Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01073)

One Theosophist Dr. Hugh Shearman
wrote:

". . . the accounts of after-death
conditions in her [Blavatsky's] own
direct writings and in the Mahatma
Letters clash very emphatically not
only with what Bishop Leadbeater and
other members of the [Adyar Theosophical]
Society later described, but also with
descriptions given by psychics quite
unconnected with the Society."

"Theosophical Ontologies," The Theosophist,
October, 1971, p. 11.

Notice that Dr. Shearman writes about
"psychics quite unconnected with the
Society."

One might conclude from Shearman's statement
that he is CONTRASTING the majority of
"psychics" [that is, (1) Leadbeater, (2)"other
(psychic) members" of the Society and (3) all the
"psychics quite unconnected with the
Society"] with Mme. Blavatsky and
the Mahatmas.

But compare the above with what Master
Morya wrote to Mr. Sinnett:

"There is one general law of vision (physical and mental or
spiritual) but there is a qualifying special law proving that all
vision must be determined by the quality or grade of man's spirit and
soul, and also by the ability to translate divers qualities of waves
of astral light into consciousness. There is but one general law of
life, but innumerable laws qualify and determine the myriads of forms
perceived and of sounds heard. There are those who are willingly and
others who are unwillingly -- blind. Mediums belong to the former,
sensitives to the latter. Unless regularly initiated and trained --
concerning the spiritual insight of things and the supposed
revelations made unto man in all ages from Socrates down to
Swedenborg . . . no self-tutored seer or clairaudient ever saw or
heard quite correctly."
Master Morya, The Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed., Letter 40

Is it unreasonable to suppose that the "psychics"
mentioned by Dr. Shearman also belong to the category of
"self-tutored" seers, that is, persons not "regularly
initiated and trained?

I would further suggest that the "psychics quite
unconnected with the Society" might also be
the same ones referred to by Master K.H. in the
following quote:

"Vainly do your modern seers and their
prophetesses, creep into every cleft and
crevice without outlet or continuity they
chance to see; and still more vainly, when
once within do they lift up their voices
and loudly cry: 'Eureka! We have gotten a
revelation from the Lord!' — for verily
have they nothing of the kind. They have
disturbed but bats, less blind their
intruders; who, feeling them flying about,
mistake them as often for angels — as
they too have wings! . . . "
Master Koot Hoomi, The Mahatma Letters,
2nd ed., Letter 48
http://mahatmaletters.net

Comments welcomed.

Daniel
http://blavatskyarchives.com