The Mountatin and the Valley
Nov 17, 2006 05:19 AM
by carlosaveline
Friends,
Every kind of acquired knowledge brings to us its corresponding level of tests and probation, and learning something about Theosophy is no exception to that rule.
Probation comes with the FIRST STEP of one?s search for wisdom, and its intensity will be in direct proportion to the seriousness of that step ? and of the following ones.
Along the way to Wisdom, the student of esoteric philosophy has to avoid not only the emotional mechanisms of self-delusion, fear and ambition in general. He will be challenged or tempted by many diferent forms of error, most of which will present themselves as perfectly spiritual attitudes or at least as humanly aceptable. The deeper the knowledge he has access to, the bigger will be the occult and undeclared tests he will face.
He may feel entirely alone in certain occasions ? even desperately so, if he happens to have enough courage to follow his own heart. But at the hardest of times, he ? as every sincere aspirant to Truth eternal ? will be more included than ever in the vast magnetic field which is always kept under the general observation of the Adepts and their direct disciples.
One of the Masters wrote to a lay chela (1), in 1882:
?Nature has linked all parts of her Empire together by subtle threads of magnetic sympathy, and, there is a mutual correlation even between a star and a man; thought runs swifter than the electric fluid, and your thought will find me if projected by a pure impulse (...). Like the light in the sombre valley seen by the mountaineer from his peaks, every bright thought in your mind, my Brother, will sparkle and attract the attention of your distant friend and correspondent. If thus we discover our natural Allies in the Shadow world ? your world and ours outside the precincts ? and it is our law to approach every such an one if even there be but the feeblest glimmer of the true ?Tathagata? light within him ? then how far easier for you to attract us.? (2)
Best regards, Carlos.
NOTES:
(1) Chela: disciple.
(2) ?The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett?, transcribed by A. T. Barker, facsimile edition, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, CA, 1992, 493 pp., see Letter XLV, pp. 267-268.
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