The Inner, Long Term
Purpose
Of the Theosophical
Movement
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
“The soul of man is immortal, and
its future is the future of a thing whose
growth and splendor have no limit.”
(“The Idyll of the White
Lotus”, M. Collins,
Chapter 8, p. 114 of
Quest Books 1974 edition)
“…..Tell me if I am too sanguine when I say that
if the Theosophical … [Movement] survives and lives
true to its mission, to its original impulses through the
next hundred years - tell me, I say, if I go too far in
asserting that earth will be a
heaven in the twenty-first
century in comparison with what it is now!”
(H.P. Blavatsky, in her
1889 book “The Key
to Theosophy”, Theosophy
Co. edition, p. 307.)
In the last paragraph of
her book “The Key to Theosophy”, Helena Blavatsky sees a direct relationship
between the state of the theosophical movement and the state of human karma and
civilization. The movement is for her a causal factor; the state of the
civilization belongs to the world of effects.
The occult importance of H.P.B.’s statement is great.
Its implications are many. It reveals the
magnetic nature of the link between theosophical movement and mankind. The movement is a collective “body” possessing
active seeds of buddhi-manasic activity. Mankind is the land or
the object of agricultural activity. If the right seeds are correctly
planted, the crop will be available in due time. H.P.B.’s sentence describes the nature of
the occult responsibility of the movement, with regard to mankind. It is occult, yet it is real. It is
unavoidable, for it is part of human evolution. It is in the very essence of
the movement, in its astral light substance, in its aura.
That helping mankind is the duty of the movement is stated
in numerous passages in the “Mahatma Letters” and in “Letters From the Masters
of the Wisdom”.[1] It is recorded in
the first object of the movement, which is “to create a nucleus of universal
brotherhood”.
Individuals can always deny - in deeds, more than in
words - that this is the purpose of the movement. Many behave as if this were but a propaganda
slogan. Yet the movement itself can only live by being faithful to its own
magnetic nature, made of universal wisdom and ethics. If at any time the
movement has less vitality than expected, all one has to do, in order to
identify the problem, is to examine the amount of altruistic motivation in its
members. In such an examination, the observer should start by verifying his own
degree of altruism.
In the fulfillment of its long-term task, the movement
needs individuals who take practical steps to expand their Antahkaranas,
thus widening contact with their higher selves.
This requires self-discipline.
The arithmetic number of such individuals is of
secondary importance. In the right time,
these comparatively Few will be able to stimulate and help ignite inner life in
many others. The collective awakening will spread throughout mankind in a
rhythm dictated by Karma. This has started to gather momentum from 1875, but
its results are not necessarily visible yet.
It is the duty of these students of theosophy, and
also a source of happiness for them, to TRY and activate the potentiality by
which growing sections of the theosophical movement will go beyond attachment
to routine [2] and will help produce
more elements of information and stimuli for thousands and millions of people
worldwide to expand contact with their own immortal souls or higher selves.
This must gradually open room for the next and sixth type
of present human psyche , which in the terms of “The Secret Doctrine” is
called “sixth sub-race of fifth
root-race”.
The sixth human type or “sub-race” of present
root-race will be prepared to live universal brotherhood in a consciously
cooperative way. Its gradual appearance
will make humanity see brotherhood as a fact, thus abandoning the now common practice
of fratricide. The theosophical movement was created to help prepare that.
The dharma and duty of theosophists is not to try to prevent
geological changes through social activism.
It is true that the effects of geological changes will be less dramatic
if planetary consciousness expands, and this is a noble goal. But geological events
are unavoidable; they are part and parcel of human and planetary evolution, and
they are necessary to it. The theosophical duty is to make an effort to understand
the present challenges from the point of view of esoteric philosophy, and to
share the theosophical view of the planet so as to help mankind’s spiritual and
ethical awakening.
The planet is septenary: the seven principles of its
consciousness are all interconnected.
In this first half of the 21st century, a
multidimensional transition is taking place. Old forms of theosophical action get
dysfunctional. New forms did not appear yet, or are still in their beginnings.
The inner crumbling of old forms of theosophical work expands in parallel to
the outer crisis of a materialistic civilization; and these two take place
together with the acceleration of geological events in every country and
continent.
While reflecting on the principle stated by HPB in her
closing paragraph at “The Key”, one can select these two questions for
meditation and contemplation:
* Is there a causal
relationship between, A) the process of sustaining and
activating the movement along its Original Lines, and, B) the necessary self-renewal of
present civilization towards universal ethics and altruism?
* How best can each of us, and all of us as, TRY to be
gradually more helpful in this unified and permanent process of creation, preservation and renewal, which occurs
in the long term and mainly at the invisible or causal level?
NOTES:
[1] See for instance “the Great Master’s Letter”, also known as “View of
the Chohan on the T.S.” and as “The
Maha-Chohan Letter”.
[2] Mental dispersion, lack of concentration and the incessant search for
“novelties” are central forms of routine, in modern “civilization”. This
includes “spiritual novelties”.
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