Theos-Talk Archives (September 2006 Message tt00043)

Carlos,

I wanted to quote for interested readers H.P. Blavatsky's OWN VIEWS 
about judging the letters of the Masters.  

Maybe you are not that interested in what she wrote on the subject.
But I am and I believe some other students are or may be.

I am also suggesting that what HPB wrote may also have some 
relevance to what Jake and others have been writing about the KH 
quotes under discussion.

>From my point of view, this subject matter is as important today as 
it was when she wrote it.

Daniel
http://hpb.cc



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> Daniel,
> 
> Yes, but after Vernon Harrison, and having the texts and books 
written  by Michael Gomes and Leslie Price, among others, there is 
no need any longer for that.
> 
> We are not in 1888 any more.  We are in the seconde semester of 
2006. Everyone with a working brain knows, by now, HPB was an 
authentic person. 
> 
> Regards,  Carlos. 
> 
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> Cópia:
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> Data:Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:00:42 -0000
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> Assunto:Theos-World H.P. Blavatsky on the Letters of the Masters: 
Part 2
> 
> > In Oct. 1888, Madame Blavatsky must have felt it necessary to
> > discuss openly and publicly the following issue in the pages of 
> > LUCIFER where she writes:
> > 
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> > ...We have been asked by a correspondent why he should not "be 
free
> > to suspect some of the so-called 'precipitated' letters as being
> > forgeries," giving as his reason for it that while some of them 
bear
> > the stamp of (to him) undeniable genuineness, others seem from 
their
> > contents and style, to be imitations. 
> > 
> > This is equivalent to saying that he has such an unerring 
spiritual 
> > insight as to be able to detect the false from the true, though 
he 
> > has never met a Master, nor been given any key by which to test 
his 
> > alleged communications. The inevitable consequence of applying 
his 
> > untrained judgment in such cases, would be to make him as likely 
as 
> > not to declare false what was genuine, and genuine what was 
false. 
> > 
> > Thus what criterion has any one to decide between 
one "precipitated" 
> > letter, or another such letter? 
> > 
> > Who except their authors, or those whom they employ as
> > their amanuenses (the chelas and disciples), can tell? For it is
> > hardly one out of a hundred "occult" letters that is ever 
written by
> > the hand of the Master, in whose name and on whose behalf they 
are
> > sent, as the Masters have neither need nor leisure to write them;
> > and that when a Master says, "I wrote that letter," it means only
> > that every word in it was dictated by him and impressed under his
> > direct supervision. Generally they make their chela, whether 
near or
> > far away, write (or precipitate) them, by impressing upon his 
mind
> > the ideas they wish expressed, and if necessary aiding him in the
> > picture-printing process of precipitation. It depends entirely 
upon
> > the chela's state of development, how accurately the ideas may be
> > transmitted and the writing-model imitated. 
> > 
> > Thus the non-adept recipient is left in the dilemma of 
uncertainty, 
> > whether, if one letter is false, all may not be; for, as far as 
> > intrinsic evidence goes, all come from the same source, and are 
> > brought by the same mysterious means. 
> > 
> > But there is another, and a far worse condition implied. For all 
> > that the recipient of "occult" letters can possibly know, and on 
the 
> > simple grounds of probability and common honesty, the unseen 
> > correspondent who would tolerate one single fraudulent line in 
his 
> > name, would wink at an unlimited repetition of the
> > deception. 
> > 
> > And this leads directly to the following. All the so-
> > called occult letters being supported by identical proofs, they 
have
> > all to stand or fall together. If one is to be doubted, then all
> > have, and the series of letters in the "Occult World," "Esoteric
> > Buddhism," etc., etc., may be, and there is no reason why they
> > should not be in such a case - frauds, "clever impostures,"
> > and "forgeries," such as the ingenuous though stupid agent 
[Richard 
> > Hodgson] of the "S.P.R." has made them out to be, in order to 
raise 
> > in the public estimation the "scientific" acumen and standard of
> > his "Principals."...
> > ==============================================================
> > 
> > Quoted from:
> > http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/articlesHPB.php?
> > d=hpb/LodgesOfMagic.htm&p=109
> > 
> > Daniel
> > http://hpb.cc
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