Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00363)

Daniel,

Thanks.

Among other things, you say: 


"H.P.B. writes that 'a pledge of secrecy taken ... to one's Higher 
Self -- the God within -- is binding till death'." 

OK. This is a fact for sure.   But this is not the only things that binds one for several lives. There are other and higher commitements, like the one to our own higher selves.   And this goes without saying.  

So this pledge and every other pledge l depends on one's own inner authority, one's inner conscience. 

It would be "Catholic" to keep an outer vow, if one's spiritual soul is not there any longer.

So everything depends on Antahkarana.

Is this understandable?  There is no authority higher than one's heart -- since it is in one's own inner conscience that all contacts with Reality are  made... 

Carlos. 





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Data:Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:56:24 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World H.P.B.: "...unless absolved from such secrecy by the Head of the Section."

> HPB: "...unless absolved from such secrecy 
> by the Head of the Section."
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> I give below from H.P. Blavatsky's 1888 "Pledge Folder", the
> following part of the pledge of the E.S.T.S.:
> 
> "I pledge myself to preserve inviolable secrecy as regards . . . all
> confidential documents."
> 
> And under the Rules of the Esoteric Section, notice the wording
> about the pledged E.S. student preserving and maintaining the:
> 
> "...Secrecy of the documents of the Section...."
> 
> "...unless absolved from such secrecy by the Head of the Section."
> 
> Consider the above also in the light of what HPB said about the
> pledge in THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY:
> 
> "...To any man or woman with the slightest honourable feeling a 
> pledge of secrecy taken even on one's word of honour, much more to 
> one's Higher Self -- the God within -- is binding till death....But 
> if it [the pledge] does not bind as far as this [that is, till 
> death], what use is a pledge at all? How can anyone expect to be 
> taught secret knowledge, if he is to be at liberty to free himself 
> from all the obligations he had taken, whenever he pleases? What 
> security, confidence, or trust would ever exist among men, if pledges 
> such as this were to have no really binding force at all? . . . As 
> well expressed [by Jasper Niemand] in the N. Y. 'Path' . . . on this 
> subject, 'A pledge once taken, is for ever binding in both the moral 
> and the occult worlds. If we break it once and are punished, that 
> does not justify us in breaking it again, and so long as we do, so 
> long will the mighty lever of the Law (of Karma) react upon us.' (The 
> Path, July, 1889.)"
> 
> SUMMARY:
> 
> H.P.B. writes that "a pledge of secrecy taken ... to one's Higher 
> Self -- the God within -- is binding till death."
> 
> Therefore the honorable ES student who has taken such a pledge 
> should "preserve inviolable secrecy as regards . . . all confidential 
> documents . . ." UNLESS "absolved from such secrecy by the Head of 
> the Section."
> 
> Otherwise, "what use is a pledge at all? How can anyone expect to be 
> taught secret knowledge, if he is to be at liberty to free himself 
> from all the obligations he had taken, whenever he pleases?"
> 
> See the full pledge of 1888 at:
> http://blavatskyarchives.com/espage3.htm
> 
> See complete set of rules at:
> http://blavatskyarchives.com/espage2.htm
> 
> See more of HPB's comments on the pledge in THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY at:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/37005
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