Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00249)

Ali, you wrote:

"What Bailey writes concerning those Beings is 
only to augment what Blavatsky had revealed, 
afaik. I don't ever recall seeing Blavatsky
asserting that her writings were the final 
word on the Secret Doctrine, the Esoteric Path."

Certainly Blavatsky never asserted that 
"her writings were the final word on the Secret 
Doctrine, the Esoteric Path."

But she ALSO gave her students warnings such as the
following:

". . . A new and rapidly growing danger. . . is 
threatening . . . the spread of the pure Esoteric 
Philosophy and knowledge. . . . I allude to those 
charlatanesque imitations of Occultism and Theosophy
. . . . By pandering to the prejudices of people, and
especially by adopting the FALSE IDEAS of a 
personal God and A PERSONAL, CARNALIZED SAVIOUR, 
as the groundwork of their teaching, the leaders 
of this 'swindle' (for such it is) are endeavoring 
to draw men to them and in particular to turn 
Theosophists from the true path." Caps added.

Therefore perceptive students of her writings
should be aware that there may be "charlatanesque 
imitations of Occultism and Theosophy" that
THREATEN "the pure Esoteric Philosophy and 
knowledge." 

She also warns students:

"Nothing is more dangerous to Esoteric Truth than 
the GARBLED and DISTORTED versions disfigured 
to suit the prejudices and tastes of men in general." 

Surely students should therefore be on the lookout
for such DISTORTIONS. Wouldn't you agree?

And HPB gave other warnings such as:

"Great are the desecrations to which the names 
of two of the Masters have been subjected. There 
is hardly a medium who has not claimed to have 
seen them. Every bogus swindling Society, for 
commercial purposes, now claims to be guided 
and directed by 'Masters' often supposed to be 
far higher than ours!"

Therefore if one accepts HPB's claims, then one
should be on one's guard against such bogus claims.
If there were such claims during HPB's own lifetime, 
are we naive enough to believe there were no such
claims AFTER her death?

Daniel
http://hpb.cc