Theos-Talk Archives (October 2008 Message tt00721)

I once walked alone in a ghetto and saw many cardboard boxes. 1 of them was a little bit bigger than the rest and it was said the streetking lived in there. I played my mouthorgan to call him out, but it seemed the box was empty.
Sadly I walked away, for I had a meal for him, I earned when I was washing dishes in a local vegetarian restaurant called 'Baldur' in Amsterdam.
Then I felt a tap on my shoulder and I looked into a very grim old face with sparkling eyes.
He said to me: " not everything is what it appears to be, remember a real adept always looks in the darkest corners of the universe to shed some light. "
I slowly walked home and realised this materialistc world is completely hooked on glamour...and the glamour doesn't represent one bit of Truth. Maybe it is time for a "Buddha of MAÄT" to appear...imagine the shock on the Chief's Throne...

--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Morten Nymann Olesen <global-theosophy@stofanet.dk> wrote:
From: Morten Nymann Olesen <global-theosophy@stofanet.dk>
Subject: Re: Theos-World "...there are schools, under appointed living adepts...."
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 8:35 PM










    
            Thanks Daniel



Damodar wrote:

"There is a large massive building

thousands of years old. In front of it is a huge Egyptian Tau. The

building rests on 7 big pillars in the form of pyramids. The

entrance gate has a large triangular arch. Inside are various

apartments. The building is so large that I think it can easily

contain twenty thousand people. I was shown some of these

compartments. This is the Chief Central Place where all those of our

Section who are found deserving of Initiation into Mysteries have to

go for their final ceremony and stay there the requisite period. I

went up with my Guru to the Great Hall. The grandeur and serenity of

the place is enough to strike any one with awe. The beauty of the

Altar which is in the centre and at which every candidate has to

take his vows at the time of his Initiation is sure to dazzle the

most brilliant eyes. The splendour of the CHIEF'S Throne is

uncomparable. Every thing is on a geometrical principle & containing

various symbols which are explained only to the Initiate."



M. Sufilight asks:

I wonder whether he talk about a real physical monastery?



At Xian there are many pyramids as we all know. 



M. Sufilight



----- Original Message ----- 

  From: danielhcaldwell 

  To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com 

  Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:13 PM

  Subject: Theos-World "...there are schools, under appointed living adepts...."



"...there are schools, under appointed living adepts...."



In 1882, Colonel Henry S. Olcott testified:



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  ...I know the Brothers [H.P. Blavatsky's Masters or Mahatmas] to be 

  living men and not Spirits; and they have told me that there are 

  schools, under appointed living adepts, where their Occult science is 

  regularly taught....

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  Quoted from: http://blavatskyarc hives.com/ olcott11. html



In 1881, Damodar K. Mavalankar wrote about the "Chief Central

  Place" of the Mahatmas and Initiation as follows:



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  ...Brother K -- [Koot Hoomi] ordered me to follow him. After going a

  short distance of about half a mile we came to a natural

  subterranean passage which is under the Himalayas. The path is very

  dangerous. There is a natural causeway on the River Indus which

  flows underneath in all its fury. Only one person can walk on it at

  a time and one false step seals the fate of the traveller. Besides

  this causeway there are several valleys to be crossed. After walking

  a considerable distance through this subterraneous passage we came

  into an open plain in L-----k. There is a large massive building

  thousands of years old. In front of it is a huge Egyptian Tau. The

  building rests on 7 big pillars in the form of pyramids. The

  entrance gate has a large triangular arch. Inside are various

  apartments. The building is so large that I think it can easily

  contain twenty thousand people. I was shown some of these

  compartments. This is the Chief Central Place where all those of our

  Section who are found deserving of Initiation into Mysteries have to

  go for their final ceremony and stay there the requisite period. I

  went up with my Guru to the Great Hall. The grandeur and serenity of

  the place is enough to strike any one with awe. The beauty of the

  Altar which is in the centre and at which every candidate has to

  take his vows at the time of his Initiation is sure to dazzle the

  most brilliant eyes. The splendour of the CHIEF'S Throne is

  uncomparable. Every thing is on a geometrical principle & containing

  various symbols which are explained only to the Initiate. But I

  cannot say more now as I come now under an obligation of Secresy

  which K---- took from me there. While standing there I do not know

  what happened but suddenly I got up & found myself in my bed. It was

  about 8 in the morning. What was that I saw? Was it a dream or a

  reality? If a reality, how could I traverse the whole of the

  Himalayas even in my astral body in so short a time? Perplexed with

  these ideas I was sitting silent when down fell a note on my nose. I

  opened it and found inside that it was not a dream but that I was

  taken in some mysterious way in my astral body to the real place of

  Initiation where I shall be in my body for the Ceremony if I show

  myself deserving of the blessing. My joy at that moment can be

  easily conjectured than described -- But enough....

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  Quoted from:

  http://www.theosoci ety.org/pasadena /damodar/ dam5.htm# wqj



In an issue of THE THEOSOPHIST for 1884, C. Ramiah wrote:



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  In the middle part of the year 1883, one night, I was carried in my

  dream to a great chain of mountains when some one led me into their

  recesses. There I found a great rock temple in the form of a hall of

  oblong size, and I perceived the same Mahatma [Koot Hoomi], who had

  shown himself to me on the two previous occasions, seated on a low

  stool with a shrine opposite to him, and there were two rows of

  Mahatmas, one on each side, all dressed in Buddhist's gown except

  the Chief. I prostrated as usual and was ordered to rise. I was then

  told to go round the shrine, and some one led me round, and there I

  found two or three ladies in deep devotion. On the shrine I observed

  a very brilliant substance resembling phosphorus, in a dark place

  irregularly coiled like a serpent, and I expressed a wish to know

  what it was; and one of the ladies then opening her eyes told me

  that the shrine is earth, to which state all our physical bodies

  must be brought down sooner or later, and the brilliant substance is

  the spirit, or essence, or "Jyoti" which moves all universe. I came

  back to the Chief, and after prostrating before him once more, I

  left the place which was said to be "Harthayery" , by one of the

  Mahatmas standing.

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To the above paragraph the Editor of The Theosophist (probably T.

  Subba Row as acting editor while HPB was visiting Europe in 1884,) 

  wrote:



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  "The correspondent probably means an altar and not a shrine. But the

  details he gives of the Jyoti (flame) seem to correspond to what is

  alleged to exist in a certain temple in Thibet. The flame symbolises

  what the Hindu philosophers know as paramjyoti, which is sometimes

  represented by the Buddhists as the "yellow Sun in the lotus." --

  (Ed.)"

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Mr. Ramiah had another experience later. He wrote:



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  ....they took me to the rock temple in "Husthagerry" [previously

  described] ... where to my surprise and infinite joy I found the

  Mahatma K. H. seated before the altar on the same low stool as

  before. We all prostrated before him, and thus ended this

  interesting vision....

  ============ ========= ========= ========= ========= =======



In regards to this series of "dreams" and "visions" that Mr. Ramiah

  had, he also wrote:



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  ...In my dream again about two months ago, I was told to go to Mr.

  T. Subba Row, the worthy President of the Madras Branch of the

  Theosophical Society, and to him I went after the voice repeated

  itself a second time. To him I explained my whole experience, and he

  kindly asked me to call at the Head-Quarters of the Theosophic

  Society in order to see if I could recognize the features of the

  Mahatma who appeared to me in my dream.



I went thither the same evening, and at about 4 P.M., the "Shrine"

  doors were opened, and to my surprise I identified in the photo of

  the Illustrious Mahatma K. H. the exact features of the Mahatma of

  my dreams....an hour afterwards I became a fellow of the Theosophic 

  Society.

  ============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= =======

  Quoted from:

  http://blavatskyarc hives.com/ ramiah1.htm

  and

  http://blavatskyarc hives.com/ ramiah2.htm



Daniel

  http://hpb.cc



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