Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00649)

Subject: DIfferent explanations about chakras from CWL


Friends

Perhaps you´ll find very useful the link below, in which M. Jaqua exposesa comparison between the CWL´s book The chakras ( which as far as 300,000 prints till 1989...probably more than all books from HPB together as the author claims ) and the teachings/explanations from HPB, Judge and G. De Purucker.

Below some excerpts from it that can perhaps explain certain comments on HPB and her alleged vices such as tobacco....
INHO the thought-vices from many folks are worser than any physical vice one can keep.
WORTH READING!!!!

Krishtar

http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/thomas/jaqua.htm
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"...On the use of tobacco, to which Leadbeater assigns the most horrible consequences, we find that he is not in agreement with either Blavatsky, Judge, or Purucker. Leadbeater writes:

"For any person who really means to develop his vehicles, to awaken his chakras, to make progress along the path of holiness, tobacco is undoubtedlyto be sedulously avoided." (P. 93)..."



"...There are numerous contradictions within Leadbeater's The Chakras (Quest Books, 1987). on pages 90 and 91 he states that the use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs destroys a person's "etheric web" and allows entrance of negative influences. He states that in other cases these drugs cause this "etheric web" to "harden" and that no higher influences can enter. This "etheric web" is not referred to in the literature of Blavatsky, "...


"...Considering that to most Theosophists admission, H.P. Blavatsky, while being a heavy smoker, was also the greatest practical and public occultist of our movement, there seems to be a misapprehension of fact in Leadbeater's statements. Olcott, Judge, Purucker, Blavatsky, and the Adept Morya were all smokers (see Mahatma Letters, #71, p. 374, T.U.P. edition). In another contradiction along this line, Leadbeater states on page 10 of The Chakras that "unfoldment" of the chakras "seems to have no more direct connection with morality than has the enlargement of the biceps," while, contradicting himself, on pages 90-3 he states that use of drugs, alcohol, or tobacco is fatal to occult development. Blavatsky, Judge, and Purucker all state in innumerable places that only within the highest morality is any occult development safe or desirable..."




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