MASTERS OF ATHEISM AND VOIDISM ? VAISHNAVA SCHOLARS PLEASE RESPOND !

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"Bhakti Ananda Goswami" <bhakti.eohn@v...>

Tue Nov 19, 2002 5:53 am

WHAT WERE THEY THE MASTERS OF ?

 

 

 

Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:43 AM

WHAT WERE THEY MASTERS OF ? EXAMINING THE CLAIMS OF THE

THEOSOPHICAL MASTERS, PART I

 

 

"THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN THE TRUTH"...EXAMINING THE ACCURACY

AND TRUTHFULNESS OF THE MAHATMA LETTERS

 

PART I THE CLAIMED AUTHORITY AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE THEOSPHICAL

MASTERS, WHAT WERE THEY THE MASTERS OF ?

 

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MAHATMA LETTERS

 

by HH TRIDANDI SANNYASI BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI MAHARAJA,

SHIKSHA MASTER, BRAHMA-MADHVA-GAUDIYA SAMPRADAYA (LINEAGE) OF

VAISHNAVISM

 

 

 

MESSAGE NUMBERS IN THE BELOW REFER TO THE theos-talk Egroup.

 

 

Message 8909 of 8925

Bart Lidofsky

Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:47 am

Re: Theos-World Re: Theosophists non-evidence and fears to

come in the open on Indiancivilisation.

 

brianmuehlbach wrote:

> Brian: It is easy for Theosophists on this list to finally show us

> (and the world ?) that "The Mahatma Letters" truly contain genuine

> oriental teachings or not.

 

And how is this relevant to anything?

 

Bart

 

BA G: THE THEOSOPHICAL MASTERS, ORIGINALLY KOOT HOOMI (K H ) AND

MASTER MORYA (M), WHO ARE CONSIDERED BY THEOSOPHISTS AND NUMEROUS NEW

AGE GROUPS TO BE THE AUTHORS OF THE OVER 100 "MAHATHA LETTERS", HAVE

MADE GREAT CLAIMS ABOUT THEIR TEACHING AUTHORITY IN THOSE LETTERS.

OTHERS HAVE ACCEPTED THESE MASTERS' CLAIMS TO TEACHING AUTHORITY AS

VALID, AND HAVE THUS BASED THEIR ENTIRE WORLD-VIEW AND LIFE CHOICES

ON THE TEACHINGS OF THESE THEOSOPHICAL (T) MASTERS. FOR SOME THIS HAS

BEEN A LIFE-ENRICHING EXPERIENCE, WHICH HAS INSPIRED PHILOSOPHICAL

INQUIRY, INTELLECTUAL GROWTH, VIRTUE, ALTRUISM, A SENSE OF UNIVERSAL

BROTHERHOOD AND OTHER GOOD THINGS IN THEM. THESE THEOSOPHISTS HAVE

EXTRACTED THINGS FROM THE TEACHINGS OF THE T MASTERS THAT REINFORCED

THEIR INHERENT GOODNESS AND ENCOURAGED THEIR INTELLECTUAL GROWTH AND

MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND INTELLECTUAL-AFFECTIVE INTEGRATION ON MANY

LEVELS. SUCH A POSITIVE OUTCOME IS NO-DOUBT WHAT H.B. BLAVATSKY AND

OTHER OF THE THEOSOPHICAL LEADERS HAD IN MIND AT THE OUTSET OF THEIR

MISSION TO CREATE A GLOBAL ORDER DEVOTED TO THEIR ESOTERIC STUDIES.

 

HOWEVER, SOME OF THE CENTRAL IDEAS CONTAINED IN THE T

MASTERS' "MAHATMA LETTERS" INSPIRED MALEVOLENT, NOT BENEVOLENT

PEOPLE, AND THROUGH THE WORLD-VIEW AND LIFE-CHOICES OF THESE ILL-

MOTIVATED PEOPLE, LED TO SOME PERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS GLOBAL

IDEOLOGIES AND TRAGIC OUTCOMES IN HISTORY. IT IS A GIVEN THAT THE

SAME CAN BE SAID REGARDING SOME IDEAS CONTAINED IN THE VEDAS, OR THE

BIBLE ETC. FOR EXAMPLE, IN INDIA, THE VEDIC AND PURANIC CONCEPT OF

THE SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL BODY (DAIVA VARNASHRAM DHARMA SYSTEM) OF THE

SELF-SACRIFICED COSMIC PURUSHA (RIG VEDA PURUSHA SUKTA HYMN) WAS

CORRUPTED BY THE CONSCIENCE-LESS POWERFUL INTO THE OPPRESSIVE

REINCARNATION-AND-KARMA DOCTRINE RELATED BIRTH-CASTE SYSTEM. AS IN

PROTESTANT PURITANISM, A HAPPY PRIVILEGED LIFE WAS CONSIDERED BY THE

ELITE BIRTH-CASTE BRAHMINS TO BE THE RESULT OF COSMIC FAVOR OR SU

KARMA / GOOD KARMA. THOSE POWERLESS PERSONS SUFFERING FROM POVERTY

ETC. WERE CONSIDERED UNWORTHY OF ANYTHING BETTER BY VIRTUE OF THEIR

PREVIOUS SINFULNESS AND RESULTANT CURSED BIRTH / VI-KARMA OR BAD

KARMA. THUS THIS VEDIC DOCTRINE INTERPRETED BY NON RACIST PEOPLE OF

BENEVOLENT GOOD-WILL COULD RESULT IN A JUST AND PEACEFUL, PROGRESSIVE

UNIFYING SOCIAL ORDER. HOWEVER THE SAME DOCTRINE COULD RESULT IN

OPPRESSION AND BIRTH-CLASS SLAVERY WHEN INTERPRETED BY RACIST PERSONS

OF ILL-WILL. IN THE SAME WAY THE CHRISTIAN MISSION TO GO OUT AND

SAVE PEOPLE MAY BE THE INSPIRATION FOR EITHER ALTRUISTIC, BENEVOLENT

AND SOCIALLY UNIFYING ACTS THAT BUILD NON-SECTARIAN HUMAN COMMUNITY,

OR THE GOSPEL MISSION MAY BE MISINTERPRETED AS A MANDATE TO

FORCIBLY 'CONVERT' HUMANITY IN COLONIAL AND MUSLIM JIHADI-LIKE

CAMPAIGNS.

 

IT DOES NOT SERVE THE BEST INTEREST OF HUMANITY TO IGNORE THE

HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE IDEAL OF THE VEDIC VARNASHRAM

DHARMA SYSTEM DOCTRINE AND THE HORRIFIC PATHOLOGICAL REALITY OF THE

BIRTH-CASTE SYSTEM. IT DOES NOT HELP HUMANITY TO IGNORE THE

HISTORICAL REALITY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DOCTRINE OF

CHRISTIAN MISSION AND ITS PERVERTED MANIFESTATION, THE DOCTRINE OF

EURO-AMERICAN GLOBAL CONQUEST. IN THE SAME WAY IT IS NOT IN THE BEST

INTEREST OF HUMANITY TO IGNORE OR TO TRY TO COVER-UP / OBSCURE THE

HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIP OF CERTAIN THEOSOPHICAL IDEAS TO

COLONIAL 'WHITE' ARYAN RACISM, LATER NAZI ARYOSOPHISM, AND THE

DIFFUSION OF THESE IDEAS INTO VARIOUS OTHER SOCIALLY PATHOLOGICAL,

RACIST AND OTHER SCIENTISTIC MOVEMENTS. IDEAS HAVE HISTORY, AND

EVEN THE BEST OF IDEAS ARE MISUNDERSTOOD AND ABUSED OR CORRUPTED OVER

TIME AND DISTANCE AS THEY DIFFUSE THROUGH VARIOUS EXISTING THOUGHT-

SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGES. TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE MODIFY IDEAS. EVEN WHEN

AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO PROTECT AN IDEA FROM MODIFICATION BY

DOCTRINALIZING IT, VARYING PERSPECTIVES ALLOW FOR DOCTRINES TO BE

INTERPRETED IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THUS A NON RACIST AND A RACIST

READING THE PURUSHA SUKTA WILL SEE DIFFERENT DOCTRINES IN IT. A

DOCTRINE OR CREED (CREDO=SHRADDHA), LIKE BEAUTY CAN EXIST 'IN THE EYE

OF THE BEHOLDER', AS WELL AS CODIFIED IN DOCUMENTS. AS A RESULT,

PERSONS OF GOOD-WILL AND THOSE OF ILL-WILL CAN SEEM TO PROFESS THE

SAME CREED, BUT THE CONTENT OF THE CREED, THE MEANING OF THE WORDS IS

NOT THE SAME FOR THEM. THE DOCUMENT IS THE SAME, THE DIFFERENCE

BEING IN THEIR PERSPECTIVE.

 

SO, WHILE I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AT THE OUTSET OF THIS SERIES OF

ARTICLES THAT MANY PEOPLE OF GOOD-WILL AND ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR HAVE

FOUND AND STILL FIND INSPIRATION IN THE MAHATMA LETTERS AND

THEOSOPHY, AS AN HISTORIAN OF IDEAS PARTICULARLY CONCERNED WITH

RELIGION IN RELATIONSHIP TO HUMAN SUFFERING, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL

JUSTICE ISSUES, I WILL BE FOCUSING ON SOME OF THE MORE PROBLEMATIC

TEACHINGS IN THE MAHATMA LETTERS, WHICH HAVE HAD A PATHOLOGICAL

SOCIAL INFLUENCE THROUGH THEIR ADOPTION AND INTERPRETATION BY PEOPLE

OF ILL-WILL IN THE HISTORY OF THE LAST CENTURY PLUS.

 

 

THE AUTHORITY CLAIMED FOR THE THEOSOPHICAL MAHATMAS

 

Message 8622 of 8625

"Jeremy Condick"

Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:54 pm

absolutely consistent with the Masters' teachings

 

[CAPS FOR EMPHASIS IN QUOTED TEXT MINE, BA G]

 

 

 

 

"Extract:

 

"It was the mission of Madame Blavatsky, under the instructions of

those

Adepts, to give to the world selected portions of that archaic

teaching. It

should be remembered that an Adept -- A MASTER, IS ONE WHO HAS

ACHIEVED

IMMORTALITY, and therefore has the power to perceive truth as it is

and at

will to reflect it without distortion. It is because no one of lesser

degree

can claim that power always and with certainty that THEIR TESTIMONY

MUST BE

REGARDED AS THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY on all matters of occult doctrine

and

practice. And here it must be stated unequivocally that from the

point of

view of the "original programme" of the Society, no theosophical

association

has any raison d'etre if it does not remain true to the Masters and

their

teaching. There are some who seem to believe that it is possible to be

faithful to the Masters while denying even the theoretical truth of

their

teaching. This is where the responsibility of the old Theosophical

Society

is so grave. In his Introduction to The Mahatma Letters the writer had

occasion to point out in what important particulars that Society

showed by

its actions a serious divergence from the spirit and letter of the

original

teaching. That volume proves beyond question that H. P. B.'s writings

are

absolutely consistent with the Masters' teachings, and in nothing is

this

more clearly discernible than in her exposition of the doctrines

relating to

the Life after Death."

 

A. TREVOR BARKER.

LONDON,

December, 1924."

 

BA G: SO TO BEGIN WITH, THE THEOSOPHICAL MASTERS HAVE BEEN CLAIMED

TO POSSESS THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY, AND H.P. BLAVATSKY HAS BEEN

ASSERTED AS THEIR RELIABLE "ABSOLUTELY CONSISTENT" SPOKESPERSON.

 

 

 

"Mahatma Letter No. 134

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-134.htm

 

[Letter from H.P. Blavatsky to A.P. Sinnett. This letter includes a

message from Master Morya.]

 

Dehra Dun. Friday. 4th. "

 

 

.... " It is useless for a member to argue 'I am one of a pure life, I

am a

teetotaller and an abstainer from meat and vice. All my aspirations

are for good etc.' and he, at the same time, building by his acts and

deeds an impassable barrier on the road between himself and us. What

have WE, the DISCIPLE of the true Arhats, of esoteric Buddhism and

of Sang-gyas to do with the SHASTERS and Orthodox Brahmanism? There

are 100 of thousands of Fakirs, Sannyasis and Saddhus leading the

most pure lives, and yet being as they are, ON THE PATH OF ERROR,

never having had an opportunity to meet, see or even hear of us.

THEIR FOREFATHERS HAVE DRIVEN AWAY THE FOLLOWERS OF THE ONLY TRUE

PHILOSOPHY UPON EARTH AWAY FROM INDIA and now, it is not for the

latter to come to them but to them to come to us if they want us.

Which of them is ready to BECOME A BUDDHIST, a Nastika as they call

us? None."

 

 

BA G: IN THIS QUOTE, THE "SHASTERS" (SHASTRAS, HOLY SANSKRIT

SCRIPTURES) OF INDIA ARE REJECTED, AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE T

MASTERS AND HPB ARE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED WITH THERAVADIN (SOUTHERN OR

ATHEISTIC) BUDDHISM, CENTERED IN SRI LANKA, WHICH WAS DRIVEN OUT OF

INDIA DURING AND SUBSEQUENT TO THE REIGN OF THE MAHAYANA BUDDHIST

EMPEROR ASOKA. ASOKA'S OWN BUDDHIST MASTER HAD AN ASHRAM IN MATHURA,

THE ANCIENT CAPITAL AND EDUCATIONAL UNIVERSITY 'VATICAN CITY' OF

ROYAL KRISHNA-CENTRIC VAISHNAVISM, WHICH THE PURE LAND TRADITION OF

MAHAYANA BUDDHISM IS CLOSELY RELATED TO. THE FORM OF

BUDDHISM "DRIVEN AWAY" FROM INDIA WAS THAT OF SRI LANKAN RELATED

THERAVADIN BUDDHISM.

 

THE TS TEACHINGS CONTINUALLY MERGE CONTRADICTORY MAHAYANA AND

THERAVADIN BUDDHIST DOCTRINES, ESPECIALLY IN THEIR COMBINED USE OF

NEPALESE-TIBETAN WITH SRI LANKAN SOURCES. HOWEVER, THEY SEEM TO

CONTAIN NO APPRECIATION OF THE INTIMATE HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN VAISHNAVISM AND PURE LAND BUDDHISM, AS IS APPARENT FROM ALL

THE SANSKRIT BUDDHIST TEXTS, ICONOGRAPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY

EVIDENCE IN ANCIENT COMBINED VAISHNAVA AND PURE LAND BUDDHIST CENTERS

OF WORSHIP LIKE VRINDAVANA-MATHURA . INSTEAD OF CORRECTLY

ASSOCIATING THE MAHAYANA DOCTRINES, RITES, ICONOGRAPHY ETC. OF

NEPALESE-TIBETAN BUDDHISM WITH EARLIER THEISTIC KRISHNA-CENTRIC

VAISHNAVISM, THE T S MASTERS GENERALLY IGNORE THE PROFOUNDLY

IMPORTANT VAISHNAVA LINK, AND INSTEAD FOCUS ON THE 'ESOTERIC'

DECONSTRUCTION OF OTHER-POWER SALVIFIC BUDDHIST TRANSCENDENTALISM,

AND WATERING-DOWN OF THE THEISTIC ASSOCIATIONS WITH 'HINDUISM' TO RE-

PRESENT N-TIBETAN BUDDHISM AS MERELY A COVERED FORM OF THERAVADA.

 

OF COURSE THIS CAMPAIGN OF THEOSOPHY REINFORCED THE EXOTERIC-THEISM-

VERSUS-ESOTERIC-ATHEISM DICHOTOMY ALREADY IN N-TIBETAN BUDDHISM.

ESOTERIC VOIDISM HAUNTS MAHAYANA BUDDHISM IN THE SAME WAY THAT

ESOTERIC ATHEISM HAUNTS 'HINDUISM' IN THE FORM OF EXTREME IMPERSONAL

ADVAITA VEDANTA, AND ESOTERIC GNOSTICISM STILL HAUNTS CHRISTIANITY IN

THE WEST. THUS WHILE CLAIMING A LOVE OF INDIA AND HER SACRED

TRADITIONS, IN FACT, THE THEOSOPHISTS REJECTED HER AUTHENTIC

TRADITIONS OF SALVIFIC TRANSCENDENTAL PERSONALISM, THE DOMINANT

EXOTERIC BHAKTI TRADITIONS OF KRISHNA-VISHNU, SHIVA AND DEVI, TO

PROMOTE A FORM OF EXOTERICALLY HINDU-IZED BUT ESOTERIC, COVERED

SYNCRESTIC BUDDHISM. THE T MASTERS WERE NOT MASTERS OF THE CORPUS OF

SANSKRIT OR SOUTHERN INDIAN DRAVIDIAN SACRED VISHNU, SHIVA, DEVI AND

MARUGAN ETC, LITERATURES. THEY DID NOT TEACH ABOUT THE DIRECT

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PURE LAND BUDDHISM AND VAISHNAVISM, AND THEY

SEEMED TO KNOW LITTLE ABOUT THE GREAT DEVOTIONAL, SALVIFIC TRADITIONS

OF EITHER NORTHERN OR SOUTHERN INDIA. THEY PRESENTED THEMSELVES AS

THE HIGHEST AUTHORITIES ON ANCIENT WISDOM, BUT APPARENTLY FELT THAT

HONORING THE SOURCES OF THEIR WISDOM, THE "SHASTERS" THAT THEY

DISDAINED, WAS NOT NECESSARY. THUS THEY PRESENTED THEIR 'OWN'

SYSTEM OF THOUGHT, USING LANGUAGE AND TEACHINGS FROM VARIOUS SHASTRAS

WITHOUT PROPERLY REPRESENTING THOSE TEXTS, OR THEIR SOURCE, THE

SUPREME DEITY OF THE VEDAS AND PURANAS, UPANISHADS, SAMHITAS, TEMPLE

ARCHANA VIGRAHA WORSHIP , BHAKTI HYMNOLOGY ETC.

 

 

THE EASTERN TEACHINGS OF THE T MASTERS ARE A CONCOCTION OF DOCTRINES

DRAWN PRINCIPALLY FROM VAISHNAVA AND BUDDHIST SOURCES, AND THEY

CLAIM TO BE THE "HIGHEST AUTHORITY" OF THIS "ONLY TRUE PHILOSOPHY" ON

EARTH. IN THE BELOW QUOTE, WE CAN SEE THE GENERAL ATTITUDE THAT

THEOSOPHISTS HAVE TOWARDS THE "DEITY VISUALIZATIONS" OF THE "HIGH

SCHOOL" LEVEL OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM, WHILE THE NO NAMA-RUPA (NAME-

FORM) PRACTICE OF ZEN BUDDHISM IS CALLED THE PhD PROGRAM. IT SEEMS

IN THE BELOW, THAT BLOFELD'S ATTITUDE IS THE SAME AS THAT OF THE

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY TEACHING ON THIS MATTER.

 

Message 8580 of 8582

"Steve Stubbs"

Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:40 pm

Re: Master KH on "God": Mahatma Letter No. 10

 

 

 

 

[CAPS FOR EMPHASIS IN QUOTED TEXT MINE, BA G]

 

theos-talk, "netemara888" wrote:

> But what about the 6 or 7 schools of yoga. Did they not cover all

the

> bases?

 

I am not sure I understand the question, but different schools were

developed to meet the needs of different temperaments. In his book

TANTRIC MYSTICISM IN TIBET Blofeld argued that the different schools

are like different grades in the public school system. Mantra yoga,

which is based on the simple repetition of a sound, is the

most "elemebtary" level, whereas Tantric Tibetan schools, with their

elaborate DEITY VISUALIZATIONS is akin to HIGH SCHOOL. and ZEN IS THE

PhD PROGRAM. Blofeld's idea is that not everyone is ready for a PhD.

 

BA G: THEOSOPHY TEACHES THAT THERE ARE PLANETARIES AND ASCENDED

MASTERS OR 'BODHISATTVAS', BUT THERE IS NO TRANSCENDENTAL SUPREME

PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD, WHO IS THE SOURCE OF SUCH BEINGS. IN

THEOSOPHY THE DHARMA KAYA, OR ULTIMATE REALITY IS TOTALLY IMPERSONAL,

AND PERSONALITY ONLY EXISTS IN A QUALIFIED STATE IN THE NIRMANYA (OR

SAMBHOGYA) KAYA. SO THE T S MASTERS ARE THE HIGHEST AUTHORITIES OF

THE ONE TRUE PHILOSOPHY ON EARTH, AND CLEARLY TEACH A BUDDHISM THAT

REJECTS THE ORIGINAL TRANSCENDENTALISM OF THE VAISHNAVA-RELATED

MAHAYANA TRI KAYA (TRINITY), IN FAVOR OF A SRI LANKAN AND ZEN RELATED

FORM OF THERAVADIN BUDDHISM. EVEN SO, THE "ABSOLUTE NOTHING" ( SEE

MASEO ABE FOR EXAMPLE) OF ORTHODOX SRI LANKAN- RELATED THERAVADIN

BUDDHISM IS NOT AUTHENTICALLY AND CONSISTENTLY REPRESENTED THROUGHOUT

THE LETTERS OF THE MAHATMAS.

 

 

 

BA G: NOW WE HAVE A GENERAL IDEA OF THE MASTERS' AUTHORITY CLAIMS,

THE EXTENT OF THEIR SHASTRIC KNOWLEDGE-BASE AND THE EASTERN ASPECT OF

THEIR PERSPECTIVE. THEIR WRITINGS ARE FULL OF THOUGHT-FORMS,

LANGUAGE AND REFERENCES WHICH CLEARLY INDICATE A EUROPEAN HIGHER

EDUCATION, SO THEOSOPHICAL LORE TAKES THIS INTO ACCOUNT. OTHERS (THE

HARE BROTHERS ETC,) HAVE MADE TEXTUAL STUDIES OF THE MAHATMA LETTERS

FOR INTERNAL EVIDENCE OF THEIR AUTHORSHIP. HOWEVER, I AM NOT

CONCERNED WITH THE MASTERS CLASSICAL WESTERN EDUCATION IN THIS SERIES

OF COMMENTS ON THE MAHATMA LETTERS. I AM CONCERNED WITH WHETHER OR

NOT THE LETTERS REPRESENT THE EASTERN TRADITIONS THAT THEY HAVE SO

OBVIOUSLY DRAWN FROM ACCURATELY. AT THIS POINT, WE COME TO THE

QUESTION OF THE CLAIMED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MASTERS KOOT HOOMI,

MORYA AND MADAME H.P. BLAVATSKY, WHO WAS CONSIDERED THEIR ABSOLUTELY

CONSISTENT REPRESENTATIVE. WHAT AUTHORITY IS CLAIMED FOR HER ? IS

SHE CONSIDERED AS EQUALLY INFALLIBLE AS SOME THEOSOPHISTS CONSIDER

THE MASTERS K H AND M ? IN THE BELOW, IT IS CLAIMED THAT MADAME

BLAVATSKY WAS ACTUALLY AN INCARNATION OF SERAPIS, THE MASTER OF K H

AND M THEMSELVES !

 

 

 

 

Published by Blavatsky Archives. Online Edition copyright 2002.

 

 

"Bear Witness!"

Who Was the Real H.P.B. ?

Compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell

 

A Mighty Adept Using the Old Body Called H.P. Blavatsky

 

 

...."From the above material, it would appear that Serapis, one of the

Chiefs or Chohans of the Occult Brotherhood, was the Superior or

Teacher of both Master K.H. and Master M. Furthermore, Serapis

(being a Nirmanakaya) had taken on his "present incarnation" using

the "old body" called H.P. Blavatsky as a instrument for his "life of

self-sacrifice." These insights help us to understand more fully the

significance of KH's words about H.P. Blavatsky:

"After nearly a century of fruitless search, our Chiefs had to avail

themselves of the only opportunity to send out a European body upon

European soil to serve as a connecting link. . . . "

 

BA G: THUS WHILE HPB WAS PLAYING AT BEING THE STUDENT OF HER MASTERS

K H AND M, THEOSOPHISTS TEACH THAT SHE WAS ACTUALLY THEIR MASTER.

THE WHOLE SCHEME GETS QUITE CONVOLUTED, WITH THE CAST OF T MASTERS

EVENTUALLY BEING CREDITED WITH HUMAN PROGRESS IN GENERAL, THROUGH

THEIR ASTOUNDING LITANY OF PREVIOUS INCARNATIONS.

 

 

 

Message 8820 of 8900

 

"netemara888"

Sat Nov 16, 2002 6:50 am

Re: 2e To Steve: Stanzas of Dzyan.

 

 

[CAPS FOR EMPHASIS IN QUOTED TEXT MINE, BA G]

 

 

...."Now is this author saying she copied it verbatim? The Voice is

based

on the Stanzas of Dyzan right? And people have said it here and there

that there is no such thing as Senzar language as she called it? Is

that right? Well, she gets credit for no other reason than

translating the thing into English. And if my memory serves me

correctly that she said that she PULLED THIS OUT OF HER MASTER'S(MM)

BRAIN WHILE HE WAS TOUCHING HER TEMPLES. And that she had to make his

English more fluent. Or was that the other story when she was with

him in Tibet? I get the stories confused. But she says clearly that

the words of The Voice, anyway, are NOT her own. But it is not proof

positive that she did not plaigerize it."...

 

BA G: THE MAHATMA LETTERS ARE PART OF THE LARGER BODY OF

THEOSOPHICAL TEACHINGS, WHOSE GREATEST EARLY CONTRIBUTOR WAS MADAME

HPB / HER MASTERS. THERE ARE MANY CLAIMS MADE ABOUT THE

MYSTICAL 'PRECIPITATION', AUTOMATIC WRITING OR 'CHANNELING' (MODERN

TERM) OF THE MASTERS' TEACHINGS THROUGH HPB AND OTHERS. AGAIN I AM

NOT AS CONCERNED WITH THESE ISSUES AS I AM INTERESTED IN THE USE OR

MISUSE AND MISREPRESENTATION OF AUTHENTIC, REDACTED / CORRUPTED OR

CONCOCTED ANCIENT EASTERN SOURCE-WORKS. LIKE JOSEPH SMITH'S

MIRACULOUS TRANSLATION OF THE EGYPTIAN "BOOK OF MORMON" TABLETS, OR

WORKS CLAIMING TO BE BASED ON DOCUMENTS ABOUT JESUS FOUND IN A

TIBETAN LAMASERY, OR THE CLAIMED "ESSENE GOSPEL" OF THE BOGUS MODERN

SO-CALLED ESSENES, THERE IS A PATTERN TO THE EMERGENCE AND

PRESENTATION OF ESOTERIC AND NEO-GNOSTIC SPURIOUS 'ANCIENT' SOURCE

WORKS. THESE TYPICALLY ARE MIRACULOUSLY PRODUCED TRANSLATIONS OF SOME

HIDDEN, LOST OR OBSCURE TEXT, INSCRIPTIONS OR OTHER REVELATION, WITH

BUILT-IN DENIABILITY WHEN IT COMES TO AUTHENTICATION OF THE SOURCE.

THERE IS ALWAYS SOME REASON WHY THE ORIGINAL CANNOT BE PRODUCED, SO

THAT OTHERS CAN ANALYZE IT FOR AUTHENTICITY, AND COMPARE THE ORIGINAL

TEXT'S 'MIRACULOUS TRANSLATION' FOR ACCURACY. IN THE CASE OF THE

MAHATMA LETTERS, AND THE "STANZAS OF DYZAN", THE PROBLEM OF

AUTHENTICITY HAS BEEN AVOIDED BY CLAIMING THAT THESE WRITINGS WERE

PRODUCED THROUGH THE SPIRITUALISTIC MEDIUMSHIP OF HPB.

 

BEFORE HER CAREER AS A THEOSOPHICAL REVELATOR OF ANCIENT EASTERN

WISDOM IN INDIA, SHE WAS A MEDIUM AND CONJUROR IN SPIRITUALIST

(SÉANCE AND MEDIUMS) CIRCLES IN AMERICA. SHE WAS EXTRAORDINARILY

WELL READ, KNEW SEVERAL LANGUAGES, AND WAS A GREAT STORY TELLER AND

PRODIGIOUS WRITER WHO ONCE RAN A WRITING SHOP, AND WAS EXPERT IN JUST

THE SKILLS SHE WOULD NEED TO TAKE DICTATION FROM THE INVISIBLE

MASTERS. ALTHOUGH SHE SEEMED TO OVERTLY HATE JUDAISM AND

CHRISTIANITY, SHE COULD ALSO BE AN OUTSPOKEN CHAMPION FOR THOSE SHE

CONSIDERED WRONGED OR OPPRESSED. A COMPLEX AND BRILLIANT WOMEN, HPB

COMMANDED RESPECT EVEN FROM SOME EDUCATED AND POWERFUL MEN, IN AN AGE

WHEN WOMEN WERE NOT EXPECTED TO BE THE INTELLIGENT CHAMPIONS OF

ANYTHING. IT SHOULD BE KEPT IN MIND THAT THE SOCIAL EVILS THAT WERE

LATER TO MANIFEST FROM SOME OF HER SEEDS OF THOUGHT, WERE SURELY NOT

ANTICIPATED OR DESIRED BY HER. (I OBVIOUSLY DO NOT ACCEPT THE IDEA

THAT SHE WAS 'SERAPIS', AND THUS AN ALL-KNOWING MASTER OUTSIDE OF THE

NORMAL INFLUENCES OF TIME.) AT SOME POINT IN HER CONJURING AND MINOR-

LEAGUE MEDIUMSHIP, SHE 'GOT RELIGION' SO TO SPEAK, AND EMBARKED ON A

LIFE-LONG MISSION TO BETTER THE CONDITION OF HUMANKIND. SHE WAS NO

DOUBT WELL MOTIVATED, BUT PRODUCED A MIXED WORK THAT WAS PART GENIUS

AND PART NONSENSE AND TRICKERY. THE QUESTION IS ...WHY SHOULD PEOPLE

ABANDON THE STUDY OF AUTHENTIC ANCIENT RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL

SOURCE-WORKS TO ACCEPT HER / THE MAHATMAS' WRITINGS AS THE ULTIMATE

AUTHORITY ON THE WORLD'S HIDDEN MYSTERIES ?

 

 

8852 of 8901

leonmaurer

Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:19 pm

Re: Theos-World Re.The Mahatma Letters.

 

 

[CAPS FOR EMPHASIS IN QUOTED TEXT MINE, BA G]

 

"BTW -- even if HPB STOLE HER IDEAS and theories from all the ancient

and

modern teachers of the hidden mysteries (including Hermes,

Pythagorus, Plato,

Buddha, Lao Tse, Vyasa, Patanjali, etc.) -- WHY SEND EVERYONE TO THEM

to

learn new languages and dig it out for themselves, covering the same

tracks

that Blavatsky did -- when all of it was so CLEARLY AND ACCURATELY

synthesized in the SD (along with other explanatory writings of HPB

and

associated scriptural confirmations) in the common language that most

everyone of a thoughtful mind in the world, today, can understand?"

 

 

...."In any event, I'm satisfied that the ultimate

truth, as close as we'll ever get to it (barring faith in

the "revelations"

of one's favorite guru or God) is in theosophy's corner -- where

intuition

and reason are the only Gods worth listening to."

 

 

BA G: THIS IS THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED. IT

IS A MATTER OF THE BASIC INTEGRITY OR RELIABILITY OF THE INFORMATION

THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED IN THE MAHATMA LETTERS, AND THE ACKNOWLEDGED

WRITINGS OF H.P. BLAVATSKY AND THE OTHER PROMINENT PERSONALITIES OF

THE EARLY THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AND MOVEMENT. WHAT TRUTH DID THE

THEOSOPHICAL MASTERS ACTUALLY CONVEY ? WHY SHOULD EVERYONE GO TO THE

T MASTERS, INSTEAD OF TO THE STILL EXTANT AUTHENTIC SOURCES ? DID

THE MASTERS AND H.P. BLAVATSKY ALWAYS

"CLEARLY AND ACCURATELY" SYNTHESIZE AND REPRESENT IMPORTANT ANCIENT

TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS IN HER WORK? OR WERE THERE SERIOUS

OMISSIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND OTHER ERRORS? WERE SOME OF THEIR

REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT TRADITIONS SERIOUSLY FLAWED, CORRUPTED BY

EXTREME BIAS AND / OR EVEN ACTUALLY DISHONEST?

 

 

 

THE ABOVE CURRENT THEOSOPHIST'S VIEW REGARDING "THE ONLY GODS WORTH

LISTENING TO.", SHOULD BE COMPARED TO THE STATEMENT BELOW, OF MASTER

KOOT HOOMI HIMSELF.

 

 

REGARDING ATHEISM IN THE MAHATMA LETTERS...

 

 

 

Message 8767 of 8767

 

"Mahatma Letter No. 10

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-10.htm

 

[Transcribed from a copy in Mr. Sinnett's handwriting. -- Ed]

 

NOTES BY K.H. ON A "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER" HEADED "GOD" BY HUME,

INTENDED TO PREFACE AN EXPOSITION OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY (ABRIDGED).

 

Received at Simla, 1881-? '82.

 

[CAPS FOR EMPHASIS IN THE QUOTED TEXT BELOW ARE MINE, BA G]

 

NEITHER our philosophy nor ourselves BELIEVE IN A God, least of all

in one whose pronoun necessitates a capital G."

 

.... "Therefore, we DENY God both as philosophers and AS BUDDHISTS. We

know there are planetary and other

spiritual lives, and we know there is in our system NO SUCH THING AS

GOD, EITHER PERSONAL OR IMPERSONAL. Parabrahm is not a God, but

absolute immutable law, and Iswar is the effect of Avidya and Maya,

ignorance based upon the great delusion. The word "God" was invented

to designate the unknown cause of those effects which man has either

admired or dreaded without understanding them, and SINCE WE CLAIM AND

THAT WE ARE ABLE TO PROVE WHAT WE CLAIM -- i.e. the knowledge of that

cause and causes we are in a position to maintain THERE IS NO God OR

Gods BEHIND THEM." ...

 

 

 

 

 

BA G:

 

CONFUSION IN THE MASTER RESULTS IN CONFUSION IN THE CHELA

 

IN THE BELOW, THE AUTHOR HIMSELF DEMONSTRATES WHY ATTENTION SHOULD BE

PAID TO UNDERSTANDING EASTERN THOUGHT AND TRADITIONS, AND INDIVIDUAL

TEXTS AND PERSONS, FROM RELIABLE, HISTORICALLY AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

HE PROFOUNDLY ERRS IN IDENTIFYING MYSELF (BA G) WITH ..."Vedantist

and Buddhist sectarian and separatist teachings"....

 

IF HE HAD ACQUIRED ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL FROM

CLEAR AND ACCURATE, RELIABLE SOURCES, HE NEVER COULD HAVE CONFUSED ME

WITH A "Vedantist". IF HE HAD ANY UNDERSTANDING OF THE VARIOUS REAL-

WORLD SOURCES AND TRADITIONS INVOLVED, AND HAD READ AND UNDERSTOOD MY

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ON THE SITE WHERE HIS COMMENT WAS POSTED, HE

WOULD NOT HAVE CONFUSED ME WITH "sectarian and separatist

teachings" I AM A PERSON WHO HAS STUDIED DEEPLY IN NUMEROUS

TRADITIONS, HAVING A DISTINGUISHED HISTORY OF SERVICE IN NON-

SECTARIAN INTERFAITH ACTIVISM. MY OWN TEACHINGS ARE ANYTHING

BUT "separatist". AS A SHIKSHA (INSTRUCTING) MASTER, IN A LINEAGE

OF VAISHNAVISM FROM WHICH SOME OF THE MASTERS' / BLAVATSKY'S

TEACHINGS HAVE BEEN APPROPRIATED, I HAVE SOME FAMILIARITY WITH THE

SANSKRIT TERMS THEY USED, AS FOUND IN THE REAL ANCIENT SOURCE

WORKS. I ALSO HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN

SOME OF THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS OF 'HINDU' THOUGHT. AS A MASTER IN A

BHAKTI YOGA LINEAGE, IT IS LAUGHABLE TO HEAR MYSELF REFERRED TO AS

A "VEDANTIST" IN SUCH A WAY.

 

 

 

Message 8852 of 8901

 

leonmaurer@a...

Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:19 pm

Re: Theos-World Re.The Mahatma Letters.

 

 

 

Assuming that you agree with the VEDANTIST AND BUDDHIST SECTARIAN AND

SEPARATIST TEACHINGS OF BAG and GS as well as with most popular

aspects of

modern reductive science (if not any other "religion") -- don't you

think

that your hatred of HPB (the great initial synthesizer of all these

disparate, contradictory, one tracked, and separate religions,

sciences and

philosophies) has gone much too far, and is, in effect, doing a great

disservice to humanity at large? From this point of view, you should

be

ashamed of yourself. And, maybe, you, and your cohorts should also

stop

pounding on all us poor, deluded and misled

theosophical "fundamentalists."

(Apropos, I wonder if your "separatists" or us "synthesists" have the

right

to be labeled as such? :-) In any event, I'm satisfied that the

ultimate

truth, as close as we'll ever get to it (barring faith in

the "revelations"

of one's favorite guru or God) is in theosophy's corner -- where

intuition

and reason are the only Gods worth listening to.

 

 

ONE OF MY MAIN CRITICISMS OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY TEACHINGS IS

THAT THEY MISREPRESENT TEACHINGS FROM GENUINELY ANCIENT THEISTIC AND

ATHEISTIC SOURCES BY APPROPRIATING, DISTORTING, RE-CONTEXTING AND

MISREPRESENTING THEM. FOR INSTANCE THE MAHATMAS' TEACHINGS

SOMETIMES MAKE USE OF IDEAS FROM VAISHNAVA TRADITIONS, BUT MAKE NO

PROPER REFERENCE TO THE THEISTIC THOUGHT-SYSTEMS FROM WHICH THE IDEAS

HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED. THUS THE CYCLIC YUGA (EON / AGE) ROUNDS OF A

FINITE UNIVERSE, EMANATIONS FROM GODHEAD AND SHAKTI, DAYS OF BRAHMA

AND SUCH IDEAS ARE PRESENTED WITHOUT THEIR PROPER CONTEXT AND

MEANING. FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE AUTHENTIC VAISNAVA SOURCES, THE WORLD-

AGE YUGAS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE YUGA AVATARAS OF HARI, OR KRISHNA-

VISHNU (AMITABHA-LOKESVARA IN PURE LAND BUDDHISM) WHO IS THE

TRANSCENDENT DEITY, AND THE SOURCE OF ALL SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL

REALMS AND WORLDS (VYUHAS AND LOKAS). HOWEVER THE T S MASTERS DO NOT

PROPERLY PRESENT THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE YUGAS TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL

DEITY. WHILE THERE IS SOME EMANATIONISM IN THE MASTERS' DOCTRINES,

IT IS NOT PRESENTED ACCURATELY FROM EITHER THE VAISHNAVA OR VAISHNAVA-

RELATED EARLIEST FORMS OF PURE LAND BUDDHISM. INSTEAD, THE SAVING

DEITIES OF OTHER-POWER PURE LAND BUDDHISM ARE REPRESENTED MORE AS

DEPENDENT-ARISING PRODUCTS OF MIND AND DUALISM. OUTSIDE

OF 'VISUALIZATION', AND THE HIGHEST, SUBTLEST MATERIAL STATES, THE

DEITIES HAVE NO TRANSCENDENT PERSONAL EXISTENCE IN THE DHARMA KAYA.

 

BUT THE T MASTERS DO NOT REPRESENT BUDDHIST VOIDISM OR ADVAITA

VEDANTIST IMPERSONALISM PURELY EITHER. THEIR 'BUDDHISM' SEEMS A

SYNTHESIS OF VAISHNAVA DOCTRINES AND THE TEACHINGS OF SEVERAL

DIFFERENT TRADITIONS OF BUDDHISM. THEY TRY TO ASSOCIATE THEIR

AMALGAMATED BUDDHIST TEACHINGS WITH SRI LANKAN THERAVADA, TIBETAN AND

ZEN BUDDHISM, THIS CREATES A STRANGE BREW WHEN THE EMANATIONISM OF

VAISHNAVISM (WITHOUT ITS DIVINE SOURCE) IS ADDED TO THE MIX. WHEN

THE DAYS OF BRAHMA ETC. ARE DESCRIBED, THE ORIGIN OF BRAHMA (HELIOS

PHANES) IN THE PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD (NARAYANA) IS NOT REALLY

STRESSED. IN THESE AND MANY OTHER CASES, THE MAHATMAS DO NOT

DELIVER TO THEIR STUDENTS A "CLEAR AND ACCURATE" SYNTHESIS OF

ANCIENT TEACHINGS AND SCRIPTURES. IN FACT THEY SEEM TO HAVE HAD AN

AGENDA TO EDIT-OUT THE THEISTIC CONTEXT AND CONTENT OF THE IDEAS THAT

THEY USED. THUS THEIR PRODUCT (THE MAHATMA LETTERS) APPROPRIATES

ELEMENTS FROM BOTH THEISTIC AND ATHEISTIC TRADITIONS AND CORRUPTS

THESE, FORMING AN ATTEMPT TO HARMONIZE ELEMENTS OF THEISTIC

COSMOGONIC REVELATION, WITH MODERN WATERED-DOWN NEO-VEDANTISM AND AN

EQUALLY CORRUPTED FORM OF NEO-BUDDHISM. BY CREATING SUCH A NON-

HISTORICAL HODGE-PODGE OF SPURIOUSLY 'ANCIENT' DOCTRINES FROM VARIOUS

MIS-USED SOURCES, THE THEOSOPHICAL TEACHERS RENDER THEIR CHELAS

INCAPABLE OF CLEAR, ACCURATE , RATIONAL THOUGHT INVOLVING THESE

MATTERS. A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF REAL INDIC TRADITIONS WOULD HAVE

INSURED THAT THE AUTHOR OF THIS NOTE DID NOT ACCUSE A VAISHNAVA

BHAKTI-YOGIN OF TEACHINGS THAT WERE "VEDANTIST". BECAUSE THE

MASTERS AND OTHER TS WRITERS FREQUENTLY CONFOUNDED AND MERGED AND

MISREPRESENTED INDIC THOUGHT AND TRADITIONS, THEOSOPHISTS TYPICALLY

HAVE NO REAL GRASP OF THE MOST BASIC TRUTHS REGARDING THESE REAL-

WORLD TRADITIONS. HAVING ACCEPTED HPB'S "READER'S DIGEST"-LIKE

CONDENSED VERSION AND SYNTHESIS OF THE WISDOM TRADITIONS, THEY HAVE

CHEATED THEMSELVES OUT OF A MORE DIRECT AND AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE OF

THE SAME.

 

 

 

THIS GETS TO THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND DISCIPLINARY ASPECT OF

THE ISSUE. WHY WOULD SOMEONE WHO REALLY WANTS TO UNDERSTAND

SOMETHING, CHOOSE NOT TO GO TO THE SOURCE AND PROPERLY DISCIPLINE

THEMSELF IN ITS UNDERSTANDING ? WHY WOULD A PERSON PREFER TO

SPECULATE ABOUT SOMETHING FROM THE OUTSIDE, RATHER THAN STUDYING IT

UP-CLOSE IN A SCIENTIFIC, DISCIPLINED MANNER ? THE PROBLEM IS THAT

CERTAIN KINDS OF PEOPLE CANNOT SUBMIT TO ANY REAL-WORLD AUTHORITIES

AND HATE TO BE REQUIRED TO LIVE BY RULES OF CONDUCT AND STANDARDS OF

BEHAVIOR. THEY DON'T WANT TO DISCIPLINE THEIR INQUIRY INTO ANY KIND

OF TRADITIONAL APPROACH. THEY DON'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH THE

FACTS THAT DISAGREE WITH THEM, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO LEARN ANYTHING

THAT REQUIRES REAL DISCIPLINE OR 'SURRENDER'. SUCH PEOPLE WILL

TYPICALLY MAKE-UP THEIR OWN ALTER-EGO AUTHORITIES TO VALIDATE

THEMSELVES AND / OR GIVE THEMSELVES CREDIBILITY WITH OTHERS. THUS

THEY CAN PLAY AT THE HUMILITY AND SURRENDER GAME, WITHOUT EVER REALLY

SUBMITTING THEMSELVES FOR INSTRUCTION TO ANYONE. AS A RESULT WE SEE

THE ENDLESS PROLIFERATION OF 'HUMBLE SERVANTS' AND 'MESSENGERS' OF

THE INVISIBLE OR CONVENIENTLY INACCESSIBLE MASTERS, WHO NEVER REALLY

REQUIRE ANY SURRENDER ON 'THEIR' DISCIPLE'S PART. THE 'DISCIPLE'

BECOMES, AS A MESSENGER OF THEIR INACCESSIBLE MASTER (S), THE GURU /

MASTER OF OTHERS WHO REALLY DO WANT A REAL-WORLD FLESH-AND-BLOOD

AUTHORITY. THUS THE ENDLESS INNOVATION AND DIFFUSION OF NEW ESOTERIC

AND OCCULT 'SPIRITUALITIES' IS BASED ON THE SINCERE SURRENDERED

FOLLOWING OF SOME PEOPLE, WHO BLINDLY SUBMIT TO THOSE MASTERS WHO ARE

THEMSELVES THE 'SERVANTS' OF ONLY A PROJECTED AUTHORITY-FIGURE OF

THEMSELVES.

 

MEANWHILE IN THE EXOTERIC GREAT RELIGIONS, REAL-WORLD MASTERS REQUIRE

REAL-WORLD SURRENDER, DISCIPLINE (DIKSHA) AND SACRIFICES FROM THEIR

SURRENDERED STUDENTS, BUT IN RETURN THEY DELIVER THE AUTHENTIC

TEACHINGS OF REALLY ANCIENT AND VENERABLE TRADITIONS. 'YOU GET WHAT

YOU PAY FOR' ....IN THIS CASE EITHER THE INTELLECTUAL AND DEVOTIONAL

HERITAGE OF CENTURIES, OR THE CONCOCTIONS OF MODERN ERA CHEATERS.

AUTHENTIC TRADITIONS HAVE EXOTERIC LINEAGES, REAL EXAMINABLE ANCIENT

SCRIPTURES, REAL ANCIENT HISTORIES AND PRESERVE THE LEGITIMATE

TEACHINGS OF THEIR LINEAGES DOCTRINALLY. ETC. SUCH TRADITIONS ARE

THE REAL GUARDIANS OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURES AND WISDOM. IT TAKES A

LIFETIME OF DISCIPLINED STUDY TO MASTER EVEN A TINY BIT OF WHAT SUCH

TRADITIONS HAVE TO OFFER. BUT, THE PROUD 'GNOSTIC' WHO IDOLIZES

THEIR OWN BRAIN, WILL NOT USUALLY BE ATTRACTED TO A LIFE TIME OF

STUDY IN ANYTHING REALLY DEMANDING OF THEM. THE PROUD GNOSTIC

CONCOCTER WOULD RATHER BE SELF-EDUCATED THAN TO ACTUALLY PLUMB THE

DEPTHS OF ANYTHING THROUGH REAL SURRENDER AND DISCIPLINED INQUIRY.

 

THE RESULT OF SUCH A PERSON'S SCHOLARLY ENDEAVORS USUALLY SHOWS THEIR

DISDAIN FOR PREVIOUS AUTHORITIES AND SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY, THEY

WANT 'SPIRITUALITY' WITHOUT 'RELIGION'. THEY WANT TO MASTER SCIENCE

OR HISTORY OR SOME FIELD WITHOUT BEING ACTUALLY TRAINED IN THE

DISCIPLINES OF THAT FIELD. THEY TEND TO BE MASTERS OF EVERYTHING

ONLY IN THEIR OWN OPINION, AND INSTEAD THEY ARE NOT THE REAL MASTERS

OF ANYTHING. THEY TEND TO BE DABBLERS, WHO ARE VENERATED AS MASTERS

BY GULLIBLE PEOPLE WITH A POOR FUND OF KNOWLEDGE. NOW, IN MY

OPINION, HP BLAVATSKY AND HER FRIENDS, WERE BOTH DABBLERS AND THE

MASTERS OF SOMETHING. WHAT THEY HAD MASTERED IS ON EXHIBIT FOR ALL

TO SEE IN THE MAHATMA LETTERS AND OTHER PRIMARY THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

WRITINGS. IT IS NOT THAT THESE WRITINGS HAVE NO VALUE, BUT ONE

SHOULD APPROACH THEM AS WHAT THEY ARE, AND NOT CONFUSE THEM WITH WHAT

THEY CLAIM TO BE, THE HIGHEST AUTHORITATIVE TEACHING OF THE ONLY TRUE

PHILOSOPHY ON EARTH.

 

 

 

END PART I.