P.S. — The "friend" of whom the Lord Lindsay speaks in his letter to you, is, I am sorry to say, a true skunk mephitis, who managed to perfume himself with ess-bouquet in his presence during their palmy days of friendship, and so avoided being recognized by his natural stench.  It is Home — the medium, a convert to Roman Catholicism, then to Protestantism, and finally to the Greek Church.  He is the bitterest and most cruel enemy O. and Mad. B. have, though he has never met either of them.  For a certain time he succeeded in poisoning the Lord's mind, and prejudiced him against them.  I do not like saying anything behind a man's back, for it looks like back-biting.  Yet in view of some future events I feel it my duty to warn you, for this one is an exceptionally bad man — hated by the Spiritualists and mediums as much as he is despised by those — who have learned to know him.  Yours is a work which clashes directly with his.  Though a poor sickly cripple, a paralysed wretch, his mental faculties are as fresh and as alive as ever to mischief.  He is no man to stop before a slanderous accusation — however vile and lying.  So — beware. 

K. H. 

 

HPB described the reasons D. D. Home had fallen out of favor with her in an 1876 letter to the Spiritual Scientist (Boston, Vol. IV, March 23, 1876, pp. 32-34) regarding an impending crisis for the modern movement known as Spiritualism.  This predicament suggests the moral relativity of a person making judgments about someone else or something else, based merely upon a particular selection of reported details becoming known.  HPB considered her personal 'Master' among Masters to be Morya, who signed his letters with the initial 'M.'  She wrote about him: "I always recognize and know the Master, and often talk to him without seeing him.  How is it that he hears me from everywhere, and that I also hear his voice across seas and oceans twenty times a day?  I do not know, but it is so.  Whether it is he personally that enters me I really cannot say with confidence: if it is not he, it is his power, his influence.  Through him alone I am strong; without him I am a mere nothing."  Other blog articles report about other paranormal case chronologies involving letters.

In Letter No. IX by 'K.H.,' there is mentioned the "apparently contradictory phases" of "the manifestations of occult philosophy."  In the same letter is written: 
 

Alone the adepts, i.e., the embodied spirits—are forbidden by our wise and intransgressible laws to completely subject to themselves another and a weaker will,—that of free born man.  The latter mode of proceeding is the favourite one resorted to by the "Brothers of the Shadow," the Sorcerers, the Elementary Spooks, and, as an isolated exception—by the highest Planetary Spirits, those, who can no longer err.

"The power of the pen is great, and it is our wish in our world—those of us in our world whose work it is to try to be of service to the earth world—it is our wish and our work to try to further an understanding of our work, an understanding that it is a place which is as natural as your world, but merely it is upon a different vibration.

 

 

. . . we who have to use earthly instruments such as this one have to contend with the mind and prejudices of that instrument.

 

 

It is like pouring water into a mind . . . And if you pour water into a vessel that is shaped round, the water will be round-shaped in that vessel.  Therefore the words that we pour through human instruments are certain to take the shape of the mind of that instrument, although the essence of that message may well remain.  This is our difficulty.  Some instruments are better than others.  Psychic gifts are not necessarily spiritual.  It is a gift that is like music.  Remember this.  Not all those who are endowed with the gift of music may lead lives that are exactly spiritual in nature.  We make use of what material is available.  Therefore, place not people upon pedestals in your exploration.  Assess them and know them.  (article)

. . . you are moving into a New Age — a New Spirituality — where you consciously create your own reality.  This truth is becoming more and more real.  In reaction and response to this realness, people are asking for help — spiritual help.  They are discovering and calling out to their Higher Selves.  They are reaching beyond their Higher Selves as they ask for help.  They are creating that help in the form of channeling.

Channeling runs the range, just like every other activity in life.  There are the good ones and the not-so-good ones.

 

On the down side, there are those who see this as a tremendous moneymaking opportunity.  Others have looked at it as a tremendous power trip, and therefore have hopped on the bandwagon quite erroneously, quite fraudulently.  Others are sincere in intention, but are not having the connection they ought to have or the clarity they ought to have, and therefore are channeling inadequately or inappropriately.  There are also those who are allowing very high energies, very powerful energies to travel through and put the information forth.

This also is a part of the pattern, for, you see, it is important that you as individuals learn discernment.  You are barraged with all kinds of channeled information, and, in that sense, you have to pick and choose.  Which works?  Which doesn't?  Which is valid?  Which is not?  Which can help?  Which does not?  Therefore, you are still responsible.  Therefore, you are still powerful.

 

If every shred of channeled information from every channeled source were accurate and correct, and therefore you could "just accept it because it is so," there would be no responsibility left for the human being.  That would be terribly unfair.  So therefore, the opportunity of discernment, the opportunity of choice, the opportunity of finding the answers is part of what the New Age is.

 

Secondly, it is part of the New Spirituality.  More and more in your world, particularly in the United States, have fulfilled their basic needs.  When you were children you were told, "If you just get the right job and the right education and the right marriage, then the world will be 'golden.'"  You listened to what you were told, and you did what you were told.  It still wasn't enough.

 

Your turned to your traditional sources of spirituality, which hitherto had been the Judeo-Christian ethic.  It was an answer, but not enough of an answer.  You didn't abandon it necesssarily.  You stretched beyond it.

 

We suggest that the New Spirituality is that search, is that seeking of God/Goddess/All That Is, a force that is more than limited religious concepts.  You are searching for and seeking a grander sense of wholeness, a grander sense of channeling, a grander activity where forces from other levels offer their input and information.  So your channeling is increasing.  (Source: Lazaris Interviews Book I [1988])