Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00474)

Leadbeater versus the Masters 
on the Earth Chain of Globes including Mars & Mercury

In Mr. Leadbeater's A TEXTBOOK OF THEOSOPHY,
we find the following description of the
globes of the Earth Chain:

"...4C is a physical globe, visible to our
telescopes, and is in fact the planet we know
as Mars. Globe 4D is our own earth....Globe
4E is the planet which we call Mercury - also in the
physical world."

Yet in Madame Blavatsky's SECRET DOCTRINE, we
find the following which was confirmed by
HPB's Masters.

Mme. Blavatsky wrote:

"When the present work was commenced,
the writer [H.P. Blavatsky herself] ,
feeling sure that the speculation about
Mars and Mercury was a mistake, applied
to the Teachers [the Mahatmas] by letter
for explanation and an authoritative version.
Both came in due time, and verbatim extracts
from these are now given....

". . . . . both (Mars and Mercury) are septenary 
chains, as independent of the Earth's sidereal 
lords and superiors as you are independent of the 
'principles' of Daumling (Tom Thumb) -- which
were perhaps his six brothers, with or without 
night-caps. . . . "

"...Our Globe, as taught from the first, is at
the bottom of the arc of descent, where
the matter of our perceptions exhibits
itself in its grossest form. . . . . . .
Hence it only stands to reason that the
globes which overshadow our Earth must be
on different and superior planes. In short,
as Globes, they are in CO-ADUNITION but
not IN CONSUBSTANTIALITY WITH OUR EARTH
and thus pertain to quite another state of
consciousness."

Quoted from:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/moderntheosophy.htm#2

Daniel
Blavatsky Study Center
http://blavatskyarchives.com