Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01318)

H.P.Blavatsky wrote a great deal on
"isolated" clairvoyants and "regularly 
initiated seers". For example, she
wrote:

"It has been explained repeatedly that the 
continuity of occult knowledge amongst 
initiated adepts is the attribute about it 
which commends their explanations – absolutely 
to the acceptance of those who come to understand 
what initiation means, and what kind of people 
adepts are. From Swedenborg onwards there have been many
seers who profess to gather their knowledge
of other worlds from actual observation, but
such persons are isolated, and subject to
the delusions of isolation. Any intelligent
man will have an intuitive perception of this,
expressing itself in a reluctance on his part
to surrender himself entirely to the assurances
of any such clairvoyants. But in the case of
regularly initiated seers it must be remembered
that we are dealing with a long — an extraordinarily
long — series of persons who, warned of the
confusing circumstances into which they pass
when their spiritual perceptions are trained
to range beyond material limits, are so enabled
to penetrate to the actual realities of things,
and who constitute a vast organized body of seers, who check
each other's conclusions, test each other's discoveries and
formulate their visions into a science of spirit as precise
and entirely trustworthy as, in their humble way, are the
conclusions, as far as they go, of any branch of physical
science. Such initiates are in the position, as regards
spiritual knowledge, that the regularly taught professor
of a great university is in, as regards literary knowledge,
and anyone can appreciate the superior claims of instruction
which might be received from him, as compared with the
crude and imperfect instruction which might be offered
by the merely self- taught man. The initiate's speculations,
in fact, are not spun at all; they are laid out before
him by the accumulated wisdom of ages, and he has merely
followed, verified and assimilated them."

Quoted from:
"Spiritualism and Occult Truth" by H.P. Blavatsky
THE THEOSOPHIST, Vol. III. No. 5, February, 1882.
http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/hpb/SpiritualismAndOccultTruth.htm

Daniel
http://hpb.cc