Minobu wrote:
Nice to learn madame Blavatsky had visited and studied in Tibet in the late 1800's.
I've only skimmed through the blog entry, but is this proven?
Last I heard her visits to Tibet were very much in question and the Mahatmas being immortals residing in Tibet was a subterfuge designed to protect her very mortal teacher who lived in Kashmir and did not want to be associated with her publicly for political reasons.
This could be wrong, I don't have a particular interest in theosophy and so I don't keep up on the history, but I remember finding this fascinating. Below is a Facebook post I made
from facebook wrote:
To quote Smee, "Lightning has struck my brain!"
I've gone down a rabbit hole of probably 12+ hours of Poke Runyon's podcasts in the past week, but this one got me excited!
He breaks down not only the real history of the hidden master in the Order of Strict Observance, but the history the BLAVATSKY had REAL 'secret masters' (ie. real people such as Ranbir Singh) was Kashmiri, and the Tibetanness and ascendedness were political blinds!!!! (the idea came about partially due to her early involvement in strict observance).
Blavatsky forced the hand of the Golden Dawn and their "secret chiefs", which Crowley also took up ("To Mega Therion" being thought to be an ascended master by many at the time, not a motto/pen-name) and we were off.
GOOD TIMES!!!
Heres the link to the podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermet ... mes-a-cult
"Death's second name is 'omnipresent.' On the relative truth it seems we become separate. But on the absolute there is no separation." Lama Dawa