Some words to ponder perhaps in light of recent and current postings?
Apr 29, 2007 10:00 AM
by nhcareyta
"I hope to be permitted to do so much for you. If, for generations we
have "shut out the world from the Knowledge of our Knowledge," it is
on account of its absolute unfitness; and if, notwithstanding proofs
given, it still refuses yielding to evidence, then will we at the End
of this cycle retire into solitude and our kingdom of silence once
more.... We have offered to exhume the primeval strata of man's
being, his basic nature, and lay bare the wonderful complications of
his inner Self ? something never to be achieved by physiology or even
psychology in its ultimate expression ? and demonstrate it
scientifically. It matters not to them, if the excavations be so
deep, the rocks so rough and sharp, that in diving into that, to
them, fathomless ocean, most of us perish in the dangerous
exploration; for it is we who were the divers and the pioneers, and
the men of science have but to reap where we have sown. It is our
mission to plunge and bring the pearls of Truth to the surface;
theirs ? to clean and set them into scientific jewels. And, if they
refuse to touch the ill-shapen oyster-shell, insisting that there is
[not], nor cannot be any precious pearl inside it, then shall we once
more wash our hands of any responsibility before human-kind. For
countless generations hath the adept builded a fane of imperishable
rocks, a giant's Tower of INFINITE THOUGHT, wherein the Titan dwelt,
and will yet, if need be, dwell alone, emerging from it but at the
end of every cycle, to invite the elect of mankind to co-operate with
him and help in his turn enlighten superstitious man. And we will go
on in that periodical work of ours; we will not allow ourselves to be
baffled in our philanthropic attempts until that day when the
foundations of a new continent of thought are so firmly built that no
amount of opposition and ignorant malice guided by the Brethren of
the Shadow will be found to prevail."
Mahatma Letters to AP Sinnett No. 18 chronology of George Linton and
Virginia Hanson.
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