Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00350)

Hugh Shearman (a well-known member and writer of 
the Theosophical Society, Adyar) 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." Caps

WHO are these "psychics quite unconnected with 
the Society"?

Are we referring here to the common run of psychics, sensitives,
and clairvoyants as mentioned in the letters of the Mahatmas?

Are these the kinds of "seers" and psychics described
by Mahatma K.H. in the following passage?

"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! . . . "  

Are these "psychics" mentioned by Shearman described by the 
following words of Master Morya?

"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."

How many of these "psychics quite unconnected with the Society" have 
been regularly initiated and trained? 

Notice that Shearman emphasizes the SIMILARITY between the 
teachings of C.W. Leadbeater and these other psychics regarding the 
after-death states.

Yet pay attention to what Mahatma Koot Hoomi says about the initiate:

"The world of force is the world of Occultism and the only one 
whither the highest initiate goes to probe the secrets of being. 
Hence no-one but such an initiate can know anything of these 
secrets. Guided by his Guru the chela first discovers this world, 
then its laws, then their centrifugal evolutions into the world of 
matter. To become a perfect adept takes him long years, but at last 
he becomes the master."