Theos-Talk Archives (September 2006 Message tt00038)

Friends,

It is important to see that here (see below) one is discussing techniques used, or not used, after 'several miles'  in the way of the aspirant to lay discipleship.

It is not out of intelectual curiosity, or 'spiritual ambition', that one can ever understand even the outskirts of the true aspiration to Wisdom. 

The general rule still holds true, that the Mahatmas prefer being left alone at the personal or anthropomorphic level.  They recommend, in the 1900 letter, impersonal methods, which are safer and the only ones recomended for people who are not pledged to an authentic ES.  

One should remember that all ES papers were NOT meant to the public, or to the average, unaccompanied student as illusions are a terrible danger. Also they were never meant to be discussed in the Internet, a public vehicle among people who scarcely know each other.   

There are ways to get to higher levels of consciousness.  These ways take years to produce some effefts.  In lower levels of consciousness, it is much better to leave most esoteric training methods alone,  because they will cause more harm and help.  The deepest danger is perhaps in that people will not notice the harm caused and may think they are advancing along the way, etc. 

Discipleship is NOT about personalities, and a Mahatma  is NOT  the physical body nor the mayavi rupa he may have used in the 1880s. 

Regards,  Carlos.  

  



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Data:Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:33:12 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World "...Concentrate on the Master as a Living Man Within You...."

> BELOW are the relevant passages from the first
> edition (pp. 152-153) of Esoteric Instruction No. V:
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> ...And so with regard to concentration the Blessed
> Master Koot Hoomi [triangle of three dots] writes:
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> YOUR BEST METHOD IS TO CONCENTRATE ON THE MASTER
> AS A LIVING MAN WITHIN YOU. MAKE HIS IMAGE IN YOUR
> HEART AND A FOCUS OF CONCENTRATION, SO AS TO LOSE
> ALL SENSE OF BODILY EXISTENCE.
> 
> So again He says:
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> THE GREAT DIFFICULTY TO BE OVERCOME IS THE REGISTRATION
> OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER SELF ON THE PHYSICAL
> PLANE. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, THE PHYSICAL BRAIN MUST BE
> MADE AN ENTIRE BLANK TO ALL BUT THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS.
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> When the Brain is thus rendered a blank, an impression
> from the Heart might reach it and be retained; and this is
> what is spoken of on p. 91, with regard to the Chela,
> who is able only to hold parts of the knowledge gained.
> The above quoted letter says:
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> IN ACQUIRING THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION THE FIRST STEP
> IS ONE OF BLANKNESS. THEN FOLLOWS BY DEGREES CONSCIOUSNESS,
> AND FINALLY THE PASSAGE BETWEEN THE TWO STATES BECOMES
> SO RAPID AND EASY AS TO BE ALMOST UNNOTICED.
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> He who can do this at will has become an Adept, and can 
> "store the knowledge he thus gains in his physical memory."
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> Such is the kingly function of the Heart in the human
> Body, and its relation to the Brain, which, as a whole,
> "is the vehicle of the Lower Manas, enthroned in Kama Rupa."
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> Photographic reproduction of the entire original instruction
> will be found in my ESOTERIC PAPERS OF MADAME BLAVATSKY,
> pp. 599-622. See http://esotericpapers.net
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> At the end of this instruction, the following has been added:
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> "Taken from the matter left by H.P.B. [triangle of three dots] for 
> such use." (p. 168)
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> Quotations from Koot Hoomi's letter are in CAPS.
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