Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00249)

MKR writes:

>For example, there was this description of her smoking
>200 cigarettes a day and wearing a lose fitting dress with right pocket
>full of cheap tobacco and left pocket full of cigarette papers (she make
>her own cigarettes). Why did the Adepts use someone who did not fit the
>traditionally held model of "holy" person? Does is not say something? Look
>at APSinnet and AOHume.


An answer could be that all three, HPB, APS and AOH, were not chelas in
training in said time. Rules are for chelas and not for mundane persons or
accomplished chelas. Furthermore smoking was and is not forbidden in the
Eastern School, nevertheless this is a rule of a so-called ES of one TS, but
this was an invention after HPB's time, based of merely half-knowledge. Two
points that could solve the paradox (a paradox is not a contradition).

Frank