Quick
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Quick Blasts
of
Theosophy
One Liners and Quick
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About Aspects of Theosophy
Special Places
From C W Leadbeater’s
The Hidden Side of Things
Posted
Any spot
where some ceremony has been frequently repeated, especially if in connection
with it a high ideal has been set up, is always charged with a
decided influence. For example, the hamlet of
preparing themselves to take part in a modern
representation.
An
extraordinary sense of reality and of the deepest earnestness is felt by all
those who assist,
and it reacts even upon the comparatively
careless tourist, to whom the whole thing is simply an exhibition. In the same
way the magnificent ideals of Wagner are prominent in the atmosphere of
totally different thing from one by identically the
same players anywhere else.
Sacred
Mountains
There are
instances in which the influence attached to a special place is non-human. This
is usually the case with the many sacred mountains of the world.
I have
described in a previous chapter the great angels who inhabit the summit of the
empire shall be made clear.
I have
several times visited a sacred mountain of a different type--
astral body (He was never there in the physical) He
paid a visit to the tutelary genius of that mountain, who is called by the
people Saman Deviyo.
Just as He
was about to depart, Saman Deviyo
asked Him as a favour to leave on that spot
some permanent memory of His visit, and the BUDDHA
in response is alleged to have pressed His foot upon the solid rock, utilising some force which made upon it a definite imprint
or indentation.
The story
goes on to say that Saman Deviyo,
in order that this holy footprint should never be defiled by the touch of man,
and that the magnetism radiating from it should be preserved, covered it with a
huge cone of rock, which makes
the present summit of the mountain. On the top of
this cone a hollow has been made which roughly resembles a huge foot, and it
seems probable that some of the more ignorant worshippers believe that to be
the actual mark made by the Lord
BUDDHA;
but all the monks who know emphatically deny that, and point to the fact
that this is not only enormously too large to be a
human footprint, but that it is also quite obviously artificial.
They
explain that it is made there simply to indicate the exact spot under which the
true footprint lies, and they point to the fact that there is unquestionably a
crack running all round the rock at some distance below the summit. The idea
of a
sacred footprint on that summit seems to be common to the various religions,
but while the Buddhists hold it to be that of the Lord BUDDHA, the Tamil
inhabitants of the Island suppose it to be one of the numerous footprints of
Vishnu, and the Christians and the Muhammadans
attribute it to Adam-- whence the name Adam' s Peak.
But it is
said that long before any of these religions had penetrated to the Island, long
before the time of the Lord BUDDHA Himself, this peak was already sacred to Saman Deviyo, to whom the deepest
reverence is still paid by the
inhabitants-- as indeed it well may be, since He belongs to
one of the great orders of the angels who rank near to the highest among the
Adepts.
Although
His work is of a nature entirely different from ours, He also obeys the Head of
the Great Occult Hierarchy; He also is one of the Great White Brotherhood which exists only for the purpose of forwarding
the evolution of the world.
The
presence of so great a being naturally sheds a powerful influence over the mountain
and its neighbourhood, and most of all over its
summit, so that there is emphatically a reality behind to account for the
joyous enthusiasm so freely
manifested by the pilgrims. Here also, as at other
shrines, we have in addition to this the effect of the feeling of devotion with
which successive generations of pilgrims have impregnated the place, but though
that cannot but be powerful,
it is yet in this case completely overshadowed
by the original and ever-present influence of the mighty entity who has done
His work and kept His guard there for so many thousands of years.
Sacred
Rivers
There are
sacred rivers also-- the
operation. But what would be beyond the power of the
ordinary man might possibly be quite easy to some one at a much higher level.
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