Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00206)

Friends, 

There has been a nice discussion on Esoteric Schools (ES) here. 

With regard to the ES  'tradition' created by HPB in the 19th century,  I guess there is one real ES, or Inner School, which is broadly speaking 
2500-3000 years old, nay, older.  It dates from ancient Greece, in the West, and India,  and China;  but, of course, it is connected to the Himalayas and there is no reason to investigate further on its 'location',  since it is not 'geographically limited' to this or that country. 

An authentic esoteric school working at the physical plane is but an  instrument of this really Inner School, of which a number of 'students' (lay disciples) may have never heard about Masters or HPB in their physical brains.   

The "inner" or meditative reading of Plato (Socrates), Plotinus, Porphyry, Seneca, Cicero, Julian, Musonius Rufus, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Cardinal de Cusa and many others will reveal a growing number of teachings related to this One School.  Of course there are eastern  thinkers and works, like "Dhammapada", "Bhagavad Gita", "Upanishads", "Tao Te King", "Wen-tzu", "Tripitaka", and so on. 

This School has conscious disciples/students ; but it also has semi-conscious ones, and a number of  unconscious learner/disciples (who are called by HPB  'unconscious occultists', the French writer H. Balzac being an example). 

Sometimes, being conscious of as link with Adepts does more harm than good to the lower self and and to the lower quaternary of the learner. 
Hence left-side brain-consciousness of it  often does not occur. 

People do not get into the 'occult waters' of this school by adoring portraits, or by going to rituals and fancying themselves disciples. 

They do that by their actual and active intentions -- and by their actions -- with regard to serving Humanity and understanding the Kosmos. 

At least, this is what I have been able to guess, so far. 


Best regards,   Carlos. 


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