The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky 18. On Solar Energy

From letter no. 23 B: ‘Philosophical and Theoretical Teachings : Received at Simla Oct. 1882

On Solar Energy:

With us it is an established fact that it is the Earth’s magnetism that produces winds storms and rains….Earth’s magnetic attraction of meteoric dust, and the direct influence of the latter on the sudden changes in temperature, especially in the matter of heat and cold, is not a settled question, to the present day, I believe. (Dr. Phipson in 1867 and Cowper Ranyard in 1879 both urged the theory but it was rejected then.) It was doubted whether the fact of our earth passing through a region of space in which there are more or less meteoric masses and has any bearing on the height of our atmosphere being increased or decreased, or even upon the state of weather. But we think we can easily prove it; and since they accept the fact that the relative proportion and distribution of land and water on our globe may be due to the great accumulation upon it of meteoric dust, snow—especially in our northern regions—being full of meteoric iron and magnetic particles, and deposits of the latter being found even at the bottom of sea and oceans, I wonder how science has not hitherto understood that every atmospheric change and disturbance was due to the combined magnetism of the two great masses between which our atmosphere is compressed! I call this meteoric dust a “mass” for it is really one. High above our earth’s surface the air is impregnated and space filled with magnetic, or meteoric dust, which does not belong to our solar system. Science having luckily discovered that, as our earth with all the other planets is carried along through space, it receives a greater proportion of that dust matter on its northern than on its southern hemisphere, knows that to this are due the preponderant number of the continents in the former hemisphere, and the greater abundance of snow and moisture. Millions of such meteors and even of the tiniest particles reach us yearly and daily, and all our temple knives are made of this “heavenly” iron which reaches us without having undergone any change—the magnetism of the earth keeping them in cohesion. Gaseous matter is continually added to our atmosphere from the never ceasing fall of the meteoric strongly magnetic matter, and yet it still seems with them still an open question whether magnetic conditions have anything to do with the precipitation of rain or not! I do not know of any “set of motions established by pressures, expansions etc., and due in the first instance to solar energy”. Science makes too much or too little at the same time of “solar energy”, and even of the Sun itself; and the Sun has nothing to do whatever with rain and very little with heat. I was under the impression that the glacial periods as well as those periods when temperature is “like that of the carboniferous age “, are due to the decrease or increase or rather to the expansion of our atmosphere, which expansion is itself due to the same meteoric presence? At any rate we all know that the heat the earth receives by radiation from the sun is at the utmost one third if not less of the amount receive by her directly from the meteors.     

The Masters who Guided Helena Blavatsky17. "Atlantis"

The Masters who Guided Helena Blavatsky

On ‘Atlantis’

From ‘Philosophical and Theoretical Teachings’

Letter No. 23B1

“Both geology and paleontology bear witness to much we have to say. Of course your science is right in many of her generalities, but her premises are wrong, or at any rate, very faulty. For instance she is right in saying that while the New America was forming the ancient Atlantis was sinking, and gradually washing away; but she is neither right in her given epochs nor in the calculations of the duration of that sinking. The latter is the future fate of your British Islands, the first of the list of victims that have to be destroyed by fire (submarine volcanos) and water; France and othe lands will follow suit. When they reappear again, the last seventh sub-race of the sixth Root race of present mankind will be flourishing on “ Lemuria” and “Atlantis” both of which will have reappeared also (their reappearance following immediately  the disappearance of the present isles and continents), and very few  seas and great waters will be found then on our globe, waters as well as land appearing and disappearing and shifting periodically and each in turn. “ ………

………..”When your race-the fifth-will have reached the zenith of physical intellectuality, and developed the highest civilization, (remember the difference we make between the material and spiritual civilizations), unable to go higher in its own cycle its progress towards absolute evil will be arrested (as it predecessors the Lemurians and Atlanteans were arrested in their progress towards the same) by such cataclysmic changes; its great civilization destroyed, and all the sub-races of that race will be found going down their respective cycles, after a short period of glory and learning………”

“…No mother Race, any more than her sub races and off-shoots, is allowed by the one Reigning Law to trespass upon the prerogatives of the Race or the Sub-race that will follow it; least of all to encroach upon the knowledge and power that is in store for its successor. “Thou shalt not eat of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil of the tree that is growing for thy heirs”, we might say. This “tree is in our safe-keeping, entrusted to us by the Dhyan Chohans, the protectors of our Race and the Trustees for those that are coming. Try to understand the allegory, and to never lose sight of the hint given you in my letter upon the Planetaries. At the beginning of each Round when the humanity reappears under quite different conditions than those afforded for the birth of each new race and its sub-races, a “Planetary” has to mix with these primitive men, and to refresh their memories, and reveal to them the truths they knew during the preceding Round. But that appears only for the first Race. It is the duty of the latter to choose the fit recepients among its sons, who are “set apart” to use a Biblical phrase—as the vessels to contain “the whole stock of knowledge” to be divided among the future races and generations until the close of that Round. …..Every race had its adepts; and very new race, we are allowed to give them as much of our knowledge as the men of that race deserve. The last seventh Race will have its Buddha as every one of its predecessors had; but its adepts will be far higher than any of the present race, for among them will abide the future Planetary, the Dhyan Chohan whose duty it will be to instruct or “refresh the memory” of the first race of the fifth Round men after this planet’s future obscuration       

The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky. 15.

The Masters who Guided Helena Blavatsky 15.

From letter no. 45(Probation and Chelaship)

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Received in Feb. 1882 after a long break

If you hear seldom from me, never be disappointed, my Brother, but say—“It is ‘my’ fault”. Nature has linked all parts of her Empire together by subtle threads of magnetic sympathy, and, there is a mutual correlation between a star and a man; thought runs swifter than the electric fluid, and your thought will find me if projected by a pure impulse, as mine will find, has found, and often impressed your mind………

Like the light in the somber valley seen by the mountaineer from his peaks, every bright thought in your mind, my Brother, will sparkle and attract the attention of your distant friend and correspondent….

…….”Then why feel disappointed and unhappy? My good, my faithful friend, remember that hope deferred is not hope lost. “Conditions” may change for the better---for we too—spooklike need our conditions, and can hardly work without them; and then , the vague depression of Spirit, which is now settling down upon you like a heavy cloud on a landscape may be blown away at the first favorable breeze…”

The Masters Who guided Helena Blavatsky 13. On Adepts and Humanity

Master’s view of the ‘adept’

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Contd. from the last letter

An adept ( Djual Khool) bumping into an obstacle, causing a bloody nose : From a letter by K.H.

“At moments of rest then, his faculties are at rest also. When I sit at my meals, or when I am dressing , reading or otherwise occupied I am not thinking even of those near me; and Djual Khool may easily break his nose to blood, by running in the dark against a beam, as he did the other night---(just because instead of throwing a “film” he had foolishly paralysed all his outer senses while talking to and with a distant friend)—and I remained placidly ignorant of the fact.  I was not thinking of him and hence my ignorance.

From the aforesaid you may easily infer that an adept is an ordinary mortal at all moments of his daily life but those—when the inner man is acting.”

From letter no. 8 from The Occult World Series received Allahabad via Mad. B.  : Feb 1881.

On Humanity’

“We might justly maintain that it is ‘the business of ‘magick’ to humanize our natures with compassion for the whole mankind as all ;living beings, instead of concentrating and limiting our affections to  one predilected race….

“Until final emancipation reabsorbs the Ego, it must be conscious of the purest sympathies called out by the esthetic effects of high art, its tenderest cords respond to the call of the nobler and the holier human attachments. ….All (personal feelings… will give away to become to be blended into one universal feeling….”Love, an immense love for humanity---as a “Whole”! For it is “Humanity” which is the great Orphan, the only disinherited one upon this earth, my friend. …its suffering and agony never ceases….. And who can blame it—as your materialist philosophers do—if, in this everlasting isolation and neglect it has evolved gods unto whom “it ever cries for help but is not heard!”

Thus—

“Since there is hope for man only in man

I would not let one cry whom I could save!...”  

The Master’s views on an ‘Adept’

Letter No. 24 B
Bear in mind the following points about adeptship.
1) An adept--The highest as the lowest--is one only during the exercise of his occult powers.
2)Whenever these powers are needed, the sovereign will unlocks the door to the 'inner man' (the adept,) who can emerge and act freely but on condition that his jailor--the 'outer man'--will be either completely or partially paralyzed as the case may require; viz: either 9(a) mentally and physically; (b) mentally but not physically; (c) physically but not entirely mentally; (d) neither,-- but with an akashic film interposed between the inner and the outer man.
3) The smallest exercise of occult powers requires an effort. We may compare it to the inner muscular effort of an athlete preparing to use his physical strength As no athlete is likely to be amusing himself at swelling his veins in anticipation of having to lift a weight, so no adept can be supposed to keep his will in constant tension and the inner man in full function when there is no immediate necessity for it. When the inner man rests the adept becomes an ordinary man. Habit sharpens intuition of the inner man , yet is unable to make them supersensuous. The inner adept is ever ready, ever on the alert, and that suffices for our purposes. At moments of rest then, his faculties are at rest also.

The Masters who guided Helena Blavatsky Letter of K.H. to A.P. Sinnett

A Message of Light from Mahatma K.H.

Letter 48. Received Allahabad, 3 march 1882.

“To the truly wise those breaks of grey may suggest an allegory full of meaning, such as the streaks of twilight upon the Eastern sky at morning’s early dawn, after a night of intense darkness; the aurora of a more “spiritually intellectual cycle. And who knows how many of those, who, undismayed by its unprepossessing appearance, the hideous intricacies of its style, and the other many failures of the unpopular ‘magazine’, will keep on tearing its pages, who may find themselves rewarded some day for their perseverance! Illuminated sentences may gleam out of them, at some time or other, shedding a bright light upon some old puzzling problems. Yourself , some fine morning, while poring over its crooked columns with a well rested brain, peering into what you view now as hazy, impalpable speculations, having only the consistency of vapour.—yourself you may perchance, perceive in them the unexpected solution of an old, blurred, forgotten “dream” of yours, which once ‘recalled’ will impress itself in an indelible image upon your outer from your inner memory, to never fade out from it again. All this is possible and may happen; for our ways are the ways of “Madmen”. . …

……”Indeed when you complain of being unable to understand the meaning of Eliphas Levi, it is only because you fail like many other readers to find the key to their way of writing. On close observation, you will find that it was never the intention of the Occultists really to conceal really what they had been writing from the earnest determined students, but rather to lock up their information for safety-sake, in a secure safe-box, the key to which is—intuition. The degree of diligence and zeal with which the hidden meaning is sought by the student, is generally the test—how far he is entitled to the possession of so buried treasure. And certainly if you are able to make out that which was concealed under the red ink of M.—you need despair of nothing. …..And now need I remind you that this letter is strictly private?”

Yours, whatever may come of it,

K.H.

The Masters who Guided Helena Blavatsky: 12. On Evil

The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky

12.

The Masters on Evil:  Letter No. 10.: Received Simla Sept 1882

“Evil has no existence per se and is but the absence of good and exists but for him who is made its victim. It proceeds from two causes, and no more than good is it an independent cause in nature. Nature is destitute of goodness or malice; she follows only immutable laws when she either gives life and joy, or sends suffering and death, and destroys what she has created. Nature has an antidote for every poison and her laws a reward for every suffering. The butterfly devoured by a bird becomes that bird, and the little bird killed by an animal goes into a higher form. It is the blind law of necessity and the eternal fitness of things, and hence cannot be called Evil in Nature. The real evil proceeds from human intelligence and its origin rests entirely with reasoning man who dissociates himself from Nature. Humanity then alone is the true source of evil. Evil is the exaggeration of good, the progeny of human selfishness and greed. Think profoundly and you will find that save death—which is no evil but a necessary law, and accidents which will always find their reward in a future life—the origin of every evil whether small or great is in human action, in man whose intelligence makes him the one free agent in Nature. Food, sexual relations, drink are all natural necessities of life; yet excess brings on suffering, misery, mental and physical. Ambition, the desire for procuring happiness and comfort for those whom we love, by obtaining honours and riches, are praiseworthy natural feelings, but when they transform man into an ambitious cruel tyrant, a miser, a selfish egoist they bring untold misery on those around him; on nations as well as on individuals. All this then—food, wealth, ambition and a thousand others we have to leave unmentioned, becomes the source and cause of evil whether in its abundance or through its absence…….

…….I will point out the greatest, the chief cause of nearly two thirds of the evils that pursue humanity ever since that cause became a power. It is religion under whatever form and in whatsoever nation. It is the sacerdotal caste, the priesthood and the churches; it is in those illusions that man looks upon as sacred, that he has to search out the source of that multitude of evils which is the great curse of humanity  and that almost overwhelms humanity. Ignorance created gods and cunning took advantage of the opportunity.Look at India,Christendom, Islam, Judaism and Fetchism. It is priestly imposture that rendered these gods so terrible to man; it is religion that makes of him the selfish bigot, the fanatic that hates all mankind out of his own sect without rendering him any better or any moral for it……..