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The Theosophist THE THEOSOPHIST VOL. 135 NO. 7 APRIL 2014 CONTENTS On the Watch-Tower 3 M. P. Singhal The many lives of Siddhartha 7 Mary Anderson The Voice of the Silence — II 13 Clara Codd Charles Webster Leadbeater and Adyar Day 18 Sunita Maithreya Regenerating Wisdom 21 Krishnaphani Spiritual Ascent of Man in Secret Doctrine 28 M. A. Raveendran The Urgency for a New Mind 32 Ricardo Lindemann International Directory 38 Editor: Mr M. P. Singhal NOTE: Articles for publication in The Theosophist should be sent to the Editorial Office. Cover: Common Hoope, Adyar —A. Chandrasekaran Official organ of the President, founded by H. P. Blavatsky, 1879. The Theosophical Society is responsible only for official notices appearing in this magazine. 1 THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Founded 17 November 1875 President: Vice-President: Mr M. P. Singhal Secretary: Dr Chittaranjan Satapathy Treasurer: Mr T. S. Jambunathan Headquarters: ADYAR, CHENNAI (MADRAS) 600 020, INDIA Secretary: [email protected] Treasury: [email protected] Adyar Library and Research Centre: [email protected] Theosophical Publishing House: [email protected] & [email protected] Fax: (+91-44) 2490-1399 Editorial Office: [email protected] Website: http://www.ts-adyar.org The Theosophical Society is composed of students, belonging to any religion in the world or to none, who are united by their approval of the Society’s Objects, by their wish to remove religious antagonisms and to draw together men of goodwill, whatsoever their religious opinions, and by their desire to study religious truths and to share the results of their studies with others. Their bond of union is not the profession of a common belief, but a common search and aspiration for Truth. They hold that Truth should be sought by study, by reflection, by purity of life, by devotion to high ideals, and they regard Truth as a prize to be striven for, not as a dogma to be imposed by authority. They consider that belief should be the result of individual study or intuition, and not its antecedent, and should rest on knowledge, not on assertion. They extend tolerance to all, even to the intolerant, not as a privilege they bestow but as a duty they perform, and they seek to remove ignorance, not punish it. They see every religion as an expression of the Divine Wisdom and prefer its study to its condemnation, and its practice to proselytism. Peace is their watchword, as Truth is their aim. Theosophy is the body of truths which forms the basis of all religions, and which cannot be claimed as the exclusive possession of any. It offers a philosophy which renders life intelligible, and which demonstrates the justice and the love which guide its evolution. It puts death in its rightful place, as a recurring incident in an endless life, opening the gateway to a fuller and more radiant existence. It restores to the world the Science of the Spirit, teaching man to know the Spirit as himself and the mind and body as his servants. It illuminates the scriptures and doctrines of religions by unveiling their hidden meanings, and thus justifying them at the bar of intelligence, as they are ever justified in the eyes of intuition. Members of the Theosophical Society study these truths, and theosophists endeavour to live them. Everyone willing to study, to be tolerant, to aim high, and to work perseveringly, is welcomed as a member, and it rests with the member to become a true theosophist. 2 On the Watch-Tower On the Watch-Tower M. P. SINGHAL H. P. Blavatsky (HPB) — Her Vision HPB born in a Russian royal family, and Work was a psychic from early childhood. Her If one counts life by the number of sister Mme. Vera Zhelikjhovsky writes years lived, Madame Blavatsky had a about her escapades and psychism and comparatively short life, (1831-1891). mentions that there was dual nature in her, However if we measure life by the work that made one think there were two beings done for the good of humanity, she had a in one body; one mischievous, combative remarkable life of pioneering work for and obstinate, the other, mystical and human regeneration — indicating the path metaphysically inclined. No old scholar and the principles of life as well as the flag could be more assiduous in his study of posts, cautioning the erring humanity of the books on alchemy, magic and occult pitfalls. The year 2014 marks 125 years science. ‘I had read them with the keenest of her two important books, namely, The of interest at the age of fifteen’ writes Key to Theosophy and The Voice of the Madame Blavatsky. Later, ‘I have always Silence. In the Key to Theosophy HPB, one lived a double existence, mysterious of the founders of the Theosophical society, incomprehensible, even to myself until I anticipates every likely question, and met my still more mysterious Indian in answers it forthrightly, vigorously and Tibet in 1885 which changed the course brilliantly. She said: Theosophy is no arm- of my life’, she said. In 1873, she was sent chair philosophy but do-it-yourself guide by her Master to America where she met to sane living. Here she gives a stirring Col. Olcott and that resulted, along with call to the aspirant to take charge of his him, in the founding of a Theosophical own life and to bow to no authority from Society in 1875. ‘Attempting to make men outside. She said, ‘Theosophy is not other- better and sacrificing for their regeneration’ wordly but totally geared to the here and was her vision and with full cooperation now. It offers nothing dull but is a testa- from Col. Olcott, she dedicated her life for ment of joy, life and fearlessness.’ She the Human Regeneration. also said, ‘To the mentally lazy or obtuse Madame Blavatsky in her Magnum Theosophy must remain a riddle, for in Opus The Secret Doctrine points out: the world mental as in the world spiritual 1. The Fundamental identity of all souls each man must progress by his own efforts.’ with the universal over-soul (Parabrahm). April 2014 The Theosophist 3 On the Watch-Tower Oneness of all life based on its divineness. matter and thought; between the vibrating 2. The whole order of Nature evinces nerve all and the proficiency. a progressive march towards a higher life. Who is a Theosophist: In one of her So far as it relates to humanity it is spiritual messages to the American Theosophists evolution of inner immortal man, that gathered for their annual convention forms the fundamental tenet in Occult Madame Blavatsky wrote; ‘Men cannot Science. all be occultists, but they can be Theo- One very beautiful and inspiring sophists. Many who have never heard of quotation from an ancient scripture finds the Society and Theosophists without place in the Secret Doctrine; ‘Lift thy head knowing it themselves; for the essence of oh lanoo, dost thou see one or countless Theosophy is in the perfect harmonizing lights above thee burning in the dark mid- of the divine with the human in man, the night sky? I sense one flame oh Gurudev. adjustment of this godlike qualities and I see countless undetached sparks shining aspirations and their sway over the in it. Thou sayest well. And now look terrestrial or animal passions in him. around and into thyself; that light which Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or burns in thy Brother-men. It is no way selfishness, charity and goodwill to all different, though its outer garment eludes beings and perfect justice to others as to the ignorant into saying “Thy soul and my one’s self, are its chief features. He teaches soul”. All this leads to oneness and selfless Theosophy who preaches the gospel of service of others. Madame Blavatsky adds, goodwill; and the converse of this is true ‘For every flower of love and charity he also — he who preaches the gospel of plants in his neighbours’s gardern a loath- goodwill teaches Thosophy. some weed will disappear from his own Madame Blavatsky was extremely and in this garden of gods — Humanity kind hearted and deeply compassionate. — shall blossom as a rose’. She never nursed a grievance or carried Complexity of The Secret Doctrine: a malice in her heart against anyone, In her review of the Secret Doctrine Mrs eventhough that person might have Annie Besant remarked, ‘Let it be said at wronged her grievously. When some one once that the great majority of average asked her why she was allowing persons easy-going folk will do well not to begin who looked bad and undesirable to come The Secret Doctrine at all. A certain mental to her, she replied, ‘As, my friend, a position must be acquired before any read- person’s cloudy forbidding aura may fill ing thereof can be aught some weariness me with misgivings, but here is always the and futility. The would be reader must have divine spark I see within him. Who am I an intense desire to know and to know not to deny any one the chance of profiting merely the relations between phenomena the truth I teach . it does not matter that but the causes of phenomena; he must be I, personally, risk the consequences of eagerly searching for that bridge between deception, hatred, vengeance — while 4 The Theosophist Vol. 135.7 On the Watch-Tower there is hope for the others’ redemption. inculcate certain great moral truths upon Doctrines of Life: HPB brought to the its disciples and all those who were ‘lovers notice of the world of late nineteenth of truth’.
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