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This has been the theme, the desire, the great love, the vision of El Morya forever. And so he and the other masters who joined him determined to revive this spirit. It is interesting to note that many scholars believe that [[Origen of Alexandria]] (an embodiment of [[Lanello]]) attended the lectures of Ammonius Saccas.<ref>Henri Crouzel, ''Origen'' (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985), p. 10.</ref> | This has been the theme, the desire, the great love, the vision of El Morya forever. And so he and the other masters who joined him determined to revive this spirit. It is interesting to note that many scholars believe that [[Origen of Alexandria]] (an embodiment of [[Lanello]]) attended the lectures of Ammonius Saccas.<ref>Henri Crouzel, ''Origen'' (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985), p. 10.</ref> | ||
[[File:Letter 8.jpg|thumb|Letter 8 from the Mahatma Letters]] | |||
== Teachings == | |||
El Morya’s and Kuthumi’s letters to their students in the Theosophical movement are published in ''The Mahatma Letters'' and other works. Some of these letters are in the manuscript collection of the British Museum. Through their teachings, the masters attempted to acquaint the West with the reality of the invisible world and with the workings of the law and hierarchy. | |||
Kuthumi in particular taught with profound scholarship, and he had a mind able to penetrate the veils of time and read the [[akashic records]] of earth’s history. The knowledge of his [[chohan]]s, who were his teachers, was of intergalactic dimensions, and they guided him closely in all of his dealings with his chelas. Much to the wonder of his fellow adepts and to the consternation of his chohans, Kuthumi attempted to bring to Western man some of the long forbidden mysteries of the occult Brotherhood. | |||
Among the most profound concepts they released was the teaching on the law of cycles. In a letter sent to the English philosopher A. O. Hume in 1882, published in ''The Mahatma Letters'', Kuthumi wrote: | |||
<blockquote>I would not refuse what I have a right to teach. Only I had to study for fifteen years before I came to the doctrines of cycles and had to learn simpler things at first.... Let me tell you that the means we avail ourselves of are all laid down for us in a code as old as humanity to the minutest detail, but everyone of us has to begin from the beginning, not from the end. Our laws are as immutable as those of Nature, and they were known to man and eternity before this strutting game cock, modern science, was hatched.<ref>A. Trevor Barker, comp., ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Pasadena Calif.: Theosophical University Press, 1923, reprint 1975), Letter XXII, p. 144. The adepts introduced to both East and West, for the first time, advanced teaching on cyclic evolution (from Spirit to Matter and from Matter to Spirit), the seven “rounds” or cycles of planetary evolution, and the evolution and development of the seven root races.</ref></blockquote> | |||
Writing from the home of Kuthumi at Shigatse in the Himalayas, gazing at an iceberg before him, Morya wrote to A. P. Sinnett in January of 1882: | |||
<blockquote>Nothing in nature springs into existence suddenly, all being subjected to the same law of gradual evolution. Realize but once the process of the maha cycle, of one sphere, and you have realized them all. One man is born like another man, one race evolves, develops, and declines like another and all other races. Nature follows the same groove from the ‘creation’ of a universe down to that of a mosquito. In studying esoteric cosmogony, keep a spiritual eye upon the physiological process of human birth; proceed from cause to effect.... Cosmology is the physiology of the universe spiritualized, for there is but one law.<ref>''The Mahatma Letters'', Letter XIII, pp. 70, 71.</ref></blockquote> | |||
[[File:Leadbeater2.jpg|thumb|upright|Charles W. Leadbeater]] | [[File:Leadbeater2.jpg|thumb|upright|Charles W. Leadbeater]] | ||
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Thus, El Morya, through Madame Blavatsky, has made his mark upon the time. | Thus, El Morya, through Madame Blavatsky, has made his mark upon the time. | ||
== Importance today == | |||
The Ascended Lady Master Nada has stated: | |||
<blockquote>I bid you, then, read ''The Mahatma Letters'', read the old books that Morya sponsored and that we guarded. Read the path of the East and discover once and for all what is the true meaning of a disciple on the Path. And above all, do not carve out your own concept of your own path that has nothing to do with the mahatmas.<ref>Nada, “Be Quickened to Know the Mind of God!” {{POWref|36|25|, June 20, 1993}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
The Maha Chohan has said: | |||
<blockquote>It is well to have an ongoing relationship with a spiritual book and the mentors who have delivered it, whereby in those lines that you read, in those teachings you receive, you are reminded again and again that the hours and the days are the opportunity of time and space to regain what you have lost and to come up higher and beyond that level of adeptship that you had attained to prior to your compromising yourself in this way or that.</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>So know, beloved, as you read perhaps ''The Mahatma Letters'' and understand the sternness of some of us as we have dealt with humankind and various individuals who attempt to destroy our efforts, there is at times a certain gruffness in the masters....</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>Beloved ones, you must know that your pride must regularly be tested to see whether it is still there! You must know whether you retain personal pride by how you react to remarks that you consider to be disrespectful or challenging or demeaning....</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>I do not say that you should not be bold before the world yet humble before your God. But I ask you to remember that we can only go so far with you when you have mapped out in your consciousness and have such a set grid around you of what you think the Path is, what you think the Guru-chela relationship is.<ref>The Maha Chohan, “Conquer Pride and Receive the Gifts of the Holy Spirit,” {{POWref|48|2|, January 9, 2005}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
== For more information == | == For more information == | ||
For an in-depth study of the path of initiation and the master-disciple relationship as it was revealed in Theosophical teachings, see the series ''Darshan with the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet'', which includes teachings from ''The Masters and the Path'', by C.W.Leadbeater and teachings from ''The K.H.Letters to C.W. Leadbeater''. | For an in-depth study of the path of initiation and the master-disciple relationship as it was revealed in Theosophical teachings, see the series ''Darshan with the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet'', which includes teachings from ''The Masters and the Path'', by C.W.Leadbeater and teachings from ''The K.H.Letters to C.W. Leadbeater''. | ||
A. Trevor Barker, comp., ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Pasadena Calif.: Theosophical University Press, 1923, reprint 1975). | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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{{POWref|33|43|, November 4, 1990}} | {{POWref|33|43|, November 4, 1990}} | ||
{{PTI}}, chapter 1. | |||
Lectures by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, August 10, 1979; August 6, 1985; March 13, 1993; August 6, 1995; February 12, 1997. | Lectures by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, August 10, 1979; August 6, 1985; March 13, 1993; August 6, 1995; February 12, 1997. | ||
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