Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00086)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@y...> 
wrote:


> What does this mean "But if our physical, emotional and 
intellectual constitutions are not, shall we say, ready for it, then 
it can be a roller coaster ride." ?
> 
> It seems as though some have been chosen and some haven't.


Perhaps because what is called the "path of occultism" can be a 
dangerous thing. T. Subba Row's article "Occultism of Southern 
India" has some interesting perspectives on this subject. It was 
even suggested that in attempting to tread such a "path" one's 
nature may be turned inside out, so to speak.

This is what HPB says about cycles and their opportunities (in her 
Preliminary Memorandum to the ESTS, 1888): 

"No blame will be attached to anyone for a constitutional lack of 
capacity for assimilating the teachings given, if he works earnestly 
and continually, if his aspirations do not relax or weaken; his 
efforts will be known in the right quarter, and it is in strict 
accordance with his deserts that help will be given him when he 
expects it the least. 

Let every member know, moreover, that the time for such priceless 
acquisition is limited. The writer of the present is old; her life 
is well-nigh worn out, and she may be summoned "home" any day and 
almost any hour. And if her place is even filled up, perchance by 
another worthier and more learned than herself, still there remain 
but twelve years to the last hour of the term - namely, till 
December the 31st, 1899. Those who will not have profited by the 
opportunity (given to the world in every last quarter of a century), 
those who will not have reached a certain point of psychic and 
spiritual development, or that point from which begins the cycle of 
adeptship, by that day - those will advance no further than the 
knowledge already acquired. No Master of Wisdom from the East will 
himself appear or send any one to Europe or America after that 
period, and the sluggards will have to renounce every chance of 
advancement in their present incarnation - until the year 1975. Such 
is the Law, for we are in Kali Yuga - the Black Age - and the 
restrictions in this cycle, the first 5000 years of which will 
expire in 1897, are great and almost insuperable."

(Source: http://www.katinkahesselink.net/esinstr.htm)



Pedro