Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00295)

Nov 15th 1997

Dallas TenBroeck writes:

Concerning HPB's relations with the Masters. I agree wholeheartedly with
David Caldwell's criterion. Primary sources are always superior to
secondary ones -- which may be changed by intervening and later "opinions."

As far as I can trace, HPB records her association on the astral plane (in
her present incarnation) with powerful but not then (in her early years)
fully known to her, Beings who "looked over" her life and periodically when
a crisis arose, saved it, or her, from the results of crippling accidents,
or even death.

I noticed that most of these are narrated in Sylvia Cranston's Biography:
"H.P.B.-- HELENA BLAVATSKY" - Tarcher, New York, 1993. Documentary sources
are quoted there (primary ones).

She also left it on record in her diary that her first physical meeting
with the Master to whom she devoted her life and work was in London in 1851
when she was 21 years old. She was then traveling with her father.

The real identity of the Adept who took the name of "St. Germain" remains
unknown although there are many speculations about his birth, death and
actual work--then, and now.

We are given to understand that the Adepts form a Brotherhood -- an Ancient
and Secret Lodge. Beginning on p. 98, Vol. 2, ISIS UNVEILED, HPB gives us
a sketch of the work and existence of this Lodge. There are other
references that can be traced in ISIS, and the S D. the INDEXES reveal
them.

>From the beginning of her public work in ISIS she claims to be one of their
"representatives," or "messengers," and she consistently attributed all she
taught to Them, not to herself. She never made personal claims nor did she
go into trances or seem to depend on some psychic contact, Following her
death many attempted to cover themsleves with the cloak of the mystic
wisdom that was hers--but in terms of inspiration and work done for the
THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT none have been able to do what she did. With
possible single exception of Wm. Q. Judge whom she acknowledged as her
close friend and assistant in the work she was doing.

In the beginning pages of the KEY TO THEOSOPHY it is made clear that
Theosophy is not new, but that it began far back in the night of Time and
has since been moving through all places and eras. To this she adds the
concept and makes clear the fact that there is a great difference between
the T S and the Theosophical Movement. The Movement is "moral, ethical,
spiritual, universal, invisible save in effect, and continuous. A Society
formed for theosophical work is a visible organization, an
effect...Wherever thought has struggled to be free, wherever spiritual
ideas, as opposed to forms and dogmatism, have been promulgated, there the
great movement is to be discerned."

I recognize we have to be as historically accurate as possiblle, since that
is the area in which most people who are historical scholars live and
work. But, to my mind, the work of the student of HPB and of the Movement
should try to add for his own inner satisfaction, the perception of some of
the motives (or ideals-- like Universal Brotherhood and Service to Mankind)
that underlie that great work. If I may repeat: there is a moral and
ethic quality which requires our personal involvment and is not regulated
by the forms and laws of associations, something which every free man and
woman has innately. That is, if recognized, to be reinforced and adopted,
and if found to be adequately universal in scope, we could use it as a
basis for our individual work. If we all unite on PRINCIPLES, and agree
together that they are valid, then we all progress together. But all
wrangling gets us exactly nowhere, and with our "feathers ruffled." The
original T S as formulated, was an association in which freedom,
independnce and voluntary assistance to each other formed the bonds of
unity. It seems to me, that, is one of the greatest ideas that Theosophy
reasserted, to be used, if we will, as a practical ideal.
 Dallas

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> From: "Daniel H Caldwell" <blafoun@azstarnet.com>
> Subject: Re: Saint Germain and Blavatsky
> Date: Saturday, November 15, 1997 10:47 PM
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> Daniel wrote:
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