Mahatma, Blavatsky and William Q. Judge quotes
on the relationship between and the function of the Adept
"I never gave myself out for a full-blown occultist, but only
for a student of Occultism for the last thirty or forty years. Yet I am
enough of an occultist to know that before we find the
Master within our own hearts and seventh principle--we need an outside
Master...I got my drop from my Master (the living one)...He is a
Saviour, he who leads you to finding the Master within yourself. It is
ten years already that I preach the inner Master and God and never
represented our Masters as Saviours in the Christiansense."
[
HPB to Dr. Hartmann, PATH X p. 367]
"...as I venerate the Master, and worship MY MASTER--the sole creator
of my inner Self which but for His calling it out, awakening it from
its slumber, would never have come to conscious being--not in this
life, at all events..."
[Letters of HPB to APS, p. 104]
MASTERS AND THEIR "POSITION"
"We have offered to exhume the primeval strata of man's
being, his basic nature, and lay bare the wonderful complications of
his inner Self...and demonstrate
it scientifically...It is our mission to plunge and bring the pearls of
Truth
to the surface...
For countless generations hath
the adept builded a fane of imperishable
rocks, a giant's Tower of INFINITE THOUGHT, wherein the Titan
dwelt...emerging
from it but at the end of every cycle, to invite the elect of mankind
to cooperate with him and help in his turn enlighten superstitious
man...until that day when the foundations of a new continent of thought
are so firmly built that no amount of opposition and ignorant malice
guided by the Brethren
of the Shadow will be found to prevail. But until that day of final
triumph, someone has to be sacrificed--though we accept but voluntary
victims. The ungrateful task did lay her [HPB] low and desolate in the
ruins of misery, misapprehension, and isolation: but she will have her
reward in the hereafter for we never were ungrateful..." M L 51
"...our true progress lies in fidelity to
Masters as ideals and facts."...I think a constant reliance on Masters
as such ideals and facts--or either--will lead the T S on to greater
work...I belong to that class of persons in the T S who out of their
own experience know that the Masters exist and actually help the T
S...I am not acting impulsively in my many public statements as to the
existence of Masters and help from Them. It is done under an old order
of Theirs and under a law of mind. The existence of Masters being a
fact, the assertion of that fact so often made in America has opened up
channels in men's minds which would have remained closed had silence
been observed about the existence of those Beings...Experience has
shown that a
springing up of interest in Theosophy has followed declaration, and
men's minds are more powerfully drawn away from the blank Materialism
teaching." WQJ Art II 43
"...no worker, however feeble or insignificant, is outside the range of
Master's eye and help." WQJ Art II 47
"...I can swear it, the Masters are watching us all, and, without fail,
when we come to the right point and really deserve, They manifest to
us. At all times I know They help and try to aid us as far as we will
let Them. Why, the Masters are anxious (to use a word of our own) that
as many as possible may reach to the state of power and love They are
in. Why, then, suppose They help not? As They are Atman and therefore
the very law of Karma itself, They are in everything in life, and in
every phase of our changing days and years. If you will arouse your
faith on this line you come nearer to help from Them than you will
recognize."
Letters that have Helped Me, Theosophy Company
edition, p.68
"...between
adept and chela--Master and Pupil--there gradually forms a closer tie;
for the psychic interchange is regulated scientifically...as the water
in a full tank runs into an empty one which it is connected with; and
as the common level will be sooner or later reached according to the
capacity of the feed-pipe, so does the knowledge
of the adept flow to the chela; and the chela attains the adept-level
according to his receptive
capacities. At the same time the chela, being an individual, a separate
evolution, unconsciously imparts to the Master the quality of his
accumulated mentality. [ we ] always ascertain independently and for
ourselves whether the ideas so reflected in us are right or wrong."
Letters From the Masters of Wisdom (I) p. 82-3
"the Master-Soul is one"... [Thou art THAT.] Voice of
the Silence, H.P. Blavatsky p. 54
"...the light of the ONE MASTER, the one unfading golden light of
Spirit, shoots its effulgent beams on the Disciple from the very first.
Its rays thread through the thick dark clouds of matter..."
Voice of the Silence, H.P. Blavatsky p. 19
" the best and most important teacher is one's seventh principle [Atma]
centred in the sixth [Buddhi]."
Letters that have helped me,
p. 96
"...fix your thoughts again on
Those Elder Brothers, work for Them, serve Them, and They will help
through the right appropriate means and no other. To meditate on the
Higher Self is difficult. Seek, then, the bridge--the Masters."
Letters that have helped me, p. 112
"The Masters are not Eastern nor Western, but universal."
Letters that have helped me, p. 109
"And whoever therefore wants to see the real MAHATMA, must use his
intellectual sight. He must so elevate his Manas that its perception
will be clear...His vision will then be bright and he will see the
MAHATMAS wherever he may be, for, being merged into the sixth and
seventh principles, which are ubiquitous and omnipresent, the MAHATMAS
may be said to be everywhere."
HPB Art I 294
"Just now the best and biggest work by us poor children is
on this plane with the great aid of Master, Whose simple single will
keeps the whole organization [in being], and acts as its support and
shield."
Letters that have helped me, p.87
"the image of the Master is the best protection against
lower influences; think of the Master as a living man within you."
Letters that have helped me, p.164
"The whole sweep, meaning, and possibility of evolution are contained
in the word Mahatma...those great souls who have triumphed before
us...but just because they are of the human race."
WQJ ART
II 39
"...more help could
be given to the movement in America because the fact of their existence
was not concealed from motives of either fear or doubt...Occult help
from Masters requires a channel just as much as any other help
does...the persons to be acted on must take part in making the channel
or line for the force to act, for if we will not have it they cannot
give it.
Now as we are dealing with the mind and
nature of man, we have to throw
out the words which will arouse the ideas connected with the forces we
desire to have employed. In this case the words are those which bring
up the doctrine of the existence of Adepts,
Mahatmas, Masters of Wisdom. Hence the value of the declaration of
our beliefs."
WQJ ART II 41
"The Occult Science is not one in which secrets can be communicated of
a sudden...till the neophyte attains to the condition necessary for
that degree of illumination to which, and for which, he is entitled and
fitted, most if not all of the Secrets are incommunicable. The
receptivity must be equal to the desire to instruct. The illumination
must come from within...Fasting, meditation, chastity of thought word
and deed; silence for certain periods to enable nature herself to speak
to him who comes to her for information; government of the animal
passions and impulses; utter unselfishness of intention, the use of
certain incense and fumigations for physiological purposes, have been
published as the means since the days of Plato and Iamblichus in the
West..."
M L 282-3
"A Mahatma is not
only an Adept, but much more...This does not mean a noble-hearted man
merely, but a perfected being, one who has attained to the state...when
time and space are no obstacles to sight, to action, to knowledge or to
consciousness...to possess information of a decidedly practical
character concerning the laws of nature, including that mystery for
science--the meaning, operation and constitution of life itself..."
Echoes of the Orient, W.Q. Judge p. 23
Q.:--
"What then are the Adepts doing?
A.:-- (a)
Assisting all good movements by
acting on men from behind the scenes through mental influence.
(b) Preparing as many men and women who are fit for it so
that they may, in their next incarnation,
appear in the world as active devotees to the good of the Human Family.
(c) Spreading now, through impulses given in many places
which must not be mentioned, a philosophy of life which will gradually
affect the race mind, and in particular the active, conquering Western
peoples, thus preparing the whole people to change and evolve yet
further and further until evils disappear and better days and people
reappear."
WQJ Articles II 53-4