Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00236)

Ramadoss:

I can leave the pictures up as long as need be.  Filespace is not
an issue, fortunately.  The origin of the pictures varies.  There
is a different source for each of these four, I think.  To be
perfectly honest, though, I have forgotten where I culled
them from.  The Maha-Chohan and Morya are colorized, I believe, and
may be taken from `Through the Eyes of the Masters.' I forget who
published this, but it is someone surprising like Routledge! The
pictures I believe (VERY strongly) to be accurately glimpsed
profiles from the Akash (or even just the astral light), but the
text accompanying them is highly ...  glamorous.

Master KH's image appears almost like a photograph to me, but I
am assured it is not.  Again, I forget the source.  And the image
I am MOST confident about (being accurate), is that of the
Tibetan (DK).  It is almost lifelike.  This one is dangerous
though, as the Tibetan has warned in his writings about the
thoughtforms created by his devotees (and those of the other
Masters, for that matter) which will masquerade and deceive the
neophyte.  I personally try to avoid using these images in all
cases except meditation, and even then I seldom focus directly
upon them.  As the Masters have cautioned again and again, and as
Dallas has expressed, the Theosophical movement and Esotericism
in general are not about devotion to personalities, either of
Masters or Messengers.

Just for the record, the image of DK came from Gnosis and the Law
by Papastavros (?) or some such.  It is probably about 99% astral
bunk, and I chuckled at the few pages I scanned ...  but I did
find this image in it, along with a more *favorable* one of
Master Rakoczy (St.  Germain) than you will find promulgated by
certain ...  other movements.  Very handsome indeed!

Love and Light,