The Principle of
Self-Responsibility
Opens the Door to
Real Knowledge
A Master of the
Wisdom
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Editorial Note:
The following text is signed by the Master
of Helena Blavatsky himself. [1] It shows that
self-responsibility is of the essence in the Pedagogy
and Philosophy of true Initiates. The text
exemplifies
the fact that while whited sepulchres insist in expressing
sweet lies and politically correct falsehoods, authentic
masters are not afraid of using frank and severe
words.
In order to make it easier to contemplate the
teaching,
we have divided the text in small paragraphs.
(Carlos Cardoso Aveline)
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A
constant sense of abject dependence upon a Deity which he regards as the sole
source of power makes a man lose all self-reliance and the spurs to activity
and initiative.
Having
begun by creating a father and guide unto himself, he becomes like a boy and
remains so to his old age, expecting to be led by the hand on the smallest as
well as the greatest events of life.
The
saying, “Help thyself, and God will help thee”, he so interprets that when an
undertaking results to his own advantage, he credits it to himself only; when a
failure, he charges it to the will of his God.
The
Founders prayed to no Deity in beginning the Theosophical Society, nor asked
his help since. Are we expected to become the nursing mothers of the Bengal
Theosophical Society? Did we help the Founders? No; they were helped by the
inspiration of self-reliance, and sustained by their reverence for the rights
of man, and their love for a country whose national honour has long been
trampled into the mud, under the feet of her meek and lazy sons, indifferent to
her woes, unmindful to her dying glory….
Your
sins? The greatest of them is your fathering upon your God the task of purging
you of them. This is no creditable piety, but an indolent and selfish weakness.
Though vanity would whisper to the contrary, heed only your common sense.
M ∴
NOTE:
[1] It constitutes
letter 43 in the volume “Letters From
the Masters of the Wisdom”, first series, transcribed and edited by C.
Jinarajadasa, T.P.H., Adyar, India, 1973, see pp. 95-96. In the more recent
editions, see Letter 56. The text was also published in the November 2016
edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, pp. 3-4.
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In September
2016, after a careful analysis of the state of the esoteric movement
worldwide, a group of students decided to form the Independent Lodge of Theosophists. Two of the central priorities
adopted by the ILT are taking lessons from History and building a better future.
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