Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00261)

>This is also my understanding.  Blavatsky described the
Masters, and they
>described themselves in the letters to Sinnett, as living
people--not as
>spooks or astral entities--but as people who traveled
primarily by horseback
>like everyone else in those days.  So, "telepathic" might
be a better choice
>of words than "channeling"--since the latter term seems to
suggest a
>discarnate entity of some kind.
>jhe
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>N.Malcom wrote:
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>> I've been reading the posts with some increasing anxiety
about the amount
>> of mental "shoving" going on. I'm also confused. In the
quote about Olcott
>> describing HPB as directing the spirits instead of being
controlled by
>> them...this quote doesn't have anything to do with the
Masters does it? I
>> thought HPB always insisted the Masters were living men.
If so, she didn't
>> do any "channeling" from the Masters, it would have been
more a form of
>> telepathic communication wouldn't it, from living
brain/mind to living
>> brain/mind? I'm not as studied as most on this list, and
perhaps she did
>> have communication with a
>> deceased Master, but didn't she also warn against trying
to communicate
>> with the dead? Wasn't that the whole big "fight" between
Theosophy and the
>> Spiritualist?  Just asking-- Nancy
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