(This
article was written by George Cardinal LeGros [1905-1988] who was a
Theosophist and astrologer well known in the American Theosophical world
for his writings, magazines, and correspondence courses.)
BLAVATSKY'S THE SECRET DOCTRINE ON THE PROBLEM OF SEX
Introduction
The writer [Legros] sincerely
hopes that nothing in the following pages will strike the reader as "goody
goody" moralizing, nor that he, the writer, will appear as a simpering
"holier-than-thou" harlequin. The Theosophical Movement has enough
comic figures.
But the fact is that we are
living in the most sexually permissive age since the fall of Rome, and only
Theosophists or those familiar with the Eastern occult teachings know that sex
is a cosmic force greater than nuclear bombs, representing in every human
destiny an ultimate challenge involving immortality or annihilation.
Although regular chelaship and
the chastity it demands are several lifetimes away for most Messiah readers,
the present is as good a time as any to consider what H.P. Blavatsky (the
Masters' Messenger in the last century and this) has to say on the matter.
We have no other court of appeal.
One can expect little help from medical men, psychiatrists, psychologists,
marriage counselors, priests, preachers, and educators because, with, of
course, a number of happy exceptions, all are infected with the virus of the
"New Morality" which would have us abandon all sexual restraints and
"liberate" ourselves from the "unhealthy repressions" of
our puritan ancestors.
A refreshing exception among
medical men is Dr. Val Davajan, chief of the reproductive biology section of
the Medical Center at the University of Southern California. Says the doctor:
"No matter what the sexologists say, the New Morality is immoral."
One of the latest results of the
"New Morality" was revealed by a Gallup survey of student attitudes
commissioned by Oklahoma Christian College. It was found that as students move
along from year to year they tend increasingly to approve smoking, drinking,
legalized marijuana, abortion, and pre-martial sex. Among freshmen, 30 percent
identified their political philosophy as left-of-center or far left. By the
senior year the number had grown to 53 percent.
The foregoing is an exoteric
picture. The esoteric is something else, and we can do no better than begin
with some highly illuminating material by Dr. G. de Purucker, himself an
initiated chela and the last Leader of the original Theosophical Society.
Sex is a passing phase
In his Fundamentals of the
Esoteric Philosophy, he states:
«...sex is but a passing phase in racial evolution, and, strictly
speaking, is not normal to mankind on Globe D of our planetary chain. This
method of procreation actually was copied from the beasts, which 'separated'
before 'man' ... As a matter of fact, the Atlantean and Atlanto-Lemurian karma
has weighed so heavily upon us, the fifth race, that we are actually belated,
and have not at the present date, the middle-point of the fifth race, reached
that stage as regards the evolving of the physical body which otherwise we
should have reached.
"As it stands, however, the
teaching tells us that at the end of our own fifth race, men and women will be
disappearing as opposite sexes; and that by the middle of the Sixth Root Race
(the race to come) men and women as separate sexes shall be no longer. The race
will consist of beings who are physiologically neither men nor women; ...
The humans of that period (the
Sixth Root-Race) will produce children by meditation and by will; during the
Seventh Root-Race, the last to come on this Globe, during this Fourth Round – a
race which to us now would seem glorious – the humans of that race will produce
their kind in the same general manner; but by consciously exercised will and
meditation, but still more impersonally ... than the Sixth Race will do.
The main point then, here, is to
realize that this present physiological state of sex is a passing racial
evolutionary phase; and that every abuse, every misuse, no matter of what kind
or what the world may think about it, is a reaction contrary to the
evolutionary 'law' ... and that while it is true that the present method is the
one which nature has evolved at the present time, as said before it is not
really the method which primordial humanity might have followed ... Nature has
followed that line, as it were, under protest, through the evil doing involved
in our past karma, as the only way by which souls can find incarnation at
present ... »
(pp. 342-6)
The greatest curse
We find confirmation of Dr. de
Purucker's views in The Secret Doctrine, II, p. 216:
"From the possession of the double principle in one, that is the
Androgyne condition, the separation of the dual principle was made, presenting
two opposites whose destiny it was, for ever after, to seek reunion into the
original one condition. The curse was this, viz: that nature, impelling the
search, evaded the desired result by the production of a new being, distinct
from that reunion or oneness desired, by which the natural longing to recover a
lost state was and is for ever being cheated. It is by this tantalizing process
of a continued curse that Nature lives."
In a footnote on the same page H.P.
Blavatsky adds:
"By which (human) nature lives, not even the animal – but the
misguided, sensual and vicious nature, which man, not nature, created."
This is abstruse metaphysics, but
establishes that sexual reproduction for humanity was not in Nature's original
plan. On page 262, II, The Secret Doctrine, we read:
"As has been shown in the present volume (Anthropogenesis), it is
the speechless animal that first started sexual connection, having been the
first to separate into males and females. Nor was it intended by Nature that
man should follow the bestial example – as shown by the comparatively painless
procreation of their species by the animals, and the terrible suffering and danger
of the same in the women."
Ambition is the first curse, says
Light on the Path, [see Rule #1] but sex is the greatest, says The Secret
Doctrine, II, p. 412:
"...the fire received has turned into the greatest curse: the
animal element, and consciousness of its possession, has changed periodical
instinct into chronic animalism and sensuality. It is that which hangs over
humanity like a heavy funereal pall." ... It has degraded man into a
"helpless, scrofulous being, who has become the richest heir on the globe
to constitutional and hereditary diseases, the most consciously and intelligently
bestial of all animals."
The deliberate profanation of sex
in Atlantis led to the worship of the physical body (the Easter Island statues
attest to this), and finally to the sex principle in itself. Phallic sorcery
followed, with half of the Fourth Root-Race falling into Black Magic practices which
survive today in African Voodoo, Tibetan Dugpa Lamaism, Hindu Tantrika, and
various corrupt "New Thought" branches of Western metaphysics.
The Secret Doctrine, II, 295-6:
"The question is often asked, why should celibacy and chastity be a
sine qua non rule and condition of regular chelaship, or the development of
psychic and occult powers? The answer is contained in the Commentary ... During
human life the greatest impediment in the way of spiritual development, and
especially to the acquirement of Yoga powers, is the activity of our
physiological senses. Sexual action being closely connected, by interaction,
with the spinal cord and the grey matter of the brain, it is useless to give
any longer explanation."
IMPORTANT NOTE: at this point the
writer wishes to emphatically state that the purpose of these pages is NOT to
rail against marriage and human love nor suggest that anyone take the yellow
robe of asceticism. Its purpose is solely educational and informative. It is
believed that by knowing the esoteric truth about sex and mankind's Tomorrow,
one would be better able to deal with the challenging human relation problems
in our immediate experience.
The "fall of the angels"
The history of mankind in its
present form as separate sexes goes back about eighteen million years to the
middle of the Third Root-Race in Lemuria, when the Mind element began to
function.
Until then man was "an
empty, senseless Bhuta" (form or shadow), the product of two streams of
evolution: the Monadic or Spiritual, and the Physical or material. With the
entry of Manas (Mind) a third stream of evolution was added, conferring
self-consciousness and a sense of moral responsibility.
The early sub-races of the Third
Root-Race (The Secret Doctrine, II, p. 275) evolved by sexless creative
instinct an "intermediate race" in which the higher Dhyan Chohans
incarnated at the time of the separation of the sexes. These were the Sons of
Will and Yoga, representing the full incarnation of the Mind principle.
A second class of Ego did not
incarnate fully at once, but chose to wait, projecting only "a
spark." It is these (The Secret Doctrine, II, 167) who "constitute
the average humanity which has to acquire its intellectuality during the present
Manvantaric evolution."
The "Sin of the
Mindless" resulted when certain males of the "separated"
humanity (before Manas was awakened and also before sterility was established
between the human and animal kingdoms) had sexual congress with female beasts.
Thus unconsciously the first misuse of the sex force took place. (The Secret
Doctrine, II, 185). "The sin of the brainless or 'mindless' Races, who had
no 'spark' and were irresponsible, fell upon those who failed to do by them their
Karmic duty." Thereupon, seeing this shameful Karmic result, the Sons of
Wisdom endowed all men with Manas "lest worse should happen."
A third class of Egos deferred
incarnation till the Fourth or Atlantean Root-Race, in which the worst sexual
Karma was incurred because the Atlanteans renewed the Sin of the Mindless with
knowledge and moral responsibility. It is stated (The Secret Doctrine, II, 302)
that in this case it was "the Spiritual being which sinned, the Spirit
element being still the 'Master' principle in man, in those days. Thus it is in
those days that the heaviest Karma of the Fifth Race was generated by our
Monads."
The most significant statement of
all in this connection is found on page 228, The Secret Doctrine, II:
"As to those 'Sons of Wisdom' who had 'deferred' their incarnation
till the Fourth Race, which was already tainted (physiologically) with sin and
impurity, they produced a terrible cause, the Karmic result of which weighs on
them to this day. It was produced in themselves, and they became the carriers
of that seed of iniquity for aeons to come, because the bodies they had to
inform had become defiled through their own procrastination. This was the 'Fall
of the Angels,' because of their rebellion against Karmic Law. The 'fall of
man' was no fall, for he was irresponsible."
Chelaship
Blavatsky's Teacher:
"Behold the truth before you! A clean life, an open mind, a pure
heart, an eager intellect, an unveiled spiritual perception, a brotherliness
for one's co-disciple, a readiness to give and receive advice and instruction,
a loyal sense of duty to the Teacher, a willing obedience to the behests of
TRUTH, once we have placed our confidence in, and believe the Teacher to be in
possession of it; a courageous endurance of personal injustice, a brave
declaration of principles, a valiant defense of those who are unjustly
attacked, and a constant eye to the ideal of human progression and perfection
which the secret science (Gupta Vidya) depicts - these are the golden stairs up
the steps of which the learner may climb to the Temple of Divine Wisdom. Say
this to those who have volunteered to be taught by you."
Theosophy teaches that we are
Spiritual Pilgrims imprisoned by Kosmic and Karmic necessity in bodies of flesh
informed by animal instincts and desires. The Spiritual Beings we essentially
are aspire toward the god worlds from which we came, while at the same time the
"Call of the Wild" would lure us back to the steaming jungles of
animalhood.
It is the old story of the god
and beast, one of which must ultimately absorb our being. which brings us to
the subject of chelaship. A chela is a man or woman who anticipates the crisis
by prematurely bringing it upon himself. It means a terrible battle in the
heart and mind between the two forces or polarities. Very few are ready for
chelaship, but when one is, nothing on earth can stop him.
In The Theosophist of July 1883
H.P. Blavatsky wrote:
"One who undertakes to try for Chelaship by that very act rouses
and lashes to desperation every sleeping passion of his animal nature. For this
is the commencement of a struggle for the mastery in which quarter is never to
be given nor taken ... in this moral battle, if the Chela has one single hidden
blemish – do what he may, it shall and will be brought to light ... He is now
in an atmosphere of illusions – maya. Vice puts on its most alluring face, and
the tempting passions try to lure the inexperienced aspirant to the depths of
psychic debasement.
If the candidate has the latent lust for money, or political chicanery,
or materialistic scepticism, or vain display, or false speaking, or cruelty, or
sensual gratification of any kind, the germ is almost sure to sprout; and so,
on the other hand, as regards the noble qualities of human nature. The real man
comes out. Is it not the height of folly, then, for anyone to leave the smooth
path of commonplace life to scale the crags of Chelaship without some
reasonable feeling of certainty that he has the right stuff in him? Well says
the Bible: 'Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.' [1
Corinthians 10:12.] – a test that would-be Chelas should consider well before
they rush headlong into the fray!"
The marriage
It's a fantastic situation.
Apparently when we were awakened to Manasic self-consciousness and were able to
recognize our essential Divinity, it was in Nature's plan for us to carry on in
an androgynous state. With Mind – a godlike faculty – active within us we
deserved to live free from animality and beasthood.
But something went wrong, and
Nature's plan had to be revised. So here we are – gods trapped in the bodies of
animals which too often we mistake for ourselves, with heartbreaking
consequences.
When Dr. G. de Purucker was
asked:
Do Theosophists approve of marriage?
He said, among other things (Questions
We All Ask, p. 137):
"Theosophists most certainly approve of marriage, decidedly so. The
only trouble is that so many marriages are 'merely farces.' Marriage itself is
beautiful. The principle is holy; and if true marriage takes place, life is
sanctified for those two human hearts."
When H.P. Blavatsky was asked if
a man must marry or remain a celibate (The Key to Theosophy, p. 262), she
replied:
"It depends on the kind of man you mean. If you refer to one who
intends to live in the world, one who, even though a good, earnest Theosophist,
and an ardent worker for our cause, still has ties and wishes which bind him to
the world, who, in short, does not feel that he has done for ever with what men
call life, and that he not desires one thing and one thing only: to know the
truth, and to be able to help others –then for such a one I say there is no
reason why he should not marry, if he likes to take the risks of that lottery
where there are so many more blanks than prizes. Surely you cannot believe us
so absurd and fanatical as to preach against marriage altogether? On the
contrary, save in a few exceptional cases of practical Occultism, marriage is
the only remedy against immorality."
There is the story about a young
man who went to Socrates with the question of whether or not he should marry.
"It doesn't matter much one way or another," said Socrates. "Whatever you
do, you'll regret it."
(This article was published in
Legros' Messiah newsletter,
circa 1987.)
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