sec.re.tar.y
a person, usually an official, who
is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs.
a.man.u.en.sis
Pronunciation: (u-man"yOO-en'sis),
a person employed
to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary.
Our discourses, and My words, are not coming to you
now from the Subtle World, but are the result of the transmission of thought from a distance. When Urusvati sees the events
taking place in Our Tower it is a special function of telepathic vision, whereas discourse with Us corresponds to direct radio
messages. That channel cannot be revealed to everybody, nor can everybody have access to Us. SMD1 120.
You may have noticed that often telepathic transmissions
are quickly forgotten. This is because of the method of transmission, which touches special centers not involved in the usual
processes of hearing. One can train oneself to retain these communications in the memory, but the ability to transmit in this
way is not so easily acquired. The sending of communications does not depend on a forced tension of the will but on clarity
of consciousness in combination with the light of Abhidharma.
Thus, the quality of transmission depends on the purity
of the consciousness and on the presence of oxygen attracted by the Fire of Space. One should observe the different chemical
natures of human transmissions of thought. Customary experiments in thought transmission are useless. In these the sender
mentally repeats, "I am sending," and the recipient, by thinking, "I am receiving," actually obscures his consciousness. During
sendings to a distance one should adjust one’s communications to the psychic condition of the receiving one. AY 500.
None of the Masters of the sixth initiation (such as
the Masters M. and K. H.) are at this time working through dictation with Their disciples. They are too much engrossed with
world problems, and with the work of watching over the destinies of the prominent world figures in the various nations, to
have any opportunity to dictate teaching to any particular disciple in some small field of activity and upon subjects of which
sufficient is already known to enable the disciple to go ahead alone and unaided. Two of the Masters are working telepathically
and through dictation with several accepted disciples, and Their effort is to inspire these disciples, who are active in world
work, to greater usefulness in the Plan. EPI. 1936.
I therefore complied with the wish of K.H. and told
the Tibetan that I would work with Him. I have been strictly his amanuensis and secretary and am not a member of His group.
He has never interfered with my personal work or training. Biography AAB.
Remember that Christ prayed among thieves and that
Buddha revealed the sacrament to a brigand. Judge according to the eyes. Thus write it down. LMG2.
I make no changes in what I give out to the public
from that which has been given to me except that I will smooth the English or replace an unusual word with one that is clearer,
taking care, always, to preserve the sense as given. I have never changed anything that the Tibetan has ever given me. If
I once did so He would never dictate to me again. Auto AAB.
I am looking for no new "stenographers" to take the
place of A.A.B. and shall dictate to none of you. Auto AAB.
Much information about the Brotherhood has been given,
but the aspirant must collect it himself. Even now Our words will impress only a few; nevertheless, the words are uttered
and recorded. Smd1.
A.A.B. takes down to my dictation an average of seven
to twelve pages of typing (single-spaced) each time she writes for me; but owing to the exigencies of my work I cannot dictate
to her every day, though I have found that she would gladly take my dictation daily if I so desired; weeks sometimes elapse
between one dictation and another. I write the above paragraphs for the protection of the hierarchical work in years to come
and not for the protection of A.A.B. RI.
199. Urusvati knows that the Teachings of the
Masters have not been fully recorded in human history. Often only details were stressed, while their underlying principles
were omitted. Envy and negligence deprive mankind of many achievements. The Thinker said, "If you want to find a rare manuscript,
do not look for it only in the libraries. It is better to roam about the market places, and even to pay attention to the wrapping
paper being used! We sometimes found beautiful fragments of rare manuscripts being used to wrap vegetables. I remember a poet
who once advised a writer not to use an ink that was poisonous, for it might harm someone who later buys cherries wrapped
in the paper. Indeed, even We cannot be sure that Our writings will reach future generations in their original form."
Smd1.
Such a momentous event or crisis is now taking place
in the life of humanity today. More along this line I may not here dictate. The subject is too vast, abstruse and complicated.
EA.
On the first page of this "revelation," the author,
or amanuensis, Qu-tamy, declares that "the doctrines propounded therein, were originally told by Saturn to the Moon, who communicated
them to her idol, which idol revealed them to her devotee, the writer -- the adept Scribe of that work -- Qu-tamy. SDII.
HPB.
On page 188 of The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett
one reads: ". . . from the last step of devachan, the Ego will often find itself in Avitcha's faintest state, which, towards
the end of the 'spiritual selection' of events may become a bona fide 'Avitcha.'" "Avitcha" is of course a miswriting by the
chela-amanuensis for Avichi. MLs. KH.
I have been working with A.A.B. as my amanuensis since
November 1919. EXH.
Often have I wished that H.P.B. (my first and earliest
amanuensis) and the many previous teachers of occult truth had given out nothing whatsoever about initiation, the Masters
and the occult Hierarchy. Humanity was not ready, and the Hierarchy is not as it has been portrayed by earnest Theosophists
and Rosicrucians. DINA II.
whatever is imparted will be to individual members
from individuals. For inst: if Mad. B. finds the necessary strength to live (and this depends entirely on her will and its
powers of exertion) and is willing under the guidance of her guru, or even myself, to serve us as an amanuensis for you, (Sinnett,
not for the group) she can, if she likes, send you weekly or monthly instructions. Mohini could do the same -- but under the
pledge that neither our names, or that of the sender will be ever made public; nor shall the T.S. be made responsible for
these teachings. KH Mahatma Latters.
The production of the outer form on earth, through
the medium of books, of esoteric schools and the educating of public opinion has been committed to a group of us who form
a part of the inner world government - disciples and initiates - and to this group, I play the part of secretary and of organizing
contact man - if I may use words which will mean something to your ears, versed as you are in physical plane organization
work; they mean little or nothing to us, versed as we are in the work of producing living organisms. This group to which I
refer is composed of two oriental initiates (of whom I am one) and of five occidental initiates. DINA1.
Our enemies profit to this day by our mistake. The
most recent book directed against our teachings is alleged to have been written by an Adept of twenty years' standing. Now,
it is a palpable lie. We know the amanuensis and his inspirers (as he is himself too ignorant to have written anything of
the sort). These "inspirers" are living persons, revengeful and unscrupulous in proportion to their intellectual powers; and
these bogus Adepts are not one, but several. Key To Theosophy HPB.
A Master may not possess all knowledge possible from
the exoteric angle; this He does not need because (after evolution, along the line of knowledge, decided for Him by His ray
type) He is on the "way of light," and the light which is in Him and in which He lives and moves and functions serves a dual
purpose: It can be used to ascertain whatever is needed in the realm of knowledge by the revelation of where the needed
information can be found; this is far more literally so than you realize. (It was through the use of this form of light that
I, for instance, found A.A.B.; I was searching for a secretary with more than the usual education and perception generally
to be found, and the light revealed her from the personality angle in the three worlds.) RI
643.
At any rate, if you do desert the "Inner Circle" some
other arrangement has to be made: it is out of question for me to be corresponding with, and teaching both. Either you have
to be my mouthpiece and secretary in the Circle, or I shall have to use somebody else as my delegate, and thus have positively
no time to correspond with you. They have pledged themselves --(most of them) to me for life and death -- the copy of the
pledge is in the hands of Maha-Chohan -- and I am bound to them. KH Mahatma Letters.
ISIS UNVEILED; a master-key to the mysteries of ancient
and modern science and theology. By H. P. Blavatsky, Corresponding Secretary of the Theosophical Society.
"Mercury has to be ever near Isis, as her minister,
as without Mercury neither Isis nor Osiris can accomplish anything in the GREAT WORK." Cynocephalus, whenever represented
with the Caduceus, the Crescent, or the Lotus, is a glyph of the "philosophical" Mercury; but when seen with a reed, or a
roll of parchment, he stands for Hermes, the secretary and adviser of Isis. SDI HPB.
And is not "Old Time" of the Greeks, with its scythe
and sand-glass, identical with the "Ancient of Days" of the Kabalists, the latter "Ancient" being one with the Hindu "Ancient
of Days," Brahma (in his triune form), whose name is also "Sanat," the Ancient? Every Kumara bears the prefix of Sanat and
Sana; and Sanaischara is Saturn, the planet (Sani and Sarra), the King Saturn whose Secretary in Egypt was Thot-Hermes the
first. SDI HPB.
First, I seek to ascertain the mental state and preparedness
of the amanuensis, A.A.B., and whether the press of the other work upon which she is engaged in connection with the Plan of
the spiritual Hierarchy permits of her right reception; for if the work is exerting extreme pressure and if she is occupied
with urgent problems, it may be needful for me to wait until such time as circumstances give her the needed leeway both of
time and strength, and of mental detachment. My own sphere of occult work must also come under consideration. Then, having
established a rapport with her, I have three things to do. First, I must gather the group of disciples as a whole into my
aura and so gauge its general condition of receptivity - for that must determine the scope of the intended communication.
Do you realize, my brothers, that as you extend your power to grasp the needed lessons and learn to train your minds to think
in ever wider and more abstract terms, you draw from me a correspondingly adequate instruction? The limitation to the imparted
truth lies on your side and not on mine. DINA2.
Then third, I have to enter into that meditative condition,
and that extraverted attitude which will enable me to pour out in a steady stream of constructive sentences which will express,
to the mind of the amanuensis, the thought-form as I see it and build it. Putting it otherwise, I become creative with deliberation
and endeavor to convey to the vision, to the mind and to the intellectual perception of A.A.B. an ordered presentation of
the thought-form which embodies the lesson I desire the students to learn. All this necessitates an expenditure of force and
of time on my part which I feel is well warranted if the students - on their side - will prepare their minds, give the needed
time, respond to the few requests I may make, and eventually cooperate with the work of bringing the edited instructions to
the attention of aspirants and disciples everywhere and later to a wider public.
And let me here clarify also the question which is
in your minds concerning the basis of the rapport between A.A.B. and myself. Earlier, I explained that a neophyte in an ashram
is under the guidance of a more advanced chela and that "the Master is receiving regular reports (based on certain charts)
from the senior disciple who has the neophyte in charge. It is in this way that many hierarchical relationships are established."
(Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. I, page 723.) Several lives ago I was thus responsible for A.A.B. and hence the close link
between us and the basic understanding and hence, therefore, the work we have been able to do together, even though I am not
her Master. DINA2.
a.man.u.en.sis
Pronunciation: (u-man"yOO-en'sis),
a person employed
to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary.
a.man.u.en.sis
sec.re.tar.y
a person, usually an official, who
is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs.
562. When I permitted you to record
Our Communions, I did not conceal from you that people would utter many evil words about the most lofty concepts. He who thinks
about good must not be astonished when he is called a hypocrite, a necromancer, a murderer, and a liar. As if obsessed, people
will apply the most unfitting epithets to him. Wherever there is no thought about good the evil tongue is always ready. FWI
HR.
76. We, Brothers of Humanity, do not admit parallelism
where there is manifest a spiral of tensity. Parallelism manifested in action and in the containment of beauty is evidence
of goal-fitness. The transport of creation should not become extinguished because of prematureness. To each transport
of creativeness of a builder, freedom and its own stronghold are offered. We, Brothers of Humanity, wish to help mankind to
create its own place in the eternal manifest Infinite. Write down, as a living record, the experience with the fires of Space
undergone by the Mother of Agni Yoga. Record the experiment of the Mother of Agni Yoga as a great school of spirit.
InfI HR.
315. You have a wide correspondence with various countries.
If your friends begin to record such notes about psychic energy, an important comparison can be made, not only of the facts
themselves but also of the individual attitude toward them. Likewise, climatic conditions and local events necessarily infuse
a characteristic note. The entire variation of conditions of life can be observed by means of such writings. The steadfastness
of unwavering attention helps to deepen observations. AUM.
pri'vate sec'retary
a person who attends to the
individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.
