Theos-Talk Archives (April 2000 Message tt00068)

Mr Tenbroeck------

I observe you're constantly asking for evidence on Mrs Tingley & Mr Crosbie 
but when it's given to you, you simply ignore it. But here is more for you 
to ignore.

Mrs Tingley related her 1st meeting with Master thus-------


The Gods Await by Katherine Tingley

My First Meeting with H. P. Blavatsky's Teacher

It is because we build our hopes, such as they are, not on knowledge but on 
faith -- on blind faith and, at that, faith in a personality and powers 
outside of ourselves -- that we have drifted away so pitiably from the 
inspiration and beautiful philosophy of nature, who with her stars and all 
her hierarchies of beauty could reveal to us the wonderful doctrine, if we 
would turn and heed.

I remember very vividly the morning I met H. P. Blavatsky's teacher on the 
mountainside near Darjiling. He was dressed plainly in the Tibetan style, 
and had an English pocketknife in his hand and was whittling a piece of wood 
with it. In the field below, not far away, a young Hindu was plowing with a 
brace of oxen; and the whittling, he told me, was to make a little plug or 
peg which, inserted in the yoke, would make it easier for the beasts. He 
drew my attention to the plowman, one of his own chelas he said.

"Were a battery of guns firing and the shells falling all around him," said 
the Teacher, "he would not stir from his work. Indeed, he would hardly be 
aware of the noise or the peril, so absorbed he is. Those two oxen with 
anyone else are most unmanageable creatures; with him they are always, as 
now, perfectly quiet. He does not control them with his will; his mind does 
not concern itself with them at all. But you see there for yourself proof 
that those dumb things can feel the atmosphere of purity of thought.

"And when he goes upon a pilgrimage, he will travel more miles in a day than 
any of the others and come in far ahead. You know how the women here in 
India lave and anoint the feet of the pilgrims? Well, his feet after the 
longest day's journey have never been found hurt or damaged by the road. 
Why? Because he never dreads or even thinks of the distance, but goes on his 
way happily; and it never occurs to him to be troubled as to whether or not 
he may have missed the road or taken the wrong turning or the like. His mind 
is so buoyant with the joy of the spiritual life that it actually lightens 
his body for him.

"You know, the atoms of the human body become weighed down as a rule with 
the burdens of the mind -- the irrelevant ideas, the preoccupations and 
anxieties. They go through series of changes momently, affected by the 
thoughts of the brain-mind. The lack of trust, the lack of inspiration that 
people suffer from -- the hopelessness -- bring these atoms down halfway to 
death. But they can be quickened to a kind of immortality by the fire of the 
divine life and attuned into universal harmony. Men anywhere could get rid 
of all that burden of unnecessities, and carry themselves like that young 
chela does, if they had the mental balance.

"If you had to go from here to America," he continued, "you would not sit 
still and dream about the place you wanted to go to, and think that was 
enough. The trouble with some theosophical aspirants is that they waste the 
strength of their lives looking at the goal ahead, rather than at the 
immediate moments and seconds of which the Path is composed, and so their 
better selves become exhausted. They should let the beaming thought pour 
itself into each arriving moment and be indifferent to the morrow. One can 
find in every instant of time, if one has the desire, the door into worlds 
of golden opportunity, the gateway to a glorious path stretching out into 
the limitless eternal. . . .

"To move away from the material plane of effort and thought and personality 
-- that is what the soul is urging us to do: to move out into the hidden 
vast realities of life and understand that within and above and around us, 
and in the very atmosphere in which our thoughts and feelings exist, 
universal life is pulsating continuously in response to our yearnings and 
questionings. When people say that they are seeking happiness, they mean 
that they are aiming at that stage in their evolution where their present 
problems will be solved. To reach it, one must withdraw from the allurements 
of life and all its outward and discouraging aspects, and find himself in 
the solitude of his own being, in a silence unbreakable within his own heart 
and mind.

"The outer life is transient: he must gain the inner power and live in the 
spirit which is eternal. He cannot step free-souled into that light without 
having learned concentration, which many these days advertise they can 
teach, and lecture on it, forming cults, holding classes, and taking 
dollars. But all they can do at last is to lead their victims away from 
reality and farther and farther away from the true self within themselves. 
For concentration is a power inherent in the self and above and beyond the 
mind: it cannot be found in the objective world, for it is not there. The 
kingdom of heaven is on earth, and the gates of it are to be sought and 
discovered in the heart of man.

"So the aspirant should not think about the cultivation of powers, but live 
in the light and strength of his own higher nature. The divine law is in 
every man and woman, and each must find it there for himself and make it 
manifest in his life. No one can pour pure water into foul so that it shall 
still retain its purity. Selflessness attains, selfishness defeats: men's 
possibilities are in direct proportion to their ability to see beyond 
themselves and to feel for others. . . .

"To throw the mind, on moving out of sleep into waking, directly upon the 
outward things is to lose half the life of the day. One should awake in the 
morning with a beautiful thought, reminding himself that the battle for the 
day is before him and that the god within desires a moment's conference with 
the mind before the arduous duties of the morning begin.

"He should find something in the silence and sunlight of the first hours 
which should link itself with his own higher nature and bring forth the 
blossom and the fruit. He should free himself in the morning in the 
sweetness of the sunlight, beginning the day as gently as though he were 
waking a little child from its slumbers, bringing forward the truer and 
nobler side of himself -- I do not mean working it out in words and 
language, but in thought approaching the richness and fullness of the spirit 
and letting the god within blossom into each moment as it rises. Then, 
reaching out for the most difficult duty that one knows to be one's duty and 
overcoming it, he will learn the secret of being on guard, and in a little 
while have thrown away unawares all the burdens that obstructed him. Many 
have been working hard and conscientiously to get rid of these burdens: 
there is no need to spend a moment on them. It is but to put aside the 
doubts and misgivings, to enter the chambers of the soul, to bask in the 
sunlight and strength that are there.

"The first three hours of the day," he continued, "are the great 
opportunity. He who does not rise with the sun loses an immense amount of 
power. He who rises before the sun, and by daybreak has finished with the 
duties of this plane and what may be necessary for the care of the body and 
is ready to step out with the sunrise and work with the sun, he has the 
cooperation of a force he little knows of -- the vibrant blue light behind 
the sun.

"The trouble is with many of our aspirants that too often they begin with 
the letter and go backwards in search of the spirit. But let them hold to 
these things in the silence and create a noble future in their hearts, going 
alone in the morning into the silence of nature. Freeing themselves there 
from their old trying memories and from all anticipations of trouble, let 
them make themselves at one with that light in nature. And it will not hurt 
them to look at the stars with wonder occasionally, or to listen with 
delight to the music of the birds, or to spend whole days in silence, 
brooding on these sacred things whilst performing all the duties that come 
to them to do."

I think he placed a talisman in our hands, and gave us the real secret of 
life.

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