Without being involved in any way in delicate and many-sided matters of a philosophical and metaphysical type, I must confess frankly and with utmost sincerity, that I had not yet arrived at the sixteen springs of my present existence, when I was involved in many important and interesting matters.
With infinite eagerness I decided to analyse in detail the problems of the spirit under the light of modern science.
I was very interested then in the scientific experiments of the English physicist William Crookes, eminent discoverer of the radiant state of matter and of thallium, illustrious member of the Royal Society of Great Britain.
In my opinion, the materialisation of the ghost of Katie King actually in the laboratory were sensational; this subject was studied by Crookes in his “Experimental Investigations of psychic forces”.
Many sacred subjects from antiquity appeared to me as excellent, exceptional and marvellous, such as the Snake of Paradise, the ass of Balaam, the words of the Sphinx, the mysterious dawn voices of the statues of Memnon, the terrible Mene- Tecel-Phares of the feast of Balthazar; the Seraphim of Tehran, the father of Abraham; the Oracles of Delphi; the Betilos or talking stones of Destiny, the oscillatory, magic menhirs of the druids; the enigmatic voices of all the necromantic bloody sacrifices, the authentic origin of the whole of classic tragedy, whose indiscreet revelations in Prometheus, the Choephoroe and the Eumenides cost his life to the Initiate Aeschylus; the words of Tiresias, the soothsayer evoked by Ulysses in “The Odyssey”, at the edge of the hole filled with the blood of the propitiatory black lamb; the secret voices that Alaric heard ordering him to destroy sinful Rome, and those that the maid of Orleans heard so that she would destroy the English, etc., etc.
Having been taught good manners by my parents, and without trying great oratory feats when engaging in public speaking, I was giving lectures to the Theosophical Society at the age of seventeen years.
I received the theosophist diploma from Jinarajadasa, illustrious president of that august Society, whom at that time I knew personally.
Being quite sure of my temperament, I then became well informed concerning the strange, mysterious knocks in Rochester, the classical psychical phenomena at the farm belonging to the Eddy family, where the Theosophical Society was born; I had accumulated much data related to the evocative tripods of the Pythonesses of ancient times, I knew about haunted houses and of post-mortem apparitions and was well acquainted with all telepathic phenomena.
Unquestionably, having so much metaphysical data in my poor, overstretched mind, I had become a very demanding scholar.
However, I sincerely wished to give shape to my heart by means of the good theosophical criteria, and I had a real feast with the works I found in the rich library.
With mystical surprise, I found an inexhaustible spring of Divine Knowledge in the pages of “The Secret Doctrine”, the extraordinary work of the Venerable Great Master Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the sublime martyr of the XIX century.
Let us consider now the following interesting notes:
“1885. In his diary, Colonel Olcott notes on the 9th of January.
H.P.B. has received from Master M. the plan for her “Secret Doctrine”. It is excellent. Oakley and I tried to draw up such a plan last night, but this one is much better.
The machinations by the couple Coulomb hastened the departure of H.P.B. from Adyar, and she arrived in Europe in March, carrying the precious manuscript. “When I was getting ready to board the ship, Subba Row advised me to write “The Secret Doctrine”, and that every week he should receive what I had written. I promised this, and I will indeed do it…since he will add notes and commentaries, and then the Theosophical Society will publish it.”
During that year, the Master K.H. wrote: “When “The Secret Doctrine ”is ready, it will be a joint production by M., Upasika and I.”
Blavatsky
It is evident that these notes draw us to meditation. However, it is clear that the Venerable Master interpreted the Teachings, adapting them for our times.
Once finished with the theoretical studies of a theosophical type, I intensively practised Raya-Yoga, Bhakti, Jnana-Yoga, Karma-Yoga, etc., etc., etc.
I obtained multiple psychical benefits from the practical yoga commended by this venerable institution. Since the most worthy Master H.P.B. always considered the Hatha-Yoga as something inferior, I wish to assert that I was never interested in this branch of the Hindustani yoga. Much later, I was invited to a great assembly of the venerable Great White Lodge, where Hatha-Yoga was proclaimed as Black Magic.
Samael Aun Weor
