Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00176)

Chanting esoteric teachings have nothing to do with devotion to the teacher. 
It is simply a method to impress the teaching through the aural channel which 
corresponds to the "mouth-to-ear" or oral instructions of the live Master. 
The chant gives the proper inflections so that the meaning becomes much clearer 
than can be expressed by the written words themselves. HPB used certain 
methods of typographics to indicate those aural inflections -- much like the 
masoretic points in the Hebrew alphabet which serve as a sort of musical notation 
for the Cantor or chanter. It's a shame that the later translators and 
interpreters of her writing weren't Adept enough to recognize the importance of her 
typography used to clearly explain the underlying or esoteric meaning behind 
her exposition of the occult truths. Could that be why they distorted and 
misinterpreted it so radically in their own teachings? 

However, you are free to use your own intuition and judgement to decide the 
correctness of any teaching by other authors. But don't expect any of us to 
take your word for it. :-)

Leonardo 

In a message dated 03/10/05 3:49:57 AM, AnandGholap@AnandGholap.org writes:
>
>Theosophy is not a path of devotion although reverence towards 
>Masters and senior disciples helps him. In Theosophy or occultism it 
>is expected by Masters that student would use their own intuition and 
>judgement and decide what is right and what is wrong. So everybody is 
>free to form opinions and use judgement, use intuition and intellect. 
>So it is not that I read something from HPB, bow head before her and 
>chant here what she says. 
>I say what I think is right and quote other authors if I think their 
>statement is right. 
>Anand Gholap