The Esoteric Section:
Morals and beliefs published {circa 1960}

P97 GS Arundale: the whole object of the Esoteric School is to lead you from the world of men into the world of the masters, and you must take as your standard the morality of the masters and not that of the world.

P161 Sri Ram '… the changes they are planning for the world'

P151 A Besant 'Then came the need for the great shaking, when elements had accumulated that were not ready to go further. It had to be a very great shaking, for the times demanded it, in order that the advance afterwards might be rapid. This time it came [in 1907], all the turmoil and its inevitable results in shaking out a large number of good and earnest people who were nevertheless no good to us at the moment because they could not adapt themselves to the new life.

P121 Jinarajadasa '.. the Lords of karma may put you in a race that has no tendency to occultism - you may possibly get a hard brain so that you will not be able to meditate,

P25 A Besant '.. you have to learn to make the mind sensitive to orders that come to you from the Higher Mind, and then you gradually get the feeling that your mind is not you, but something for use … the drudgery has to be done until the mind becomes automatically obedient.

P37 A Besant '.. I cannot imagine anyone who is a disciple doing anything but obeying without cavil or delay any order that comes from his superior.'

P35 A Besant '.. the Hierarchy - has no break therin; it is because any command which is given comes down from grade to grade, and grade to grade until it reaches the disciple appointed.'

P50 Jinarajadasa 'take the case of the member who comes into this school. He is presumably sincere, he has read certain rules, and he signs a promise or a pledge. No-one has compelled him to come in, and he knows exactly to what he is subscribing. If after subscribing to the rules of the esoteric school he voluntarily, to suit his own convenience, adopts modifications of them, it is obvious that he is not playing the game.

P156 N Sri Ram '.. members [of the ES] to act as a definite instrument through which the hierarchy can act upon the Society..'

P127 HPB The Theosophist Aug 1931. 'The Esoteric Section is thus 'set apart' for the salvation of the whole Society.