend the

[[Footnote(s) -------------------------------------------------]]
* Also called "the Sons of Wisdom," and of the "Fire-Mist" and the "Brothers
of the Sun" in the Chinese records. Si-dzang (Tibet) is mentioned in the
MSS. of the sacred library of the province of Fo-Kien, as the great seat of
Occult learning from time immemorial, ages before Buddha. The Emperor Yu,
the "great" (2,207 years B.C.), a pious mystic and great adept, is said to
have obtained his knowledge from the "great teachers of the Snowy Range" in
Si-dzang.


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[[Vol. 1, Page]] 272 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
dead letter of the Bhashyas. The reason of this is that they alone, I am
informed, have occasionally real Initiates at their head in their mathams,
as for instance, in the "Sringa-giri," in the Western Ghats of Mysore. On
the other hand, there is no sect in that desperately exclusive caste of the
Brahmins, more exclusive than is the Smartava; and the reticence of its
followers to say what they may know of the Occult sciences and the esoteric
doctrine, is only equalled by their pride and learning.

The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1, page 271-2 OCCULTISM IN
THE UPANISHADS.


3.
Quoting The Secret Doctrine:
"The Logos, or both the unmanifested and the manifested WORD, is called by
the Hindus, Iswara, "the Lord," though the Occultists give it another name.
Iswara, say the Vedantins, is the highest consciousness in nature. "This
highest consciousness," answer the Occultists, "is only a synthetic unit in
the world of the manifested Logos -- or on the plane of illusion; for it is
the sum total of Dhyan-Chohanic consciousnesses." "Oh, wise man, remove the
conception that not-Spirit is Spirit," says Sankaracharya. Atma is
not-Spirit in its final Parabrahmic state, Iswara or Logos is Spirit; or, as
Occultism explains, it is a compound unity of manifested living Spirits, the
parent-source and nursery of all the mundane and terrestrial monads, plus
their divine reflection, which emanate from, and return into, the Logos,
each in the culmination of its time. There are seven chief groups of such
Dhyan Chohans, which groups will be found and recognised in every religion,
for they are the primeval SEVEN Rays. Humanity, occultism teaches us, is
divided into seven distinct groups and their sub-divisions, mental,
spiritual, and physical.* The monad, then, viewed as ONE, is above the
seventh principle (in Kosmos and man), and as a triad, it is the direct
radiant progeny of the said compound UNIT, not the breath (and special
creation out of nihil) of "God," as that unit is called; for such an idea is
quite unphilosophical, and degrades Deity, dragging it down to a finite,
attributive condition. As well expressed by the translator of the
"Crest-Jewel of Wisdom" -- though Iswara is "God" "unchanged in the
profoundest depths of pralayas and in the intensest activity of the
manvantaras" . . ., still "beyond (him) is
[[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- 
* Hence the seven chief planets, the spheres of the indwelling seven
spirits, under each of which is born one of the human groups which is guided
and influenced thereby. There are only seven planets (specially connected
with earth), and twelve houses, but the possible combinations of their
aspects are countless. As each planet can stand to each of the others in
twelve different aspects, their combinations must, therefore, be almost
infinite; as infinite, in fact, as the spiritual, psychic, mental, and
physical capacities in the numberless varieties of the genus homo, each of
which varieties is born under one of the seven planets and one of the said
countless planetary combinations. See Theosophist, for August, 1886."

The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1, page 573 THE CREST-JEWEL
OF WISDOM.
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-3-11.htm


Just try and compare this with later theosophy - and smell the -
emotional-oriented - difference !


Did this help ?

from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...



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> This is extremely helpful to me.
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