Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00423)

Morten Nymann Olesen wrote:

> To "drop" an aspirant - to me simply meant to ship
> the aspirant to another
> group or let the aspirant go the path alone - for a
> while.
> I think it was there we misunderstood each other.
> 
> Some aspirants cannot just be taken inside.
> They would simply be a problem to the spiritual and
> perhaps social relations
> among people.

I think you are confusing the thread by changing your
opinion. The issue here is not "taking aspirants
inside." You wrote:

"The Arcane School if it was (and is) a real School of
Wisdom will because of
the laws of Karma have to
drop certain (and not "all" - Bailey didn't say "all")
emotional aspirants
and other persons, who wouldn't or
will not fit the pattern."

Please remember that this discussion originated in the
quote of Alice Bailey's statement from her
"Autobiography" that she had dropped from the Arcane
School hundreds of students of the emotional,
devotional type.

Esoteric schools throughout the ages have had strict
rules and conditions of membership, and it is clear
that they didn't accept everyone. The Sanskrit word
"Shishya", commonly translated as "disciple", means
one ‘who is capable and worthy of being taught’. The
important conditions are in the student
himself/herself. The problem with Bailey's statement
is the discriminatory stand against individuals'
temperaments. You simply won't find any such thing in
Blavatsky's esoteric instructions. Raja Yoga, the
method she used, involves a balanced integration of
Karma, Bhakti and Jnana (action, devotion and
knowledge). Certainly after entering a path of
esoteric instruction one can fail, fall, misunderstand
the teachings, become an egomaniac, etc, etc. But a
school that drops students because of their
temperaments can hardly be called an esoteric, or
initiatory school.


> The previous example one more time:
> A sick horse would be taken care of at its own place
> and not at the race
> track where the other horses come thundering by with
> the judge in his tower.
> Do you not agree ?

Again, you are pushing the metaphor. Do you mean to
say that the hundreds of students that were dropped
from the Arcane School by Bailey can be compared do
sick horses? Once you are in a school of esoteric
instruction (if it is one) you should find in it
guidance, strength and inspiration, and not be told to
find treatment elsewhere. The reason for this is that
if the school is authentic, it should be animated by
the spirit of wisdom and compassion, for an esoteric
school is not a school for business excellence,
neither is it based on the principle of the survival
of the fittest.

Now, Morten, before we become like two boring
transatlantic horses, shouldn't we change the subject?

Nasrudinian greetings to you.

Pedro 



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