Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00023)

Agreed with this view, but beware only half the Truth
was spread out and as KH put it: 'we need our
intuition to complete it with the other half'.


--- Morten Nymann Olesen
<global-theosophy@stofanet.dk> wrote:

> I think A short excerpt needs to be repeated:
> "Unfortunately, far too many readers don't take the
> necessary time and 
> effort to try to understand what H.P.B. is
> attempting to convey in 
> her many writings. 
> 
> And far too often, students interject their own
> thoughts and 
> understanding into the subject matter. Nothing is
> inherently wrong 
> with that approach but it is suggested that a
> student might try to 
> ascertain first of all what H.P.B.'s and the
> Mahatmas' views actually 
> are on various subjects. 
> 
> As a reader studies the material, he might
> constantly ask 
> himself: "Do I really understand what H.P.B. and the
> Mahatmas are 
> trying to convey?" "
> 
> 
> 
> Exactly.
> I can certainly agree on that. Thanks for telling me
> about it.
> 
> 
> M. Sufilight
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: nhcareyta 
>   To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:07 AM
>   Subject: Theos-World From Long Sealed Ancient
> Fountains.
> 
> 
>   The Fountain Source 
>   of Modern Theosophy
> 
>   Our knowledge of modern Theosophy sprang from two
> sources: from the 
>   letters of the Masters Koot Hoomi, Morya and
> several other Adepts and 
>   from the writings of H.P. Blavatsky. 
> 
>   From the letters of the Masters, A.P. Sinnett
> wrote two books: The 
>   Occult World and Esoteric Buddhism. From the
> knowledge gained 
>   directly from these Mahatmas, Madame Blavatsky
> penned more than 
>   10,000 pages of writing including her major works
> Isis Unveiled, The 
>   Secret Doctrine, The Key to Theosophy and The
> Voice of the Silence.
> 
>   The Mahatma Koot Hoomi wrote the following on the
> origin of modern 
>   Theosophy:
> 
>   "Theosophy is no new candidate for the world's
> attention, but only 
>   the restatement of principles which have been
> recognised from the 
>   very infancy of mankind."
> 
> 
>   But the Master also emphasized:
> 
>   ". . . Our [esoteric and theosophical] doctrine .
> . . is now being 
>   partially taught to Europeans for the first time."
> 
>   ". . . We have broken the silence of centuries . .
> . . " 
> 
>   ". . . Let it be known that your Society['s] . . .
> chief aim is to 
>   extirpate current superstitions and skepticism,
> and, from long 
>   sealed ancient fountains to draw the proof that
> man may shape his own 
>   future destiny, and know for a certainty that he
> can live hereafter, 
>   if he only wills; and that all 'phenomena' are but
> manifestations of 
>   natural law, to try to comprehend which is the
> duty of every 
>   intelligent being. "
> 
>   H.P. Blavatsky wrote of her own role in the
> "restatement" of 
>   Theosophy to the modern world:
> 
>   ". . .We came into contact with certain men,
> endowed with such 
>   mysterious powers and such profound knowledge that
> we may truly 
>   designate them as the sages of the Orient. To
> their instructions we 
>   lent a ready ear." 
> 
>   "The work now submitted to public judgment is the
> fruit of a somewhat 
>   intimate acquaintance with Eastern adepts and
> study of their 
>   science." 
> 
>   " . . . I was the first in the United States to
> bring the existence 
>   of our Masters into publicity; and . . . exposed
> the holy names of 
>   two members of a Brotherhood hitherto unknown to
> Europe and America 
>   (save to a few mystics and Initiates of every
> age), yet sacred and 
>   revered throughout the East, and especially India
> . . . ."
> 
>   And the Mahatmas provided these insights about
> Madame Blavatsky's 
>   mission:
> 
>   "[H.P.Blavatsky is] . . . a woman of most
> exceptional and wonderful 
>   endowments. Combined with them she had strong
> personal defects, but 
>   just as she was, there was no second to her living
> fit for this work. 
>   We sent her to America...." 
> 
>   "This state of hers [H.P.B.'s] is intimately
> connected with her 
>   occult training in Tibet, and due to her being
> sent out alone into 
>   the world to gradually prepare the way for others.
> After nearly a 
>   century of fruitless search, our chiefs had to
> avail themselves of 
>   the only opportunity to send out a European body.
> . . ."
> 
>   ". . . We employ agents - the best available. Of
> these for the past 
>   thirty years the chief has been the personality
> known as H.P.B. to 
>   the world (but otherwise to us). Imperfect and
> very troublesome, no 
>   doubt, she proves to some, nevertheless, there is
> no likelihood of 
>   our finding a better one for years to come. . . .
> With occult matters 
>   she has everything to do. . . . She is our direct
> agent. . . . "
> 
>   For more on the origin and source of Modern
> Theosophy as given in the 
>   words of Madame Blavatsky and the Mahatmas, see:
> 
>   . From Long-Sealed Ancient Fountains
> 
>   . Great Adepts and Trained Seers. 
> 
>   ______________________________
> 
>   Since Blavatsky's death in 1891, numerous
> individuals have claimed 
>   contact with her Masters, stating that they were
> new "messengers" 
>   conveying further esoteric teachings. See a
> partial list of claimants.
> 
>   The end result has been a confusing morass of
> claims, counterclaims 
>   and various contradictory and conflicting
> teachings. 
> 
>   Even during her lifetime, Mme. Blavatsky told her
> Theosophical 
>   students: 
> 
>   "Great are the desecrations to which the names of
> two of the Masters 
>   have been subjected. There is hardly a medium who
> has not claimed to 
>   have seen them." 
> 
>   H.P.B. and the Mahatmas also warned about
> "imitations of Occultism 
>   and Theosophy" and "disfigured" expositions of
> Theosophy. 
> 
>   They even corrected "wild and fanciful
> speculation" and "erroneous 
>   notions" about Theosophy that were distorting the
> original teachings 
>   that they had given. See one example of a
> correction.
> 
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