Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00229)

"Vainly do your modern seers and their prophetesses,
creep into every cleft and crevice without outlet or
continuity they chance to see; and still more vainly,
when once within do they lift up their voices and
loudly cry: 'Eureka! We have gotten a revelation from
the Lord!' — for verily have they nothing of the kind.
They have disturbed but bats, less blind their
intruders; who, feeling them flying about, mistake
them as often for angels — as they too have wings! . .
. " Master Koot Hoomi, The Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed.,
Letter 48

"You cannot acquire psychic power until the causes of
psychic debility are removed. . . . You have scarcely
learned the elements of self-control in psychism. . .
. Your vivid creative fancy [imagination] evokes
illusive Gurus and chelas, and puts into their mouths
words coined the instant before in the mint of your
mind, unknown to yourself. The false appears as real,
as the true, and you have no exact method of
detection, since you are yet prone to force your
communications to agree with your preconceptions."
Master Koot Hoomi, Mrs. Holloway and the Mahatmas,
Letter 17 

Stainton Moses, a "seer" and medium of the 1880s wrote
to A.P. Sinnett:

". . . my inner spirit-sense is opened. Only yesterday
. . . Imper[ator] . . . was clearly visible and
audible to me. . . . "

To this comment by Stainton Moses [S.M.], Master Koot
Hoomi
wrote:

". . . So is Jesus and John the Baptist [clearly
visible and audible] to Edward Maitland; [who is] as
true and as honest and sincere as S.M. . . . And does
not E. Maitland see Hermes the first and second
and Elijah, etc. Finally does not Mrs. [Anna]
Kingsford feel as sure as S.M. with regard to +
[Imperator] that she saw and conversed with God!! . .
. And who purer or more truthful than that woman or
Maitland! Mystery, mystery will you exclaim. IGNORANCE
we answer; the creation of that we believe in and want
to see. . . . "
Quoted from:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-90.htm

"[Salig Ram is] -- a truly good man -- yet a devotee
of another error. Not his guru's voice -- his own. The
voice of a pure, unselfish, earnest soul, absorbed in
misguided, misdirected mysticism. Add to it a chronic
disorder in that portion of the brain which responds
to clear vision and the secret is soon told: that
disorder was developed by forced visions; by hatha yog
and prolonged asceticism. S. Ram is the chief medium
and at same time the principal magnetic factor, who
spreads his disease by infection -- unconsciously to
himself; who innoculates with his vision all the other
disciples. There is one general law of vision
(physical and mental or spiritual) but there is a
qualifying special law proving that all vision must be
determined by the quality or grade of man's spirit and
soul, and also by the ability to translate divers
qualities of waves of astral light into consciousness.
There is but one general law of life, but innumerable
laws qualify and determine the myriads of forms
perceived and of sounds heard. There are those who are
willingly and others who are unwillingly -- blind.
Mediums belong to the former, sensitives to the
latter. Unless regularly initiated and trained --
concerning the spiritual insight of things and the
supposed revelations made unto man in all ages from
Socrates down to Swedenborg . . . no self-tutored seer
or clairaudient ever saw or heard quite correctly." 
Master Morya, The Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed., Letter 40


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Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
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