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April 22nd 2004

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H P B and the MASTERS
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"The theory is widely known among the members of the Society that at the
close of each century a spiritual movement is made in the world by the
Mahatmas, which begins with the last 25 years of the century and does
not in that form begin after the close of 25 years until the last
quarter of the following period...The Masters are governed by the law of
action and reaction and are wise enough always not to do that which
might result in undoing all their prior work. The law of reaction
applies as much to the mind of man as to physical things and forces. ...
In the West, following the historical cycles, a great and definite
effort is made among the people--for instance, as the Theosophical
Society--so as to aid the psychical and spiritual development in man..."


"At the end of the 25 years the Masters will not send out in such wide
and sweeping volume the force they send during the 25 years. But that
does not mean they will withdraw. They will leave the ideas to
germinate in the minds of people at large, but never will they take away
from those who deserve it the help that is due and given to all...
During all the centuries there have been many persons who have had
direct and valuable help from Masters, and to suppose that at the end of
our first 25 years all of that will be finished is an absurdity in
itself."	WQJ ART, II 76-7


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Recently there have been some queries and controversy concerning H P B
-- 


The questions is asked: Is she alive or is she dead? 


Perhaps some of these quotations about her and her work given from the
perspective of the MASTERS OF WISDOM -- the ELDER BROTHERS -- will be
of help.

Theosophy has been called a history of the development of the spiritual
nature of mankind. On this, Patanjali, an ancient sage wrote: 

"The Universe, including the visible and the invisible, the essential
nature of which is compounded of purity, action, and rest, and which
consists of the elements and the organs of action, exists for the sake
of the soul's experience and emancipation..

The soul is the Perceiver; is assuredly vision itself pure and simple;
unmodified; and looks directly upon ideas. 

For the sake of the soul alone, the Universe exists.

Although the Universe in its objective state has ceased to be, in
respect to that man who has attained to the perfection of spiritual
cultivation, it has not ceased in respect to all others, because it is
common to others besides him.

The conjuncture of the soul with the organ of thought, and thus with
nature, is the cause of its apprehension of the actual condition of the
nature of the universe and of the soul itself.

The cause of this conjuncture is what is what is to be quitted, and that
cause is ignorance."
PATANJALI'S YOGA SUTRAS, pp. 25-27 rendition by W. Q. Judge


More importantly, the contention has been that Theosophy as a body of
information and historical facts is inaccurate, even deceptive.
Detractors have raised old calumnies and slanders that were put quashed,
and put to rest, decades back, but they, the modern detractors, depend
on the ignorance and apathy of the public in the matter of determining
the truth by reference to the documents that embody the history of
events concerning Theosophy, and its significant effect on Science, and
world thought.

Each reader or investigator has to make their own decisions. They have
to do the investigation themselves, or, they place unverified trust on
the dicta of others. 

The Masters have offered the necessary criteria for us to consider in
regard to Theosophical methods of work and personal duty:

"A band of students of the Esoteric Doctrines, who would reap any profit
spiritually must be in perfect harmony and unity of thought. Each one
individually and collectively has to be utterly unselfish, kind and full
of good-will towards each other at least--leaving humanity out of the
question; there must be no party spirit among the band, no backbiting,
no ill-will, or envy or jealousy, contempt or anger." LETTERS
from the MASTERS OF WISDOM, (I) p. 16-7


Others believe that the SPIRIT which incarnated in that body, known to
all as Mme. H. P. Blavatsky, continues, alive and powerful -- depending
on her wisdom -- Deathless, they claim the immortal Spirit continues
its majestic progress, ever onward to higher and wider spheres of wisdom
and assistance to the Human Race. And as the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT was
founded to provide this, it is continually supported by H P B.

Such Beings as the Masters of Wisdom, and, that bright Spirit known to
us as H P B, once like we, determined that they would know all that this
world and Universe offered. They decided to investigate the hidden laws
and powers of interactive Nature. Theosophy is the record of their
endeavour. The SECRET DOCTRINE give an outline of its breadth and
depth. [see SECRET DOCTRINE I 272-3]

The fundamental doctrines of Theosophy are: 

1.) the immortality of all Spiritual Souls; 

2.) the common bond of Karma which serves as a basis for interaction,
as it unites the causal motive for action with the exact results
returning to the individual that generated them; 

3.) a process of evolution that is continuous and extends from the
smallest part of the vast UNIVERSE to its utmost limits, the least has
the same potentials of the most advanced; and 

4.) a common goal: SPIRITUAL PERFECTION, which is open to all, and
embraces all that can be known of the Universe and its uncountable
components. That is Universal WISDOM.

It is hoped that some of the information given below will tend to make
clear an understanding of the respect given to H P B by some of her
contemporaries, and by Those whom she named her "Masters."

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H P B -- Her Mission and "Position"


As we look back at the life and work of H. P. Blavatsky, we her
students, recall with gratitude the debt that we owe to her. Except for
her work and devotion we would possibly never have had the opportunity
that has been ours to know about Theosophy, and to be able to study it. 

A number of her students have left on record their appreciation. 


"...the [Theosophical] movement has grown most in consequence of the
effort of those who are devoted to an ideal, inspired by enthusiasm,
filled with a lasting gratitude to H.P.Blavatsky. Their ideal is the
service of Humanity, the ultimate potential perfectibility of man as
exemplified by the Masters and Adepts of all ages, including the
present...if it had not been for her the T.S. with its literature would
not have come into existence." (W Q Judge, Articles (U L T) Vol.
II 20-1)


One may ask if there is a possibility of our contacting the Masters and
HPB, and the answer is that we have their philosophy and teachings as
they were originally recorded. Anyone who studies those puts themselves
into contact with HPB and the Masters. A student once wrote: 


"...for those who have studied in the right way plenty of proof has been
offered; for others that proof exists within themselves The former
class has had tangible evidence in the way of letters and appearances of
the Adepts before their eyes; the latter concluded long ago that the
Masters are necessities of evolution...in the West the idea of the
existence of the Adepts and of Their connection with our movement was
first brought forward in this century [the 19th] and in our Society by
H.P.Blavatsky, who, consistently throughout her career, has declared
that the Adepts--whom she was pleased to call her Masters--directed her
to engage in this work and have always helped and directed her
throughout... 

They have adopted the TS as one of Their agents in this century for
disseminating the truth about man and nature...Their motive is to help
the moral--and hence external -- progress of humanity, and their methods
to work from behind the scenes by means of agents suited for the
work...the agency is not restricted to one person, but that all sincere
lovers of truth are used to that end, whether they know it or not...the
personal effort put forth by the members will not account for the
spreading of the movement...As the Masters exist, so They help us; and
as we deserve, so will They repay."	(WQJ ARTICLES (ULT) Vol. II
pp. 79-80) 


"...while the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT of today was distinctly under the
care of the Adepts, it was not the only one through which effect was
sought to be made on the race-thought and ethics, but that in many
different ways efforts were constantly put forward ...she insisted that
the T S wears the badge...of the Eastern and Ancient Schools...the old
and united Lodge of Adepts ...[It would be reasonable to say]...that
Brotherhood has the knowledge and power... to use every agency which is
in touch with humanity." WQJ ARTICLES (ULT) Vol. , Vol. I, pp.
244


Mr. W. Q. Judge, collaborated closely with HPB and Col. Olcott from the
beginning of the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY and was one of the three Founders
of the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY [BLAVATSKY: Collected Works, Vol. I, p.
121-5] who supported it until their death, wrote: 


"I think that the way for all western theosophists is through H.P.B. I
mean that as she is the T.S. incarnate--its mother and guardian, its
creator--the Karmic laws would naturally provide that all who drew this
life through her belonged to her, and if they denied her, they need not
hope to reach [Masters], for how can they deny her who gave this
doctrine to the western world? They share her Karma to little purpose
if they think they can get round this identification and benefit, and
[Masters] want no better proof that a man does not comprehend their
philosophy. This would, of course, bar him from [Masters] by natural
laws (of growth)...[those] who undervalue her gift and her creation,
have not imbibed the teaching and cannot assimilate its benefits. She
must be understood as being what she is to the T.S., or Karma...is not
understood, nor the first laws of occultism." 
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME , p. 110


After the physical death of Mme. Blavatsky on May 8th 1891, in answer to
a friend, he wrote: 


"...we believe that H.P.B. will be for some time occupied in training a
new instrument, and one not so young as to be useless at the present
cyclic crisis...she left everything in order. All things were planned
out, and evidence was abundantly had to the effect that she knew her
departure was near... looking upon her as an Adept, whose chief work was
done outside of the objective body, it was reasonable to suppose that
she is now enabled to use, upon higher (or inner) planes of being, the
power previously expended in the maintenance of that body." LETTERS
THAT HAVE HELPED ME, p. 155 [U L T Edition]


HPB had written in this regard: 


"That for several years I will not be able to help it [the T S] on, and
steer its course, because I will have to act in a body which will have
to be assimilated to the Nirmanakaya, because even in occultism there
are such things as a failure and a retardment and a misfit..." HPB -
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME , p. 281 


In another article, Mr. Judge wrote: 


"...but H.P.Blavatsky, who then as afterwards was really the central
figure, has for the present left this life. The first great change,
then, between seventeen years ago and now is the removal from the scene
of the personage who, for so long was the pivot of the whole
movement...[in 1879] upon the advent of the two pioneers in Asia [ HPB
and Col. Olcott, who went to India as a Committee for the THEOSOPHICAL
SOCIETY based in New York ] ...in order that the influence of the
mysterious and distant East might react upon the West and enable us to
bring to light again important religious and philosophical truths. This
reaction came, and manifesting in America with full force, a host of
Branches began to arise...all with one accord must draw their chief
inspiration from the life, the labors, and the words of that wonderful
and still faintly understood woman, Helena, P. Blavatsky." 
WQJ Art. II 148 "SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO," Path, Nov. 1892


Regarding HPB, the Adepts wrote: 


"...They say that the Ego of that body she uses was and is a great and
brave servant of the Lodge, sent to the West with a mission with full
knowledge of the insult and obloquy to be surely heaped upon that
devoted head; and they add: 'Those who cannot understand her had best
not try to explain her; those who do not find themselves strong enough
for the task she outlined from the very first had best not attempt it.'
"
WQJ ART II 18) 


And Mr. Judge added: 


"[As to H. P. B.]. those who cannot understand her had best not try to
explain her...she knew...that high and wise servants of the Lodge have
remained with the West since many centuries for the purpose of helping
it on its mission and destiny. That work it would be well for members
of the T. Mvt. to continue without deviating, without excitement,
without running to extremes...the truth of the soul's life is in no
special quarter of the compass..." (LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME ,
p. 76) 


According to HPB: 


"...there are certain persons on this earth, living and working as
ordinary human beings and members of society, whose informing divine
part is so immeasurably high in development that they as such high
beings have a definite status and function in the "supersensuous
regions."


To this Mr Judge added: 

"...she herself was such a case, and that "H P B" whether hourly in the
day or at night when all around was still, had a "status and function"
in other spheres where she consciously carried on the work of that high
station, whatever it was...[She wrote in one place] " I am conscious
day and night, and have much to do and to endure in both these
existences from which you, being half-conscious, are happily saved."	
WQJ ART I 616


What then was the nature of HPB's Mission? The following is one
person's view: 


"...when the great leader is H.P.Blavatsky, a whole host of principles
and postulates as to certain laws of nature cluster around her name.
For not only was she one who brought to us from the wiser brothers of
the human family a consistent philosophy of the solar system, but in
herself she illustrated practically the existence of the supersensuous
world and of the powers of the inner and astral man...and theory or
assertion touching on her relations with the unseen and with the Masters
she spoke for inevitably opens up the discussion of some law or
principle. Many things were said about H.P.B. in her lifetime by those
who tried to understand her, some of them being silly and some
positively pernicious. The most pernicious was that made by [A.P.S.] in
London in the lifetime of H.P.B. and before the writing of the Secret
Doctrine, that she was deserted by the Masters and was the prey of
elementals and elemental forces...if true, then anything she might say
as from the Masters which did not agree with the opinion of the one
addressed could be disposed of as being only the vaporing of some
elementals."
WQJ ARTICLES (ULT) Vol. II 13


"H.P.Blavatsky was the head, front, bottom, top, outskirts, past and
future of the theosophical society...Not only was H.P.B. predominant
with us in 1875, but she is yet." 
WQJ Art II 161 "A Reminiscence," PATH, Feb. 1893 / Mar. 1895



HOW DO THE MASTERS LOOK AT H.P.B.?


Regarding HPB, the Adepts wrote: 


"...They say that the Ego of that body she uses was and is a great and
brave servant of the Lodge, sent to the West with a mission with full
knowledge of the insult and obloquy to be surely heaped upon that
devoted head; and they add: 'Those who cannot understand her had best
not try to explain her; those who do not find themselves strong enough
for the task she outlined from the very first had best not attempt it.'
"
WQJ ART II 18) 



"...imperfect as may be our visible agent...yet, she [HPB] is the best
available at present, and her phenomena have for about half a century
astounded and baffled some of the cleverest minds of the age."	MAHATMA
LETTERS , p. 9-10



"After nearly a century of fruitless search, our chiefs had to avail
themselves of the only opportunity to send out a European body upon
European soil to serve as a connecting link between that country and our
own...my brother M. made to you through her a certain offer...you had
but to accept it, and at any time you liked, you would have had for an
hour or more, the real baitchooly to converse with, instead of the
psychological cripple you generally have to deal with now."
M L 203-4


"On the 17th of November next [1882] the septenary term of trial given
the Society at its foundation in which to discreetly "preach us" will
expire. One or two of us hoped that the world had so far advanced
intellectually, if not intuitionally, that the Occult doctrine might
gain an intellectual acceptance, and the impulse given for a new cycle
of occult research...consent was given for the trial. It was
stipulated, however, that the experiment should be made independently of
our personal management; that there should be no abnormal interference
by ourselves. 

So casting about we found in America the man to stand as leader--a man
of great moral courage, unselfish, and having other good qualities. He
was far from being the best, but...he was the best available. With him
we associated a woman of most exceptional and wonderful endowments.
Combined with them she had strong personal defects, but just as she was,
there was no second to her living fit for this work. We sent her to
America, brought them together--and the trial began. 

>From the first both he and she were given to clearly understand that the
issue lay entirely with themselves. And both offered themselves for the
trial...For 6 1/2 years they have been struggling against such odds as
would have driven off any one who was not working with the desperation
of one who stakes life and all he prizes on some desperate supreme
effort. Their success has not equaled the hopes of their original
backers, phenomenal as it has been in certain directions. In a few more
months the term of probation will end. If by that time the status of
the Society as regards ourselves --the question of the "Brothers" be not
definitely settled (either dropped out of the Society's programme or
accepted on our own terms) that will be the last of the "Brothers" of
all shapes and colors, sizes or degrees. We will subside out of public
view like a vapour into the ocean. Only those who have proved faithful
to themselves and to Truth through everything, will be allowed further
intercourse with us..."	M L 263-4


"You can never know her [HPB] as we do, therefore--none of you will ever
be able to judge her impartially or correctly. You see the surface of
things; and what you would term "virtue," holding but to appearances,
we--judge but after having fathomed the object to its profoundest depth,
and generally leave the appearances to take care of themselves. In your
opinion H.P.B. is...a quaint, strange woman, a psychological riddle...We
on the other hand, under the garb of eccentricity and folly--we find a
profounder wisdom in her inner Self than you will ever find yourselves
able to perceive...we...light daily upon traits of her inner nature the
most delicate and refined, and which would cost an uninitiated
psychologist years of constant and keen observation, and many an hour of
close analysis and efforts to draw out of the depth of that most subtle
of mysteries--human mind--and one of the most complicated
machines,---H.P.B.'s mind--and thus learn to know her true inner Self."
M L 314


"The Lhas or adept alone possesses the real, his mind being en rapport
with the Universal Mind. The Lhas has made a perfect junction of his
soul with the Universal Mind in its fullness, which makes him for the
time a divine being existing in the region of absolute intelligence,
knowledge of natural laws or Dgyu..."	HPB to APS 376



H.P.B. ON HERSELF


"I never gave myself out for a full-blown occultist, but only for a
student of Occultism for the last thirty or forty years. Yet I am
enough of an occultist to know that before we find the Master within our
own hearts and seventh principle--we need an outside Master...I got my
drop from my Master (the living one)...He is a Saviour, he who leads you
to finding the Master within yourself. It is ten years already that I
preach the inner Master and God and never represented our Masters as
Saviours in the Christian sense."
[ HPB to Dr. Hartmann ] PATH, Vol. X, p. 367


"...as I venerate the Master, and worship MY MASTER--the sole creator of
my inner Self which but for His calling it out, awakening it from its
slumber, would never have come to conscious being--not in this life, at
all events..."
Letters of HPB to APS, p. 104



ON THE SECRET DOCTRINE


"The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the
ancient and prehistoric world." [ SD I xxxiv ] 


"These truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation, nor does the
author claim the position of a revealer of mystic lore now made public
for the first time in the world's history." [ SD I vii ]


"We give facts and show land-marks: let the wayfarer follow them. What
is given here is amply sufficient for this century." [ SD II 742 ] 


"There are more secrets of Initiation given out in the Introductory
Chapter than in all Isis...Fancy Masters giving out the secret of the
"Divine Hermaphrodite" even ! and so on." [ HPB Letters to
A.P.Sinnett, p. 172-3 ] 



HOW OTHERS LOOK ON H.P.B.?



"H.P.B. was the Messenger from the Great Lodge to the western world.
W.Q.J. was a co-founder and co-worker with H.P.B. from the beginning.
It will be well to remember that HPB and WQJ were not accorded the
positions They held through any authority, but through recognition of
Their knowledge and power. They were sui generis; all others are but
students. Those who belittle Judge will also be found belittling HPB."
F P 5


"HPB was the Direct Agent of the Lodge--and this is explicitly stated to
be the fact by the Master K.H. ...then we must go to the records left by
Her and Her Colleague, W.Q.J., for direction in all matters pertaining
to the Theosophical Movement."	F P 34


"In the introduction to the SECRET DOCTRINE, H.P.Blavatsky boldly
affirms the existence of a great Fraternity of Men, Adepts, who preserve
the true philosophy through all changes, now revealing it, and again, at
certain eras, withdrawing it from a degraded age; and emphatically she
says that the doctrine is never a new one, but only a handing on again
of what was always the system... [Further she adds] in the twentieth
century of our era scholars will begin to recognize that the S.D. has
neither been invented nor exaggerated, but, on the contrary, simply
outlined; and finally, that its teachings antedate the Vedas."

"...the Messenger from the great Fraternity--she herself being the one
for this Century--she observes significantly: that "In Century the 20th
some disciple more informed, and far better fitted, may be sent by the
Masters of Wisdom to give final and irrefutable proof that there exists
a science called Gupta-Vidya; and that, [it] the source of all
religions and philosophies now known to the world...is at last found."
WQJ ART II 81-2



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End of Part I

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Part II


H P B and the MASTERS



"The theory is widely known among the members of the Society that at the
close of each century a spiritual movement is made in the world by the
Mahatmas, which begins with the last 25 years of the century and does
not in that form begin after the close of 25 years until the last
quarter of the following period...The Masters are governed by the law of
action and reaction and are wise enough always not to do that which
might result in undoing all their prior work. The law of reaction
applies as much to the mind of man as to physical things and forces. ...
In the West, following the historical cycles, a great and definite
effort is made among the people--for instance, as the Theosophical
Society--so as to aid the psychical and spiritual development in man..."


"At the end of the 25 years the Masters will not send out in such wide
and sweeping volume the force they send during the 25 years. But that
does not mean they will withdraw. They will leave the ideas to
germinate in the minds of people at large, but never will they take away
from those who deserve it the help that is due and given to all...
During all the centuries there have been many persons who have had
direct and valuable help from Masters, and to suppose that at the end of
our first 25 years all of that will be finished is an absurdity in
itself."	WQJ ART II 76-7


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MASTERS AND THEIR "POSITION"



"We have offered to exhume the primeval strata of man's being, his basic
nature, and lay bare the wonderful complications of his inner Self...and
demonstrate it scientifically...It is our mission to plunge and bring
the pearls of Truth to the surface...For countless generations hath the
adept builded a fane of imperishable rocks, a giant's Tower of INFINITE
THOUGHT, wherein the Titan dwelt...emerging from it but at the end of
every cycle, to invite the elect of mankind to cooperate with him and
help in his turn enlighten superstitious man...until that day when the
foundations of a new continent of thought are so firmly built that no
amount of opposition and ignorant malice guided by the Brethren of the
Shadow will be found to prevail. But until that day of final triumph,
someone has to be sacrificed--though we accept but voluntary victims.
The ungrateful task did lay her [HPB] low and desolate in the ruins of
misery, misapprehension, and isolation: but she will have her reward in
the hereafter for we never were ungrateful..." M L 51


"...our true progress lies in fidelity to Masters as ideals and
facts."...I think a constant reliance on Masters as such ideals and
facts--or either--will lead the T S on to greater work...I belong to
that class of persons in the T S who out of their own experience know
that the Masters exist and actually help the T S...I am not acting
impulsively in my many public statements as to the existence of Masters
and help from Them. It is done under an old order of Theirs and under a
law of mind. The existence of Masters being a fact, the assertion of
that fact so often made in America has opened up channels in men's minds
which would have remained closed had silence been observed about the
existence of those Beings...Experience has shown that a springing up of
interest in Theosophy has followed declaration, and men's minds are more
powerfully drawn away from the blank Materialism teaching."	WQJ ART
II 43


"Concentrate the mind upon the Masters as ideals and facts--living,
active, beneficent Beings, working in and on the plane of causes.
Meditate upon this exclusively, and try to reach up to Them in thought."
F P 13-14


"...no worker, however feeble or insignificant, is outside the range of
Master's eye and help."	WQJ ART II 47


"...I can swear it, the Masters are watching us all, and, without fail,
when we come to the right point and really deserve, They manifest to us.
At all times I know They help and try to aid us as far as we will let
Them. Why, the Masters are anxious (to use a word of our own) that as
many as possible may reach to the state of power and love They are in.
Why, then, suppose They help not? As They are Atman and therefore the
very law of Karma itself, They are in everything in life, and in every
phase of our changing days and years. If you will arouse your faith on
this line you come nearer to help from Them than you will recognize."
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME - Judge, p. 68


"...fix your thoughts again on Those Elder Brothers, work for Them,
serve Them, and They will help through the right appropriate means and
no other. To meditate on the Higher Self is difficult. Seek, then, the
bridge--the Masters."	
LETTERS p. 112


"...the great Adepts live in the plane of our inner nature, it must
follow that they might be actively helping every one of us after the
date referred to, and we, as physical brain men, not be conscious of it
on this plane."	LETTERS , p. 115



"...between adept and chela--Master and Pupil--there gradually forms a
closer tie; for the psychic interchange is regulated
scientifically...as the water in a full tank runs into an empty one
which it is connected with; and as the common level will be sooner or
later reached according to the capacity of the feed-pipe, so does the
knowledge of the adept flow to the chela; and the chela attains the
adept-level according to his receptive capacities. At the same time the
chela, being an individual, a separate evolution, unconsciously imparts
to the Master the quality of his accumulated mentality. [ we ] always
ascertain independently and for ourselves whether the ideas so reflected
in us are right or wrong."	LETTERS from the Masters of
Wisdom, (I), p. 82-3



".the Master-Soul is one"...[Thou art THAT.] VOICE , p. 54



"...the light of the ONE MASTER, the one unfading golden light of
Spirit, shoots its effulgent beams on the Disciple from the very first.
Its rays thread through the thick dark clouds of matter..."	VOICE
p. 19



" .the best and most important teacher is one's seventh principle [Atma]
centred in the sixth [Buddhi]." LETTERS p. 96



"The Masters are not Eastern nor Western, but universal." LETTERS p.
109



"And whoever therefore wants to see the real MAHATMA, must use his
intellectual sight. He must so elevate his Manas that its perception
will be clear...His vision will then be bright and he will see the
MAHATMAS wherever he may be, for, being merged into the sixth and
seventh principles, which are ubiquitous and omnipresent, the MAHATMAS
may be said to be everywhere." HPB ART I 294


"Just now the best and biggest work by us poor children is on this plane
with the great aid of Master, Whose simple single will keeps the whole
organization [in being], and acts as its support and shield." LETTERS
p. 87


".the image of the Master is the best protection against lower
influences; think of the Master as a living man within you." LETTERS
p. 164


"The whole sweep, meaning, and possibility of evolution are contained in
the word Mahatma...those great souls who have triumphed before us...but
just because they are of the human race." WQJ ART II 39


"A Mahatma is not only an Adept, but much more...This does not mean a
noble-hearted man merely, but a perfected being, one who has attained to
the state...when time and space are no obstacles to sight, to action, to
knowledge or to consciousness...to possess information of a decidedly
practical character concerning the laws of nature, including that
mystery for science --the meaning, operation and constitution of life
itself..."
ECHOES p. 23


"...more help could be given to the movement in America because the fact
of their existence was not concealed from motives of either fear or
doubt...Occult help from Masters requires a channel just as much as any
other help does...the persons to be acted on must take part in making
the channel or line for the force to act, for if we will not have it
they cannot give it.

Now as we are dealing with the mind and nature of man, we have to throw
out the words which will arouse the ideas connected with the forces we
desire to have employed. In this case the words are those which bring
up the doctrine of the existence of Adepts, Mahatmas, Masters of wisdom.
Hence the value of the declaration of our beliefs."	WQJ ART II 41



Q.:--	"What then are the Adepts doing?

A.:-- (a) Assisting all good movements by acting on men from behind
the scenes through mental influence.
(b) Preparing as many men and women who are fit for it so
that they may, in their next incarnation, appear in the world as active
devotees to the good of the Human Family.
(c) Spreading now, through impulses given in many places
which must not be mentioned, a philosophy of life which will gradually
affect the race mind, and in particular the active, conquering Western
peoples, thus preparing the whole people to change and evolve yet
further and further until evils disappear and better days and people
reappear." WQJ ARTICLES II 53-4


"...if it were possible to alter the state of things and to make a
peaceful earth and a right humanity without following the law of
evolution, they would willingly do it, but mankind can only be altered
step by step. [The Masters] have also stated that they do not make
themselves objectively known to believers in them except in those cases
where those believers are ready in all parts of their nature, are
definitely pledged to them, with the full understanding of the meaning
of the pledge. But they have also stated that they help all earnest
seekers after truth, and that it is not necessary for those seekers to
know from where the help comes so long as it is received...The Masters
do help powerfully, though unseen, all those who earnestly work and
sincerely trust in their higher nature, while they follow the voice of
conscience without doubt or cavil."
FORUM ANSWERS, 75-76



"...remember what was long ago said--that the Master would manage
results. You must not manage, precipitate, nor force...As chelas and
students conceal rather than give out your inner psychic life, for by
telling of it your proper progress is hindered...By gentleness,
detachment, strict attention to duty, and retiring now and then to the
quiet place, bring up good currents and keep back all evil ones...A
steady mind and heart stands still and quiet until the muddy stream
rolls clear."	
WQJ LETTERS p. 84



"The Occult Science is not one in which secrets can be communicated of a
sudden...till the neophyte attains to the condition necessary for that
degree of illumination to which, and for which, he is entitled and
fitted, most if not all of the Secrets are incommunicable. The
receptivity must be equal to the desire to instruct. The illumination
must come from within...Fasting, meditation, chastity of thought word
and deed; silence for certain periods to enable nature herself to speak
to him who comes to her for information; government of the animal
passions and impulses; utter unselfishness of intention, the use of
certain incense and fumigations for physiological purposes, have been
published as the means since the days of Plato and Iamblichus in the
West..."	
M L p. 282-3





THE INNER MASTER -- SELF-DEVELOPMENT



"Every form on earth and every speck (atom) in Space strives in its
efforts towards self-formation to follow the model placed for it in the
"Heavenly Man"...Its [atom's] involution and evolution, its external and
internal growth and development, have all one and the same object--man;
man is the highest physical and ultimate form on this earth; the MONAD
in the absolute totality and awakened condition--as the culmination of
the divine incarnations on Earth."	S D I 183


"This 'Conscious Entity' Occultism says, comes from, nay, in many cases
is, the very entire essence and esse of the high Intelligences
condemned, by the undeviating law of Karmic evolution, to reincarnate
in the manvantara." S D II 248


"Rudimentary man...becomes the perfect man...when, with the development
of "Spiritual fire,"...he acquires from his inner Self, or Instructor,
the Wisdom of Self-Consciousness, which he does not possess in the
beginning." S D II 113



"The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits of no privileges
or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego through personal
effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and
reincarnations."	S D I 17



"...our own work, in and on ourselves, each one...has for its object the
enlightenment of oneself for the good of others...so as to make of each
a centre from which...may flow out the potentialities for good that from
the adept come in large and affluent streams...As we use the moment, so
we shift the future up or down for good or ill; the future being only a
word for the present, not yet come, we have to see to the present more
than all...The race is in a transition state...the only way we can alter
it is by such action now as makes of each one a centre for good, a force
that makes "for righteousness," and that is guided by wisdom...we each
one have a greater fight to wage the moment we force our inner nature
up beyond the dead level of the world..."
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME - Judge, 71



"Self-Consciousness belongs alone to man and proceeds from the SELF, the
Higher MANAS...whereas the psychic element (or Kama-Manas) is common to
both animal and human being...no physiologist...will ever be able to
solve the mystery of the human mind, in its highest spiritual
manifestations, or in its dual aspect of the psychic and the noetic (or
the manasic)...unless he knows something of, and is prepared to admit
this dual element...to admit a lower (animal), and a higher (or divine)
mind in man...the "personal" and the "impersonal" Egos."	HPB ART
II 9-10



"...conscious communication with one's Master can only be accomplished
after long training and study. What a student has to do is to fit
himself to receive this training."	LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME -
Judge, 111


"...he who enters the secret Path finds his peace and pleasure in
endless work for ages for Humanity...with his added sight and knowledge,
he must always be seeing the self-inflicted miseries of men...the wider
sweep and power of soul make what we call sacrifice and woe seem
something different."	LETTERS 116



"It is not high learning that is needed, but solely devotion to
humanity, faith in Masters, in the Higher Self."	LETTERS
97



"...the door is always opened to the right man who knocks. And we
invariably welcome the newcomer;--only instead of going over to him he
has to come to us. More than that: unless he has reached that point in
the path of occultism from which return is impossible, by his having
irrevocably pledged himself to our association, we never--except in
cases of utmost moment--visit him or even cross the threshold of his
door in visible appearance." M L (Barker) p. 8-9


"...whenever and whatever is possible will always be done for you
unurged; hence never to either ask for, or suggest it, yourself--
(avoid my having to refuse a friend) ...to teach (others in
Britain)...through your kind agency...I have never undertaken to
convince them of the extent of our powers or even of our personal
existence."	M L 337


"Every human being contains within himself vast potentialities, and it
is the duty of adepts to surround the would-be chela with circumstances
which shall enable him to take the "right-hand path," if he have the
ability in him...until he has passed that period [of probation] we leave
him to fight out his battles as best he may; and have to do so
occasionally with higher and initiated chelas such as H.P.B., once that
they are allowed to work in the world, that all of us more or less
avoid...We were all so tested; and while Moorad Ali--failed--I,
succeeded. The victor's crown is only for him who proves himself worthy
to wear it; for him who attacks Mara single handed and conquers the
demon of lust and earthly passions; and not we but he himself puts it
on his brow...there is no such other difficult struggle. If it were not
so, adeptship would be but a cheap acquirement."	M L 318


"...let him rid himself of the Maya that any man living can set up
"claims" upon Adepts. He may create irresistible attractions and compel
their attention, but they will be spiritual, not mental or
intellectual...nothing draws us to any outsider save his evolving
spirituality... The supreme energy resides in the Buddhi, latent--when
wedded to Atman alone, active and irresistible when galvanized by the
essence of "Manas" and when none of the dross of the latter commingles
with that pure essence to weigh it down by its finite nature...When the
ancient founders of your philosophical schools came East, to acquire the
lore of our predecessors, they filed no claims, except the single one of
a sincere and unselfish hunger for truth."	M L 341-2


"Masters never cease working, but they cease at times from such public
efforts as were made at the establishment of the T.S. Before that they
were working with individuals" [ WQJ quoted by RC, F P 388 ] ...In this
work, natures are intensified, good and bad come to the surface. The
"cleaning-up" process is gradual and each must do his own work of
elimination when such work is seen to be needed. The barriers to help
from Masters are in ourselves and nowhere else."	F P 399



"At times they come to nations as great teachers and "saviours," who
only repromulgate the old truths and systems of ethics. This therefore
holds that humanity is capable of infinite perfection both in time and
quality, the saviours and adepts being held up as examples of that
possibility."

"From this living and presently acting body of perfected men
H.P.Blavatsky declared she received the impulse to once more bring
forward the old ideas, and from them also received several keys to
ancient and modern doctrines. Added...to the testimony through all time
found in the records of all nations we have this modern explicit
assertion that the ancient learned and humanitarian body of adepts still
exists on this earth and takes an interest in the development of the
race." 
WQJ ARTICLES I pp. 1-2



"Under the protection and assistance and guidance of this Society of
Adepts are the disciples of each one of its members. These disciples
are divided into different degrees, corresponding to the various stages
of development; the least developed disciples are assisted by those who
are in advance of them, and the latter in a similar manner by others,
until the grade of disciple is reached where direct intercourse with the
Adepts is possible. At the same time, each Adept keeps a supervisory
eye upon all his disciples. Through the agency of the disciples of
Adepts many effects are brought about in human thought and affairs, for
from the higher grades are often sent those who, without disclosing
their connection with mysticism, influence individuals who are known to
be main factors in events about to occur."	ECHOES 29



"...the disciple of the Adept knows that...he is supposed to concentrate
into a few lives the experience and practice which it takes ordinary men
countless incarnations to acquire....he leaves behind the hope for
reward so common in all undertakings. Nothing is gained by favor, but
all depends upon his actual merit. As the end to be reached is
self-dependence with perfect calmness and clearness, he is from the
beginning made to stand alone...solely in his own company. But this
produces no selfishness, because, being accompanied by constant
meditation upon the unseen, the knowledge is acquired that the
loneliness felt is only in respect to the personality."	
ECHOES 32-33



"But, hiding themselves under an exterior which does not attract
attention, there are many of the real disciples in the world. They are
studying themselves and other human hearts. They have no diplomas, but
there resides in them a consciousness of constant help and a clear
knowledge of the true Lodge which meets in real secrecy and is never
found mentioned in any directory. Their whole life is a persistent
pursuit of the fast-moving soul which, although appearing to stand
still, can distance the lightning; and their death is only another step
forward to greater knowledge through better physical bodies in new
lives."	ECHOES 33



"The real object to be kept in view is to so open up or make porous the
lower nature that the spiritual nature may shine through it and become
the guide and the ruler...it is the real man, who is the HIGHER
SELF--being the spark of the Divine--overshadows the visible being,
which has the possibility of becoming united to that spark. Thus it is
said that the higher Spirit is not in the man, but above him...The
object of the student is to let the light of that spirit shine through
the lower covering...all selfishness must be eliminated from the lower
nature before its divine state can be reached...When systematically
trained in accordance with the aforesaid system and law, men attain to
clear insight into the immaterial, spiritual world, and their interior
faculties apprehend truth as immediately and readily as physical
faculties grasp the things of sense, or mental faculties those of
reason..."They are able to look directly upon ideas."	EPITOME
13-14


"...the members of our Great Lodge have full information unknown to
those outside the Lodge, of the "conscious efforts to obtain knowledge
of principles and laws" on the part of good men and women, and in this
search that help is frequently extended but is not seen or recognized,
although it is felt and has its results."	FORUM ANSWERS 50


".since the MAHATMA is but an advanced occultist, who has so far
controlled his lower "self" as to hold it more or less in complete
subjection to the Cosmic impulse, it is in the nature of things
impossible for him to act in any other but an unselfish manner. No
sooner does he allow his "personal self" to assert itself, than he
ceases to be a MAHATMA...The law of Cosmic evolution is ever operating
to achieve its purpose of ultimate unity and to carry the phenomenal
into the noumenal plane, and the MAHATMAS, being en rapport with it, are
assisting that purpose...they alone have got to the basic knowledge
which can determine the right course and exercise proper discrimination.
And for us...it will be evident that, as soon as the least feeling of
selfishness tries to assert itself, the vision of the spiritual sense,
which is the only perception of the MAHATMA, becomes clouded and he
looses the "power" which abstract "knowledge" alone can confer. Hence
the vigilant watch of the "will" we have constantly to exercise to
prevent our lower nature from coming up to the surface..."	THEOS.
MVT. Vol. X, p. 138-9



"A perfect man is not made to order but is a product of evolution.
Wisdom is not a matter of book-learning but of growth. General rules
for conduct can be given, but to apply them properly, the power of
discrimination is necessary...A virtue, practiced without moderation,
becomes a crime. To know how to find the point of equilibrium is the
great secret of the Adept, that cannot be told but must be learned by
experience, when sagacity and goodness will be united in wisdom."
HPB -- THEOSOPHIST 1885, Reprint: THEOSOPHY, Vol. 47, pp. 441-2



"The whole individuality is centred in the three middle Principles or
third (MANAS), and fifth (ASTRAL BODY) principles. During earthly life
it is all in the fourth (KAMA-MANAS), the center of energy,
volition--will...the individuality survives...to run its seven-fold and
upward course [ it ] has to assimilate to itself the eternal-life power
residing but in the seventh (ATMA), and then blend the three (4th, 5th &
7th) into one--the 6th (BUDDHI). Those who succeed in doing so become
Buddhas, Dhyan Chohans, etc... The chief object of our struggle and
initiations is to achieve this union while yet on this earth."	M L 77-8



"Happy the man physically pure, for his external soul (astral body, the
image of the body) is pure, it will strengthen the second (the lower
Manas), or the soul which is termed by him the higher mortal soul,
which, though liable to err from its own motives, will always side with
the reason against the animal proclivities of the body. In other words,
the ray of our Higher Ego, the lower Manas, has its higher light, the
reason or rational powers of the Nous, to help it in the struggle with
Kamic desires."	HPB ART I 27-8



"Force any one of the "Masters" you may happen to choose; do good works
in his name and for the love of mankind; be pure and resolute in the
path of righteousness (as laid out in our rules); be honest and
unselfish; forget your self but to remember the good of other
people--and you will have forced that "Master" to accept you."	
Letters from the Masters of Wisdom Series (I), p. 33




THEOSOPHICAL OBJECTIVES



"...the chief object of the T S is not so much to gratify individual
aspirations as to serve our fellow men...in our view the highest
aspirations for the welfare of humanity become tainted with selfishness
if, in the mind of the philanthropist there lurks the shadow of desire
for self benefit or a tendency to do injustice, even when these exist
unconsciously to himself." M L 7-8


"...we are not working for some definite organization of the new years
to come, but for a change in the Manas and Buddhi of the Race...Masters
could give now all the light and knowledge needed, but there is too much
darkness that would swallow up the light, except for a few bright souls,
and then a greater darkness would come on."	LETTERS p. 72



"At present the main fundamental object of the Society is to sow germs
in the hearts of men, which may in time sprout, and under more
propitious circumstances lead to a healthy reform, conductive of more
happiness to the masses than they have hitherto enjoyed." HPB
KEY 257



"It is the rich who have to be regenerated, if we would do good to the
poor...Work, therefore, to bring about the moral regeneration of the
cultured classes before you attempt to do the same for ignorant younger
brethren..."	HPB ART I 103-5



"[ The T S has as its mission ] to furnish to the West that which it can
never get from the East; to push forward and raise high on the circular
path of evolution now rolling West, the light that lighteth every man
who cometh into the world--the light of the true Self, who is the one
true Master for every human being; all other Masters are but servants
of that true One; in it all real Lodges have their union." LETTERS p.
75



"As a change in thought of a people who have been tending to gross
atheism is one always desired by the Sages of the Wisdom Religion, it
may be supposed that the wave of spiritualistic phenomena resulting now
quite clearly in a tendency back to a universal acknowledgment of the
soul, has been aided by the Nirmanakayas. They are in it and of it;
they push on the progress of a psychic deluge over great masses of
people. The result is seen in the literature, the religion and the
drama of today. Slowly but surely the tide creeps up and covers the
once dry shore of Materialism..."	ECHOES 28



"Essentials are the only things on which true occultism and Theosophy
require an agreement..."	LETTERS 70



"There must be an adherence to the program of the Masters. That can
only be ascertained by consulting her [HPB] and the letters given out by
her as from Those to whom she refers. There is not much doubt about
that program."..."This is the moment to guide the recurrent impulse
which must soon come and which will push the age toward extreme atheism
or drag it back to extreme sacerdotalism, if it is not led to the
primitive, soul-satisfying philosophy of the Aryans."..."We must follow
this program and supply the world with a system of philosophy which
gives a sure and logical basis for ethics, and that can only be gotten
from those to which I adverted." ..."By our unity the smallest effort
made by us will have ten-fold the power of any obstacle before us or any
opposition offered by the world."..."Our destiny is to continue the wide
work of the past in affecting literature and thought throughout the
world, while our ranks see many changing quantities but always holding
those who remain true to the program, and refuse to become dogmatic or
give up common sense in Theosophy. Thus we will wait for the new
messenger, striving to keep the organization alive that he may use it." 
WQJ - THE FUTURE AND THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY - 
quoted by RC, F P, p. 153 -- [WQJ ART II p. 145-6]


"A band of students of the Esoteric Doctrines, who would reap any profit
spiritually must be in perfect harmony and unity of thought. Each one
individually and collectively has to be utterly unselfish, kind and full
of good-will towards each other at least--leaving humanity out of the
question; there must be no party spirit among the band, no backbiting,
no ill-will, or envy or jealousy, contempt or anger." 
L M W (I) p. 16-7




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Dallas


-----Original Message-----
From: krishtar [mailto:krishtar_a@brturbo.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:37 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: PREDECESSORS OF HPB -- MAGICK OR MAGIC ?


Dearest Dallas

I enjoyed very much this e-mail and part of it, as quoted below,
reasures and confirms my late statements a long time ago that HPB was
not just a mere best choice for the masters to use as their channels at
that period of time, but someone from within the same white fraternity,
grand lodge.

"[ According to HPB ]...there are certain persons on this earth, living
and working as ordinary human beings and members of society, whose
informing divine part is so immeasurably high in development that they
as such high beings have a definite status and function in the
"supersensuous regions."...she herself was such a case, and that "H P B"
whether hourly in the day or at night when all around was still, had a
"status and function" in other spheres where she consciously carried on
the work of that high station, whatever it was...[She wrote in one
place] " I am conscious day and night, and have much to do and to
endure in both these existences from which you, being half-conscious,
are happily saved." WQJ ART I 616