" 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 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. . . ." [Key to Theosophy, p. 262.]The Master K.H. wrote to A. P. Sinnett:—
" It is true that the married man cannot be an adept, yet without striving to become a Saja Yogi he can acquire certain powers and do as much good to mankind and often more, by remaining within the precincts of this world of his." [Mahatma Letters, p. 17.]The nature of the powers are not disclosed.
" Know, O brother mine, that where a truly, spiritual love seeks to consolidate itself doubly by a pure permanent union of the two, in its earthly sense, it commits no sin, no crime in the eyes of the great Ain-Soph, for it is but the divine repetition of the Male and Female Principles — the microcosmal reflection of the first condition of Creation. On such a union angels may well smile." [Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, II, 51]but the most significant and far-reaching in its implications is the hint of the Mahachohan in his letter of 1881:—
" It is time that Theosophy should enter the arena. The sons of theosophists are more likely to become in their turn theosophists than anything else."[Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, I,5]It seems as clear as anything can well be that one of the ways by which the Masters plan that Theosophy should permeate the world is by the passing of the wisdom from parents to their children and their children's children. True that it may not always be possible to pass on the Theosophy of the head in this way, but it should always be possible to pass on the Theosophy of the heart.
"Woman's mission is to become the mother of future occultists — of those who will be born without sin. On the elevation of woman the world's redemption and salvation hinge. And not till woman bursts the bonds of her sexual slavery, to which she has ever been subjected, will the world obtain an inkling of what she really is and of her proper place in the economy of nature. Old India, the India of the Rishis, made the first sounding with her plummet line in this ocean of Truth, but the post-Mahabaratean India, with all her profundity of learning, has neglected and forgotten it.Then there is a most interesting statement by H. P. Blavatsky with footnote, both of which carry us a stage further.|
The light that will come to it and to the world at large, when the latter shall discover and really appreciate the truths that underlie this vast problem of sex, will be like ' the light that never shone on sea or land,' and has come to man through the Theosophical Society. That light will lead on and Up to the true spiritual intuition. Then the world will have a race of Buddhas and Christs, for the world will have discovered that individuals have it in their own power to procreate Buddha-like children or — demons. When that knowledge comes, all dogmatic religions, and with these the demons, will die out."
"The curse of karma (was) called down upon , (humanity) . . . for abusing the creative power, for desecrating the divine gift, and wasting the life-essence for no purpose except bestial personal gratification. . . . During the evolution of the Fourth Race, there came enmity between its seed and the 'Serpent's' seed, the seed or product of karma and Divine Wisdom. For the seed of woman, or lust, bruised the head of the seed of the fruit of wisdom and knowledge, by turning the holy mystery of procreation into animal gratification; hence the law of karma 'bruised the heel' of the Atlantean Race, by gradually changing physiologically, morally, physically and mentally, the whole nature of the Fourth Race of mankind, until, from being the healthy king of animal creation in the Third Race, mail became in the Fifth, our Race, a helpless, scrofulous being, and has now become the wealthiest 'heir on the Globe to constitutional and hereditary diseases, the most consciously and intelligently bestial of all animals.We are fortunately no longer quite the helpless, scrofulous beings that H. P. Blavatsky described in her day, for a better observance of the rules of hygiene, more sensible dietetic habits and a higher standard of living, have improved the general health of the nation. Otherwise we should never have had the physical stamina to perform the feats of arms, and the equally great, if not greater, feats of work, that have been our share in winning this war. But we have certainly not conquered disease, and are not in the least likely to do so until we apply spiritual principles to the health of all the bodies.
How wise and grand, how far-seeing and morally beneficent are the laws of Manu on connubial life, when compared with the licence tacitly allowed to man in civilized countries. That those laws have been neglected for the last two millenniums does not prevent us from admiring their forethought. The Brahman was a Grihasta, a family man, till a certain period of his life, when, after begetting a son, he broke with married life and became a chaste yogi. His very connubial life was regulated by his Brahman astrologer in accordance with his nature. Therefore, in such countries as the Punjab, for instance, where the lethal influence of Mussulman, and later on of European, licentiousness, has hardly touched the orthodox Aryan castes, one still finds the finest men — so far as stature and physical strength go — on the whole Globe; whereas the mighty men of old have found themselves replaced in the Deccan, and especially in Bengal, by men whose generation becomes with every century — and almost with every year — dwarfed and weakened". [The Secret Doctrine, III, 409],
"Thought arises before desire. The thought acts on the brain, the brain on the organ, and then desire awakes. It is not the outer stimulus that arouses the organ. Thought therefore must be slain ere desire can be extinguished". [The Secret Doctrine, V, 546. ]Now it is not the slaying of thought that is necessary or possible in the man of the world, but the direction of thought into the channels of reverence, chivalry and devotion, and above all the conscious knowledge of the harm he does to another. Few men are wicked, but most are ignorant, and today they are more open to enlightenment than they have ever been, for they have had experiences which would not have been possible except for the war. These are the intimate discoveries they have made about their own psychological make-up under bombardment, whether in battle or in air raids, proving conclusively to the individual that he and his body are not one. For he found that whilst the limbs trembled and the mind and emotions expected death at any instant, the real man performed deeds of unprecedented heroism or achieved such a vibrant and vital serenity that everybody in his surroundings felt uplifted by his presence. Countless men and women know this to be true, and they also know that when the man does identify himself with his lower bodies in those circumstances, panic sweeps over him, and he loses his manhood.