Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00005)

In a message dated 06/29/04 12:28:36 PM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
>> Not to say that HPB would have had to stoop to such mundane levels. But, I 
>> like to think of Madame Blavatsky, in addition to her brilliant mind and 
great 
>> oratory, writing, artistic and musical skills, as being a real hearty, 
down to 
>> Earth type of character who liked a good joke and playing harmless tricks
>>on gullible people. Since she easily exposed all the phony phenomena of
>> the spiritualist tricksters -- as the old saying goes -- it takes a good
>> one to know one. ;-) 
>
> That is pretty close to my own thoughts on the matter, although, in 
>addition, I think that she used phenomena, real or faked, as an 
>attention getter, kind of like a speaker may open a speech with a joke
>to get the audience in a receptive mood for the real message.
>
> Bart

Nevertheless, all that has nothing to do with the inherent quality or purpose 
of the message itself. As I see it, we have to take theosophy as it has been 
presented, and through careful study and intuition, cull out the real 
meanings underlying the dead letter teachings for ourselves. To consider the 
messenger, the method of presentation, or the history of the movement, the 
personages, or the societies connected with the teachings -- is no help at all in 
arriving at a true understanding of the underlying reasonableness of the message 
with respect to the fundamental principles along with the inherent logic of its 
metaphysical genesis along with its involutional and evolutional processes -- 
including the storage and transfer of information, correlation of forces, 
application of will, as well as its methods of transformation of substance and form 
throughout the various levels of multidimensional spatial reality. The depth 
of this occult understanding, which is dependent on one's own intuition 
tempered by reason, is far deeper than can be discussed in words alone.

Leon