Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00778)

Fundamental causes: Some Occult Methods

What a contrast to the great traditions of the Theosophical 
movement, formulated by H.P.B in the Key to Theosophy – "AS FOR OUR 
BEST THEOSOPHISTS, THEY WOULD ALSO RATHER THAT THE NAMES OF THE 
MASTERHAD NOT BEEN MIXED UP WITH OUR BOOKS IN ANY WAY."... "I say 
again, EVERY EARNEST THEOSOPHIST REGRETS TODAY, FROM THE BOTTOM OF 
HIS HEART, THAT THESE SACRED NAMES AND THINGS HAVE BEEN MENTIONED 
BEFORE THE PUBLIC." And this would be the moment to say with Mme. 
Blavatsky – "GREAT ARE THE DESECRATIONS TO WHICH THE NAMESOFTWO OF 
THE MASTERS HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED"...
<< And what has Mr. Leadbeater done with the name of the masters and 
their lifes? Promote them to sell himself... - Alaya >>

"That method wich dissociates moral and intellectual aspiration from 
occult development, and seeks to cultivate them seperately will not 
achieve moral progress since the inner nature is not transmuted; but 
this method will produce a very debauch of phrases invoking these 
aspirations. For, instead of penetrating by means of the appropriate 
practice into the inner regions of the soul, these aspirations swirl, 
so to say, perpertually on the surface of the mind. Their presence 
there will produce a kind of psychic intoxication, sometimes rousing 
in the occultist thought so much above his own mental end moral 
standard, that he may come to regard himself as a saint, while at the 
same time performing the most despicable actions." (M. Lévy)

Acts alone show forth morality, not attractive formulas flowing from 
literary or oratorical talent.

The cultivation of the non-moral cairvoyance could only attain 
results in the lower regions of the astral world... the organ of 
clairvoyant sight, when developed according to certain methods, will 
be blind to the moral outline of subtle worlds, and will thus be cut 
off from all their truly spiritual content. The fields of their 
experiences will be limited to the lower regions of the astral plane. 
And it is these lower vision, more frequently experienced because of 
their affinity to elements in the vehicles of the investigator not 
yet purified, that will be presented as the most sublime images of 
the higher worlds... Such a clairvoyant will be the victim of all the 
illusions of a world that is the mother-land of illusions... Since 
the sense of responsibility will equally fail him, he will have no 
scruple in sharing his illusions with all, in making known his 
misleading experiences. (M. Lévy)

We recall the "Leadbeater Case," which in 1906 [this was the 
Committee of Inquiry in London – A.L.C] called forth within the T.S., 
no less than outside, unanimous censure. Resigning from the T.S in 
consequence of this affair, Mr. Leadbeater has since returnet, at the 
invitation of Mrs. Besant.

In a letter datel July,1906 Mrs. Besant herself deemed Mr. 
Leadbeater's morality so defective as to be accounted for only by 
mental derangement... However, she condones and thus supports this 
horror. M. Lévy portrays for us what road is that this once 
apparently sane and normal woman, with all her gifts, is deschending 
a road that, as H.P.B puts in the concluding paragraph of Occultism 
versus the Occult Arts, "can lead only to Dugpa-ship."

A recent suit, instituted by the parent of the young Krishnamurti, re-
claiming the custody of his child, brings forward again this question 
of morality... In fact, the present case clearly formulates the 
accusation of immoral conduct testified by witnesses.




H.P.BLAVATSKY ON TRUE OCCULTISM

[quotations from Occultism versus the Occult Arts]
... It is true that Mrs. Besant started well, even splendidly, in 
H.P.B's lifetime, and just after her death wrote a series of simple 
explanatory manuals which were of great value to beginners and 
enquirers. But only two years later she became to make serious 
alterations in H.P.B's own works, and even to throw doubt on her 
(HPB's) occult knowledge... I well remember marking many passages 
in `The Ancient Wisdom' which were not in accordance with H.P.B's 
teachings. But the radical departure from them began when Mrs. Besant 
definitely threw in her lot with C.W.Leadbeater, and cause such deep 
sorrow to her former friends and supporters.