Did a Federation of Adepts form in the Nineteenth-Century?

HELENA BLAVATSKY IS CERTAIN THAT A GREAT BODY OR FEDERATION OF “spiritual Illuminati” does exist in her time; but their locations will never be known. Firstly, until the masses had greatly sought to get rid of its ignorance and aspired to learn of the body of knowledge associated with those institutions and schools, such individuals would not feel it wise to engage.

She states in A Few Questions to Hiraf, that “. . .the real, the complete Cabala. . .is in possession, as I said before, of but a few Oriental philosophers. . .The only thing I can say is that such a body exists, and that the location of their Brotherhoods will never be revealed to other countries, until the day when Humanity shall awake in a mass from its spiritual lethargy, and open its blind eyes to the dazzling light of Truth. A too premature discovery might blind them, perhaps forever.” Blavatsky suggests that a cyclical effort though was given to this very cause for some duration.

When asked further, as to ‘Who is in the possession of the true hidden knowledge?’ She quotes the Avataṃsaka Sūtra: ‘The great teachers of the Snowy Mountain’ (…)” (“Snowlanders, are you teaching them the Wisdom?”: Samlo Ae Tang Gangchenpa Song by Gepe). Some have said, that like the first German Rosicrucians, who learned their ideas and imagery from Moors and mystics of Islamic esoteric origin, Theosophy owes its concepts of Cyclical Time and Rounds to them also. As time and research is showing however, these ideas have never originated with nor belonged alone to Muslims. The story is bigger than Christianity and Islam and will remain so.

It is said that the ancient academies from Egypt and all over Asia and Europe once bloomed with great minds. Initiates, as said before were surely to come into “the company of the gods,” but most importantly, as time has also shown us, the Europeans had lost their Mysteries. Some buried its remnants in the new religion Christianity as a means of adaptation and survival from persecution and death.

The reasons for secrecy greatly frustrated someone like Egyptologist Gerald Massey, and though H.P. Blavatsky had explained the various reasons, like the dangers in this period in history, Armenian Christian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff provided the best answers to this reason. If the mass of Humanity scoffs at such knowledge and doubts, it has been because they have been taught to. G.I. Gurdjieff offered a somber reality about the human condition and the masses as controlled machines (G.I. Gurdjieff on Esoteric Christianity and the Slavery of the Masses). Gurdjieff advises us to remember the famous words inscribed on the Temple of Apollo GNOTHI SEAUTON.