Theos-Talk Archives (July 1997 Message tt00008)

Keith:

>But since you brought it up, isn't it strange that the
>Masters were talking to Blavatsky, Sinnett, Leadbeater,
>Besant and Bailey and have fallen strangely silent.

I have no reason to think that they would be any less active in
the world today than in the past.  The T.S.  was a project that a
few were involved with at its inception.  How many Masters are
there in the world? What do most of them do with their time?
Although I think that they may still give a nudge here and a
nudge there to people to keep the theosophical work going, I
suspect that most of what they do is far removed from the
day-to-day activities and politics of modern society.

>Have we fallen so low?  Are we in a real Kali Yuga,
>that only Kalki Avatar could get our attention by
>bitting ears?  They are around somewhere!

We're only about 5,000 years into the 432,000 years of this dark
age.  It's actually a great time to be alive; that's why everyone
wants to be reborn so often.  Things are tough, turbulent,
painful, and unsettling, but we end up having a great time!

We haven't fallen low.  There are eddies and currents of dynamic
spiritual activity all about us in life, whether we notice them
or not.  There may be some among us with their heads so buried in
books that don't see if the sun is out or not.  This is not
because the books and studies do this to us; it comes from not
paying attention to life.  The work to better the world in and
through theosophical groups has not failed simply because groups
may attract people that have failings, that are messed up in some
way, or are inattentive to the flowering life about them.  The
theosophical work continues and is something good.

optimistically,

-- Eldon