Alice Cleather was one
of the most outstanding disciples of Blavatsky, and on this subject she wrote
the following:
Moreover,
Mrs. Bailey's presumably "inspired" views (one must not forget her
alleged "Tibetan" teacher) on sex relations in their application to
those who have entered, or are entering, on the serious study of practical
Occultism, are in direct conflict with the teachings of Blavatsky and her
Teachers on the subject.
In the last
chapter, "Rules for Applicants," she is far more definite on this
point than in her later Cosmic Fire.
Possibly the publication of the Mahatma Letters may have counseled more
prudence on that head, if (as seems probable) she is anxious that the public
should believe that the contents of her books are drawn from the same source as
H.P. Blavatsky's, as shown by the constant references to the Secret Doctrine in her book A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.
Like the
followers of the Leadbeater dispensation, there are some who regard her works
as an extension and expansion of the Secret
Doctrine, which is of course almost grotesque.
Rule 11,
page 204, runs thus:
« Let the disciple transfer the
fire from the lower triangle to the higher, and preserve that which is created
through the fire of the midway point. »
Mrs. Bailey
explains this as follows:
« This means, literally, the
control by the initiate of the sex impulse, as usually understood, and the
transference of the fire which normally vitalizes the generative organs to the
throat center, thus leading to creation upon the mental plane through the
agency of mind. That which is to be created must then be nourished and
sustained by the love energy issuing from the heart center. »
No words of
mine could be half strong enough to condemn the advice here given to all and
sundry in a printed book. The "transference" advised is probably the
most dangerous in the process of Black Magic, which is distinguished from White
by its use of the sex forces.
It is found
in such Tantrik works as The Serpent
Power, by "Arthur Avalon" (the late Sir John Woodroffe an Indian
Judge), against the terrible dangers of which Blavatsky so constantly warns her
readers and pupils. In most cases she says that such an attempt as above
described would have a fatal result. For this one passage alone Mrs. Bailey
deserves the severest condemnation.
She is
indeed playing with fire – the Fire of Kundalini, which, as Blavatsky says:
"can as easily kill as it can create."
The
following is the "lower triangle referred to:
1. The Solar Plexus.
2. The Base of the Spine.
3. The Generative Organs.
The
"higher" is thus given:
1. The Head.
2. The Throat.
3. The Heart.
There is not
the smallest recognition throughout this book of the tremendous gulf which
yawns between "White" and "Black" Magic in Practical
Occultism. And in these three pages (204-206) she unconsciously lays bare the
real evil at the root of her teachings which, where Sex is concerned, are in
direct opposition to those of Blavatsky and her Teachers.
For Mrs.
Bailey's further detailed explanations as to the sex relationships of
"Initiated Masters" will again supply the necessary contrast:
Alice Bailey's teachings
« "This might be
interpreted by the superficial reader as an injunction to the celibate life,
and the pledging of the applicant to abstain from all physical manifestation of
the sex pulse. This is not so. Many initiates have attained their objective
when duly and wisely participating in the marriage relation."
"The
physical plane is as much a form of divine expression as any of the higher
planes... that it may be advisable at certain stages for a man to perfect
control along any particular line through a temporary abstention is not to be
denied, but that . . . will be succeeded by stages when – the control having
been gained - the man demonstrates perfectly through the medium of the physical
body, the attributes of divinity, and every center will be normally and wisely
used, and thus race purposes furthered."
"Initiates
and Masters, in many cases, marry, and normally perform their duties as
husbands, wives, and householders, but all is controlled and regulated by
purpose and intention, and none is carried away by passion or desire. In the
perfect man upon the physical plane, all the centers are under complete
control. . . . the spiritual will of the divine inner God is the main factor."
"The
true initiate would be known by his wise and sanctified normality.... by the
example he sets to his environing associates of spiritual living and moral
rectitude, coupled with the discipline of his own life." »
(Initiation
Human and Solar, Chap. XIX, p.204-206)
Theosophy's teachings
« "2. Absolute mental and
physical purity."
"Remember, he who is not as pure as a
young child (had) better leave chelaship alone."
(Master
Kuthumi)
"Bodily purity every Adept takes
precautions to keep."
"The Self of matter and the SELF of
Spirit can never meet. One of the twain must disappear; there is no place for
both."
(Master
Morya to the esoteric students)
"Guard thou the lower lest it soil the
Higher."
(The Voice
of the Silence)
There are not in the West half a-dozen among
the fervent hundreds who call themselves 'Occultists' who have even an
approximately correct idea of the nature of the Science they seek to master.
With a few exceptions, they are all on the highway to Sorcery."
(Blavatsky
in her article: Occultism vs The Occult Arts.)
"No Adept ever marries."
(Blavatsky)
"It is true that the married man cannot
be an Adept."
(Master
Kuthumi in The Mahatma Letters, p.17)
"The Dugpas and the Gelugpas are not
fighting in Tibet alone: see their vile work in England among the 'Occultists'
and 'Seers'!
Hear your
acquaintance - preaching, like a true 'Hierophant of the left-hand,' the
marriage of the 'soul with the spirit' and getting the true definitions
topsy-turvy, seek to prove that every practicing Hierophant must at least be
spiritually married if for some reason he cannot do so physically, there being
otherwise a great danger of Adulteration of God and Devil!
I tell you
the Shammars (Dugpas, or Black Magicians) are there already, and their
pernicious work is everywhere in our way."
(Master
Morya in The Mahatma Letters, p. 272) »
(From
"The qualifications expected in a Chela" published in Theosophist,
Vol. IV, Supplement, July, 1883, p.10)
Not only did
Blavatsky tell us that true Adepts of the Right-Hand Path never marry or enter
into any sort of sex relation, but she also said that certain Black Magicians
well-known in occult annals were the offspring of high occultists who broke
their vow of celibacy.
Thus of
Cagliostro, she wrote:
« Yet his end was not utterly
undeserved, as he had been untrue to his vows in some respects, had fallen from
his state of chastity and. yielded to ambition and selfishness. »
(Theosophical
Glossary, p.72)
CONCLUSION
The evil is
a great one, for in this particular instance, teaching on one of the greatest
dangers in Occultism - SEX – is given out which is subversive of all that
Blavatsky and the Masters stand for.
In
Blavatsky's article Occultism vs The
Occult Arts from which I quote above (and at greater length in my Great
Betrayal) the true occult teaching on this subject is clearly and unequivocally
set forth.
It forms a
complete refutation of the false and dangerous ideas put forward with such a
show of authority by Mrs. Bailey, which are common to all the charlatans of
Occultism, whether conscious or unconscious.
(Source: “The pseudo-occultism of Alice
Bailey” by Alice Leighton Cleather and Basil Crump.)
OBSERVATIONS
Alice Bailey
in her "Treatise on Cosmic Fire"
put an excerpt from the book "The
Serpent Power" wrote by Arthur Avalon; and hence I suspect that
this technique she put in her "Initiation
Human and Solar" was also copied from that book.
But when you
read what she wrote in rule eleven, you realize that Alice Bailey did not
understand the hidden aspect of that technique (neither does Arthur Avalon) and only put it in her work to impress
her readers. And thankfully she only gave a very short-lived explanation, but
this shows that Mrs. Bailey really didn't know about the topic she was
broaching.
And this I
have already perceived on many other occasions. Alice Bailey collected
information from various books and authors, but she did not understand what she
was transcribing and only put it in her books based on her own speculations to
give herself more prestige.
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