Theos-Talk Archives (October 2008 Message tt00623)

Daniel,

What a great work you have done, compiling all this material and 
being able to supply the relevent items when needed. Those of us who 
feel reverence for the great soul that was HPB are truly grateful 
that we are still able to have the eyewitness accounts to inform us 
and others about what really happened in those formative days. 

Thank you!

Adelasie

On 18 Oct 2008 at 16:44, danielhcaldwell wrote:

> 
> Countess Wachtmeister writes:
> 
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> One day at this time, when I walked into HPB's writing room, I found
> the floor strewn with sheets of discarded manuscript. I asked the
> meaning of this scene of confusion, and she replied, "Yes, I have
> tried twelve times to write this one page correctly, and each time
> Master says it is wrong. I think I shall go mad, writing it so often;
> but leave me alone, I will not pause until I have conquered it, even
> if I have to go on all night."
> 
> I brought a cup of coffee to refresh and sustain her, and then left
> her to prosecute her weary task. An hour later I heard her voice
> calling me, and on entering found that, at last, the passage was
> completed to satisfaction, but the labor had been terrible, and the
> results were often at this time small and uncertain.
> 
> As she leant back enjoying her cigarette and the sense of relief from
> arduous effort, I rested on the arm of her great chair and asked her
> how it was she could make mistakes in setting down what was given to
> her. She said: "Well, you see, what I do is this. I make what I can
> only describe as a sort of vacuum in the air before me, and fix my
> sight and my will upon it, and soon scene after scene passes before
> me like the successive pictures of a diorama, or, if I need a
> reference or information from some book, I fix my mind intently, and
> the astral counterpart of the book appears, and from it I take what I
> need. The more perfectly my mind is freed from distractions and
> mortifications, the more energy and intentness it possesses, the more
> easily I can do this; but to-day, after all the vexations I have
> undergone, I could not concentrate properly, and each time I tried I
> got the quotations all wrong. Master says it is right now, so let us
> go in and have some tea."
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> Quoted from:
> http://theosophical .org/resources/books/esotericworld/chapter16/
> in my book THE ESOTERIC WORLD OF MADAME BLAVATSKY
> http://esotericworld.net
> 
> Notice the words: "Master says it is right now...."
> 
> Many more examples could be given.
> 
> Daniel
> http://hpb.cc
> 
>