Some facts about adeptship

[_Hermes_]

In theosophy there is a term called adeptship, it is not the same as the spiritualistic term medium, as adepts don't do channeling or communicate with the spirits. They are though helpers of humanity and have control over their abilities and work with karmic cycles. They are very often initiates into occultism but not all are. There are seven degrees of adeptship.

It is not the outer personal self but the inner entity, the soul within, which has reached a state of Adeptship in both former lives and the present one. The Adept or Master is the unseen permanent individuality, not the externally visible present personality.

But an adept – the highest as the lowest – is one only during the exercise of his occult powers.

The highest occult powers are called shaktis and are those of the paramitas.

The seven paramitas are:

1. Dāna, the key of charity and love immortal.

2. Śīla, the key of Harmony in word and act, the key that counterbalances the cause and the effect, and leaves no further room for Karmic action.

3. Kṣānti, patience sweet, that nought can ruffle.

4. Virāga, indifference to pleasure and to pain, illusion conquered, truth alone perceived.

5. Vīrya, the dauntless energy that fights its way to the supernal TRUTH, out of the mire of lies terrestrial.

6. Dhyāna, whose golden gate once opened leads the Naljor [A saint, an adept] toward the realm of Sat eternal and its ceaseless contemplation.

7. Prajñā, the key to which makes of a man a god, creating him a Bodhisattva, son of the Dhyânis.