[Tibetan bowl] Om. welcome to session number
11 of Secrets of the Mahatma Letters with Terry Hunt and Paul Benedict. let's get started.
let's get started. we left off in session 10 partway through letter number 15 which
was received sometime before February 20th 1881. in this letter KH was discussing with
Sinnett some of the possibilities of how they would be able to communicate directly with each
other and not have to go through HPB. because it was taxing her system a little bit too much?
both
that and secondly Sinnett and Hume didn't like having to go through them. right so it worked
for everyone including HPB. she was exhausted and it was really taking a toll on her health
so everyone was in agreement that it was a good idea to find some way that they could communicate
without having to use her as their intermediary, so he came up with several different
possibilities and, well three of them, and he eliminated them one by one. he got to the
third one and he said the this p
ossibility is to make you hear my voice either within you or near
you as the old lady does and we discussed how that happened. she obviously could hear something that
nobody else in the room could hear and so he's giving two possible ways to do that. um first of
all he said if my Chiefs will let me do it I can make it happen but he said so far they refused to
give permission for that, so then he outlines a second possibility. do we think it's because it
takes too much energy to cause a phys
ical voice to be heard? that may be part of it. they obious,
it's part of their rules obviously and that may be very well part of the reason. but they do it
for HPB. but she also receives it psychically not not like a vibrational sound. right. they
make lots of exceptions in her case because she's an exceptional. sure okay. instrument that
they're able to use. Sinnett doesn't have any of those capabilities so they're offering that and
yet they're hoping that maybe they can come up with a wa
y that that can happen. so the second
possibility was, as we discussed, eliminate the barrier of space but it seems obvious based on
his description that that would require a certain ability on Sinnett's part so he said of the latter
which would mean removing this intermediary barer, barrier, um you know only enough to regard this
as an unscientific absurdity. obviously it doesn't seem possible. it's one of the siddhis in the
sutras. it's in the third chapter. exactly yeah, so at this point
unless the superiors, the Maha
Chohan and whoever else is involved give their approval, then this isn't going to happen and then
he he continues. there's even more impediment that is involved if you'll continue from there. there
is still more serious inconvenience and almost insurmountable obstacle for the present. it is my
utter inability to make you understand my meaning in my explanation of even physical phenomena,
let alone the spiritual rationale. all right, here again they have under
standing of physics that
regular science doesn't have. of course. and he's saying that Sinnett would not understand it any
better and the reason is, we're going to find out. this, is not the first time I mention it.
it is as though a child should ask me to teach him the highest problems of geometry before he
had even begun studying the elementary rules of arithmetic. yes so this is Progressive. just
like any other learning situation you start with ABC before you learn how to write the Secre
t
Doctrine. yeah this is exemplifying why when we talk about becoming full blown when we when
we die. we, it doesn't .Consciousness doesn't work that way. when we die or when we learn to
transcend a little bit we don't all of a sudden instantly know all the secrets of the universe
and the meaning of our Consciousness doesn't, it doesn't work that way. we would, anyone who
believes that there is instantaneous Enlightenment is being fooled. it doesn't work that way. yes.
you can have a kind
of Quantum Leap but it isn't, we we heard about that in one of our previous
sessions. it it is temporary even though it may last for months it still is temporary and
it's not from here to there. it's from here to here which does seem significant but it's it's not
exponential like some people hope and believe that okay when I die I'm going to know all the answers.
yeah, does not work that way. we can hope and wish all we want but believing in something that isn't
true isn't really helpful. o
nly the progress one makes in the study of Arcane knowledge, beginning
with its rudimentary elements can bring him gradually to understanding our meaning. now this
is the first time we've heard the word Arcane mhm what is he referring to? has a capital A. um
basically ancient wisdom or hidden teachings, esoteric. we've called it the an um the ancient
wisdom. we've called it other things. occult studies. I wonder why he's choosing to use the
word the proper noun Arcane in this. we'll have to
look it up because I haven't researched
that. only thus does it by strengthening and refining those mysterious Links of sympathy
between intelligent men, the temporarily isolated fragments of the universal soul and
the cosmic Soul itself bring them into full Rapport. that's so interesting. he's talking
about the universal soul and the cosmic Soul itself. well exactly uh and this is a a primary
teaching of theosophy and the ancient wisdom and that is that life itself has Intelligence, that
nature has Intelligence. it's not random. it isn't haphazard. it's all very well organized
and and the intelligence that nature has far surpasses anything we can even imagine. and he's
calling it a soul. I wonder if he really is making a differentiation between Universal and Cosmic
because Cosmic is capitalized. universal soul is not. I wonder if those are two different things.
it's so far beyond our, it's hard to know for sure because in old writings they used a an interesting
form of cap
italization. oh okay. uh sort of like in German how nouns can be capitalized sometimes
even if if it's not someone's name or something, we they would capitalize a noun if they
thought it was important. I see. It makes sense actually .but there were in writing there
were also large capitals small capitals and then just a primary Capital at the beginning of a
word and they used each one specifically in different ways. not to derail us too much but
this is extremely interesting and if I could,
in yoga philosophy which we also study
quite a bit, to our viewers the cosmic Soul could be also referred to as Ishwara which
is right from the yoga sutras. God, but non a non-personified god, we would say with
a lowercase g because it's not a person, it's not a being per se I like how
he's saying it. It's a cosmic soul, and you just said it's an intelligence
in the universe and what that means, in other words, is that there is a plan and purpose in the evolution of
everything, but we als
o have freewill, it's not that the plan is predestined for
every living thing. there's a guideline and a plan which this intelligence is is guiding,
but we also have choice and Free Will within that. I think that's fascinating. there's one more thing
to point out. sure please. Cosmic and Cosmos he spells it sometimes with a C and sometimes with
a K. and they are still trying to figure out vocabulary for this these teachings because at
this point in time, in Sanskrit and in Tibetan they've g
ot the vocabulary, but in English, right,
and in all Western languages there's no vocabulary to transmit this, to to attach words and meanings
to a specific concept. so it's a huge impediment at this point and they're still struggling to
figure out what vocabulary words to use. so is the K spelling it, does it mean something
different? it means the universal Cosmos, the universe. Cosmic with the c usually at this
point in time refers to our particular solar system. so what people in ancient
times would
consider our field of of existence. everything else was just some just stars out there somewhere.
they didn't consider that there were other beings and other intelligences beyond ours. current
day we I think Cosmos does refer to the entire universel it does but but back then they weren't
I'm just saying that they were trying to come up with a differentiation between what is happening
in our own this is our personal universe so to speak. the solar system and now we understand
t
hat there are civilizations and existences in other Realms and in the far reaches
of the universe so he's he's making the differentiation. we'll come across a term later
on which is called a Ring Pass Not and that's a restriction so to speak on our ability to
go beyond a certain point. so for our human existence we are not able to escape our solar
system. theoretically we could travel to the Moon. well we've already traveled to the
Moon. we could travel to Mars though and there's nothing th
at would prevent that. what we
can't do is travel outside our own solar system, physically really there's a. we as human beings
now that doesn't mean that other other beings in our solar system can't do that, but we'll get into
that later. okay. only once this is established will these awakened sympathies serve to connect
man with Kosmos, past present, and future, and there he spells it with a K. with a K.
interesting. and Quicken his perceptions so as to clearly grasp not merely all things
of matter but
of spirit also. I feel even irritated at having to use these three clumsy words - past present and
future. that's a big Insight right there. they are about as ill adapted for the purpose as an axe
for fine carving. oh my poor disappointed friend, if only you were already so far advanced on the
path that this simple transmission of ideas should not be encumbered by the conditions of matter.
the union of your mind with ours is prevented by its induced incapabilities. all right,
the
union of your mind with ours is prevented by its induced incapabilities, induced because you
haven't removed the limitations yet, the filters, the objects, the obstacles in between.
it's this is all Raja yoga again. you you haven't purified yourself, gotten rid of all the
dross and that's what is preventing it at this point. such is unfortunately the inherited and
self-acquired grossness of the Western mind. to some little extent that faculty can be acquired
by the Europeans through s
tudy and meditation, raja yoga, but that's all. all right, this is
an interesting point. the problem is in the self acquired inherent and self-acquired grossness
of the western mind. he's pointing out that our minds in the western world are different from the
minds in the Eastern world, meaning Asia, and it's true. the Asians thought and still operate and
think differently from westerners. one of these things that becomes evident for example is in the
western world, everything is about indi
viduality, our individual personal rights are sacrosanct.
nobody interferes with my rights as an individual. that concept doesn't exist in the same way
in many Eastern countries and maybe it does now but it didn't in the past. they were much
more of the mind that they belonged to a unit, a family, an ethnic group, a nation, whatever that
might be, but that was far more important than me as an individual and that's only just a slight
indication of what he's referring to. there are other aspe
cts that could be investigated in this
in this situation. so go ahead and continue. how shall I teach you to read and write or even
comprehend a language of which no alphabet, no words audible to you have yet been invented?
wow. how could the phenomena of our electrical science be explained to, for example a Greek
philosopher of the days of Ptolemy, about 100 AD, were he suddenly recalled to life with such
an unbridged hiatus in discovery as would exist between his and our age. yes, so he's
talking about someone from 2,000 years ago. if that individual were reincarnated today
and you're trying to bring him up to speed, it would be very difficult. they would have
nothing with which to compare and so it would take a long time. this is again one of the major
reasons why, when we reincarnate, there's a very long recapitulation period. the world has been
progressing ever since our last physical body died and we've been in a state removed from everything
that's happening, regardle
ss of what some mediums might think. so there's a lot to catch up on.
not only do you have to get back up to speed to what you knew in the previous lifetime, but
then you've got to bring that forward as we're doing it within a different context. exactly,
everything has changed and it may have been 25, years it may have been 50 years, it may have been
100 years or a thousand years so the the amount to catch up on could be enormous. when he says
electrical science is he speaking of physical e
lectricity? he's talking about all of the
advances in science that had been made in 2,000 years. would not the very technical terms be to
him if you brought Ptolemy back and intelligible jargon, an abracadabra of meaningless sounds,
and very instruments and apparatuses used but miraculous monstrosities? and suppose for one
instant I were to describe to you the hues of those color rays that lie beyond the so-called
visible spectrum, rays invisible to all but a very few even among us. wow. ok
ay so even among
their own adepts there are some people who have abilities that others do not have, including, he's
talking about the physical spectrum of colors and he's going to describe why that's important. this
is hinting at um not only uh well or um pranic sight and astral sight and just seeing things
that are there, but normal eyes don't and even they don't see everything. wow. and it goes beyond
that as we will see. very coo.l if I were to tell you my good friend Sinnett, please, wi
thout
moving from your desk, try to search for and produce before your eyes the whole Solar Spectrum
decomposed into 14 Prismatic colors, seven being complimentary as it is but with the help of that
occult light that you can see me from a distance as I see you. what would be your answer? so with
this ability, he would be able to see the Adept, the Mahatma If he if he had that ability. you
described in our last session, sort of a cloaking device, phenomenon that we are starting to
understan
d where light is bent in order to see things at a distance that they're describing.
now HPB apparently doesn't even have this ability because she, as far as I could tell, was only
aware of what they were doing when they contacted her, invited her in so to speak, you, like you
would invite someone into a into a Zoom meeting or something. this is this is fascinating. I I'd like
to just hear what he said again. if I were to tell you, without moving from your desk, try to search
for and produce
before your eyes the whole Solar Spectrum decomposed into 14 Prismatic colors,
seven being complimentary. wow. with with the help of that occult light and you'll be able to see
me. wow. that okay. all right, moving on. would you not be likely to reply by telling me in your
own quiet polite way that as there never were but seven, now three primary colors which, moreover
have never yet been uh have never yet by any known physical process been seen decomposed further than
the seven Prismatic
Hues, would you not reply that my invitation was as quote unscientific as it
was quote absurd? modern science has up to now been able been unable to bring under any Theory
even so simple a phenomenon as the colors of all such dichromatic bodies and yet these colors are
objective enough. so he's saying there are twice as many colors as science recognizes. mhm and
and as I said we're going to find out more about this. red orange yellow green blue purple six and
white seven. Indigo. purple. is
indigo different than purple? oh okay. it's it's it's a spectrum so
you can pick any point on it and. wait, is indigo purple or blue? it's a combination. it's it's
yeah it's in between. don't ask me no. all right uh now you see the insurmountable difficulties
so he now we we're tying this back now you see the insurmountable difficulties in the way of
attaining knowledge in occult science for one in your situation. how could you communicate with
and command those semi-intelligent forces who
se means of communicating with us are not through
spoken words but through sounds and colors, for sound light and colors are the main factors
in forming these grades of intelligences. wow. these beings of whose very existence you have no
conception nor are you allowed to believe in them, atheists and Christians materialists and
spiritualists all bringing forward their respective arguments against such a belief, and
science subjecting stronger than any of these to such a quote degrading Supe
rstition. and who
are these beings that he's referring to? Nature Spirits. nature Spirits. so they interact with
and control nature Spirits in order to communicate between themselves. these light bending techniques
are with the aid of the nature Spirits aren't they? the techniques of these color Productions
and. they're involved in the phenomena. they're involved in all aspects of what we would call
Magic. all of the things that they all of the siddhis that they have require the use of thes
e
semi-intelligent beings. you mentioned before though that they kind of are forced to do this.
are we are the nature spirits being being forced to participate in this or is that their job kind
of. it is their job. didn't you mention that they have some aversion to helping, or am I making that
up did I. these are semi-intelligent creatures it would be no different from domesticating animals
and using them to work. is that is that abusing them? um and those animals could turn on
you like pe
ts, pet dogs sometimes turn on their owners. yeah. and this is very similar to
that. they are better off because at some point those semi-intelligent forces way way way in the
future will also be human. mhm so any of these that are able to interact with us in a mutually
beneficient way .it's actually aiding both. exactly. not to derail us but can any siddhis
be exercised without the help of nature Spirits? not that I'm aware of. there may there may
be some, but I really doubt that you could
operate all of them without these without these
nature spirits that they are part of the tools I guess you would say of of their trade. this is
so interesting. the trade of being an adept. so interesting. it's almost like a horse whisperer.
but here's another thing that's interesting that these colors that he's speaking of sound,
he said we operate and communicate with them through spoken words and through sounds
and colors, yeah, of whose very existence you have no conception the nature S
pirits
wait a minute I still missed something. here okay for sound light and colors are the main
factors in forming these grades of intelligences. they're actually created with those very methods.
sound lights and colors. my goodness. remember in the well you may not know in the Bible it says
in the beginning in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and go the Word
was God. I know. and that means that sound is a creational force. yes. and that is said to
be the the syllable
om the initial. this is so, I I love tying this into um into yoga philosophy
since many of our viewers will be from that and this is talking about tantric yoga the the science
of tantric yoga is manipulating in a benevolent sense the forces of nature. right. Kriya Shakti.
that's exactly what this is describing. it's the practice of of Tantra, of move energy work, moving
energy, creating connections through energy, healing, communication that. this is this is the
work of an Adept. it they ar
e creators. mhm wow. and we are in training to do the same thing. thus
for this reason are believers in US pronounced imposters and fools and the science which leads
to the highest goal of the highest knowledge to the real tasting of the tree of life and wisdom is
written off as a wild flight of imagination. most earnestly do I ask you not to see in the above
a mere venting of personal feeling. my time is precious and I have none to lose. still less ought
you to see in this an effort to dis
suade you from the noble work you have just begun. nothing of
the kind for what I now say may be useful for as much as it can and no more. I warn you that
the task you are so bravely undertaking is the most ungrateful perhaps of all tasks, but if you
believe in my friendship for you if you value the word of honor of one who never never during his
whole life polluted his lips with an untruth, that's what you always quote, then do not forget
the words I once wrote to you see my last letter, o
f those who engage themselves in the occult
Sciences. he who does it must either reach the goal or perish. once fairly started on the way to
the great knowledge, to doubt is to risk Insanity, to come to a dead stop is to fall, to receive
is to Tumble backward head long into an abyss. fear not if you are sincere and that you are
right now. are you as sure of yourself as to Future? there's a lot there, big stuff going
on there. yeah. wow. all right let's unpack it. let's unpack this stuff. th
e quote comes from
Eliphas Levy. Eliphas Levi wrote that quote? yes. okay. for many years people who were studying
the Mahatma Letters could not find where that came from. I found it and I'm not quite sure how.
it's in a book that's written in French called Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie by Eliphas Levi
and somehow I ended up with the two volume copy of it and I was perusing it one day and I came across
this written written in French, these exact words, and I said, that's it! I know I've
I've heard that
before and so I contacted Joy Mills and told her and she was thrilled because she said, I have
looked and looked for the source for that. so in the Mahatma Letters that those words were in
quotes as if he was taking it from somewhere. he doesn't reference where it was from you can read
those very words in French it's it's actually in Joy Mills's book what's the context of his of
Eliphas Levi? the context is he's describing the point along the path where you have to make
a
decision. are you going forward, are you going back? but so he's a theosophist? he not was not
he as far as I knew as far as I know he knew very little about theosophy he was not associated
with the theosophical society. but he was so who was Eliphas Levi then? he was a originally
a Catholic cleric studying to be a priest and then he became a ceremonial magician but he was
one of the ones who had ethics and was doing it for right purposes, for the benefit of humanity.
and his book that he w
rote is about the path even though he wasn't. not specifically. it was about
his study of magic. okay. but he obviously grasped the concept that there is a path and that at a
certain point you either move forward or you go back because once you've gone beyond that if you
then hesitate, you're lost you're going to fall off the cliff. you're going to fail miserably.
wow and what year was that book written? I don't know originally. the copy I have was printed in
like 1940 but it's obviously a
reprint of a much older book so in 1881 it was available already.
so KH knew about this book? of course he did oh my goodness okay so Eliphas Levi is going to play a
larger part here or? no he will come in from time to time but but they observe him, they like some
of his teachings, they use them but there as far as I can tell was not a direct communication with
him. was he alive at this time? I would have to check on that uh remember when he was talking
about the club of magic in London tha
t he had checked in on? sure. Eliphas Levi was one of the
members of that. I see I see. so he was around at that point. interesting. there's more to talk
about in this paragraph. oh the other thing too was, never an untruth as. that one of course,
never an untruth has has passed my lips, but he also said, I warn you that the task you are so
bravely undertaking is the most ungrateful perhaps of all tasks. so anyone who's thinking oh if I can
just get some of these abilities and and some of t
his information, I'm going to go on YouTube
and it's it's going to change the world. uh it doesn't work that way. you're probably going to
be reviled and persecuted more than anything else. I love that the master is saying that because
from what I've seen every single other channeler or channeled message would never say that. would
they' say share my message. yeah. this you're the mouthpiece of the through the Divine. go spread
the words that I'm giving you. the answer is love. and here he'
s saying hey if you really want to do
this it's the most ungrateful, you I think that's proof right there that this is. it absolutely is
because anyone who is telling the truth is going to encounter the wrath of other people including
those who claim to be on the path. those are the worst ones, and those are the people caused the
most damage and the most trouble for HPB were the former students of hers or people who revered
her at one point and then turned against her. so yeah he knows of w
hat he is speaking. wow. and
he's saying also here that he's not in this life has he ever told a mistruth or a lie. yes and and
that's who they're looking for people with who are honest, who have ethics and who are scruples in
their thoughts words and deeds. wow. all right, continuing. but I believe it is time to turn to
some less transcendental and more mundane matters. Boo. this is this is funny. okay your experience
your training your intellect your knowledge of the exterior world all co
mbined to Aid you in the
accomplishment of the task you have undertaken, for they place you on an infinitely higher
level than myself as regards the consideration of writing a book after your society's own heart.
though the interest I take in it may amaze some who are likely to turn it around on me and my
colleagues with our own arguments, yet I confess that I do take an interest in this book and its
success as much as in the success in life of its future author. all right this isn't what I
thought
he was going to refer to. he's referring of course to the book that Sinnett is planning to write very
soon after this during his voyage to London and KH is quite excited about the prospect of this. go
ahead with that. all right. I hope at least that you will understand that we are far from being
the heartless morally dried up mummies some would fancy us to be. that's in reference to what Hume
said about them. remember in some of his letters he was referred to them basically in very
similar
words. we may not be quite the quote boys, that's funny, to quote Olcott's irreverent expression
when speaking of us. does Olcott call them the boys? yeas. that's hilarious. yet none of our yet
none none of our degree are like the stern hero of Bulwer's romance. all right so HPB and Olcott had
both had really good senses of humor and KH and Morya at least appreciated that. they loved that
so when when he called them the boys and uh HPB called Morya her boss, she always referred to
him
as the boss. the boss that's funny uh they like that in fact um Olcott at one at one point called
himself Morya Jr. oh my gosh that's hilarious. so yeah. that's something I would say. they are
not offended by things like that. I wish we had recordings of Olcott and HPB speaking I would love
to hear them would banter and. yeah yeah. that would be so cool. they were very different in the
early days. they as they encountered more and more adversity they obviously were kind of beaten down.
hardened up a little bit. but let's see there was something else I. Bulwer's romance? oh one of
the early members of the theosophical society when they were still in New York City was a man
named Thomas Edison. you may have heard of him. who dat? and they managed to acquire one of his
first gramophones which record recorded and played back wax C well not wax at that time aluminum foil
cylinders. that's the device with the huge curved horn looking thing it looks like a record player
but it?
okay and they actually used it to record HPB's voice I know for sure and possibly Olcott's,
although I I'm not certain of that but they did have a recording of HPB's. they would take it
off and and preserve the aluminum foil and they could replay it whatever they wanted but over the
years it got flattened out and he tried to see if they could restore that but the technicians at
the time said it was too badly damaged and that there was no way to be able to hear the voice. He
being... Olcott
. okay mhm wow interesting. while the abilities of observation acquired to some
of us by our condition certainly give a greater breadth of view we might just as easily maintain
that it is quote the business of magic to humanize our Natures with compassion unquote For All
Mankind instead of concentrating and limiting our affections to one chosen race yet few of us can at
this point liberate ourselves from the influence of our Earthly connection as to be immune to the
higher Pleasures emotion
s and interests of most of humanity. until final emancipation wow until
finally emancipation reabsorbs the higher self, ooh, it must be conscious of the purest sympathies
called out by the Aesthetics by by the aesthetic effects of high art. its tenderest chords
respond to the call of the Holier and nobler human attachments. of course, the greater
the progress toward Deliverance the less this will be the case until to Crown all, human
human and purely individual personal feelings Blood Ties
and friendship patriotism and race
preferences all will give way to become blended into one universal feeling, the only true
and holy the only unselfish and eternal one, love and immense love for Humanity as a whole, for
it is quote Humanity which is the great orphan, the only disinherited one upon this Earth, my
friend. let's stop right there because there's so much in this. yes. first of all he's pointing
out that the adepts are not yet at a stage where they're so far removed from Humanit
y that
they don't remember what it was like to be one of them. they still have more affection
for certain humans than they do for others. overall they have nothing but pure love
for all humans regardless of what they do. they love everyone but with an unconditional
love. that doesn't mean that they don't have their preferences. obviously he has very strong
affection already for Sinnett and for his family, and he has very strong affection for his country
India and for the people of India. h
e says that we haven't lost that. we still appreciate
art . we still appreciate fine music and the higher nature of humanity and what humans have
created. but he said at some point we do be, that begins to recede and we are so far removed
from that but on the other hand we are becoming more one with all higher selves and the lower
selves tend to fade into the background. he's hinting at the Grand cycle of life of the Soul.
until final emancipation reabsorbs the higher self. yeah. wow. so wh
en we talk about higher self
um it kind of corresponds to what Christians would call the soul. but he's talking about and so
he's saying here that higher self that soul is not Eternal. it too will disappear because it's
a form. it's it's something that was created. and so it will anything that was created at some
point will disappear. disappear that's a that seems it a little bit it does I like how he says
reabsorbs though because it doesn't go a away, all the reabsorb. yeah exactly. the de
w drop into
the shining sea. exactly, that's exactly what it's talking about. so we took a spark of divinity and
Infused it into something but that something was something created it was a vehicle. then that is
reabsorbed, a experience and reabsorbed back to where the condition it was before but changed.
almost like a flame candle flame rejoining the larger flame but in a different way, but the the
drop of water sliding slipping into the sea is a great analogy. I love that. yes exactly, it
it's
and the drop of water doesn't lose anything. it gains in the process. okay, it is humanity which
is the great orphan, the only disinherited one upon this Earth my friend. he refers to
this more than just once the great orphan Humanity. let's he's actually going to take
up a little bit more about that subject so go ahead and continue. and it is the duty of every
man who is capable of an unselfish impulse to do something however little, for its welfare. poor
poor Humanity. it reminds me
of the old Fable of the war between the body and its members. here
too each limb of this huge orphan, fatherless and motherless, selfishly cares but for itself. thus
since there is hope for man only in man I would not let one cry whom I could save. he's obviously
quoting someone here, but I haven't been able to find the quote, so if any of our viewers in
YouTube land know um it would I would love to find out where that quote comes from. it sounds almost
like something from the Voice of the
Silence, the how can you be saved and watch the whole world
cry? I thought it was going to that. yes it sounds very much, but I checked in the voice of the
silence and I didn't find those exact words. and that's an HPB book. it's that same thing this
tremendous sympathy for humans, and when he calls it the great orphan Humanity, he's referring to
the fact that it's we humans who are the most isolated from our spirituality. plants, animals,
they still have a a great connection. even the mor
e primitive or the indigenous people have a
greater connection to their spiritual nature, but we who supposedly are the most advanced are
also the most isolated. we have individualized to such an extent that we've almost completely
forgotten who we are. that's the story of The Prodigal Son, forgot what his true nature was and
now we're latching on to that tiny little spark of memory that we've got and making that bloom again
following the path back to where we came from. for more on this re
ad the first chapter in our book
called The Prodigal Son. yes. Shameless plug for our Ancient Wisdom for a New Age, a Practical
Guide for Spiritual Growth by Terry Hunt and Paul. to to our um viewers though, let's make no
mistake that that is supposed to happen though that forgetting that disconnection process.
it has to happen so it's not an unfortunate phenomenon that we have become disconnected.
that's how life works. that's why that's how learning occurs. let uh point out too getting ri
d
of desires getting rid of emotions we talk about that but we also have talked about the fact that
those are the path that is the stage that we have passed through and are still passing through.
without that we make no progress. in our study of the sutras we we talk about in to quote I.K.
Taimni, the ruthless stripping away of the ego, but the ego was important. we we wouldn't learn
anything or grow in on Earth if we didn't have the ego. so it's necessary up until the point when it.
and m
ost of us are still in that period. um this for many people is in the far distant future. we
can shorten that period of time, so it doesn't it is helpful to look forward and see what the future
is going to be like even if we ourselves are not ready. we need to know what what to model, how to
act in order to achieve success on the path. right that's why we look toward the Masters to say What
are we going to be like in the future? that's tell you, this letter 15 is very long huh. we're are
on
ly halfway done with letter 15. I think let's keep keep going. okay I confess that I am not yet
exempt from some of the terrestrial attachments. wow. that's cool that he admits that. I am
still attracted towards some men more than others and philanthropy as preached by our great
Patron the teacher of Nirvana and the law, he's referring to the Buddha here, has never killed in
me individual preferences of friendship, love for my next of kin or the Ardent feeling of patriotism
for the country
in which I was last materially individualized. in the country that I was last
materially individualized [Laughter] born? and in this connection I may someday offer a bit
of advice to my friend Mr Sinnett to whisper into the ear of the editor of the Pioneer. he's
making a very subtle reference to something that I think Sinnett has thought of before, which is re
reincarnation. who was I in a previous life? and I think this is a very subtle reference to that.
okay, meanwhile may I ask the form
er to inform Dr Wyld, the president of the British TS of the few
truths concerning us as shown above. now Dr Wyld, as he says, was the president of the theosophical
society in London, but he had some rather weird ideas. so he's saying while you're in London
would you please converse with Dr Wyld and explain some of these things more clearly
to him so that he understands who we are.MH okay will you kindly undertake to persuade
this excellent gentleman that not one of the humble Dew drops whi
ch have at various periods
disappeared in space to merge into the white Himalayan clouds have ever tried to slip back into
the shining sea of Nirvana through the unhealthy process of hanging by the legs or by making unto
themselves another quote coat of skin out of the sacred cow dung of the thrice holy cow. okay
I didn't realize he was going to be talking about the dew drop here. and then cow poop. oh my
gosh. okay so yeah go ahead and read it and then we'll cover this the British presiden
t labors
under the most original ideas about us whom he priests in calling yogis without the slightest
regard for the enormous differences which exist between hatha and Raja yoga. this mistake
must be laid at the door of Mrs Blavatsky, the able editor of quote The Theosophist Who
fills up her volumes with the practices of diverse sannyasis and other blessed ones from the
plains without ever troubling herself with a few additional lines of explanation. so again they're
disparaging HPB and y
et her critics claim that she's the one who wrote all of these letters. go
figure. but he's referring to the fact that many people in 1881 thought that yogis were these
fakirs and jugglers in India who could perform certain feats or the other thing they would do is
just do stupid things. stupid human tricks. yeah yeah hold hold the one hand in the air until
it Withers to the point that it's permanently disfigured. and they somehow think that's a great
achievement or hang by their legs for t
he rest of their life or smear cow dung all over themselves.
that's what he's referring to there. so yeah um most westerners had no idea what hatha yoga was.
it wasn't anything to be revered or looked up to and yet Dr Wyld was making no distinction between
these individuals in India who did stupid human tricks and the Raja yogis. I wonder if he's
implying that the sannyasins or the people who are doing the tricks are performing hatha
yoga is that what he's referencing? westerners thought th
at was what hatha yoga was and Taimni,
as we know, almost doesn't mention hatha yoga at all. it's simply a step along the way. it's
was never intended to be something to replace Western calisthenics. or right right. it it has
been taken all out of context by westerners and turned into something very different. I I I will
say one thing about that the ability to generate Prana to be used for siddhis is generated by
by breathing and and some movements perhaps, and engagement of muscles in the
body and with
focus with with the Raja yoga techniques combined so there are some physical things that I know
these siddhis do require which but, it's mostly controlling the mind. yes exactly that and most
people don't even get that far. it's and there's nothing wrong with it. it's a great practice. you
know yourself that healthwise it's a very good good alternative to going to the gym every day.
sure. and now to still more important matters, time is precious and writing material still more
so. precipitation quotes in your case have become unlawful, lack of ink or paper standing no better
chance for tamasha and I being far away from home and at a place where a stationer shop is less
needed than breathing air, our correspondence threatens to break us very abruptly unless
I manage my stock on on hand judiciously. he's referring here to the fact that paper isn't
easy to come by in Tibet. tamasha is a particular performance art that the people would engage in
and it had a certai
n for. it was it was basically like a soap opera. so he uses the term tamasha
to mean uh phenomena. okay. A a production. so he's basically saying that time is precious and
writing is even more precious because paper hard to come by so he's discussing how challenging
it is to keep this communication going. yes. a friend promises to supply me in
case of great need with a few stray sheets, remnants of his grandfather's will by which
by which he disinherited him but since the will is on paper
that could be mistaken
for blotting paper we might as well turn to your book. since you do me the favor
of asking my opinion I may tell you that the idea is an excellent one. theosophy
needs such help and the results will be what you anticipate in England as well.
it may also help our friends in Europe generally. blotting paper, some of our viewers
may not know what that is. the old days when you wrote with a fountain pen it was very messy
and blotting paper is like very absorbent, a very
crude form of paper and you would have a
piece of blotting paper that you would set on top of it after you wrote and absorb any excess ink so
it didn't get all over things. wow okay. I lay no restrictions upon your making use of anything I
may have written to you or Mr Hume, having full confidence in your tact and judgment as to what
should be printed and how it should be presented. I must only ask you for reasons upon which I must
be silent not to use a single word or passage from my last
letter to you, the one written after my
long silence, the first one forwarded to you by our old lady. this is interesting, not even a word
maybe it has an energetic connection to the rest or something. as to the rest, I relinquish
it to the mangling tooth of criticism. oh my goodness. nor would I interfere with the plan
you have roughly sketched out in your mind, but I would strongly recommend that you lay
the greatest stress upon small circumstances which tend to show the impossibility of
fraud
or conspiracy. you should not omit one jot or tittle. is that where you got that from, because
you always say. no that's from the Bible. Bible oh okay. you should not omit one jot or tittle of
collateral evidence that supports your position, something you have neglected doing in your letter
in the Pioneer. for instance my friend tells me that it was a 13th Cup and the pattern unmatchable
in Simla at least. all right so my friend, he allows his friend to write a little explanation
on
his own letter and the friend is the one who had offered to give him a few few sheets of paper
were from the will that in which his grandfather disinherited him. okay. so it's his most advanced
chela at the time, Djual Kuhl or DK as many of us know. he was Tibetan rather than Indian and
he was most he was on the verge of adeptship, within months of becoming an Adept himself, and
he writes a little explanation on here now DK is nowhere near as jocular as KH is he's he's like
Damodar, dead se
rious about everything. he says um in this is DK, he says at least according to
Mrs Sinnett. I myself did not search the crockery shops. so he's saying Mrs Sinnett said that the
pattern was not available anywhere in Simla. we're talking about the the teacup phenomenon back.
the the production and KH the disinherited says I didn't check the shops myself. Mrs Sinnett says
that it was not available. also the bottle filled with water. now this is a different phenomenon on
a different day at a d
ifferent picnic. they went out again to Prospect Hill and did not take enough
water with them for the picnic, so Sinnett told some of his servants, take these empty bottles,
there's a brewery not too far away. go over there and give this note to the foreman in which he
said, hey can you please fill up these bottles with water for us? they took the note and the
empty bottles to the brewery and came back with empty bottles because the foreman wasn't there
that day. and he berated them saying,
why didn't you ask the other workers there? they didn't,
but so HPB. took care of it. took one of the one of the bottles hid it in the folds of her skirt
for a few minutes and brought it out and it was filled with perfectly drinkable clean water ,and
so KH or not KH but DK says also the bottle with water. I filled it with my own hand. it was one of
the four that the servants had in the baskets and these four bottles had but just been brought back
empty by these peons from their fruitless s
earch after water when you sent them to the little
Brewery with a note. hoping to be excused for the interference and with my most respectful
regards to the lady. yours Etc signed the Disinherited. so he filled it with his own hand,
so somehow... meaning he caused the phenomenon to occur so it wasn't KH and HPB it was DK and HPB.
he was practicing his ability to perform siddhis. I wonder why she had to hide it. I wonder why
she couldn't just hold it right there. I do not know. wow okay. the
pillow was chosen by yourself
and yet the word pillow occurs in my note to you just as the word tree or anything else would
have been substituted had you chosen another depository instead of the pillow. now here this is
KH speaking again just to be clear. DK inserted a little note and now KH has gone back to explaining
the pillow dak phenomenon. you will find all such Trifles serving you as the most powerful Shield
against ridicule. then you will of course aim to show that this theosophy i
s no new candidate for
the world's attention but only the restatement of principles which have been recognized from the
very infancy of mankind. the historic sequence ought to be succinctly yet graphically traced
through the successive evolutions of philosophical schools and Illustrated with accounts of the
experimental demonstrations of occult power ascribed to various magicians or wonder workers.
he is so verbose, my goodness. that sentence was that was a crazy sentence. this is this isn'
t
Damodar speaking. no, the only problem to solve is the Practical one of how to best promote the
necessary study and give to the spiritualistic movement a needed upward impulse. it is a good
beginning to make the inherent capabilities of the inner living man man better comprehended and
to lay down the scientific proposition that since attraction and repulsion are law are the law of
nature, there can be no interaction between clean and unclean Souls, embodied or disembodied
and hence 99 ou
t of 100 supposed spiritual Communications are obviously false. wow he says
it right there. what what does he what is he stating? that everyone else who's claiming to be
in spiritual communication with is not happening because it's very hard. it's very hard to do it
this comes straight out of the Bible too, well not the only place but you cannot put something clear
and clean into an impure receptacle or container, so that he's talking the the human mind the
the human vehicle. you can't if y
our vehicle is impure you are not going to be able to receive it
even. mhm so that's why purification has to happen before anything else can really take place. you
can work on other things at the same time as we know. you don't have to go numbered steps along
the way, but you cannot make great progress until you have achieved purification of the vehicle.
what I meant by the for Forlorn Hope was that, when one regards the magnitude of the task to
be undertaken by our theosophical volunteers,
we may well compare it to one of those desperate
efforts against overwhelming odds that the true Soldier glories to attempt. you have done
well to see the quote large purpose in the Small Beginnings of the TS. of course if we had
undertaken to found and direct it ourselves, very likely it would have accomplished more and
made fewer mistakes, but we could not do this, nor or was it the plan. our two agents are given
the task and left as you are as you now are as you now are to do the best t
hey could under
the circumstances. obviously they have pupils who are in training. if they don't give them
important tasks to accomplish, then how are they going to learn? he's saying if we had the
time and the inclination, we could probably do a much better job of it, but we would be depriving
those who are in training of great opportunities, and you are one of these people. and much has been
accomplished. under the surface of spiritualism runs a current that is wearing a broad channel
fo
r itself. when it reappears above ground, its effects will be apparent. already many Minds
like yours are pondering the question of occult law forced upon the thinking public by this
agitation. like you, they are dissatisfied with what has been hitherto attainable and clamor
for better. let this encourage you. it is not quite accurate that by having such Minds in the
society they would be quote under conditions more favorable for observation for us. rather put it
that by the act of joining
other sympathizers in this organization they are stimulated to
effort and incite each other to investigate. Unity always gives strength and since occultism
in our days resembles a Forlorn Hope, Union and cooperation are indispensable. Union does indeed
imply a concentration of vital and magnetic force against the Hostile currents of prejudice and
fanaticism. I wrote a few words in the Maratha boy's letter. and that's Damodar. Maratha boy's
letter only to tell you that he was obeying orders
and submitting his views to you. apart from his
exaggerated idea about huge fees, his letter is in a way worth considering, for Damodar is a Hindu
and knows the mind of his people at Bombay though the Bombay Hindus are about as unspiritual group
as can be found in all India. and that's the still true today. wow. in uh Mumbai uh that's Bollywood.
that's the equivalent of LA and Hollywood. okay. but like the devoted enthusiastic lad he is he
jumped after the Misty form of his own ideas even b
efore I could give them the right direction.
all quick thinkers are hard to impress. in a Flash they are out and Away in full cry before half
understanding what one wants to have them think. this is our trouble with both Mrs Blavatsky and
Olcott. so all three of them he's saying are quick thinkers. they grasp ideas very quickly but that
can be a problem. because they'll go and run with it and do something. exactly. they say okay we've
got it and run off ride off in all directions as they sa
y. the frequent failure of the latter, to
carry out the suggestions he sometimes receives even when written is almost wholly due to his own
active mentality preventing his distinguishing our Impressions from his own conceptions, and
Blavatsky's trouble is, apart from physical ailment, that she sometimes listens to two or
more of our voices at once. wow. for example, this morning while the quote Disinherited, whom
I have accommodated with space for a footnote, was talking with her on an impo
rtant matter, she
lent an ear to one of ours who is passing through Bombay from Cyprus on his way to Tibet and so
got both in an inextricable confusion. women do lack the power of concentration. okay who so
first of all HPB was listening to two voices at once and neither one was presently with her, so
she was listening to DK and one of their adepts who is traveling and happened to be in Bombay at
a different location but. you don't know who that was? no there's no indication, uh and then he
makes the statement women do lack the power of concentration. we'll we'll find that the adepts
are not exactly PC. mhmm. they are products of their time and as we know, many of them remember
several of their past lifetimes so they've got all of this accumulated experience at their disposal
and they do tend to be very conservative in their thinking as far as social systems, but they are
also very progressive in other ways so there's this strange dichotomy between them. he at this
time had
the idea that women didn't have some of the capabilities that men do and that just
shows us that there are limitations even even with adepts. my goodness. I'm sure adepts today
do not would never expressed anything like that or even think the same thing. very interesting. and
now my good friend and co-worker an irremediable paperless condition obliges me to close. an
irremediable paperless condition. I'm running out of paper. yeah exactly. I love that though.
let's see how many words I can.
yeah that's that's cool though farewell yeah but it's still
there's two more huge paragraphs. farewell until your return unless you will be content as hitherto
to pass our correspondence through the accustomed Channel. neither of us would prefer this but until
Authority is given to change it must be so. where were she to die today, and she is really sick, you
would not receive more than two or at most three more letters from me through Damodar or Olcott
or through already established emerg
ent agencies, and then that reservoir of force being exhausted
our parting would be final. Boo. this is huge. yeah. if HPB were to die that day in 1881, there
would be enough power in reserve for maybe two, maybe three at the most, letters and that would
still require one of the other chelas to be able to receive those, but then that would be the end
of all communication. it's so interesting that she is like a trans or like a booster signal somehow.
yes exactly. some some function that she
was able to perform was absolutely essential. wow. she
didn't die until 10 years later. what was she sick with at this point? everything oh okay uh heart
problems, uh kidney problems, liver problems. maybe some caused by work. yes obviously. wow my
goodness. but even after she died 10 years later, there was only one letter that we know of
that arrived and that was it. I wonder why KH wouldn't say our parting would be final unless
you came to visit me in person, just come to just come and vi
sit. like I wonder why he doesn't offer
that. because the difference between the spiritual evolution of HPB and Sinnett is enormous. they
could not invite him in person to come as they invited HPB to. okay. It was, their their energy
Fields were completely antithetical. mhmm okay. that makes sense. events might bring us together
somewhere in Europe, but whether we meet or not during your trip, be assured that my personal good
wishes will attend you. should you actually need now again the he
lp of a happy thought as your work
progresses it may very likely be osmosed into your head if sherry bars not the way as it has already
done in Allahabad. okay so sherry meaning alcohol. alcohol. okay. may the quote deep sea deal
gently with you and your family. ever yours, KH. the deep sea of course being their ocean
Voyage. mhm. so we're we're seeing quite a bromance going on here. yeah. there the bros.
there's a lot of affection here the boys the bros. yeah and and uh KH is really liking
Sinnett
and Sinnett is grooving on grooving on all of this attention he's he's getting and getting
excited about being one of their agents in the outer world. let's read the, there was a PS here.
and there's a PS. PS, the quote friend that Lord Lindsey speaks of in his letter to you is, I'm
sorry to say, a true skunk who managed to perfume himself with Ess Bouquet in his presence during
their palmy days of friendship. so the skunk he's referring to is a medium and Ess Bouquet is it was
ac
tually a brand name of perfume in those days, very well known in in England, so he calls him a
skunk and said he managed to cover up his stench uh by fooling Lord Lindsey into thinking he was an
up upstanding person and. wow. and Ess is spelled out E S S but that also spells the letter s which
could stand for skunk. bouquet. so I think it was kind of a play on words too. oh my goodness. and
so avoided being recognized by his natural stench. it is Home the medium, a con a convert to Roman
Ca
tholicism then to Protestantism and finally to the Greek Church. he is the bitterest and cruelest
enemy Olcott and Madame Blavatsky have, though he has never met either of them. for a certain time
he succeeded in poisoning the Lord's mind and Prejudiced him against them. I do not like saying
anything behind a man's back yet in view of some future events, I feel it my duty to warn you, for
this one is an exceptionally bad man. wow. hated by the spiritualists and mediums as much as he is
desp
ised by those who have learned to know him, yours is a work which clashes directly with this.
though a poor sickly cripple, a paralyzed wretch, his mental faculties are as fresh and as alive as
ever to mischief. he is no man to stop before a slanderous accusation however vile and lying. so
beware, KH. all right so a final note of warning before he leaves on his trip. this guy who Lord
Lindsey is so enamored with is not the person he thinks he is, so be careful of him. that's a wrap
for vide
o 11. that was letter 15. very long. did you cut out a lot as well, did you uh uh? oh
yes, this has been greatly reduced, yes. wow. well you can save some paper if you wouldn't...
fortunately we have Amazon at our disposal. we're we are not in Tibet. no, KH could have saved his
paper some paper if he didn't write so much. yeah that's true, that's true. oh all right, thank you
for watching. thank you for watching. until next week.
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