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Kuthumi in particular taught with profound scholarship, and he had a mind able to penetrate the veils of time and read the [[akashic records]] of earth’s history. The knowledge of his [[chohan]]s, who were his teachers, was of intergalactic dimensions, and they guided him closely in all of his dealings with his chelas. Much to the wonder of his fellow adepts and to the consternation of his chohans, Kuthumi attempted to bring to Western man some of the long forbidden mysteries of the occult Brotherhood. | Kuthumi in particular taught with profound scholarship, and he had a mind able to penetrate the veils of time and read the [[akashic records]] of earth’s history. The knowledge of his [[chohan]]s, who were his teachers, was of intergalactic dimensions, and they guided him closely in all of his dealings with his chelas. Much to the wonder of his fellow adepts and to the consternation of his chohans, Kuthumi attempted to bring to Western man some of the long forbidden mysteries of the occult Brotherhood. | ||
Among the most profound concepts they released was the teaching on the law of cycles. In a letter sent to the English | Among the most profound concepts they released was the teaching on the law of cycles. In a letter sent to the English Theosophist A. O. Hume in 1882, published in ''The Mahatma Letters'', Kuthumi wrote: | ||
<blockquote>I would not refuse what I have a right to teach. Only I had to study for fifteen years before I came to the doctrines of cycles and had to learn simpler things at first.... Let me tell you that the means we avail ourselves of are all laid down for us in a code as old as humanity to the minutest detail, but everyone of us has to begin from the beginning, not from the end. Our laws are as immutable as those of Nature, and they were known to man and eternity before this strutting game cock, modern science, was hatched.<ref>A. Trevor Barker, comp., ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Pasadena Calif.: Theosophical University Press, 1923, reprint 1975), Letter XXII, p. 144. The adepts introduced to both East and West, for the first time, advanced teaching on cyclic evolution (from Spirit to Matter and from Matter to Spirit), the seven “rounds” or cycles of planetary evolution, and the evolution and development of the seven root races.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>I would not refuse what I have a right to teach. Only I had to study for fifteen years before I came to the doctrines of cycles and had to learn simpler things at first.... Let me tell you that the means we avail ourselves of are all laid down for us in a code as old as humanity to the minutest detail, but everyone of us has to begin from the beginning, not from the end. Our laws are as immutable as those of Nature, and they were known to man and eternity before this strutting game cock, modern science, was hatched.<ref>A. Trevor Barker, comp., ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Pasadena Calif.: Theosophical University Press, 1923, reprint 1975), Letter XXII, p. 144. The adepts introduced to both East and West, for the first time, advanced teaching on cyclic evolution (from Spirit to Matter and from Matter to Spirit), the seven “rounds” or cycles of planetary evolution, and the evolution and development of the seven root races.</ref></blockquote> | ||