Theos-Talk Archives (January 2012 Message tt00069)

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> Do You Believe All these Individuals Were Actually in Contact with the Masters?
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> 
> Since H.P. Blavatsky's death in 1891, numerous individuals
> have claimed contact with her Masters, stating that
> they were new "messengers" conveying further esoteric
> teachings.
> 
> 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."
> 
> "Every bogus swindling Society, for commercial purposes, now claims
> to be guided and directed by 'Masters' often supposed to be far
> higher than ours! Many and heavy are the sins of those who advanced
> these claims, prompted either by desire for lucre, vanity, or
> irresponsible mediumship . . . ."
> 
> Below is a partial list of the claimants:
> 
> (1) In the 1890s, William Q. Judge said he was in contact with HPB's
> Master Morya as well as the deceased HPB. Judge claimed he
> precipitated letters from Master M. and gave out further esoteric
> teachings.
> 
> (2) Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater affirmed that they were in
> direct communication with HPB's Masters and the deceased HPB. They
> gave out various Theosophical teachings in their voluminous writings.
> 
> (3) Katherine Tingley, the occult successor of Judge, said she was
> in contact with HPB's Masters and claimed to have met on at least
> two occasions the Master Morya in his physical body.
> 
> (4) G. de Purucker, Tingley's successor, testified that the Masters
> M. & K.H. came to visit him in 1929 at Theosophical Society
> headquarters, Point Loma, San Diego, California. Purucker claimed
> that he was allowed to give out deeper esoteric teachings than HPB,
> Judge or Tingley had.
> 
> (5) Alice Bailey said she was in contact with Masters K.H. and D.K
> and wrote more than 20 volumes of teachings said to be from D.K. She
> even gave out further installments of the Stanzas of Dzyan.
> 
> (6) Mrs. Francia A. La Due (of the Temple of the People) gave out
> messages from the Masters, especially from Hilarion. She also
> published more Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan.
> 
> (7) Guy Ballard (of the "I Am" Movement) claimed to be in
> communication with the Masters, especially St. Germain.
> 
> (8) Helena Roerich (of the Agni Yoga Society) published some 13
> volumes of communications supposedly from the Master Morya.
> 
> (9) Mark Prophet and his wife Elizabeth Clare (of the Church
> Universal and Triumphant) claimed to be the emissaries of the Great
> White Brotherhood and have channeled thousands of messages from El
> Morya, Kut Humi, the Virgin Mary, Hercules, Chastity and a variety
> of other Masters and entities.
> 
> (10) Earlyne Chaney (of Astara) believed she was in communication
> with Kut-Hi-Mi and Zoser and other Masters of the Great White
> Brotherhood. She has given out various so-called esoteric and occult
> teachings.
> 
> (11) Nada-Yolanda (of Mark-Age, Inc) has channeled numerous messages
> from M., K.H., and others Masters associated with UFOs.
> 
> (12) George King, Max Heindel, Rudolf Steiner and Geoffrey Hodson
> have claimed clairvoyant powers and to be in contact with various
> Masters - Rosicrucian, Theosophical, extraterrestrial or otherwise.
> 
> (13) Other supposed communications from HPB's Masters have come from
> Brother Philip in his book titled Secret of the Andes, from Cyril
> Scott in his series of books starting with The Initiate, and from
> David Anrias in his book Through the Eyes of the Masters.
> 
> And the list goes on . . . .
> 
> How many of these individuals were actually in contact with
> Blavatsky's Masters?
> 
> During H.P. Blavatsky's lifetime, there were a few individuals other than Blavatsky who claimed to be in contact with her Masters.
> 
> For example, A.P. Sinnett wrote in his book The Early Days of
> Theosophy:
> 
> "About this time [early July 1884] Mrs. Holloway, a wonderfully
> gifted American psychic came to stay with us. . . . .She used to get
> vivid clairvoyant visions of the Master, - could pass on messages to
> me from K.H. and on one occasion he actually made use of her to
> speak to me in the first person." p. 27
> 
> But the Master K.H. (in a letter received by Sinnett July 18, 1884) pronounced Sinnett's claim false and untrue:
> 
> "You ask me if you can tell Miss Arundale what I told you thro' Mrs.
> H[olloway]. . . . . .[But] I have never . . . communicated with you
> or any one else thro' her. . . . . She is an excellent but quite
> undeveloped clairvoyante. . . . ." The Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed., p.
> 355
> 
> During this same summer, Master KH wrote to Mrs. Holloway:
> 
> "Your vivid creative fancy [imagination] evokes illusive Gurus and
> chelas, and puts into their mouths words coined the instant before
> in the mint of your mind, unknown to yourself."
> 
> "The false appear as real, as the true, and you have no exact method
> of detection since you are yet prone to force your communications to
> agree with your preconceptions. . . . " Mrs. Holloway and the
> Mahatmas, Letter 17
> 
> Elsewhere Master KH wrote:
> 
> "Vainly do your modern seers and their prophetesses, creep into
> every cleft and crevice without outlet or continuity they chance to
> see; and still more vainly, when once within do they lift up their
> voices and loudly cry: 'Eureka! We have gotten a revelation from the
> Lord!' ? for verily have they nothing of the kind. They have
> disturbed but bats, less blind their intruders; who, feeling them
> flying about, mistake them as often for angels ? as they too have
> wings! . . . "
> Master Koot Hoomi, The Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed., Letter 48
> 
> How many of the claimants listed above who have proclaimed in
> effect: "Eureka! We have gotten a revelation or message from the
> Masters!" were in reality simply victims of their own "vivid
> creative fancy [imagination]" which conjured up "illusive Gurus and
> chelas" and attributed to these imaginary Masters "words coined the
> instant before in the mint of" their own minds??
> 
> Another example of this constructing of imaginary people is as
> follows:
> 
> Stainton Moses (a famous English medium and "seer" of the 1870s and
> 1880s) wrote to A.P. Sinnett about his own "spirit guide" Imperator:
> 
> ". . . my inner spirit-sense is opened. Only yesterday . . .
> Imper[ator] . . . was clearly visible and audible to me. . . . "
> 
> To this comment by Stainton Moses [S.M.], Master Koot Hoomi wrote to
> Sinnett:
> 
> ". . . So is Jesus and John the Baptist [clearly visible and
> audible] to Edward Maitland; [who is] as true and as honest and
> sincere as S.M. . . . And does not E. Maitland see Hermes the first
> and second and Elijah, etc."
> 
> "Finally does not Mrs. [Anna] Kingsford feel as sure as S.M. with
> regard to . . . [Imperator] that she saw and conversed with
> God!! . . . And who purer or more truthful than that woman or
> Maitland!"
> 
> "Mystery, mystery will you exclaim. IGNORANCE we answer; the
> creation of that we believe in and want to see. . . . " The Mahatma
> Letters, 2nd ed., Letter 90.
> 
> ...THE CREATION OF THAT WE BELIEVE IN AND WANT TO SEE.....
> 
> So a student of Theosophy might ask himself:
> 
> Do I believe all of these individuals were actually in contact with
> Blavatsky's Masters? And if the answer is no, then how do I
> DETERMINE which ones were actually in real contact with her Masters?
> 
> Furthermore, how many of these individuals were victims of their own
> "vivid creative fancy"? Master K.H.'s words are quite revealing and
> sobering:
> 
> "Your vivid creative fancy [imagination] evokes illusive Gurus and
> chelas, and puts into their mouths words coined the instant before
> in the mint of your mind, unknown to yourself."
> 
> Food for thought.
> 
> Daniel
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