Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00019)

Jake / Daniel –

I have been `inspired' by your interchange to review E.S. 
Instructions V and particularly the section on `THE HEART' , which 
includes the part where HPB quotes  KH on `Concentration' .   
Certainly HPB's comments prior to this, discussing deep sleep, the 
brain, opening the `third eye' are among the most profound and 
insightful that I have read anywhere in her writings:

"The Spiritual Consciousness is active during deep sleep, and if 
the "dreams" that occur in so-called dreamless sleep could be 
impressed by the Heart on the Brain, your Consciousness would no 
longer be restricted within the bounds of your personal life. If you 
could remember your dreams in deep sleep, you would be able to 
remember all your past incarnations. This is the "memory of the 
Heart"; and the capacity to impress it on the Brain, so that it 
becomes part of its Consciousness, is the "opening of the Third Eye."

[BCW 12, p. 696]

Then in the next paragraph HPB refers to `Purusha in the Heart' and 
says:
"The student will now begin to understand why so much stress is laid 
on the Heart in connection with meditation…" AFTER laying this 
foundation in `occult physiology', HPB then quotes from KH:

"Your best method is to concentrate on the Master as a Living Man 
within you. Make His image in your heart, and a focus of 
concentration….etc"

>From today's perspective with so much more literature from sacred 
traditions available than in HPB's time, it can be more easily 
confirmed that this type of `meditation' practice' is found in all 
the schools of Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism and  various schools of  
Sufism, some Christian mystical traditions, as well as other 
esoteric traditions. It can easily be found in Tibetan histories 
that all the Panchen and Dalai Lamas as well as Tsong Khapa  
practiced and taught a type of `Guru yoga' similar in essentials to 
the practice that HPB describes in this Instruction #5. This is also 
true in Sufism as in the famous relationship between the great 
Perisan poet Rumi and his eccentric Teacher Shams of Tabriz.  (Rumi 
devotes volumes on this student//Teacher relationship in the 
mystical Persian poetic manner, after Shams disappears forever in a 
blaze of light during an attempted assassination attempt.)  She also 
gives an outline of the connection between the eyes, optic nerve, 
heart and  pineal gland also found in Dzogchen `Great Perfection' 
oral instructions.


HPB then continues over the next pages to detail more clearly 
encapsulated information on `occult physiology' with correspondences 
between the principles, physical organs and interactions between 
them. Some very unusual and challenging statements are what HPB has 
to say about the Mayavi Rupa. She states that "the guiding 
intelligence that informs it [the Mayavi rupa] comes from the Heart, 
the essence of Manas entering it."  After a paragraph that could in 
itself generate weeks of thought, study and discussion, she ends 
with a real challenge to the student (p. 707 BCW 12):

"As said, the projection of the Linga-Sarira should NOT be attempted 
but the student SHOULD seek to exercise the power of Kriyasakti in 
the CONSCIOUS projection of the Mayavi-Rupa." (caps added)

Ken

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@...> wrote:
>
> Jake and his "Maybe" This & "Maybe" That Speculation:  
> Part 1
> ======================================
> 
> I wrote:
> 
> "Furthermore, why would Judge (after HPB's death) include portions 
> of this KH Concentration letter in E.S. Instruction #5?"
> 
> In his latest reply at  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/36217
> Jake comments:
> 
> "This was also the LAST ES instruction sent out, and the lowest in 
> quality. Maybe it was the Last because mistakes were made or 
> doubtful material used, and it was relized that they could no 
longer 
> be issued reliably.  Maybe whoever was typing up the Instruction 
> inserted material (the short section containing the phoney adept 
> letter could be removed without destroying the context, and the 
> whole Instruction would be in a more consistent 'tone.')"
> 
> Almost a month ago on Theos-Talk (Sept. 2) Jake also wrote about 
> this ES Instruction 5 and at that time he speculated about the 
> specific KH Concentration letter somehow "slipping in" or 
> being "inserted" into Instruction 5.  
> 
> In that posting, Jake wrote:
> 
> "Things do 'slip in' and slip by, especially with someone who was 
> under the pressures that Judge was.... Was this 
> instruction 'recalled' ?  Someone sent me a copy of the original 
> mimeograph of Garrangues 'Point Out the Way,' and I swear the 
typist 
> inserted some phoney stuff in it in a few places, as out of 
> character with the rest of the book."
> 
> "Regardless, even if it is something that did not slip by, and 
Judge 
> consciously and purposively put it [the KH Concentration letter] 
in 
> the instruction, I - for  myself - do not agree with or accept it 
as 
> written, and I don't care  if Judge wrote it or not. I've got that 
> right I think???...."
> 
> Quoted from:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/35686
> 
> In Part 2, I will comment on Jake's "maybes".
> 
> Daniel
> http://hpb.cc
>