GREAT THEOSOPHISTS SERIES

REFLECTIVE DIVINITY

An anthropomorphic God and/or anthropomorphic Masters may share a common error. We may deify Masters with turbans, perhaps a sash, or beard; often male, and a penetrating stare. We have heard they belong to a secret brotherhood somewhere located in the snowy ranges of Tibet. Our imagination can conjure hidden caves with great chambers concealing temples harboring cosmic planners or ascetics of various degrees.

While the above may or may not have flashes of truth, it can act to set us apart from these beings. Consider for a moment that all of history exhibits the presence of great beings. In all periods from Plato to Buddha to Confucious to Thomas Paine, to Abraham Lincoln, to almost every culture and throughout all time, there have been great beings. This is evident.

Another perspective too--most would agree, there is a common theme. This is, their acts or messages have a lot to do with unity, greater understanding, compassion, and a reaching out towards others. We might say they are the Masters of The Wisdom.

They reflect to a greater or lesser degree a divinity which resonates within each one of us. From this standpoint these Masters of The Wisdom are not separate from us but strike a key within us. We are they and they are us.

An essential component of Theosophy is that there is a Wisdom Religion which always has been and always will be. Those beings which awaken this within us can be said to be Masters of The Wisdom or simply Masters of Wisdom. They have been here in every time and in every age. There are probably cycles within cycles of their appearance. Here we are pointing to a 700-year cycle which has to do with the reappearance of The Wisdom. There are probably other cycles.

From the Bhagavad-Gita: "I produce myself among creatures, O son of Bharata, whenever there is a decline of virtue and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world; and thus I incarnate from age to age for the preservation of the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the establishment of righteousness."