Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00391)

June 15 2005

Dear MKR

I find that THEOSOPHY has much to explain about Adepts:

Here are some important ideas to relay to your friend:



M A H A T M A S, A D E P T S , I N I T I A T I O N  

							
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Mahatma


"A visitor from one of the other planets of the solar system who might learn
the term Mahatma after arriving here would certainly suppose that the
etymology of the word undoubtedly inspired the believers in Mahatmas with
the devotion, fearlessness, hope, and energy which such an ideal should
arouse in those who have the welfare of the human race at heart...The whole
sweep, meaning, and possibility of evolution are contained in the word
Mahatma. Maha is "great," Atma is "soul," and both compounded into one mean
those great souls who have triumphed before us not because they are made of
different stuff and are of some strange family, but just because they are of
the human race.

Reincarnation, karma, the sevenfold division, retribution, reward, struggle,
failure, success, illumination, power, and a vast embracing love for man,
all these lie in that single word.

The soul emerges from the unknown, begins to work in and with matter, is
reborn again and again, makes karma, develops the 6 vehicles for itself,
meets retribution for sin and punishment for mistake, grows strong by
suffering, succeeds in bursting through the gloom, is enlightened by true
illumination, grasps power, retains charity, expands with love for orphaned
humanity, and thenceforth helps all others who remain in darkness until all
may be raised up to the place with the "Father in Heaven" who is the Higher
Self."	WQJ -- ART. II, p. 39-40



Spiritual Star of the Soul


"...every class of adept has its own bond of spiritual communion...by
bringing oneself within the influence of the Spiritual light which radiates
from one's own Logos. ... such communion is only possible between persons
whose souls derive their life and sustenance from the same divine RAY, and
that, as seven distinct rays radiate from the 'Central Spiritual Sun,' all
adepts and Dhyan Chohans are divisible into seven classes, each of which is
guided, controlled, and overshadowed by one of the seven forms or
manifestations of the divine Wisdom."	S S. Row quoted by
HPB, -- SD I 574.



One Source: 7 Aspects - Primary Rays


"The divine, purely Adi-Buddhic monad manifests as the universal Buddhi (the
Mahabuddhi or Mahat ...) the spiritual omniscient and omnipotent root of
divine intelligence, the highest anima mundi or the Logos. This descends
"like a flame spreading from the eternal Fire, immovable... ever the same to
the end" of the cycle of existence, and becomes universal life on the
Mundane Plane. From this Plane (the logoi of Life); then the
Dhyani-Buddhas of contemplation; the concrete forms of their formless
Fathers -- the Seven Sons of Light, still themselves, ... "Thou art 'THAT'
-- Brahm." It is from these Dhyani-Buddhas that emanate their chhayas
(Shadows) the Bodhisattvas, and of the terrestrial Buddhas, and finally of
men. The "Seven Sons of Light" are also called "Stars."

"The star under which a human Entity is born, says the Occult teaching, will
remain for ever its star, throughout the whole cycle of its incarnations in
one Manvantara. But this is not his astrological star. The latter is
concerned and connected with the personality, the former with the
INDIVIDUALITY. The "Angel" of that Star, or the Dhyani-Buddha will be
either the guiding or simply the presiding "Angel," so to say, in every new
rebirth of the monad, which is part of its own essence. though his vehicle,
man, may remain for ever ignorant of this fact. The adepts have each their
Dhyani-Buddha, their elder "twin Soul," and they know it, calling it
"Father-Soul," and "Father-Fire." ... The Logos, or both the unmanifested
and the manifested WORD, is called by the Hindus, Iswara...the highest
consciousness in nature.. There are seven chief groups of such Dhyan
Chohans, which groups will be found and recognized in every religion, for
they are the primeval SEVEN Rays. Humanity...is divided into seven distinct
groups and their sub-divisions, mental, spiritual, and physical * [ Fn.:--
Hence the 7 chief planets, the spheres of the indwelling 7 spirits, under
each of which is born one of the human groups which is guided and influenced
thereby. There are only 7 planets (specially connected with earth), and 12
houses, but the possible combinations of their aspects are countless. ... as
infinite as the spiritual, psychic, mental, and physical capacities in the
numberless varieties of the genus homo, each of which...is born under on of
the 7 planets and one of the said countless planetary combinations. See
Theosophist for August l886]"	S. D. VOL. I, p. 572-3

	

Attuning One's Consciousness to the Seven Chords


"... Whenever you are able to attune your consciousness to any of the seven
chords of 'Universal Consciousness,' those chords that run along the
sounding-board of Kosmos, vibrating from one Eternity to another; when you
have studied thoroughly 'the music of the Spheres," then only will you
become quite free to share your knowledge with those with whom it is safe to
do so. ... Do not give out the great Truths that are the inheritance of the
future Races, to our present generation. Do not attempt to unveil the
secret of being and non-being to those unable to see the hidden meaning of
Apollo's HEPTACHORD--the lyre of the radiant god, in each of the seven
strings of which dwelleth the Spirit, Soul and Astral body of the Kosmos,
whose shell only has now fallen into the hands of Modern Science..."	S D
I 167



Mathematical Value of the Person
     

"...each person has a distinct mathematical value expressed by one number.
This is a compound or resultant of numberless smaller ones."	WQJ
ARTICLES, Vol. 1, p. 423



Adept Initiation


"The degrees of an Adept's initiation mark the seven stages at which he
discovers the secret of the sevenfold principles in nature and man and
awakens his dormant powers." M.L. 99



Adept Lives to Serve the World

"[The Adept]...serves humanity and identifies himself with the whole world;
he is ready to make vicarious sacrifice for it at any moment--by living not
by dying for it. Why should he not die for it? Because he is part of the
whole, and one of the most valuable parts of it. Because he lives under
laws of order which he does not desire to break. His life is not his own,
but that of the forces which work behind him. He is the flower of humanity,
the bloom which contains the divine seed. He is, in his own person, a
treasure of the universal nature. which is guarded and made safe in order
that the fruition shall be perfected. It is only at definite periods of the
world's history that he is allowed to go among the herd of men as their
redeemer."	
LIGHT ON THE PATH p. 72-3



Seclusion of the Adept


Through all time the wise men have lived apart from the mass. [ That the
chief body of these wise ones should be understood to dwell beyond the
fastnesses of the Himalayas...p. 70 ] And even when some temporary purpose
or object induces one of them to come into the midst of human life, his
seclusion and safety is preserved as completely as ever... they are only
known as mystics by those who have the power to recognize; the power given
by the conquering of self. Otherwise how could they exist, even for an
hour, in such a mental and psychic atmosphere as is created by the confusion
and disorder of a city ? Unless protected and made safe their own growth
would be interfered with, their work injured. And the neophyte may meet an
adept in the flesh, may live in the same house with him, and yet be unable
to recognize him, and unable to make his own voice heard by him... No voice
penetrates to his inner hearing till it has become a divine voice, a voice
which gives no utterance to the cries of self... Until a man has become, in
heart and spirit a disciple, he has no existence for those who are teachers
of disciples. And he becomes this by one method only--the surrender of his
personal humanity." L ON P p. 74-5



"If, for generations we have "shut out the world from the Knowledge of our
Knowledge," it is on account of its absolute unfitness; and if,
notwithstanding proofs given, it still refuses yielding to evidence, then
will we at the End of this cycle retire into solitude and our kingdom of
silence once more...We have offered to exhume the primeval strata of man's
being, his basic nature, and lay bare the wonderful complications or his
inner Self...and demonstrate it scientifically...It is our mission to plunge
and bring the pearls of Truth to the surface...For countless generations
hath the adept builded a fane of imperishable rocks, a giant's Tower of
Infinite Thought, wherein the Titan dwelt, and will yet, if need be, dwell
alone, emerging from it but at the end of every cycle, to invite the elect
of mankind to co-operate with him and help in his turn enlighten
superstitious man. And we will go on in that periodical work of ours; we
will not allow ourselves to be baffled in our philanthropic attempts until
that day when the foundations of a new continent of thought are so firmly
built that no amount of opposition and ignorant malice guided by the
Brethren of the Shadow will be found to prevail."	M L p. 50-1




Harmony of the Adept - Chela


"...an adept may be compared to that one key which contains all the keys in
the great harmony of nature. He has the synthesis of all keys in his
thoughts, whereas the ordinary man has the same key as a basis, but only
acts and thinks on one or a few changes of this great key, producing in his
brain only a few chords out of the whole great possible harmony...the brain
of the chela is attuned by training to the brain of the Master. His
vibrations synchronize with those of the Adept...so the chela's brain is
abnormal...(425) ...the adept sees all the colors in every color and yet
does not confuse them together...the highest adepts [ have raised their
vibrations so as to have them the same as those of nature as a whole ]...He
can produce a sound which will alter a color. It is the sound which
produces the color, and not the other or opposite. By correlating the
vibrations of a sound in the proper way a new color is made...on the astral
plane every sound always produces a color...these are invisible because not
yet correlated by the human brain so as to become visible on the earth
plane....His astral senses may see the true color, but the physical eye has
its own vibrations, and these, being on the outer plane, overcome the others
for the time, and the astral man is compelled to report to the brain that it
saw correctly. For in each case the outer stimulus is sent to the inner
man, who then is forced, as it were, to accept the message and to confirm it
for the time so far as it goes. But there are cases where the inner man is
able to even then overcome the outer defect and to make the brain see the
difference...."	
WQJ ARTICLES, Vol. I, p. 423-426.



Daily and Hourly Initiations -- Tests of Daily Life


"It is supposed by some that initiation is always and in every case a set
and solemn occasion for which the candidate is prepared and notified in
advance. While there are some initiations surrounded by such solemnities as
these, the daily one, without success in which no aspirant will ever have
the chance to try for those that are higher, comes to the disciple with
almost each moment. It is met in our relations with our fellows, and in the
effects upon us of all the circumstances of life. And if we fail in these,
we never get to the point where greater ones are offered. If we cannot bear
momentary defeat, or if a chance word that strikes our self-love finds us
unprepared, or if we give way to the desire to harshly judge others, or if
we remain in ignorance of some of our most apparent faults, we do not build
up that knowledge and strength imperatively demanded from whoever is to be
master of nature."	WQJ ART II 497-8



Moments of Choice
   

"It is in the life of every one to have a moment of choice, but that moment
is not set for any particular day. It is the sum total of all days; and it
may be put off until the day of death, and then it is beyond our power, for
the choice has been fixed by all the acts and thoughts of the lifetime. We
are self-doomed at that hour to just the sort of life, body, environment,
and tendencies which will best carry out our karma. This is a thing solemn
enough, and one that makes the "daily initiation" of the very greatest
importance to each earnest student."	
WQJ ART II 497-8



Universe of Consciousness -- Range of the Initiate


"That High Spirits work on Earth in bodies of men, while those spirits are
still in the highest spheres [ see SD I 233-4 &fn, 235fn ]...it is clearly
explained that the author [HPB] does not mean that which is called among the
spiritualists "control" of mediums by a spirit, but the actual continuance
of the status and functions of the incarnated spirit in the supersensuous
regions, while actually using as its own and working in a mortal envelope on
earth. So that, according to her, there are certain persons on this earth,
living and working as ordinary human beings and members of society. whose
informing divine part is so immeasurably high in development that they as
such high beings have a definite status and function in the "supersensuous
regions."  

We should say...that she herself was such a case, and that "H.P.B.," whether
hourly in the day and night when all around was still, had a status and
functions" in their spheres where she consciously carried on the work of
that high station, whatever it was.  

There were many events in her daily life known to those who were intimate
with her that this hint may reveal, or at least shed much light upon. And
in one of her letters the sentence appears--in substance--"The difference
between you and me is that you are not conscious except at day, while I am
conscious day and night, and have much to do and to endure in both of these
existences from which you, being thus half-conscious, are happily saved."

In the Hindu books and teachings there is a reference to this when the speak
of high gnanees--that is, persons full of knowledge and spiritual
power--being attracted to this earth by certain acts and at certain times in
the history of nation, race or city."	"Hidden Hints in the S. D."
WQJ Art I 615-6



"If it is true that "the whole universe is an aggregate of states of
consciousness," it would seem to follow that the real difference between one
who is an initiate and one who is not lies in the fact that the former looks
at all things from a totally different stand point to the majority of
men...that he is on a higher plane of consciousness altogether. If such a
higher plane has been attained, it will follow that his whole range of ideas
will differ from that of others and he will be sensible of the operation of
causes of a more far-reaching character than those cognized by others. He
will be as it were in the possession of higher and superior information and
so will be able to form juster conclusions and this fact alone will give him
enormous power."	THEOS. ART. & NOTES, p. 60



"The action of the entire universe is but a detailed manifestation and
example of the action of mind on matter, governed at the highest point by
the action of the universal mind. Between the finite human mind of the
ordinary uninitiated individual and this universal mind lie an infinite
number of gradually ascending degrees, and the higher the plane of
consciousness the nearer is the approach to the universal mind which is, as
it were, the mainspring of the whole." --"Alpha"  
THEOS ART & NOTES, p. 60-1




Transition Cycle -- Our Present


"We are the bottom of a cycle and evidently in a transitory state, Plato
divides the intellectual progress of the universe during every cycle into
fertile and barren periods...We are in a barren period the eighteenth
century during which the malignant fever of skepticism broke out so
irrepressibly, has entailed unbelief as an hereditary disease upon the
nineteenth. The divine intellect is veiled in man; his animal brain alone
philosophizes."	ISIS I 247
[WQJ I 211, LET 71-2, OCEAN 4, 50 55, 126, IS II 366-9]   



"...I told you long ago to expect many and great disturbances of all kinds
as one cycle was closing and the other beginning its fateful activities.
You already see in the seismological phenomena of late occurrence some of
the proof; you will see a great many more and shortly..."	M L 396




Man's Ego -- Atma-Buddhi -- A Ray Of Universal Mind


"This is precisely what occult philosophy claims: our Ego is a ray of the
Universal Mind, individualized for the space of a cosmic life-cycle, during
which space of time it gets experience in almost numberless reincarnations
or rebirths, after which it returns to its Parent-Source.

"The Occultist would call the "Higher Ego" the immortal Entity, whose shadow
and reflection is the human Manas, the mind, limited by its physical senses.
The two may be well compared to the Master-artist and the pupil-musician.  

"In the course of natural evolution our "brain-mind" will be replaced by a
finer organism, and helped by the 6th and the 7th senses.

"The "sensing principle" in us is an entity capable of acting outside as
inside its material body; and it is certainly independent of any organ in
particular, in its actions, although during its incarnation it manifests
itself through its physical organs.	T A & N 208-9



Memory Is Impressed In Imperishable Waves Of Astral Light


"Our "memory" is but a general agent, and its "tablets," with their
indelible impressions, but a figure of speech; the "brain-tablets" serve
only as a upadhi or a vahan (basis or vehicle) for reflecting at a given
moment the memory of one or another thing. The records of past events, of
even minutest action, and of passing thoughts, in fact, are really impressed
on the imperishable waves of the ASTRAL LIGHT, around us and everywhere, not
in the brain alone; and these mental pictures, images, and sounds, pass
from these waves via the consciousness of the personal Ego or Mind (the
lower Manas) whose grosser essence is astral, into the "cerebral
reflectors," so to say, or our brain, whence they are delivered by the
psychic to the sensuous consciousness. This at every moment of the day, and
even during sleep."	
HPB FOOTNOTE IN LUCIFER THEOS ART & NOTES, p. 208-9



Pure Mind Guide Of The Highest Faculties


"..."Mind" is manas, or rather its lower reflection, which whenever it
disconnects itself, for the time being, with kama, becomes the guide of the
highest mental faculties, and is the organ of the free-will in physical
man...." 
HPB ARTICLES, Vol. II, p. 13


"Mankind usually receives a thousand impressions through the senses to one
through the spiritual nature. Adeptship means reversing the proportion." --
H.S.Olcott, PATH Vol. 3, p. 109




"Brain" Of The Manifested Universe


"Occult philosophy reconciles the absurdity of postulating in the manifested
Universe an active Mind without an organ, with that worse absurdity, an
objective Universe evolved as everything else in it, by blind chance, by
giving to this Universe an organ of thought, a "brain." The latter,
although not objective to our senses, is nonetheless existing; it is to be
found in the Entity called Kosmos (Adam Kadmon, in the Kabala)."  

"As in the Microcosm, Man, so in the Macrocosm, of the Universe. Every
"organ" in it is a sentient entity, and every particle of matter or
substance, from the physical molecule up to the spiritual atom, is a cell, a
nerve center, which communicates."	T A & N 208




About H.P.B.


W.Q.Judge:	"In 1875, in the City of New York, I first met H.P.B. in
this life...It was her eye that attracted me, the eye of one whom I must
have known in lives long passed away. She looked at me in recognition at
that first hour, and never since has that look changed...Not as a questioner
of philosophies did I come before her...but as one, wandering many periods
through the corridors of life, was seeking the friends who could show where
the designs for the work had been hidden. And true to the call she
responded, revealing the plans once again, and speaking no words to explain,
simply pointed then out and went on with the task. It was as if but the
evening before we had parted, leaving yet to be done some detail of a task
taken up with one common end; it was teacher and pupil, elder brother and
younger, both bent on the one single end, but she with the power and the
knowledge that belong but to lions and sages.

Others I know have looked with suspicion on an appearance they could not
fathom, and though it is true they adduce many proofs which hugged to the
breast, would damn sages and gods, yet it is only through blindness they
failed to see the lion's glance, the diamond heart of H.P.B...she was laying
down the lines of force all over the land...

The explanation has been offered by some too anxious friends that the
earlier phenomena were mistakes in judgment, attempted to be rectified in
later years by confining their area and limiting their number, but...I shall
hold to her own explanation made in advance and never changed. That I have
given above. For it is easier to take refuge behind a charge of bad
judgment than to understand the strange and powerful laws which control in
matters such as these.

Amid all the turmoil of her life, above all the din produced by those who
charged her with deceit and fraud and others who defended, while month after
month, and year after year, witnessed men and women entering the
theosophical movement only to leave it soon with malignant phrases for
H.P.B., there stands a fact we all might consider--devotion absolute to her
Master. "It was He," she writes, "who told me to devote myself to this, and
I will never disobey and never turn back."...

Willing in the service of the cause to offer up hope, money, reputation,
life itself, provided the Society might be saved from every hurt, whether
small or great. And thus bound body and soul to this entity called the T.
S., bound to protect it at all hazards, and in the face of every loss, she
often incurred the resentment of many who became her friends but would not
always care for the infant organization as she had sworn to do. And when
they acted as it opposed to the Society, her instant opposition seemed to
them to nullify professions of friendship. Thus she had but few friends,
for it required a keen insight, untinged with personal feeling, to see even
a small part of the real H.P.Blavatsky...

She worked under directors who, operating from behind the scene, knew that
the T. S. was, and was to be, the nucleus from which help might be spread to
all the people of the day, without thanks and without acknowledgment...I
asked her what was the chance of drawing people into the Society...she
said:--

"When you consider those days in 1875 and after, in which you could not find
any people interested in your thoughts, and now look at the wide-spreading
influence of theosophical ideas--however labeled--it is not so bad. We are
not working that people may call themselves Theosophists, but that the
doctrines we cherish may affect and leaven the whole mind of this century.  

This alone can be accomplished by a small earnest band of workers, who work
for no human reward, no earthly recognition, but who, supported and
sustained by a belief in that Universal Brotherhood of which our Masters are
a part, work steadily, faithfully, in understanding and putting forth for
consideration the doctrines of life and duty that have come down to us from
immemorial time.  

Falter not so long as a few devoted ones will work to keep the nucleus
existing. You were not directed to found and realise a Universal
Brotherhood, but to form the nucleus for one; for it is only when the
nucleus it formed that the accumulations can begin that will end in future
years, however far, in the formation of that body which we have in view."

H.P.B. had a lion heart, and on the work traced out for her she had a lion's
grasp, let us...sustain ourselves in carrying out the designs laid down on
the trestle-board, by the memory of her devotion and the consciousness that
behind her task stood, and still remain, those Elder Brothers who, above the
clatter and the din of our battle, ever see the end and direct the forces
distributed in array for the salvation of "that great orphan--Humanity."
W. Q. Judge	
"Yours till Death and After, H.P.B..." -- Judge Articles, II p. 1


	
"...in 1875 she told me that she was then embarking on a work that would
draw upon her unmerited slander, implacable malice, uninterrupted
misunderstanding, constant work, and no worldly reward. Yet in the face of
this her lion heart carried her on...

Much has been said of her "phenomena," some denying them, others alleging
trick and device. Knowing her for so many years so well, and having seen at
her hands in private the production of more and more varied phenomena that
it has been the good fortune of all others of her friends put together to
seem I know for myself that she had control of hidden powerful laws of
nature not known to our science, and I also know that she never boasted of
her powers, never advertised their possession, never publicly advised anyone
to attempt their acquirement, but always turned the eyes of those who could
understand her to a life of altruism based on a knowledge of true
philosophy.

If the world thinks that her days were spent in deluding her followers by
pretended phenomena, it is solely because her injudicious friends, against
her expressed wish, gave out wonderful stories of her "miracles" which can
not be proved to a skeptical public and which are not the aim of the Society
nor were ever more than mere incidents in the life of H.P.Blavatsky.

Her aim was to elevate the race. Her method was to deal with the mind of
the century as she found it, by trying to lead it on step by step; to seek
out and educate a few who, appreciating the majesty of the Secret Science
and devoted to "the great orphan Humanity," could carry on her work with
zeal and wisdom; to found a Society whose efforts--however small itself
might be--would inject into the thought of the day the ideas, the doctrines,
the nomenclature of the Wisdom Religion, so that when the next century shall
have seen its 75th years the new messenger, coming again into the world,
would find the Society still at work, the ideas sown broadcast, the
nomenclature ready to give expression and body to the immutable truth, and
thus to make easy the task which for her since 1875 was so difficult and so
encompassed with obstacles in the very paucity of the language--obstacles
harder than all else to work against."	W. Q. Judge
"H.P.B.--A Lion-hearted Colleague Passes" WQJ Articles II p. 5


Best wishes,



Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
>From MKR
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:28 PM
To
Subject: Re: : God

I was told that there was an inquiry from someone wanting to become an 
Adept. The person thought he/she could apply for it and for a fee a 
certificate of Adeptship will be issued. No wonder there may be other 
interesting stories around.

mkr

At 03:35 AM 06/15/05 +0000, you wrote:

>--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR<ramadoss@g...> wrote:
>
> > Here is a news item. If the World Teacher comes and announces about
>his
> > coming, he would end up in a hospital immediately. Even if he comes,
>he has
> > to keep very quiet about it.
> >
> > mkr
> > ====================
> >
> > TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Suspended Florida State quarterback Wyatt
>Sexton
> > was taken to a hospital by police who say they observed him behaving
> > strangely, lying in the street and telling them he was God.
>
>
>
>While I was at Adyar (1990s), from time to time strange letters would
>arrive in the mail. One of them, for example, was addressed to Henry
>Steel Olcott! We were, obviously, unable to forward it.
>
>Another one, from an Argentinian young man, asked for the postal
>address of the Mahatmas in Tibet! As we were unable to help him with
>that one, we suggested that he contacted the TS in Argentina for more
>information about the TS.
>
>I was told that when John Coats was President (1973-79), two different
>individuals where at Adyar for a short stay, each with a peculiar
>claim. Unbeknown to each other, they both claimed to be the Christ
>that had returned. All went well until they became aware of each
>other's claim. A fight ensued which resulted in the two "Christs"
>leaving the compound.
>
>Joy Mills once shared this story with us. When she was National
>President of the TS in America (1966-1974) she one day received a
>phone call. The person on the phone said: "Do you mind if I tell you I
>am the Solar Logos?" Joy replied: "Not at all. Please go ahead." After
>a few minutes she asked her assistant, Virginia Hanson, to continue
>the conversation with the "Solar Logos"!

>I am sure there may be many similar stories in other countries too.
>
>
>pedro



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