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Symbol of the Masters' Work
The Brotherhood H.Theosophist, that is, he looked to H.Blavatsky as the criterion of the teachings of Theosophy.He recognised in her the chosen Messenger of the Masters of Wisdom for that most difficult period of history, the end of the nineteenth century, marking the beginning of the breaking up of materialism and the first faint dawn of renewed spiritual light for the western world.She died for her beloved Theosophical Society.It has continued to this day; and each one who studies the teachings of Theosophy and endeavors to practise them and pass them on to others aids in that spiritual march begun again in 1875, with the blessing of Masters, and the guiding hand of H.In this chapter Trevor Barker pays tribute to the grand soul we knew as H.As you know, 1931 is the Centenary of the birth of H.Owing to the practical impossibility for many European Theosophists of undertaking the long and expensive journey to Point Loma for the Centennial Conference which will take place there on August 11th, we are holding a similar gathering here in London on June 24th, which should be more convenient for the majority.Therefore on behalf of the Leader of the Society, Dr.Purucker, who intends to be in London himself, it is with very great pleasure that I extend to you his invitation to take part with us in what should prove a truly memorable gathering.The meeting will begin probably at 11 a.Admission will be by card only, and this will be sent to you in due course.Believe me, Very sincerely and fraternally yours,
A.TREVOR BARKER,
President English Section.Trevor Barker as Chairman of the H.In Their name she performed her great work for humanity through toil and sacrifice and suffering which is only paralleled in the lives of the Great Teachers and Saviors of the Human Race.It is a great opportunity, Brothers, and we must all feel called in this hour to rise above limited personal views into the pure air of Eternal Ideas.We are proud to wear the uniform of H.Theosophists of other Societies expounding H.For me her writings will always be the criterion of Theosophy, and I try in my own studies to empty my mind of whatever preconceptions I may have, and, as it were, to go with as clean a slate as I can to those great teachings, and there to hear and to listen and to study and to read and to try to fill my mind with the great truths that she brought to us.Theosophical Sections will come together.Masters of Wisdom
One speaks about such a subject as we have in tonight's lecture with a good deal of diffidence, because it is very difficult for ordinary mortals to do justice in any way to all that lies enshrined for Theosophists in the name of H.Great Teachers who sent her forth into the world.The story goes that she ran away from him after the first few hours of this purely nominal marriage.She was now entirely dependent upon her father, a Colonel in the army, and she proceeded to travel extensively, not only in the West but also (and mainly) in the Near and Far East, seeking always for those centers of occult learning which she had always felt to exist, hidden from the sight of men.Then she traveled through Persia and the Near East, going through Afghanistan, I believe, also visiting various parts of India; and eventually spending many years in Tibet, from which country she had actually been sent to the Western world.Many, I dare say, will wonder as to the nature of those mysterious beings who have the power to send such a person as H.Wisdom and Knowledge and Compassion: men who had mastered the occult secrets of nature by perfecting their own spiritual, intellectual, psychical and physical natures to the utmost possible degree.Therefore not alone with spirit entities did she commune but with living men, who were able to show her how to unlock the mysteries of nature, and thus regain the knowledge that had been hers in former incarnations.It is in this atmosphere that we read her own words about the journey.Sikkim I would have never been allowed to enter it unmolested, and would not have seen M.Lord, I would have been dead by this time.Oh the blessed blessed two days!It was like the old times when the bear paid me a visit.He locked the stable door after the horse had been already out.Sikkim they were refused point blank and the Theos.Society abused and jeered at.Government not answering for my safety being of little importance since I would be safer in Tibet than in London; that after all I did go twenty or thirty miles beyond Sikkim territory and remained there two days and nothing happened bad to me and there I was.He goes away in a week or ten days and then I will leave D.But I cannot be there much before the 20th so if you write to tell them it will be all right.That is just one little cameo from her own writings.One has to remember that H.This is my last and final decision: I WILL NOT TOUCH THEM.Now I could, but I do not want to, omit mention altogether of the gross attack that was made on H.It is very difficult, in attempting to deal with this extraordinary and outstanding figure of the latter part of the last century, to know how to present to those who know nothing about the subject the essential facts: what to say; what to leave out.It is certain that no uninitiated psychologist could ever solve the mystery of H.In Rome, Darbargiri Nath went to the prison of Cagliostro at the Fort Sant Angelo, and remained in the terrible hole for more than an hour.His "devachan" is far off yet, and people may hear of Him when they expect it the least.But I know what I say, though I have no orders to tell it to anyone.Theosophical Slackness
"I pledge myself to support before the world the Theosophical Movement, its Leaders and its Members.There is an all too prevalent attitude of apathy among Theosophists in regard to the whole question of the support of H.Blavatsky before the world, and the defence of her reputation and literary integrity whenever these are attacked.More than one of this kind of Theosophist has stated: "H.Let the eyes of the most intellectual among the public be opened to the foul conspiracy against Theosophy that is going on in missionary circles and in one year's time you will have regained your footing.The padris are as busy as bees.Hodgson fell quite easily a victim to false evidence; .Could but your London Lodge understand, or so much as suspect, that the present crisis that is shaking the T.On the other hand we claim to know more of the secret cause of events than you men of the world do.Words could not be more clear, and herein lies the root cause of the lack of wide public support of the modern Theosophical Movement that we all of us deplore and for which many of us are seeking the right means to overcome.Therefore I alone, and to a degree Olcott, can serve as a lightning conductor of Karma for it.In Occultism ingratitude is a crime which inevitably brings its own nemesis by the withdrawal of at least some of the influence and inspiration of the Higher Self.Can we take the waters of life from a spiritual Teacher and at the same time by our supine passivity and neglect insult the memory of that Teacher without paying for it?Should we not do well to reflect on the deep meaning of that little known incident which occurred during H.Six or eight of her pupils were gathered together one evening in one of the upper rooms.Bertram Keightley was there, and also Mrs.Cleather, who recorded the incident on page 17 of her book H.Blavatsky as I knew her.They had been discussing a scurrilous attack on H.Westminster Gazette, but it had never occurred to any of them that they should do anything about it, or make any reply.Keightley was downstairs we just went on with our desultory talk; after a few minutes he returned with a very long face and serious manner.He had descended immediately to H.Surely this is sufficient evidence for those who are in need of it, of what must be the opinion of the Teachers of H.The Great Lodge to the Western World of that priceless body of Occult doctrine which is at once the spiritual heritage of our race, and our hope for the future.From a Report of a White Lotus Day Meeting, held in London, May, 1932.Fellow Theosophists, Friends, Brothers: May I welcome you here tonight in the name of Dr.Purucker and the Point Loma Theosophical Society?It is almost a year since some of us met together (on June 24th it was) to celebrate the Centennial Conference.Many prematurely are looking for concrete, tangible agreements between Theosophists of different organizations; but we must not try to run before we can walk.Theosophists, can pay to H.Theosophist of another organization means suspicion and distrust.Brothers, I believe that era has gone for ever, and believe me we do far more for the cause of Theosophy than we imagine if we have succeeded in just laying that one basis in our hearts and in our minds; the knowledge nay, the certainty that if one organization approaches another they know that their confidence will not be misplaced; that there will be nothing said by speakers of that other organization which would betray their trust and betray their confidence; and if we hold to just that one fact progressively in the coming months, you will be astonished, I believe, at the progress that we make toward the unification of the Theosophical movement.Theosophical Society stands or falls by H.Give her up as an idea, withdraw from the Path traced by her under orders, belittle her, and the organization will rot; but remember her and what she represented and we triumph.Theosophy, and in the lifetime of most of us the success of that cause is assured.From a Report of a joint Meeting of the London Lodge of the Point Loma T.Phoenix Lodge of the Adyar T.Phoenix Lodge, and any members of other Societies who are present with us tonight.Truth, and their devotion to the Ancient Wisdom teachings that she brought to us.Theosophical Movement will really become a living fire; not only amongst the members of the different Theosophical Societies, but it will arouse the attention of the highest minds all over the world because they will discover that Theosophists, of whatever affiliation, can meet and work together in the common cause that they all love, and which she came to serve.It needs very few words of mine to conclude what is to me always one of the most beautiful meetings of the year.Can we not, as our tribute to H.Lodges that are met together here tonight find some basis upon which they could work more closely than they do even in spirit today.Wisdom that she brought us.Holding Center' of Spiritual Energy
Wherever H.She was the test of the members, whatever substance was present was precipitated by the test.Do we not pledge ourselves to carry on this Work of which Humanity stands in as much need today as it did in H.Her personal life does not encourage one to accept all she says.ANSWER: Well, I am sorry in a way that somebody has picked on the personal life of H.You never knew her and have only got mere stories of various people, and most of them uncharitable, destructive critics.How many people agree upon the report of the simplest incident of human life, and how much can you expect of those whose whole being was challenged by that titanic force that was imbodied in H.She was out to smash the molds of men's minds; she was out to draw them from those ideas that enslave men's minds.From every point of view she simply created a furor, and in the middle of it she gave us a philosophy which is second to none that the world has ever known or seen, and, moreover, that has never once been successfully challenged.To traduce her moral character.Theosophical literature was outwardly a sick, rickety old personality.And then see the innumerable records of that kindly, compassionate heart.Do you think that the kind of wisdom that you find in H.Brotherhood that sent her forth?Do you not see the picture?If I were you I should hesitate to judge one of the titan intellects of the age.Worshiped the external form, and made a personal God of it.It looks to me as if the Masters of Wisdom had no intention of permitting their Messenger in this cycle to be made into any kind of personal God.The Masters were determined that her Message should be judged upon its merits and nothing else.William Quan Judge
Friends: We are met together here tonight to do honor to the memory of William Q.Judge, to whom we owe it that we have the privilege of meeting together here week after week.It was owing to William Quan Judge that the American Section of the Society remained in being; and it has been said, and said very truly, that the present state of the Theosophical Movement cannot be understood correctly unless one understands the significance and place of Judge's work.For a few minutes we want to go over the facts of his life as they are recorded for us, to see why he holds such a high place in our hearts.In spite of the fact that in 1888 we find H.India he felt almost completely isolated, almost completely alone.Lucifer said: "Judge, your magazine is pure Buddhi, and poor old Lucifer is nothing but the fighting, combating Manas."He was the first to bring it to the understanding, so to speak, of the man in the street.They said that he was not a good speaker.It was a very wonderful quality; and more than once, to those of his pupils who complained to him personally that the clouds were coming and the light was blotted out he said: "I know, I know that place.At least, if there were a fraction of truth in them, he would have reacted by condemning his accusers, but he did not do it.Judge, throughout the whole of those last two bitter years of his life, when he stood accused by those whom he had helped the most, and by some who should have known him best, simply bent his head.He denied the truth of the accusations.To try to understand the apparent inconsistencies in the life of H.Lodge is allowed to go out into the world "in his integral whole" unless he be an initiate of the fifth circle.William Quan Judge, had not passed that point, and therefore she was actually a psychological cripple in a peculiar way, because a certain portion of the constitution of the Messenger is actually missing, as the phrase in that letter goes.It is something which has never been publicly explained; but nevertheless the Master says that many apparent inconsistencies of conduct were due to the fact that the Messengers had not the power to fight and defend themselves.It is a dangerous thing at any time to condemn others, but it is still more dangerous in the case of those who have come to bring us the light and the teachings that the great Messengers do bring.Leader of this Society, Dr.Purucker, said recently at Point Loma in connexion with another great and misunderstood Messenger of the Great Lodge, Cagliostro.Perhaps I might go one shade of thought farther: to every Cagliostro who appears there is always a Balsamo.Closely accompanying and indeed inseparable from every Messenger there is his 'Shadow.And as regards what you, my brothers, have so admirably set forth this evening concerning the reason, as given by our beloved H.Blavatsky, of Cagliostro's 'failure,' let me point this out: that Cagliostro's failure was not one of merely vulgar human passion, nor was it one of vulgar human ambition, as ordinary men understand these terms.Shapur, King of Persia, he did so well knowing that he was acting against the esoteric Law; and yet in one sense be could not do otherwise, for his individual karman compelled him to the act.Law of those who sent him forth.There are in such cases problems to solve sometimes which break the heart, but which nevertheless must be solved.Be, therefore, charitable in your judgment of that great and unhappy man, Cagliostro!Purucker said about him, and it is something that I think we would do well to reflect upon, because with every Messenger, I do not care who he is, there will be inexplicable acts, but, friends, there will never be criminal acts.Theosophical Societies that exist today.It had another effect in that many Theosophical students are unaware that it was Judge who fulfilled H.Friends, he did this, and he died a broken man; but he died with complete forgiveness in his heart, and it was a wonderful thing that was placed on record by his own students: that throughout those last two years of his life, when those who still worked with him outwardly were constantly plotting against him, he worked with them well knowing it.He 'carried on,' and his last message to the sections of his own Society, and to the thousands of his own students who remained true to him and the work he did, was to "Hold fast, go slow"; and he said: "Whatever you do, stand ready for the time when the great injustice and the great wrong that has been done will be recognised by those members of other Societies.Masters of Wisdom and Compassion and Peace.Thyself temples of mighty power.Support the phpBB project and get a Bertie 3.How does it compare to other software?
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