Some Initiates assumed the Bons to be black magicians(well, some actually are; such as the ones of whom Tsong Khapa, the First Dalai Lama, burned all their books on necromancy about 800 years ago).
Daath - Tantric Knowledge
...The Cubic Stone of Yesod, situated in the Creative Organs, is certainly that metallic soul which is the result of sexual transmutations. We can call this metallic soul the Mercury of Secret Philosophy, or, when speaking with simpler language, Creative Energy. This energy in itself is allegorized or symbolized by the Devil. When we say that we must work with the Devil, this is in order to transform it into Lucifer, the Maker of Light.
We are clearly referring to the labor in the Great Work. It becomes interesting that precisely here in the Cubic Stone of Yesod is where Shiva and Shakti, Osiris and Isis, are sexually united, and here is precisely where the Tantric knowledge is found. The attainment of the intimate Self-realization of the Being is not possible without it.
In the Eastern world, in Tibet, the monks are radical. For such reason H.P. Blavatsky thought that they were black magicians. All of us have repeated that mistake, and now we see the necessity for rectification.
I am not affirming that the Dugpas are saints, that they are meek sheep. They are black magicians because they teach Black Tantrism. However, the Bons, even when they use red caps, are not black as Blavatsky mistakenly supposed. Actually, if one amongst the Bons does not want Self-realization but only the Liberation of himself for a period of time in order to Return in the Sixth Root Race, or if he does not want to Self-realize ever but only wants to emancipate himself without Self-realization, he can achieve it.
First of all, the neophyte is taken into an isolated place, and there, all of the inhuman elements that he possesses are invoked. This is performed with procedures of High Magic in the isolated mountain. Those inhuman elements become visible and tangible and intend to devour the neophyte, but if the neophyte remains serene, there is nothing more to do, he has become triumphant. Then, he has to eliminate the Ego, to reduce it to ashes and to work in himself.
This ordeal and some mantras for disincarnation, which are two words, become the maximum efforts for the neophyte in the physical world. It is dreadful to see the Bon-Priest dressed with his white apron of skulls and dead bones and with a red turban on his head, while holding a dagger with his right hand.
The body of the neophyte falls instantaneously dead in the precise moment when he is pronouncing his two mantras of fatality; then he is submitted to great Ordeals in the Internal Worlds. He has to confront the fears of death, he has to tolerate the hurricane of Karma; he has to become victorious in all that the Father-Mother will submit him to. The goal is to be allowed to enter, or better if we say, to be reborn in a supra-human form within any kingdom of the Devas, maybe in the Kingdom of Those of Great Concentration or in the Kingdom of Those of Long Hair, or in the Kingdom of Maitreya, or in the Kingdom of Supreme Happiness, etc., and it is in that region where he is going to finish with his preparation for the Liberation.
The Divine Mother assists him by eliminating his human elements and finally he achieves the submergence of himself into the bosom of the Great Reality, not as a Self-realized Master, but only as an Elemental Buddha. He submerges himself in that state until the Sixth Root Race with the purpose of Self-realizing himself in that Root Race, or he can remain forever converted into a Buddhic elemental and nothing else, but happy.
Those who intend to liberate themselves, those who really want Self-realization, those that truly want to be converted into Mahatmas or Hierophants, must be submitted to Tantric discipline, and to work in the Ninth Sphere. All of Tantrism, how to awaken the serpent, how to raise it, and how to open the chakras, etc., will be taught unto them.
Therefore, it is discovered that the Bons are radical. One has to either work for the Being or not. One goes with the purpose of Self-realization or with the purpose of remaining without Self-realization, this has to be defined. Among the Bons, everything is severe, and for this reason H.P. Blavatsky made judgment on them, considering them to be Black Magicians. But when one studies the Tantrism of the Bons, one realizes that it is White, not black; I repeat, White. They transmute the sperm into energy in order to attain deep Self-realization...
If H.P. Blavatsky could have visited the future to see H.H. the current Dalai Lama dressed in the Ceremonial Garb of the Bons, she would have been very surprised!
His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
From this excellent book:
Also, the connection of the Dalai Lamas to the White Lodge is confirmed in the forward to H.H. The Dalai Lama's first English book "The Opening of the Wisdom Eye", where he himself wrote about his connection to the Theosophical Society:
On H.P. Blavatsky's "The Voice of the Silence":
"I believe that this book has strongly influenced many sincere seekers and aspirants to the wisdom and compassion of the Bodhisattva Path." -- 14th Dalai Lama
