Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00439)

>>--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Vladimir wrote:

> As you can see from those quotes of AAB, she clearly alluded to, so 
> to say, "full-scale" marriage with all pertaining physical 
exercises.
> This certainly is not "living as brothers and sisters" as
> HPB's Masters were said to do. So the contradiction still stands 
out 

She alluded to the possibility but never said it about any particular 
Master known to us by name. In "Initiation human & solar" she 
describes several Masters but doesn't say that any of them is married.

> I'm here searching for FACTS whenever possible.

I am more and more persuaded that I cannot know the FACTS in my 
current stage of awareness, without widening my consciousness by some 
means provided by yoga, or even shamanism, if you like. When I step to 
that region, I have to lay aside some preconceptions as about some 
particulars like "to have sex or not", still retaining some 
philosophical skeleton pertaining to generalities; for any practice 
has its own rules which may not fit our preconceptions. One of those 
general priciples is that from Kalama Sutra which was quoted in SD 
vol3, that we shouldn't believe anything without verifying ourselves, 
and it applies to SD too.

I am more and more come to believe that statements of the messengers 
of the Masters shouldn't be taken literally, but are just the means to 
drive the reader to one or another way of conduct.

Remember the story of Narayan in "Caves & jungles"; he was rejected as 
a chela because he was married, or rather involved. But didn't Master 
know it beforehand? Wouldn't it be more sincere to say him on the 
first meeting that he cannot be a chela? Yet obviously he was for some 
time on probation, and only when he failed completely it was declared 
to him that he is rejected because he is married.

Or take another instanse. We read that in ancient Egypt a neophite 
when passed all tests had the final one. A beautiful girl came in and 
said that she is a prize for a triumphant disciple. Pious authors add 
that those who were tempted became the slaves in the temple. But there 
is another consideration. The girl was a slave, and she would be set 
free if she succeeded. Which is the left-hand path and which is a 
right-hand path: to fail as a candidate but to set the slave girl 
free, or to continue his self-seaking way to occult knowledge?

I don't know, it that story true or not, but at least it has some 
value just as a story.