Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00622)

Friends,
 
 
It has been asked in Theos-talk:   
 
?Who cares about anyone?s motives??
 
Every student of esoteric philosophy should do that ?  and very much so.  H.P. Blavatsky had her reasons to write this warning to students: 
 
?(...) For it is the motive, and the motive alone, which makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white, beneficent Magic.  It is impossible to employ spiritual forces if there is the slightest tinge of selfishness remaining in the operator.? (1) 
 
 
What about the average student?  The matter of the fact is  that thinking, talking, writing and acting in everyday life are all ?small? yet significant operations which involve the mental and emotional powers currently available to us.
 
We are responsible for the ethical quality of those operations. Their consequences will  be harvested in part by ourselves in this life already;  in part,  later on by our higher self. 
 
In the unending chain of causes and effects,  our real  inner motives and intentions are the ?dividing line?  between planting wisdom (positive karma), or planting ignorance (negative karma), both  to others and to  ourselves.     
 
I tend to believe that to understand and purify our motives in life is an alchemical operation. It?s a central preparatory task, too ? so that we can get ready to learn something of real Theosophy,  and not just words about it.   
 
The ?heart doctrine? being so,  it can only be understood by a ?pure heart?. 
 
It?s not easy, but there is no other way to go.  A clear understanding is only possible to a clear mind, that is, a mind free from personal ?intentions? or desires.  
 
Carlos. 
 
 
NOTE:
 
(1)  ?Practical Occultism?, a text by H.P.B.,  published in the book ?Raja Yoga or Occultism?, H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophy Company (India),   1977 reprinting, 255 pp. (see pp. 20-21).  It is also in HPB?s ?Collected Writings?, T.P.H. India/USA, vol.IX, 1986, 488 pp. (see p. 156). The quoted lines belong to one of the first paragraphs in the text. 
 
 
 
 


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