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Founding of the Brotherhood

by Thesosophical Society Pasadena (US)

Theosophical University Press©

Millions upon millions of years ago in the darkness of prehistory, humanity was an infant, a child of Mother Nature, unawakened, dreamlike, wrapped in the cloak of mental somnolence. Recognition of egoity slept; instinctual consciousness alone was active. Like a stream of brilliance across the horizon of time, divine beings, manasaputras, sons of mind, descended among the sleeping humans, and with the flame of intellectual solar fire lighted the wick of latent mind, and lo! the thinker stirred. Self-consciousness wakened, and man became a dynamo of intellectual and emotional power: capable of love, of hate, of glory, of defeat. Having knowledge, he acquired power; acquiring power, he chose; choosing, he fashioned the fabric of his future; and the perception of this ran like wine through his veins.

Knowledge, more knowledge, and still greater knowledge was required by the maturing humans who looked with gratitude to the godlike beings who had come to awaken them. For many millennia they followed their guidance, as children lovingly follow the footsteps of their mother.

As the ages rolled by, a circulation of divine instructors succeeded these primeval manasaputras and personally supervised the progress of child-humanity: they initiated them in the arts and sciences, taught them to sow their fields with corn and wheat, instructed them in the ways of clean and moral living — in short, established primeval schools of training and instruction open and free to all to learn of things material, intellectual, and spiritual. At this early period there were no Mystery colleges: the ancient wisdom was the common heirloom of all mankind, for as yet there had been no abuse of knowledge, and hence no need for schools kept hid and sacred from the world. Truth was freely given and as freely accepted in that golden age. (Cf. H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings 14:248-9.)

The race was young; not all were adept in learning. Some through past experience in former world periods learned quickly and with ease, choosing intuitively the path of spiritual intellection; others, less awake, were good though wayward in progress; while a third class of humans, drugged with inertia, found learning and aspiring a burden and became laggards in the evolutionary procession. To them, spiritual apathy was preferable to spiritual exertion.

Mankind as a whole progressed rapidly in the acquisition of knowledge and its subsequent use. Some obviously wrought evil — others good. What had been latent spirituality now became active good and active evil. Suffering and pain became nature's most merciful method of restoring the heart to its primeval instinct, that of spiritual choice. As mind developed keener potentialities and the struggle for mental supremacy overcame the spiritual, the gift of intellect became a double-edged weapon: on the one hand, the bringer of spiritual awareness and undreamed of intellectual ecstasy; and on the other, the wielder of a weapon of destruction, of horror and, in the worst cases, of deliberate spiritual wickedness — diabolism. As H. P. Blavatsky wrote:

The mysteries of Heaven and Earth, revealed to the Third Race by their celestial teachers in the days of their purity, became a great focus of light, the rays from which became necessarily weakened as they were diffused and shed upon an uncongenial, because too material soil. With the masses they degenerated into Sorcery, taking later on the shape of exoteric religions, of idolatry full of superstitions, . . . — The Secret Doctrine 2:281

Nature is cyclical throughout: at one time fertile in spiritual things, at another barren. At this long-ago period of the third root-race, on the great continent of Lemuria, now submerged, the cycle was against spiritual progress. A great downward sweep was in force, when expansion of physical and material energies were accelerated with the consequent retardation and contraction of spiritual power. The humanities of that period were part of the general evolutionary current, and individuals reacted to the coarsening atmosphere according to their nature. Some resisted its down- ward influence through awakened spirituality; others, weaker in understanding, vacillated between spirit and matter, between good and evil: sometimes listening to the promptings of intuition, at other times submerged by the rushing waves of the downward current. Still others, in whom the spark of intellectual splendor burned low, plunged headlong downstream, unmindful of the turbulent and muddy waters.

As the downward cycle proceeded, knowledge of spiritual verities and living of the life in accordance with them became a dull and useless tool in human hearts and minds. Such folly was inevitable in the course of cosmic events, and all things were provided for. Just as there are many types of people — some spiritual, others material, some highly intelligent, others slow of thought — so are there various grades of beings throughout the universe, ranging from the mineral, through the vegetable, animal, and human kingdom, and beyond to the head and hierarch of our earth.

During these first millennia the spiritual head and guardian of the earth had been stimulating wherever possible the individual fires of active spirituality. Gradually as knowledge of divine things became abused by those strong in will but weak in morality, truth was increasingly veiled. The planetary watcher now felt the need of selecting a band of co-workers to act as bodyguard and protector of the ancient wisdom. Alone a handful of spiritually illumined human beings, in whom the divine fervor burned bright, acknowledged wholehearted allegiance to their planetary mentor — the spiritual hierarch of humanity. Through long ages certain individuals had been watched over and guided, strengthened and tested in innumerable ways, and those who passed the test of self-knowledge and self-sacrifice were gathered together to form the first association of spiritual-divine human beings — the Great Brotherhood. As G. de Purucker elaborates:

Then was formed or established or set in operation the gathering together of the very highest representatives, spiritually and intellectually speaking, that the human race as yet had given manifestation to; . . .

. . . the Silent Watcher of the Globe, through the spiritual-magnetic attraction of like to like, was enabled to attract to the Path of Light, even from the earliest times of the Third Root-Race, certain unusual human individuals, early forerunners of the general Manasaputric "descent," and thus to form with these individuals a Focus of Spiritual and Intellectual Light on Earth, this fact signifying not so much an association or society or brotherhood as a unity of human spiritual and intellectual Flames, so to speak, which then represented on Earth the heart of the Hierarchy of Compassion. . . . 

Now it was just this original focus of Living Flames, which never degenerated nor lost its high status of the mystic center on Earth through which poured the supernal glory of the Hierarchy of Compassion, today represented by the Great Brotherhood of the Mahatmans, . . . Thus it is that the Great Brotherhood traces an unbroken and uninterrupted ancestry back to the original focus of Light of the Third Root-Race. — The Esoteric Tradition 2:1048-9n

Hence the elder brothers of the race remain "the elect custodians of the Mysteries revealed to mankind by the divine Teachers . . . and tradition whispers, what the secret teachings affirm, namely, that these Elect were the germ of a Hierarchy which never died since that period" (Secret Doctrine 2:281) — since the foundation and establishment of the Great Brotherhood some 12 million years ago. From this center for millions of years have been streaming in continuous procession rays of light and strength into the world at large and, more specifically, into the hearts of those whose lives are dedicated to the service of truth. From this Fraternity have gone forth messengers, masters of wisdom, to inspire the grand religions of the past, and they will continue to send forth their envoys as long as mankind requires their care.

by Thesosophical Society Pasadena (US)

Theosophical University Press©

Ricardo Maffia :OS ATAQUES ASTRAIS - AS PROVAS DO DISCÍPULO e O CRISTO : A Verdade é Tudo o que dá Certo . Creditos Imagens : NASA

               

Quando a pessoa adentra ao Caminho Discipular a mesma tem sua sensibilidade aumentada. Na realidade muitos re-adentraram ao Caminho pois em outras existências já percorriam o mesmo. Este re-adentrar na realidade é uma redundância pois uma vez que se trilha o Caminho Discipular , isto torna-se parte da pessoa mesmo que em uma ou na atual reencarnação a mesma não tenha consciência deste fato , pois antes de sua nova vida , optou-se por vivenciar outras experiências para seu aperfeiçoamento sem necessariamente estar diretamente relacionado a assuntos do Caminho Discipular , porem em sua alma há a marca da Fraternidade Universal ou Grande Loja Branca.

ATENÇÃO : A pessoa que empregar o Pensamento Sistemico notará que este artigo se coaduna com o artigo imediatamente anterior neste Blog.

Se lerem Fritjoff Capra , Rupert Shaldrake , Amit Goswami , Einstein ,  notarão que há pontos em comum em suas obras com o artigo imediatamente anterior neste Blog. Há inspiração em fontes em comum como por exemplo:  as obras e Pensamento Sistemico de H.P. Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner , Max Heindel , William Q. Judge ,  Kardek , Prentice Mulford , Lourenço Prado , adicionem a este processo a Bíblia , particularmente o Novo Testamento. O Cristo apontou como desenvolver nossas Competencias inspirados pelo Sagrado. O Novo Testamento é um verdadeiro Mapa para a Auto-realização e expansão pessoal e espiritual.


Continuemos ;

Este é um Caminho do Aprendizado acelerado em que em uma vida resgata-se muitos Dons e Habilidades. Um resgate do Destino e ao mesmo tempo probacionário pois assim sendo , através deste intenso processo a pessoa através das experiências descobrirá e desenvolverá habilidades fundamentais.Um estímulo considerável a ser Pró-ativo.

Os Ataques Astrais começam neste ponto. O conjunto áurico da pessoa vibra intensamente e atrai forças positivas e também negativas , forças estas desvirtuadas que utilizam-se de pessoas fracas de vontade como instrumentos para provocarem situações que possam tirar o Discípulo de sua Jornada Sagrada.

Se refletirem perceberão oposições em seus círculos mais próximos tanto na esfera social bem como na profissional e familiar muitas vezes. A pessoa é testada em sua natureza íntima , ou seja em sua estrutura psicológica e a qualidade de sua reação é que fará diferença. Não é um caminho dos politicamente corretos pois não reside no mesmo ( o Caminho ) a hipocrisia.

Não é o caminho da falta de auto-respeito pois o auto-respeito é a consciência de que somos seres humanos e como tal temos que perceber o que somos e não perder a honra.

Não é o caminho da soberba pois a soberba tem como filhos a proposta de humilhar o próximo , a tirania , a mentira , o desvario emocional e o medo. Todos os soberbos são medrosos porque sempre estão à espreita de alguém perceber suas fraquezas o que sempre ocorre.

Não é o caminho dos que ficam em cima do muro , ou seja , são mornos , politicamente corretos. Não são nem quente e nem frio. Os mornos eu vomito ( CRISTO).

De qualquer forma há Ataques Astrais através de forças elementais criadas à partir de mentes desequilibradas ( que aparentemente são sãs). Estas forças elementais desvairadas , em um momento de fraqueza e todos nós temos tais momentos – o que é normal – estas forças se alojam no corpo astral da pessoa  que está no Caminho e neste ponto inicia-se a confusão.

Estas forças geram distúrbios por vezes na sensibilidade do Discípulo em Prova e exteriorizam-se para a vida externa chegando ao ponto de poder afetar várias áreas da vida. Um sinal característico e simples até , são pessoas que vitimadas por estas forças notam que suas roupas desgastam-se rapidamente.

Outro sinal , em função da sensibilidade aumentada poderão surgir distúrbios neuro-vegetativos , pois o corpo astral relaciona-se diretamente com o sistema nervoso parassimpático. Um tratamento clínico é indicado em função do stress gerado pela sensibilidade aguçada mas eclipsada por energias adversas. No futuro esta sensibilidade uma vez treinada será uma grande aliada.

Inveja , rancor , são forças desvirtuadas sob o ponto de vista psicológico e que criam elementais artificiais que geram problemas. Acontece todo dia.

Você detecta o caráter da pessoa nas pequenas coisas e em sua fala , principalmente se fala muito sobre terceiros. Fique atento pois esta pessoa mal falará de você também. Pessoas assim , que na realidade são fracas de caráter são instrumentos ou criadouros de energias desvirtuadas. Imaginem como está os patamares mais baixos do plano astral do planeta- uma mixórdia , porem uma das tarefas do Discípulo será purificar este plano e até servir de força redentora .

Atentem para seus familiares pois muitos podem servir de alvo quando estas energias desvirtuadas não conseguem atingir o alvo principal. Amem suas famílias , embora em muitas delas possam haver discórdia e sempre foi assim , cabe ao Discípulo entender e ainda recriar um ambiente forte. Buscou e encontrou , bateu à porta do Templo e a mesma abriu-se , pediu e recebeu e ...chega o momento de retificar.

Um Discípulo inicia seu processo em sua família e ao mesmo tempo colabora na medida de suas possibilidades ao aperfeiçoamento do Mundo e isto é uma Honra.

Quem lida com assuntos de cunho espiritual e é egoísta , dissimulado puxa para si uma horda de sofrimentos . É só observar.

Quem poderá ajudar o Discípulo em Prova?

O seu ATMA ! ATMA é uma palavra de origem sânscrita que significa o Sopro de Vida – A Monada , O Espírito ( São Paulo ) , O EH HE IE da Qabbalah – O Eu Sou.

ATMA é o EU SUPERIOR – O CHRESTOS ( grego) ou o seu Superconsciente ( Psicologia Transpessoal).

O ATMAN é por assim dizer a extensão do Logos ou DEUS.

É o ATMA que configurará as condições positivas à vida do Discípulo na proporção que ele vença , através do entendimento , inteligência , coragem os desafios da vida.

Muitos resgates do destino servem de provas e os mesmos tem por objetivo a preparação e treinamento do Discípulo. Atrairá pessoas de bem que estenderão a mão nas adversidades.

Os Ataques Astrais muitas vezes podem servir de testes para a sagacidade , inteligência , entendimento e coragem.

Um MAHATMA ou Mestre de Sabedoria só entra em contato com o discípulo em prova através de seu ATMA e portanto é importante a pessoa na escuridão de suas provas desérticas da vida ( uma metáfora) perceber seu Eu Superior ou a Divindade que está em seu interior – No meio de Vós ( como afirmado em Missa da Igreja Católica Apostólica Romana ) , ou no simbolismo de Krishna na Batalha de Kurukshetra .

Vemos esta realidade no simbolismo de Osíris. Após a morte de Osíris , Ísis procurou os restos mortais de Osíris e ao encontrá-los ele ( Osíris ) , tornou à vida. Em outras palavras o Amor do Eu Superior resgata da morte simbólica , da vida sem sentido , do deserto emocional que todo Discípulo em Prova passa.

Vemos a mesma simbologia na Ressurreição de Lázaro através do CRISTO. Muitas vezes o Discípulo está como Lázaro , não morto e sim adormecido , como o próprio CRISTO afirmou e pelo CRISTO torna à vida. Não obstante a história ser real o simbolismo associa-se com o Arquétipo.

No Caminho do Discipulado estamos como Lázaro e nosso Self , ATMA , Eu Superior , após o entendimento real os desafios da vida , resgata-nos.

À partir desta ação , enfrentaremos os vendilhões do Templo , nossos condicionamentos e até os novos desafios , como muitos políticos que em nome do povo vendem o povo , em troca de uma felicidade pessoal que sempre se converte em sabor amargo para eles.

O Discípulo deve tornar-se um Agente da Transformação Social. Libertar as pessoas do julgo de falsos políticos , Aperfeiçoar os Sistemas Sociais , Combater a Tirania , a Ignorância, o Fanatismo.

Uma pessoa dessas quando percebe sua Missão , seu Sentido de Vida , recebe uma força incomum ; reinventa sua vida pessoal para melhor, e modifica Realidades. Provoca um Salto quântico nas Consciências.

Nunca está só , mesmo que sinta o contrário , pois se é nobre de coração se alinha magneticamente à proteção dos MAHATMAS ( Mestres) e quando os Mestres cismam ( figura de linguagem) de defender O Discípulo Sincero  , aí a coisa engrossa para quem lhe quer mal. Os Mestres não abandonam seus afilhados no meio do caminho ou da batalha pois os Mestres são Os Justos.

Seu conjunto áurico formado pelos seus Corpos : mental , astral , etérico , ficam energizados pelo reequilíbrio de seus chakras, reequilíbrio este proporcionado por seu ATMA.

O Chakras :

Coronário recebe o influxo do seu ATMA ( DEUS)

O Frontal abre-lhe a  Discernimento

O Laríngeo fortalecerá sua mente e cérebro e isso gera Inteligência Criativa.

O Cardíaco capacitará a pessoa a perceber as reais necessidades de seu próximo.

O Plexo Solar o deixará imune às influencias negativas

O esplênico aumentará sua vitalidade.

O Básico lhe dará força para Viver e Vencer.

Uma Verdadeira Armadura contra as forças e ataques astrais será formada e mais transmutará as forças que virão em direção ao Discípulo .

Tudo isto é a Força , Sabedoria e Beleza do  Cristo Interior. 

Há especulações conquanto à realidade da existencia do Cristo; isto é um absurdo e a Arqueologia , a cada dia , desvenda que ele de fato existiu e para mim como para muitos, bilhões ,  Ele Existe.

Cristo é um ser indefinível para a mente humana. Só podemos sentir seus ensinamentos e seus resultados infalíveis. Cristo deu um impulso considerável à evolução humana e quem percebe isso , muito fará , terá forças para Vencer seus desafios e cooperar para o engrandecimento da alma da Humanidade.  É inquestionável pois a Verdade é Tudo o que dá Certo!

A experiencia de perceber o Cristo é individual e inicia-se à partir da percepção da existencia do Cristo Interior , nossa consciencia superior   ,  Emanuel , que significa DEUS em nós. Esta condição de Alma e de ser  poderá ser despertada , através da força do Cristo. A frase : Cristo em nós é Esperança e Glória , tem sentido e caminhos infinitos. 

O Cristo é encontrado no Interior de cada um de Nós e não fora 

Ele , o Cristo já firmou : se falarem que eu estou lá ou em outro lugar , não vá .

Importante : este Blog tem por objetivo instigar e apontar que o Pensamento Sistemico é o fator importante para os processos em todas as áreas da vida neste século ( XXI) .

Ricardo Maffia

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The Daily Initiation

Every people has borne the sacred burden of the Divine in its deepest heart. How strange, with this wondrous heritage, that we should ever feel "widowed of the presence of the gods," as though the link with our divine source had become frayed, no longer assured. We are not the first civilization to feel lost and bewildered, nor will we be the last, but this does not mean there is no remedy. Help has always been within our grasp: to ally our whole being with the building energies of the universe and to refuse to strengthen by default — certainly never by design — the destructive forces that are ever alert to attack the irresolute soul. Still, we must persevere, for once we make the choice, all the "devils" in the underworld of our nature will seemingly be let loose to test the integrity of our resolve. The more in earnest we are, the more subtle and persistent the resistance — not instigated by others, but by our own higher self.

There is nothing mysterious about this. Probably everyone has had the experience that when we determine to alter our habitual ways of thinking, everything and everybody appear to conspire against us. This is inevitable, for intensity of aspiration challenges the gods who are "jealous" of us humans who venture unprepared into their domain. Only those who have become near to godlike may enter. And since the gods are in a profound sense ourselves, the response to our importunate demands may be a release upon us of an avalanche of unexpended karma from past lives. This could be shattering to the personal self, but not to the part of us that knows deep within that we have longed to be tested to the limit of our endurance.

William Q. Judge uses the cryptic phrase "karmic stamina" in connection with aspirants who may find themselves momentarily in "a psychic whirl, or a vortex of occultism" into which others also may be drawn, and where the "germs for good or ill ripen with activity." (Letters That Have Helped Me 1:20-1) The outcome will depend not only on our constancy of will and selflessness of motive, but also upon our reserve of moral and spiritual endurance, our inbuilt stamina. The word stamina — from the Latin for "warp, thread, fiber" — is fitting here, for the warp of lengthwise threads on a loom is usually of stouter twist than the weft, as it is the foundation on which the cross threads are woven. The daily encounters and interactions with others and the impingements of events upon us are all karma: the warp represents the outflowing of past experience, while our reactions, being of our choosing, are the weft carried by the shuttle of the soul as we weave our present and future on the warp of the past.

All is not hardship and trial. Our inner god may be a stern taskmaster, but it is infinitely just and therefore infinitely compassionate. To be sure, potency of aspiration germinates whatever seeds of inharmony we have sown, but equally does it quicken the seeds of nobility in the character so that we are inwardly sustained and encouraged. In truth, it may shed a flood of light upon our path. Such a resolve finds resonance in our inmost self, and as we return life after life it leads us on and on, to take up the charge anew. Every day, every year, every lifetime, we infuse the ancient resolve with fresh vigor. Katherine Tingley speaks eloquently to this in her Theosophy: The Path of the Mystic:

A vow is an action rising like a star high above the level of the common deeds of life. It is a witness that the outer man has at that moment realized its union with the inner, and the purpose of its existence, . . .

At that moment the radiant path of light is seen with the eye of pure vision, the disciple is reborn, the old life is left behind, he enters a new way. For a moment he feels the touch of a guiding hand ever stretched out to him from the inner chamber. For a moment his ear catches the harmonies of the soul.

All this and more is the experience of those who make this vow with their whole hearts, and as they constantly renew it, and constantly renew their endeavor, the harmonies come again and again, and the clear path is once more beheld.

. . . Each effort carves the path of the next, and in no long time one single moment's silence will bring forth to the disciple's aid the strength of his soul. — pp. 53-4

Such a vow is a knocking at the door of our higher self. If the knock is genuine, the illumination and strength that pour into us can become a transforming influence that may help us to intuit the higher self's intent for our ordinary self. When the motive to serve humanity is fortified by will, our life is taken in hand by our higher self, and we find we are led into situations that test us to the core so that we may prove our worth and the depth of our aspiration — not for self-benefit, but that we may bring light and inspiration to others.

The higher self is our real teacher, our inner buddha. This is a time-honored truth: it places responsibility for growth, for inner advancement, squarely on ourself. We have no one but ourself to blame for our fumbles, no one on whom to shift our burdens. We are our own awakener, our own savior, for we are the steps we must travel and the truth we so long to find. Yet few of us feel adequate to fulfill the demands of our dharma, or self-disciplined enough to meet with equanimity the impact of daily karma. Trust is the key: to trust karma is to trust ourselves and to trust that we have the inner resources to handle whatever befalls. Having made the choice to live mindfully, there can be no turning back. We are not required, however, to take more than one step at a time; this is our protection, for by meeting life's challenges one day at a time we gather strength and sufficient wisdom for the daily need.

Once we grasp the fact that we are the path before us, never again will we know that aching loneliness of despair, for we shall have come in touch, if ever so fleetingly, with our light-source. Should periods of despondency return, they need not take firm hold, for a part of us, having entered into companionship with our higher self, remains en rapport with the larger fraternity of the spirit that touches every aspirant on the path. In proportion as we allow our buddha-nature to illumine our ordinary self will the Tathagata-light, the Christos-sun, irradiate our being and the path ahead. Since we are one humanity, the lighted path of a single individual makes the path of all others that much clearer.

It is a truism that no one can live always on the heights. We are obliged to return to the valleys of daily experience where we still have lessons to learn. But the panorama seen from the heights, short-lived as it may have been, is our rod and staff. It takes courage to allow our higher self to lead us into those circumstances that will bring to fruition old karmic causes whose effects on ourselves and on others must now be met. However, once handled, they will be done with. If at times everything seems at cross-purposes, and every effort we make is countered by opposition, this is to be expected.

The choice we made to pursue the compassionate way is by its very nature and goal an upstream endeavor. It is not a simple thing to go against the current; it demands courage to persist year in and year out along a course that, even if we know deep down is the true path for us, may at times appear quite the contrary to our personal self. Yet when we reflect on it, we are warmed and strengthened by an inner affirmation that we couldn't have asked for a more magnificent opportunity. To be allowed by karma to aid, in however minor a degree, in the compassionate order of the universe: this is to be given a boon that the soul over many lifetimes has silently yearned for.

We learn early that every aspiration must be sustained by self-discipline. Today people are stretching their souls, longing to rise above their ordinary little selves and glimpse a vision of what is beyond and within. Many of us, however, are so filled with our own ideas of what life is all about that we are like the student who came to the Zen monk seeking knowledge. "Teach me, Roshi, what Zen is." The Zen master invited him to tea. He started pouring tea into the teacup, and he poured and poured and poured until the student could stand it no longer and almost shouted: "But the cup is full. Can't you see?" The Roshi quietly said: "That is what your mind is like. You are so filled with your own ideas and opinions that there is no room for even one drop of wisdom. Empty yourself, empty your mind of all your preconceptions, empty your heart and your soul of all unbecoming thoughts and feelings, and you will be filled to abundance."

All of us know what is unworthy of ourselves. Striving to gentle the untamed propensities in our character is a type of purgation, a purification we can go through every day. This is what Paul meant when he said to the people of Corinth, "I die daily" — day after day he sought to be "reborn" interiorly. This is the "daily initiation," of which W. Q. Judge spoke — life itself, with its manifold joys and sorrows. Both have their temptations and trials, good fortune so called being often more difficult to handle than are the day-by-day frustrations and disappointments. The constant demand upon us to choose between the greater and the less, the selfless and the self-centered, brings us face to face with ourselves.

It is a matter of getting back to first principles: we start from within, from our central self. What is our motive? We tend to think of initiation as far removed from everyday happenings, but every time we conquer a weakness, every time we have the courage to see ourselves as we are, we undergo the testing by our higher self of our lesser self; we are proving the mettle of our character. "Fire tests gold, adversity proves strong souls" wrote Seneca, 1st-century AD Roman statesman and philosopher. (Moral Essays, "On Providence," 5, 9) Any form of intense suffering, particularly when self-caused — through weakness of will, emotional instability, or being caught in a vortex of thought beneath our private inner standard — may become an initiatory experience. The word initiation means "beginning," the conscious turning of a new leaf in our Book of Life. To have penetrated the darkness of our individual hell and come up into the light of our radiant self, able to meet its demands, is a kind of initiation.

When we inwardly take a stand, we are forearmed for whatever comes; if we avoid doing so, when faced with really severe challenges we are unprepared to act responsibly. Using the wheel as a metaphor: by living in thought and aspiration as close as we can to the hub of our being, the turning wheel of karma will not crush us; but if we live on the rim or circumference of our lives, we are at risk of being ground down under the karmic wheel. This can and does happen more than is necessary; and it's a cruel thing to witness — and to experience. Nevertheless, we learn invaluable lessons in humility and compassion: not only do we gain immeasurably, but hopefully through it all we become sufficiently sensitized to help others see that if they ascend the radius of their being toward the hub of themselves, they will find guidance, strength, and a light upon their path. One of our noblest opportunities is to give confidence to our fellow humans that, no matter how fragile we may be or think we are, all of us have sufficient power to live our lives in an honorable, thoughtful, and self-disciplined way. We must allow our higher self to take charge of our life's destiny. Is there any greater gift one can offer than assuring another he has what it takes to handle his karma, with head high, regardless of how many times he may be knocked down? We are not alone in our struggles. Everyone has some cross to bear, some weakness of character to overcome; just so everyone has his or her strengths to build on. Simply put: if we have the fortitude to "hang in there" no matter how often we stumble or how far we fall, there is no failure, only triumph.

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Ricardo Maffia : The Higher Self

The Higher Self is the important principles in the sleeping consciences of every human being. Occasionally these principles into action. It is those moments when the Insight, Creative Intelligence, Understanding, Will Irresistible, Love and Brotherhood manifests itself most often unintentionally.

The goal of those in Path is active through reflections on their life experiences to realize a logic in everyday events and have the perception that there is something Infinite within. It is the Atma or the projection of the  Absolute in all of us. With this perception that gradually develops, the student intuits your life purpose, your Dharma. Life for him and a main reason for you to understand the question of his life and also the lives of others.

Feel a real sense that there is an interconnectedness of everything and everyone and that their actions affect everything and everyone in the proportion of strength and wisdom given to them. There will be ups and downs however gradually understand the ups and downs in your life and Try to correct them. Will enter the Path of responsibility and understanding and even more in the way of conscious action though with its ups and downs but for the better this understanding of variations in personal perceptions is the gradual manifestations of Buddhi, another attribute of the  Higher Self.

Thus, the student develops the Creative Intelligence (Manas) which will enable you to do things that will add value to your life and the lives of others.

St. Paul said that the human being consists of spirit, body and soul.
Spirit is the essence of the Absolute in all us. Soul , Self ( Jung) is precisely the higher principles asleep we refer Higher Self. Body is our current personality that is tied to the Cross of Life and that when it enters the Path gradually the soul or higher self will begin to awaken.   

This will not happen without existential crises, which is normal because we enter into a new reality and conscious for a long time or not, because each of us has a personal biography will be held this existential connection and Cross will become a Shining Path. Well, I think so and do not mean I'm right. Each person has their truth that must be respected and valued. Unity in Diversity is.

Ricardo Maffia ( FTS - THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY PASADENA - US )

Ricardo Maffia : A MUDANÇA QUANTICA DO SEU PASSADO, PRESENTE E FUTURO

William James certa vez afirmou : meu maior ato de livre - arbítrio foi acreditar no Livre- Arbítrio!! 

Apaguei as tuas transgressões como a névoa e os teus pecados, como a nuvem. Volta-te para mim, porque Eu te remi. ( Isaías 44:22). Notem esta afirmação : É puro Salto Quantico- Milagres quando há Expansão da Consciencia em um um pedido sincero.Novos Algorítimos inseridos pelo Sagrado na Vida Pessoal. O Sagrado em plena ação!

Os ensinamentos ou Tradições Iniciáticas passam por transformações , na realidade a essencia é a mesma porém a forma , os métodos tem que estar adaptados à realidade. Muito do que era denominado Oculto , hoje é real , concreto.

Inadmissivel ficar com velhas fórmulas à espera de resultados sendo que o gatilho ou start é dado pela Consciencia Ampliada.Isto relaciona-se com as Experiencias de Pico de A. Maslow.

Em uma visão mais abrangente , o passado , o presente e o futuro se mesclam pois a existencia é dinamica. A falta desta percepção é que conduz às pessoas à estados pessoais estamentais – servas de si mesmas.

Patanjali , o formulador da Raja Yoga , há séculos demonstrou uma atividade importante da Consciencia : O Samayana , que é a possibilidade da pessoa se identificar com o objeto observado e perceber e entender sua realidade. Hoje esta atividade está adaptada em muitos métodos de desenvolvimento pessoal e espiritual , como se fosse algo inédito , mas a falta da informação especializada é que gera este desencontro. O mesmo ocorre com as Visualizações; tudo , como por exemplo Tela Mental , Visualização Criativa teve origem em Patanjali e ele bebeu em outras fontes. Na realidade , nada é novo e sim o processo de mudança que deixa vir à tona de uma forma adaptada aos períodos do mundo , da civilização. Notamos isto na Kabbalah e nos Upanixades.

A Neuroplastia , termo da Neurociencia que aponta para a possibilidade de moldar , mudar o comportamento das células cerebrais; esta constatação , William James ( século XIX ) já havia intuido quando afirmou: se uma pessoa ter atitudes que representam o que ela deseja se tornar no futuro , ela realmente se transformará. Em Neuro-linguística , temos o termo Modelagem que em síntese é ter Atitudes semelhantes à pessoas que representam a condição que gostaríamos de ser. O divisor de águas é : Determinação.

Passado , Presente e Futuro à coexistir. Pelo prisma quantico de Niels Bohr ( 1885 – 1962 ) , Físico Dinamarques, que deu estrutura à Física Quantica , estas realidades coexistem e interagem entre si. Isto constatou-se através das observações matemáticas dos comportamentos das partículas subatomicas. 

Até a Física Quantica tão propalada atualmente , na realidade teve suas origens no início do século XX; hoje muitas afirmações da Física Quantica são observáveis em laboratórios e sendo assim , abre-se um leque de possibilidades infinitas para o ser humano. É o passado , que age no presente para alterar o futuro.

No passado , a visão do desenvolvimento humano era mecanicista , relacionada apenas à causas e efeitos. Atualmente , com a expansão de conhecimentos coletivos e portanto as informações integradas forçam as pessoas a ter uma percepção da realidade e de si mesmas de forma mais ampla , embora  muitos não conseguem perceber isto , há sem dúvida alguma a forte oportunidade de mudar , de transformar-se e isto é fato , já que por analogia , se a humanidade tem acesso à ferramentas de conhecimento que só eram reais em filmes de ficção , hoje , repito isto é realidade concreta que pode ser aplicada tanto para o crescimento como para a desconstrução e portanto o ser humano por analogia também tem as condições mais que necessárias para progredir, mudar , para melhor se assim o desejar. Uma questão de Livre Arbítrio.

Deixo então um paradoxo: Podemos ocasionar alterações quanticas das realidades do passado , do presente e do futuro-Agora.

Ricardo Maffia

ATTENTION PLEASE !!! : This is Extraordinary Letter from MAHACHOAN. It was written in the 19th century - This text written in the nineteenth century is Current and Perfect. Read and Reflect. The text is surprisingly extraordinary. A preliminary overview of the XX and XXI Centuries-Credits Photos : NASA

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The MAHATMA LETTERS to A. P. SINNETT

from the Mahatmas M. & K. H.

Transcribed, Compiled, and with an Introduction by A. T. BARKER

View of the Chohan on the T.S.

Several good reasons given to K. H. by the Chohan why the T. S. should be a Brotherhood of Humanity.

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for the Simla Eclectic T. S. {1880 or 1881}

The doctrine we promulgate being the only true one, must, — supported by such evidence as we are preparing to give become ultimately triumphant as every other truth. Yet it is absolutely necessary to inculcate it gradually enforcing its theories, unimpeachable facts for those who know, with direct inferences deducted from and corroborated by the evidence furnished by modern exact science. That is why Col H.S.O. who works but to revive Buddhism may be regarded as one who labours in the true path of Theosophy, far more than any other man who chooses as his goal the gratification of his own ardent aspirations for occult knowledge. Buddhism stripped of its superstitions is eternal truth, and he who strives for the latter is striving for Theos-sophia, Divine Wisdom, which is a synonym of truth.

For our doctrines to practically react on the so called moral code or the ideas of truthfulness, purity, self-denial, charity, etc., we have to preach and popularise a knowledge of theosophy. It is not the individual and determined purpose of attaining oneself Nirvana (the culmination of all knowledge and absolute wisdom) which is, after all only an exalted and glorious selfishness, but the self-sacrificing pursuit of the best means to lead on the right path our neighbour, to cause as many of our fellow creatures as we possibly can to benefit by it, which constitutes the true Theosophist.

The intellectual portions of mankind seem to be fast dividing into two classes, the one unconsciously preparing for itself long periods of temporary annihilation or states of non-consciousness owing to the deliberate surrender of their intellect, its imprisonment in the narrow grooves of bigotry and superstition, a process which cannot fail to lead to the utter deformation of the intellectual principle; the other unrestrainedly indulging its animal propensities with the deliberate intention of submitting to annihilation pure and simple in cases of failure, to millenniums of degradation after physical dissolution. Those "intellectual classes," reacting upon the ignorant masses which they attract and which look up to them as noble and fit examples to follow, degrade and morally ruin those they ought to protect and guide. Between degrading superstition and still more degrading brutal materialism the white dove of truth has hardly room where to rest her weary unwelcome foot. . . . 

It's time that Theosophy should enter the arena. The sons of Theosophists are more likely to become in their turn Theosophists than anything else. No messenger of truth, no prophet has ever achieved during his life time a complete triumph, not even Buddha; the Theosophical Society was chosen as the corner stone, the foundation of the future religion of humanity. To achieve the proposed object a greater, wiser, and especially a more benevolent intermingling of the high and the low, of the alpha and the omega of society, was determined upon. The white race must be the first to stretch out the hand of fellowship to the dark nations, to call the poor despised "nigger" brothers. This prospect may not smile to all. He is no Theosophist who objects to this principle. . . .

In view of the ever increasing triumph and at the same time misuse of free-thought and liberty (the Universal reign of Satan, Eliphas Levi would have called it), how is the combative natural instinct of man to be restrained from inflicting hitherto unheard of cruelties and enormities, tyranny, injustice, etc., if not through the soothing influence of a brotherhood and of the practical application of Buddha's esoteric doctrines. For as everyone knows, total emancipation from authority of the one all pervading power or law called God by the Theists — Buddha, Divine Wisdom and Enlightenment or Theosophy by the philosophers of all ages — means also the emancipation from that of human law. Once unfettered [and] delivered from their dead weight of dogmatic interpretations, personal names, anthropomorphic conceptions and salaried priests, the fundamental doctrines of all religions will be proved identical in their esoteric meaning. Osiris, Chrishna, Buddha, Christ, will be shown as different means for one and [the] same royal highway to final bliss Nirvana. Mystical christianity, that is to say that christianity which teaches self redemption through one's own seventh principle — the liberated Para-atma (Augoeides) called by the one Christ, by others Buddha, and equivalent to regeneration or rebirth in spirit — will be found just the same truth as the Nirvana of mystical Buddhism. All of us have to get rid of our own Ego, the illusory apparent self, to recognise our true self in a transcendental divine life. But if we would not be selfish we must strive to make other people see that truth, to recognise the reality of that transcendental self, the Buddh, the Christ or God of every preacher. This is why even exoteric Buddhism is the surest path to lead men toward the one esoteric truth. As we find the world now, whether Christian, Mussalman or Pagan, justice is disregarded and honour and mercy both flung to the winds.

In a word, how, once that the main objects of the T. S. are misinterpreted by those who are most willing to serve us personally, are we to deal with the rest of mankind, with that curse known as the "struggle for life," which is the real and most prolific parent of most woes and sorrows and of all the crimes? Why has that struggle become the almost universal scheme of the universe? We answer, because no religion with the exception of Buddhism has hitherto taught a practical contempt for this earthly life, while each of them, always with that one solitary exception, has through its hells and damnations inculcated the greatest dread of death. Therefore do we find that struggle for life raging most fiercely in Christian countries, most prevalent in Europe and America. It weakens in the Pagan lands and is nearly unknown among Buddhist populations. (In China during famine and where the masses are most ignorant of their own or any religion, it was remarked that those mothers who devoured their children belonged to localities where there were the most of Christian missionaries to be found. Where there were none and the Bonzes alone had the field the population died with the utmost indifference.) Teach the people to see that life on this earth even the happiest is but a burden and an illusion, that it is but our own Karma, the cause producing the effect, that is our own judge, our Saviour in future lives, and the great struggle for life will soon lose its intensity. There are no penitentiaries in Buddhist lands and crime is nearly unknown among the Buddhist Tibetans. (The above is not addressed to you, and has nought to do with the work of the Simla Eclectic Society. It is meant only as an answer to the erroneous impression in Mr. Hume's mind of the "Ceylon work" as no theosophy.)

The world in general and Christendom especially, left for two thousand years to the regime of a personal God as well as its political and social systems based on that idea, has now proved a failure. If the Theosophists say, we have nothing to do with all this, the lower classes and the inferior races (those of India for instance in the conception of the British) cannot concern us and must manage as they can, what becomes of our fine professions of benevolence, philanthropy, reform, etc. Are these professions a mockery? And if a mockery, can ours be the true path. Shall we devote our selves to teaching a few Europeans fed on the fat of the land, many of them loaded with the gifts of blind fortune, the rationale of bell ringing, cup growing, of the spiritual telephone and astral body formation, and leave the teeming millions of the ignorant, of the poor and despised, the lowly and the oppressed, to take care of themselves and of their hereafter the best they know how. Never. Rather perish the Theosophical Society with both its hapless founders than that we should permit it to become no better than an academy of magic and a hall of occultism. That we, the devoted followers of that spirit incarnate of absolute self sacrifice, of philanthropy, divine kindness, as of all the highest virtues attainable on this earth of sorrow, the man of men, Gautama Buddha, should ever allow the Theosophical Society to represent the embodiment of selfishness, the refuge of the few with no thought in them for the many, is a strange idea, my brothers.

Among the few glimpses obtained by Europeans of Tibet and its mystical hierarchy of "perfect lamas," there is one which was correctly understood and described. "The incarnations of the Boddisatwa Padma Pani or Avalo-Kiteswara and of Tsong Kapa, that of Amitabha, relinquish at their death the attainment of Buddhahood — i.e. the summum bonum of bliss, and of individual personal felicity — that they might be born again and again for the benefit of mankind." (Rhys Davids) In other words, that they might be again and again subjected to misery, imprisonment in flesh and all the sorrows of life, provided that by such a self sacrifice repeated throughout long and dreary centuries they might become the means of securing salvation and bliss in the hereafter for a handful of men chosen among but one of the many races of mankind. And it is we, the humble disciples of these perfect lamas, who are expected to allow the T. S. to drop its noblest title, that of the Brotherhood of Humanity to become a simple school of psychology? No, no, good brothers, you have been labouring under the mistake too long already. Let us understand each other. He who does not feel competent enough to grasp the noble idea sufficiently to work for it, need not undertake a task too heavy for him. But there is hardly a theosophist in the whole society unable to effectually help it by correcting the erroneous impressions of the outsiders, if not by actually propagating himself the idea. Oh, for the noble and unselfish man to help us effectually in India in that divine task. All our knowledge past and present would not be sufficient to repay him. . . . Having explained our views and aspirations I have but a few words more to add.

To be true, religion and philosophy must offer the solution of every problem. That the world is in such a bad condition morally is a conclusive evidence that none of its religions and philosophies, those of the civilised races less than any other, have ever possessed the truth. The right and logical explanations on the subject of the problems of the great dual principles — right and wrong, good and evil, liberty and despotism, pain and pleasure, egotism and altruism — are as impossible to them now as they were 1881 years ago. They are as far from the solution as they ever were but, —

To these there must be somewhere a consistent solution, and if our doctrines will show their competence to offer it, then the world will be the first one to confess that must be the true philosophy, the true religion, the true light, which gives truth and nothing but the truth.

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An abridged version of the view of the Chohan on the T. S. from his own words as given last night. My own letter, the answer to your last will shortly follow.

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