Theos-Talk Archives (September 2006 Message tt00317)

Dear Friends,


Shallow, mechanistical views of Theosophy try  do reduce Wisdom  to mere repetition of old actions, based on hearsay or dead letter. 

HPB told far more important things to her Esoteric School students, than that having portraits of Masters in the late 1880s could be useful. 

To try to use the same technique 115 years later and while these outdated portraits are being used by every disinformed people around the world; to try to use it regardless of a commitment to a Cause,  and separate from a daily exercise in self-knowledge and self-purification; to try to use these old portraits of Physical Vehicles of Masters without true inner guidance...  this can only be a self-deluding attempt to bring down Mahatmas to one's own level of spiritual childishness.  

One should better choose some Catholic Saints to make promises to. 


And there is something interesting: often,  the same "internet editors" who publish these portraits everywhere (is it to "get energy" from them?)  also publicize slanders against the Masters and HPB, to show "how modern" they are.  

These people vulgarize, on one hand, and slander, on the other. Well-dressed wolves indeed! 

People who are interested in the Rishis, Initiates and Elder Brothers, and especially in their WISDOM, which in fact belongs to Mankind,  should not follow this "wide path".  They should try the inner, narrow  path instead. 

True Masters can't be found in lower and mayavic or "visual" regions. Dead letter, or the 'eye doctrine" (which depends on the five senses) will not open the inner door. 

The Heart Doctrine, or living spirit, does not need, nay, it can't resist superstition and image-adoration. 

If one does not find light within, if will be useless to look for it outside, whether in portraits, rites, Catholic Saints or websites. 

Best regards,   Carlos. 




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Data:Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:22:16 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World H.P. Blavatsky Allowed E.S. Members to have Copies of Masters' Portraits

> H.P. Blavatsky allowed members of her Esoteric School to have copies 
> of Masters' portraits.
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> Concerning this, William Judge writes in a letter to Countess 
> Wachtmeister in 1890:
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> "As to the photos of Masters I consider the whole thing a scandal. In
> one breath they are sacred and then they are sold for money. It does
> not excuse to say that they cost that, for if they are to go to
> certain proper persons then they should be free and if that can't be
> afforded then they should not be at all. . . ."
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> The Countess showed Judge's letter to HPB and HPB wrote the 
> following blunt letter back to Judge:
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> "As to the Masters' photos. . . . Why speak of selling the
> photos? . . . Does paying for the bare cost of producing them come
> under the head of selling? In other words the privilege to the
> members [of the Esoteric Section] is simply that of taking copies of 
> the photos at their own expense."
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> ". . . I do not understand why the pictures of the Masters should
> become less 'sacred' because the photographer who reproduces them has
> to be paid?"
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> "Will W.Q.J. please explain?"
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> I have also a E.S. letter signed by H.P.B. in which she states that 
> members can have said copies of the Masters' portraits if they 
> desire to have them.
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> Questions: 
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> Why did H.P. Blavatsky [the Outer Head of the E.S.] therefore allow 
> ES members to have personal copies of the Masters' portraits? 
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> What purpose did these personal copies serve????
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> Did H.P.B. consider the portraits "sacred"?
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> And why would the Master who was the "Inner Head" of the Esoteric 
> Section approve of this reproduction of the portraits for individual 
> members?
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