Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01074)

Friends, 
 
 
With regard to the Esoteric School 'tradition' created by HPB in the 19th century. 

I tend to think that there is one real ES, or Inner School, which is broadly speaking 2500-3000 years old, nay, older;  and it dates from ancient Greece, in the West, and ancient India and China, and other places and times as well. It is connected to the Himalayas and there is no reason to investigate further on its 'physical 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 a link with Adepts does much more harm than good to the lower self or  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, or by proudly presuming that they are disciples. 
 
They get into such a magnetic field by their actual intentions and actions with regard to the threefold challenge of understanding the Kosmos, purifying their small microcosmic lives,  and serving Humanity. 
 
The main task, of course,  is to be a good disciple of one?s own higher self, whose ?wordless voice? can be found in one?s conscience.  
 
The rest will take place as a natural result of this, and most of it will occur at later lifetimes, since the  harvest comes in the long run.    
 
At least, this is what I have been able to learn so far. 
 
 
Best regards,   Carlos. 
 
 
 
 
 


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