Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00243)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mauri <mhart@i...> wrote:
> Leon wrote, in part: <<... HPB gave out 
> theosophy as a "synthesis of science, 
> religion and philosophy" and tied that 
> path of "knowledge" together with the 
> heart doctrine of the Voice of the 
> Silence which pointed out the inner path 
> of meditation leading to true wisdom ... >>
> 
> She seems to have been one of the most 
> ambitious people there ever were ... 
> Seems to me as if she wanted to have her 
> cake and, at the same time, wanted it in 
> the fridge, in that she admitted she was 
> offering an "exoteric version," didn't 
> she ... so that, in effect, seems to me 
> she was keeping the "esoteric version" 
> (as it were) in the fridge (in as much 
> as it could not be exoterized, or 
> consumed exoterically or "normally" or 
> dualistically) while offering the 
> "exoteric version" as if it were the 
> real cake that people could really eat 
> or make use of (ie, "applicably enough," 
> as it were) ... That, seems to be, 
> spells ambition of a kind that, to me, 
> seems very interesting, basically.
> 
> Spec,
> Mauri

Actually it spells diversion. There are tricks, and hints which the 
Masters give that actually take the credit away from themselves. 
Have you ever thought about that? She was giving some awfully 
convoluted advice at times that would have tied any normal mortal 
into psychic knots if followed. That never seems to occur to people 
who try and decipher every word. Perhaps it is not supposed to all 
be deciphered but absorbed, by osmosis, by a willing spiritual 
sponge who soaks up that sun that personality that godlike persona 
that was hidden beneath an unsmiling face, but a happy, laughing 
soul.

Netemara