WHAT WERE THEY THE MASTERS OF ?
Nov 19, 2002 05:53 AM
by Bhakti Ananda Goswami
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:43 AM
Subject: 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 Yahoo Egroup.
Message 8909 of 8925
From: Bart Lidofsky
Date: Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:47 am
Subject: 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
From: "Jeremy Condick"
Date: Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:54 pm
Subject: 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
From: "Steve Stubbs"
Date: Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:40 pm
Subject: Re: Master KH on "God": Mahatma Letter No. 10
[CAPS FOR EMPHASIS IN QUOTED TEXT MINE, BA G]
--- In theos-talk@y..., "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
From: "netemara888"
Date: Sat Nov 16, 2002 6:50 am
Subject: 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
From: leonmaurer
Date: Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:19 pm
Subject: 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
From: leonmaurer@a...
Date: Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:19 pm
Subject: 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.
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