Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00214)

Bjorn:

> A good job! I think this parapgraph summarizes the matter fairly
> well:
>
> > Johnson's unsupported accusations concerning HPB's persistent
> > mythmaking and mendacity sound immeasurably more far-fetched than
> > anything HPB relates about the masters.  His tales belong to the
> > popular genre of what HPB called "cock-and-bull stories" that
> > have been spread about her

Do you have any idea about the debt of gratitude we owe to Paul,
just for rehashing the founding and founders in his own mind and
his own way? When we read it, we are filled with the sense of The
Theosophical Society's beginning, of other cultures, and of
fantastic times.  We remember what we so often neglect to remind
ourselves of.  I can't help but appreciate the brave effort on
his part to make sense of a vast menagerie of stories.  AND I do
believe that mahatmas use more than one body to reach mankind.  I
believe they use as many humans as will agree to work with them.

On a side note: Take the story of the transfiguration.  To be
able to learn how to raise the energy of the physical body until
it is absorbed in the higher mental body, and then that body is
drawn into the causal body, this is such a great feat.  The
ascended being can raise or lower the rate of vibration of his or
her body and make it visible or invisible at will in the human
octave.  Once the ascension or transfiguration is achieved, it is
possible that many humans with mediumistic tendencies would be
able to help manifest a visible, tangible form for an ascended
master to interact with the physical world.