Two
Letters From a Mahatma to Laura Holloway
A Master
of the Wisdom
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An Editorial Note
The following text
reproduces Letters
II and III to Laura
Holloway, in “Letters
From the Masters
of the Wisdom”. [1]
In transcribing Letter II, we divided the
text in smaller paragraphs in order to make
it easier to read it in a contemplative way.
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Letter II
How can you know
the real from the unreal, the true from the false? Only by self-development.
How get that? By first carefully guarding yourself against the causes of
self-deception.
And this you can do by spending a certain fixed hour
or hours each day all alone in self-contemplation, writing, reading, the
purification of your motives, the study and correction of your faults, the
planning of your work in the external life.
These hours should be sacredly reserved for this
purpose, and no one, not even your most intimate friend or friends, should be
with you then. Little by little your sight will clear, you will find the mists
pass away, your interior faculties strengthen, your attraction toward us gain
force, and certainty replace doubts.
But beware of seeking or leaning too much upon direct
authority. Our ways are not your
ways. We rarely show any outward signs by which to be recognized or sensed. Do
you think ____ and ____ and ____ have been counselling you entirely without
prompting from us. As for U. [2], you
love her more than you respect her advice.
You do not realize that when speaking of, or as from
us, she dares not mix up her own personal opinions with those she tells you are
ours. None of us would dare do so, for we have a code that is not to be
transgressed.
Learn, child, to
catch a hint through whatever agency it may be given. “Sermons may be
preached even through stones”. Do not be too eager for “instructions”. You will
always get what you need as you shall deserve them, but no more than you
deserve or are able to assimilate. ….
And now the battle is set in array; fight a good fight
and may you win the day.
K.H.
Letter III
The fundamental
principle of occultism is that every idle word is recorded as well as one full
of earnest meaning.
I can do nothing unless you help me by helping
yourself. Try to realize that in occultism one can neither go back nor stop. An
abyss opens behind every step taken forward.
K.H.
NOTES:
[1] “Letters From the Masters of the Wisdom - First Series”,
edited by C. Jinarajadasa, TPH, Adyar, India, 1948, 220 pages. See Letters II
and III to L. Holloway; pp. 203-205. The volume is available in our associated websites. (CCA)
[2] C. Jinarajadasa clarifies in a footnote that this
refers to “Upasika”, the word meaning “female disciple” by which the Masters
often referred to Helena Blavatsky. (CCA)
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The above text was
published in the associated websites on 09 February 2020. It is also part of the
October 2018 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, pp.
16-17.
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