Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00112)

To Everyone Viewing Theos-Talk …(with perhaps the exception of Mr. Jaqua
and Caldwell…!)

While historical verifications are certainly not without their importance
and necessity, the current tendency to debate Theosophical ideas and
concepts primarily within an  ‘historicalized’ context  often loses the
meaning and inner significance. Micro analyzing and adding any opinion,
apparently the more cute, ‘smart’ or outrageous the better, as if
Theos-talk is some kind of call in radio talk show can hardly be the
quality of Theosophical debate that is beneficial for spiritual or inner
development. Isn’t this inner development what Theosophical interchange is
about ? 

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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 in the one thought.” …”The great
difficulty to be overcome is the registration of the knowledge of the
Higher Self on the physical plane. …etc.”
 P. 149 Instruction NO. V – (Katherine Tingley’s personal copy in the Point
Loma archives)

I think the essential meaning of the communication from KH that HPB quotes
is encapsulated in the following:

“Can you realize what it means to have your consciousness virtually of
cosmic reach, attaining the outermost limits of our Solar System, both
visible and invisible ? Try for an instant to realize what it is to send
your consciousness behind the veils of the  physical universe, deep, deep,
deeper still, into the very heart of being; and there to learn, by becoming
it, what is there, by experiencing all that is there in your  own
perceiving consciousness; and then, holiest thing of all, perhaps, feeling
so strong your oneness with the Boundless Universe that instinctively and
with all the impulses of your life you consecrate yourself to its service—a
god-like activity.
     This concentration brings about a becoming ever greater in spiritual
power, in growth of inner faculty, in inner vision, in inner hearing, in
deeper feeling. Following upon this concentration the inner spiritual
senses will open and develop grandly.”
-G. dePurucker “The Mahatmas and Genuine Occultism” – Point Loma
Publications (www.wisdomtraditions.com)


Clearly KH is not talking about making a literal image of a particular
‘Master’ in this note. If he meant that he would have said ‘make an image
of KH or M or whoever’.  So what is required here would be the capacity to
‘image’ what a Master is…….. well this is not so easy as does it not
requires knowing what that more highly spiritualized consciousness IS ? ..
or the question I like to put: ‘How would you know a Master if he (or she)
sat down on the bus next to you ? or if you saw a Mayavi rupa how  would
you know it is from a Master and not from what HPB would have termed a
‘dugpa’  or ones own imagination ?’  The next paragraph talks about the
‘Higher Self’ AND here again I hope there is enormous caution in everyone’s
mind……as Theosophists seem to so often  throw this term around so easily as
if labeling it makes  the ‘Higher Self’ part of ones life……… another
Theosophist said to the effect: “Have you meditated upon the Higher Self to
which you aspire ?”  (Katherine Tingley)  Gordon Plummer’s last  brief talk
– around age 90 nearly blind and hard of hearing - a culmination of his
whole life study in Theosophy  to a group at the end of a Winter Solstice
gathering  sought to give some idea of  the ‘Higher Self’, first by stating
that these words can be very misleading, with  neither ‘Higher’ nor ‘Self’
conveying the Reality very well. He then spoke about ‘resonant fields’,
‘harmonics of shifting awareness’, ‘movement of time and consciousness’ and
that in this life, we are in a sense an ‘analog’ of this incredible complex
web of consciousness, which in Theosophy has been labeled ‘Higher Self’.
His comments were impressive because of the silence and presence while he
spoke.

In instruction 5 HPB is clearly aligning (I would suggest as an intuitive 
challenge ?) these ideas:  the interlinking of the pineal and heart 
center,  the outer Master merging with the Master within and the heart
center, the Higher Self,  ‘memory’ or  awareness in deep sleep, the power
of concentration. I do not find it difficult to see that to spend a great
deal of time studying these important correlations both in study and
practice would be very beneficial !

Finally, on the more mundane historical level,  I can say definitely that 
none of the Point Loma Theosophists ever questioned instruction no. v and
its content or questioned  the authenticity of  these quotes. This includes
Boris de Zirkoff, Gordon Plummer, Geoffrey and Ila Barborka, Iverson 
Harris, my parents, Helen Todd, Elsie Benjamin etc. All of these people 
were members of the esoteric school at Point Loma and read and studied
these instructions. DeZirkoff consulted with this group when he worked on
and issued the Esoteric Instructions in the Blavatsky Collected Writings.
Questions of meaning, authenticity and even whether to publish them or not,
were discussed and any problems DeZirkoff would have footnoted.  

I will post in a few days  more commentary on this subject  from
discussions I have had this past week with some Point Loma, ULT and
independent Theosophists.

Ken











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