Theos-Talk Archives (September 2006 Message tt00351)

Daniel, Friends, 

Thanks for your question (below). 


The answer is most easy.  H.P.B.  did make a valiant self-criticism about giving out "personal" information about the Masters.  

Please take  a look at what she had to say in "The Key":


" I say again, every earnest Teosophist regrets to-day, from the bottom of his heart, that these sacred names and things have ever been mentioned before the public, and fervently wishes that they had been kept secret within a small circle of trusted and devoted friends. (......)  Had we acted on the wise principle of silence, instead of rushing into notoriety and publishing all we knew and heard, such desecration would never have occurred.” ( see note 1, below )   
 
Not being a hypocrite, H.P.B.  honestly and publically admited her mistakes.  Isn't that a beautiful example for us?  Would you follow her steps, brother Daniel?  Will you help preserve respect for the Masters and avoid slanders about them,  or their 19 th century main Helper? 

Honest examination of one's mistakes purifies one's mind and opens room for Buddhi-Manas activity. 

Hopeful greetings,   Carlos Cardoso Aveline, from Brazil. 

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NOTE:
 
(1) “The Key to Theosophy”, H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophy Co., India, 1987, 367 pp., see pp.  298-299. 
 


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Data:Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:50:01 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Carlos, Adeptship and a Question

> Carlos, you write:
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> "Presenting Adeptship not as a fact which occurs at the higher 
> levels of consciousness, but downgrading it as something related 
> to 'personal names', physical personalities and portraits – such an 
> action closes the door to a higher perception of things, for 
> thousands of ill-advised people."
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> "If the first idea of the Masters, in the mind of a neophyte, is 
> drawn at the personalistic level, the whole learning process starts 
> from illusion and from a narrow view of life."
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> So Carlos, are you saying that H.P. Blavatsky herself is guilty of 
> downgrading Adeptship?
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> She gave out in her writings and in what she said much information 
> about the Masters, that is, she gave out: 
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> "'personal names', physical personalities and portraits" 
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> We find her in 1890 even giving to her esoteric students copies of 
> the portraits of the Masters. And she even had a copy of Master 
> Morya's portrait on her desk for all to see.
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> Isn't this focusing on "the personalistic level" as you like to 
> phrase it?
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> If we believe what you are telling us, then H.P.B. is doing the very 
> thing that you say should not be done!!
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> By giving out these portraits wasn't she performing indeed 
> an "action" which you declare "closes the door to a higher 
> perception of things"?
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> Was she doing in effect what you say should not be done? That is,
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> "If the first idea of the Masters, in the mind of a neophyte, is 
> drawn at the personalistic level, the whole learning process starts 
> from illusion and from a narrow view of life."
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> By allowing her esoteric students to have portraits (surely this is 
> on the personalistic level), HPB was doing what you say shouldn't be 
> done!!
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> Too bad you weren't living back then, then you could have warned 
> HPB .... of her folly ....
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> And why was the Master Morya helping the German artist to paint KH's 
> portrait? And the Master was helping the artist in a crowded room 
> of people.
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> So wasn't the Master in effect doing what you say shouldn't be done??
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