Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00082)

Nicholas:
>>Tantra is a minority view in the East too.  Standard Buddhism, Vedanta &
>>Jainism etc. are with HPB in putting personal, and thus sexual, purity in
>>an important place in their religious life.

>Agreed. But I question minority view within Tibetan Buddhism, which
>is where HPB was supposed to have trained.
>Jerry S.

Trained for what is the key. My guess is that she, Helena Petrovna, was
unfit for adeptship (as KH or M wrote) while the inner HPB was an
Initiate.  So Helena's training was mostly on inner preparation for being
an instrument for the inner Initate or Adepts to write, teach and inspire
through.  The spiritual practices of the Buddhist path or Buddhist
philosophy were of little practical use, I'm guessing, for her particular
mission in that incarnation of Helena.


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