Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00757)

Dear Friends, 
 
 
Both ritualism and blind belief  try to ‘materialize’, on one hand,  and  on the other hand to ‘personalize’  the spiritual path, drawing it down to the outer and superficial world. 
 
Divulging portraits of Masters is part of the same attempt to bring Wisdom down and to distort  it by turning it in into a merely  anthropomorphic perception.   
 
As to imagining that Masters could be interested in the outer shells of disciples or aspirants to Wisdom, this  is but another form for the same kind of illusion.
 
In the ‘Mahatma Letters’,  a  Master explains the totally impersonal substance of discipleship, as he refers to what is, or is not,  a ‘lay disciple’ :
 
“With the ‘visible’ one we have nothing to do.  He is to us only a veil that hides from the profane eyes that other ego with whose evolution we are concerned. In the external rupa do   what you like, think what you like : only when the effects of that voluntary action are seen on the body of our correspondent – it is  incumbent upon us to notice it.” (1) 
 
As they do not take outer shells as disciples, but only the inner human beings,  so we should not try to have as Masters that which we might suppose to be “accurate physical images” of their outer vehicles. 
 
Occult learning is not an  anthropomorphic process, nor something that occurs at the level of personalities or outer vehicles.    
 
Adepthood and discipleship do not occur at the physical level,  and therefore cannot be phographed, photocopied or painted by  any artists. It is for this reason that these are called “Occult” facts: they are well beyond the five senses and can only be perceived directly by one’s soul, or higher mind, which in fact is one’s heart-mind.    
 
Regards,   Carlos. 
 
 
NOTE:
 
(1) “The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett”, T.U.P., Pasadena, CA, USA, 1992, 494 pp.,  Letter XLIII, pp. 259-260. 
 
 
 
  


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