Who
are these mysterious Mahatmas, Adepts, Brothers, Sisters...Much
creative speculation has been written about them and they have many
imitators - why not read the original texts? One thing that can be said,
is that tolerance seems to be a primary concern of theirs:
1-We refuse no one. ‘’Spheres
of usefulness’’ can be found everywhere. (Letters from the Masters of the
Wisdom, Series 2, p.125)
2-Ever turn away your gaze from the imperfections of your neighbour and
centre rather your attention upon your own shortcomings in order to correct
them and become wiser. (LMW, 2, p. 158)
3-Show not the disparity between claim and action in another man but,
whether he be brother or neighbour, rather help him in his arduous walk in
life. (LMW, 2, p. 158)
4-Do not be too severe on the merits of demerits of one who seeks
admission among your ranks, as the truth about the actual state of the inner
man can only be known to and dealt with justly by KARMA alone. (LMW, 2, p. 159)
5-Do not indulge in unbrotherly comparisons between the task
accomplished by yourself and the work left undone by your neighbour or brother,
in the field of Theosophy, as none is
held to weed out a larger plot of ground than his strength and capacity will
permit him. (LMW, 2, p. 159)
6-Those who try in their walk of life, to follow their inner light, will never be found judging
far less condemning those weaker than themselves. (Some Words on Daily Life,
Blavatsky, CW 7, pp. 173-175)
7-Make Theosophy a living force in your lives and through your example those
class and caste distinctions, which for so long have bred hatred and misery,
shall at no distant time come to be but distinctions of function in the common
service of the nation-family and of the World-Brotherhood. (Blavatsky, CW 7,
pp. 173-175)
8-Theosophy has to fight intolerance, prejudice, ignorance and
selfishness, hidden under the mantle of hypocrisy. It has to throw all the
light it can from the torch of Truth, with which its servants are entrusted. It
must do this without fear or hesitation, dreading neither reproof nor
condemnation. (Blavatsky, CW 7, pp. 173-175)
9-Theosophy, therefore, expects and demands from the Fellows of the
Society a great mutual toleration and charity for each other’s shortcomings,
ungrudging mutual help in the search for truths in every department of
nature-moral and physical. And this ethical standard must be unflinchingly
applied to daily life. (Blavatsky, CW 7, pp. 173-175)
10-In such a great work as this movement no one should expect to find
his associates all congenial, intuitive, prudent or courageous. One of the
first proofs of self-mastery is when one shows that he can be kind and
forbearing and genial with companions of the most dissimilar characters and
temperaments. One of the strongest signs of retrogression when one shows that
he expects others to like what he likes and act as he acts. (Letter to Hartmann, #10, Blavatsky CW 8 p,
449)
11-Europe is a large place but the world is bigger yet. The sun of
Theosophy must shine for all, not for a part. There is more of this movement
that you have yet had an inkling of, and the work of the T.S. is linked in with
similar work that is secretly going on in all parts of the world. (Mahatma
Letters to A. P. Sinnett, Barker, L. 47)
12-As it was our wish then, to
signify to you that one could be both an active and useful member of the
Society without inscribing himself our follower or co-religionist, so it is now. (ML, L. 87)
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