Theos-Talk Archives (May 2006 Message tt00016)

Friends,

Interesting to note that according to what I see in Anand's page (see below), 
the book "The Masters and the Path", by C. W. Leadbeater,  stopped being reprinted in 1940. 

Yet I believe that Adyar TPH did issue an "abridged" version of it, leaving without CWL's fanciful description of "Wesak's Festival". 

The Full Moon of May or Vaisakh is a serious event. 

Yet CWL's artistic and choreographic description of it as a rite or ritual was dropped away by Mrs. Radha Burnier in the latest edition of  "The Masters and the Path". In the 1980s. This irritated more than one radical CWL's follower. 

It is said that Mrs. Radha consulted with a high Tibetan lama about that "famous ritual" and the answer was -- there is nothing about that. 

Then she decided to drop that part of the book, leaving all the other fancies in it, though. 

Best regards, Carlos. 


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Data:Mon, 1 May 2006 11:58:13 +0530

Assunto:Theos-World Brotherhood of Adepts (AnandGholap.Net-Online Theosophy)

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> " There is a great Brotherhood, and its Members are in constant communication with one another; but Their communication is on higher planes and They do not necessarily live together. As part of Their work, some of these great Brothers whom we call Masters of the Wisdom are willing to take pupil-apprentices and teach them; but They form only a small section of the mighty Body of Perfected Men.
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> 39. As will be explained later on, there are seven types of men, for every one belongs to one of the seven Rays into which the great wave of evolving life is distinctly divided. It would seem that one Adept on each of the Rays is appointed to attend to the training of beginners, and all those who are coming along His particular Ray of evolution pass through His hands.
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> 40. No one below the rank of Adept is permitted to assume full responsibility for a novice, though those who have been chelas for a number of years are often employed as deputies, and receive the privilege of helping and advising promising young aspirants. These older pupils are gradually being trained for their future work when they in turn shall become Adepts, and they are learning to take more and more of the routine work off the hands of their Masters, so that the latter may be set free for higher labours which only They can undertake. The preliminary selection of candidates for discipleship is now left to a large extent in the hands of these older workers, and the candidates are temporarily linked with such representatives rather than directly with the great Adepts. But the pupils and the Master are so wonderfully one that perhaps this is almost "a distinction without a difference."
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