Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00024)

Aug 7 2005



Dear Gopi:



If Sturdy recorded it, it was information to a special group around HPB and
he may have not recorded it accurately as she might have if she had
corrected it. So be ware.



The notes made by several members of a special group around HPB have been
published - more or less accurately. 



Further as those were to be kept confidential I personally observe those
wishes and do not discuss them should I come across them.



In general I would say that there are very few of us who can aspire to a
good understanding and application of the ethics and morals which a
knowledge of the fundamental laws and rules of the Universe require. 



I am sure we may come close. But that does not give us the right or the
responsibility to try and interpret them to others. 



I notice that HPB, writing on "authority," declares that any writing on the
matters of occult significance become "exoteric" the moment they are
published. Hence, they begin to undergo changes (under the rules of maya).
This is inevitable, and hence she declared that, at best, all such important
writings tended to APPROACH to the TRUTH, and not: to BE THE TRUTH. 



It is for this reason that I use quotations from the "original literature"
whenever possible. I believe it is better to do so, because my own biases
and filters are 

Inevitably included in what I write. 



I try to open doors and windows on to the verities that are seen by all, and
to some extent may be grasped by all individually, and I hope that others,
reading, will begin their own independent thinking and study. 



The "Path" to the ETERNAL has to be independently worked out by each
devotee. 



In the matter of mediation, Let me offer from HPB the following:



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BROTHERHOOD THE KEY TO "PERFECTION".DOC

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BROTHERHOOD THE KEY TO "PERFECTION"



By H. P.
Blavatsky







Now it is a fundamental doctrine of Theosophy that the "separateness" which
we feel between ourselves and the world of living beings around us is an
illusion, not a reality. 



In very deed and truth, all men are one, not in a feeling of sentimental
gush and hysterical enthusiasm, but in sober earnest. 



As all Eastern philosophy teaches, there is but ONE SELF in all the infinite
Universe, and what we men call "self" is but the illusionary reflection of
the ONE SELF in the heaving waters of earth. 



True Occultism is the destruction of the false idea of Self, and therefore
true spiritual perfection and knowledge are nothing else but the complete
identification of our finite "selves" with the Great All. 



It follows, therefore, that no spiritual progress at all is possible except
by and through the bulk of Humanity. It is only when the whole of Humanity
has attained happiness that the individual can hope to become permanently
happy -- for the individual is an inseparable part of the Whole.



Hence there is no contradiction whatever between the altruistic maxims of
Theosophy and its injunction to kill out all desire for material things, to
strive after spiritual perfection. 



For spiritual perfection and spiritual knowledge can only be reached on the
spiritual plane; in other words, only in that state in which all sense of
separateness, all selfishness, all feeling of personal interest and desire,
has been merged in the wider consciousness of the unity of Mankind.



This shows also that no blind submission to the commands of another can be
demanded, or would be of any use. Each individual must learn for himself,
through trial and suffering, to discriminate what is beneficial to Humanity;
and in proportion as he develops spiritually, i.e., conquers all
selfishness, his mind will open to receive the guidance of the Divine Monad
within him, his Higher Self, for which there is neither Past nor Future, but
only an eternal NOW.



Again, were there no "poor," far from the "benefits of civilization being
lost," a state of the highest culture and civilization would be attained, of
which we cannot now form the faintest conception. Similarly, from a
conviction of the impermanence of material happiness would result a striving
after that joy which is eternal, and in which all men can share. 



Throughout the whole letter of our esteemed correspondent there runs the
tacit assumption that happiness in material, physical life is all-important;
which is untrue. 



So far from being the most important, happiness in this life of matter is of
as little importance in relation to the bliss of true spiritual life as are
the few years of each human cycle on earth in proportion to the millions and
millions of years which each human being spends in the subjective spheres,
during the course of every great cycle of the activity of our globe.



With regard to faculties and talents, the answer is simple. They should be
developed and cultivated for the service of Humanity, of which we are all
parts, and to which we owe our full and ungrudging service.



Blavatsky Collected Writings, Vol. 11: Pp. 104-6



THEOSOPHICAL QUERIES: ANSWER TO A LETTER

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I hope this will help,



Best wishes,









Dallas



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-----Original Message-----
From: Gopi Chari [mailto:ekcvv@juno.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:52 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] RE: MEDITATION



Hi Dallas & Isabel,



I have misled you, it is called "Diagram of Meditation" and is 

recorded by E.T. Sturdy, one of the members of her Inner Group.



There are hundreds of references to the diagram on Internet.



For me, that Diagram is the ultimate definition of Meditation. It has all
the teachings of Samadhi in it and is given in a practicable manner. I make
a presentation of the chart at least once a year at some place or other. 



I also believe it is published in Theosophist or some other magazine. You
can see this was one of her final teachings!



Gopi

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