Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00178)

Hi Pedro and others,

I think this also means that for us as attempting theosophists, we
need to focuss on things that are of the essence, which is I guess:

* practicing theosophy in our daily lives
* finding truth where we can, and where we can judge it (and those
phenomena - we really can't judge after more than a century)

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Pedro Oliveira <prmoliveira@y...>
wrote:
> Two questions:
> 
> 1) What caused Blavatsky to stop producing psychic
> phenomena?
> 
> 2) What led her to make the following statement in
> "The Key to Theosophy" (1889), section 14:
> 
> "As for our best Theosophists, they would also in this
> case far rather that the names of the Masters had
> never been mixed up with our books in any way. With
> few exceptions, most of such works are not only
> imperfect, but positively erroneous and misleading.
> 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! Many and heavy
> are the sins of those who advanced these claims,
> prompted either by desire for lucre, vanity, or
> irresponsible mediumship. Many persons have been
> plundered of their money by such societies, which
> offer to sell the secrets of power, knowledge, and
> spiritual truth for worthless gold. Worst of all, the
> sacred names of Occultism and the holy keepers thereof
> have been dragged in this filthy mire, polluted by
> being associated with sordid motives and immoral
> practices, while thousands of men have been held back
> from the path of truth and light through the discredit
> and evil report which such shams, swindles, and frauds
> have brought upon the whole subject. I say again,
> every earnest Theosophist regrets to-day, from the
> bottom of his heart, that these sacred names and
> things have ever been mentioned before the public, and
> fervently wishes that they had been kept secret within
> a small circle of trusted and devoted friends." 
> 
> 
> Pedro