It might be noted, along these lines, that there are
any number of communications -
originating with the (Trans-Himalayan) Masters, transmitted through HPB, and delivered to their intended recipients - which have
never made it into outer publication, as these were instructions for
individual disciples.
Other teachings, as some of those given out to the
Esoteric Section of the TS, were private -
or more guarded - at the time, but have been allowed into widespread circulation, because this serves a purpose. Students today can potentially learn a great deal by investigating HPB's work in
planting seeds ... which later came to full fruition via Alice Bailey's
Arcane School.
The
Esoteric Section of the TS was a precursor to AAB's
true Esoteric School, but HPB was not able to fully realize the plans (of the Masters) at the time. This failing, we should note, was not due to her own shortcomings, but to the
unwillingness of potential students (lay chelas) to make the needed sacrifices.
Exactly the same kind of
reluctance, or hesitation on the part of
esoteric students impeded the work of the Tibetan Master, when
10 Seed Groups were founded with Alice Bailey's assistance. AAB was the
outer point of contact, the amanuensis, for Master DK. As with HPB, instructions were provided - both to
the Masters Seed Groups, and to
individual students - and these were published as
`Discipleship in the New Age, Vols I & II.'
Thanks to information that has been provided
after all of these disciples have made their transitions, we now know who the various students were, working in these Seed Groups -
although their anonymity was preserved in the actual publication of the above volumes. Students were referred to using a three-letter
acronym, standing for the three
primary Soul qualities which that particular chela was intended to develop in that incarnation.
While the experiment with
Seed Groups was not as fully successful as Master DK had hoped, it remains a
fact that AAB's
Arcane School was established as a true, esoteric school ...
or at least, the modern precursor to what will later, in the Aquarian Era, be such Schools. All of this comes under the dual-heading of
`the Externalization of the Hierarchy,' and also
`the Restoration of the Mysteries,' as complementing the
Reappearance of the Christ.
HPB knew the plan, she had some awareness of the future, for certainly her Masters required her to share in certain details, while
Humanity's own karma (and hers) may have prevented her from discerning other factors. HPB knew that she had a successor. She even knew reasonably
when this person would come. Alice Bailey, too, gave clear indications as to
her own future counterpart.
Maybe we can explore the idea that
the earlier Seed Groups have put forth roots, and
sprouted into the sunlight here and there. I think there are signs that this is the case.
I like to think it is ... because it means we're getting back on track, after all! 
cheers,
andrew
