Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00117)

In a message dated 07/01/04 10:59:58 AM, danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com writes:

>Master K.H. wrote the following to A.O. Hume about
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>a month after Madame Blavatsky performed the cup
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>and saucer phenomenon. Certainly this passage
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>shows the philosophical rationale behind the cup 
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>and saucer phenomenon.

[LM] Not at all. This statement referred only to simple forms that are 
composed of simple atomic matter -- not to manufactured items that had specific 
functional shapes, or operable mechanisms, or designs created by an artist that 
may be entirely unique and not known by the adept. Such simplistic 
explanations in the form of vague assertions, does not constitute a philosophical 
rationale for anything -- and especially, is not a "proof " of anything -- including 
the means by which the cup and saucer were produced (or better, IMO, lost and 
found).

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>The human brain is an exhaustless generator of 
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>the most refined quality of cosmic force, out of 
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>the low, brute energy of nature; and the complete 
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>adept has made himself a centre from which irradiate 
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>potentialities that beget correlations upon 
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>correlations through Aeons to come. This is the 
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>key to the mystery of his being able to project 
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>into and materialise in the visible world the forms 
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>that his imagination has constructed out of inert 
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>cosmic matter in the invisible world. The adept does 
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>not create anything new, but only utilises and 
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>manipulates materials which nature has in store 
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>around him; a material which throughout eternities 
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>has passed through all the forms; he has but to 
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>choose the one he wants and recall it into objective 
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>existence. Would not this sound to one of your 
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>"learned" biologists like a madman's dream? 
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>Quoted from:
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>http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-khaoh.htm

[LM] Another simplistic explanation of a process of creation or manifestation 
that is meaningless as far as any proof of any particular psychic phenomena 
is concerned... And certainly, shouldn't be taken as a literal truth -- unless 
one can actually understand the exact process in which such phenomena is 
produced, and can duplicate it, either in effect before qualified witnesses, or in 
a mind experiment to his own satisfaction -- while obeying all the laws of 
occultism.

To talk about it on this level of literal interpretation of the exoteric 
words of anyone is a futile exercise. Perhaps, we could end it by assuming that 
everything said by me or by HPB or the Masters concerning psychic phenomena are 
simply opinions, rather than assertions -- to be tested by one's intuition 
tempered by reason, aided by a thorough study and knowledge of the laws of 
occult metaphysics -- until proven (or disproved) to ones own satisfaction. 

LHM

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