Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00407)

Google has listed the site but work on some pages is going on. 
It was written some 100 years back but I find author's English is the 
best even by today's standard.
Anand Gholap


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Eldon B Tucker <eldon@t...> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I just did a 20-second google search on
> 
> and find the web page at
> 
> http://www.tphta.ws/CWL_INLI.HTM";
> 
> which includes the materials including the passage
> 
> > STUDENTS OF OCCULTISM-- even those who have been students
> >for many years-- sometimes seem to fail to realise the
> >Masters as They truly are. I have often found people
> >thinking of Them as some kind of angels or devas, or, at
> >any rate, as so far removed from us by Their greatness
> >that it is scarcely possible for us to derive much help
> >from Them. Their greatness is indisputable, and from that
> >point of view the gulf between Them and ourselves may well
> >seem incalculable in its extent; and yet from another point
> >of view They are very close to us, so that Their sympathy
> >and help are very near and very real. That our thought on
> >the subject may be clear, let us first of all try to
> >define exactly what we mean by the term "Master."
> 
> All I did was search on
> 
> "as some kind of angels or devas"
> 
> what would be an unique phrase in the text, and found the above 
link on a 
> page entitled THE INNER LIFE, First and Second Series, by C.W. 
Leadbeater.
> 
> This technique can be used for many purposes. One is to find where 
a 
> passage came from, in order to give it proper citation. Another 
use, 
> fortunately rarely needed, is when we might suspect plagiarism, 
where we 
> can find the real source of the passages that someone promotes as 
their own 
> writings.
> 
> I note that you have the material at your website at
> 
> http://www.anandgholap.net/Inner_Life_Vol_I-CWL.htm
> 
> but for some reason the google search did not include your copy of 
the book.
> 
> At 12:47 PM 10/27/2004, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Below are given some passages.
> >Can anybody tell name of the book.
> >Anand Gholap
> >
> >Even those who have been students for many years-- sometimes seem 
to
> >fail to realise the Masters as They truly are. I have often found
> >people thinking of Them as some kind of angels or devas, or, at any
> >rate, as so far removed from us by Their greatness that it is
> >scarcely possible for us to derive much help from Them. Their
> >greatness is indisputable, and from that point of view the gulf
> >between Them and ourselves may well seem incalculable in its 
extent;
> >and yet from another point of view They are very close to us, so 
that
> >Their sympathy and help are very near and very real. That our 
thought
> >on the subject may be clear, let us first of all try to define
> >exactly what we mean by the term "Master."
> >
> >We mean by it always one who is a member of the Great White
> >Brotherhood-- a member at such a level that He is able to take
> >pupils. Now the Great White Brotherhood is an organization unlike 
any
> >other in the world, and for that reason it has often been
> >misunderstood. It has sometimes been described as the Himalayan or
> >the Tibetan Brotherhood, and the idea has been conveyed of a body 
of
> >Indian ascetics residing together in a monastery in some 
inaccessible
> >mountain fastness. Perhaps this has risen largely from the 
knowledge
> >of the facts that the two Brothers principally concerned in the
> >foundation and work of the Theosophical Society happen at the 
moment
> >to be living in Tibet, and to be wearing Indian bodies. To 
comprehend
> >the facts of the case it may be better to approach its 
consideration
> >from another point of view.
> >
> >Most of our students are familiar with the thought of the four 
stages
> >of the Path of Holiness, and are aware that a man who has passed
> >through them and attained to the level of the Asekha has achieved 
the
> >task set before humanity during this chain-period, and is
> >consequently free from the necessity of reincarnation on this 
planet
> >or on any other. Before him then open seven ways among which he 
must
> >choose. Most of them take him away from this earth into wider 
spheres
> >of activity, probably connected with the solar system as a whole, 
so
> >that the great majority of those members of our humanity who had
> >already reached this goal have passed entirely out of our ken.
> >
> >The limited number who are still working directly for us may be
> >divided into two classes-- those who retain physical bodies, and
> >those who do not. The latter are frequently spoken of under the 
name
> >of Nirmanakayas. They hold themselves suspended as it were between
> >this world and nirvana, and They devote the whole of Their time and
> >energy to the generation of spiritual force for the benefit of
> >mankind. This force They pour into what may be described as a
> >reservoir, upon which the Masters and their pupils can draw for the
> >assistance of Their work with humanity. The Nirmanakaya, because He
> >remains to this extent in touch with the lower planes, has been
> >called ` a candidate for woe,' but that is misleading. What is 
meant
> >is that He has not the joy of the higher work, or of the nirvanic
> >levels. He has chosen to remain upon lower planes in order to help
> >those who still suffer. It is quite true that to came back from the
> >higher life into this world is like going down from the fresh air 
and
> >glorious sunlight into a dark and evil-smelling dungeon; but the 
man
> >who does this to help some one out of that dungeon is not miserable
> >and wretched while there, but full of the joy of helping,
> >notwithstanding the greatness of the contrast and the terrible
> >feeling of bondage and compression. Indeed, a man who refused such 
an
> >opportunity of giving aid when it came to him would certainly feel
> >far more woe afterwards, in the shape of remorse. When we have once
> >really seen the spiritual misery of the world, and the condition of
> >those who need such help, we can never again be careless or
> >indifferent about it, as are those who have not seen.
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