Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00084)

Art:
|  The Masters are shadowy as you have stated... and none of the
records that
| I have seen of their sightings corresponds to a substantive reality
or
| historical personage.. they appear here ... they appear there...
somewhat
| in the manner of an Elvis or a sprite... but none are living
entities in
| the world as we know it, so yes I've seen the reports as recorded
and read
| Leadbeater's material as well and as much of the Mahatma letters as
I would
| care to read and they are still shadowy by any definition....

Glad you are going to investigate Caldwell's Blavatsky Archives.  The
Leadbeater material is hooey.  He was the first major
psuedo-theosophist and it was primarilly he who transformed the public
notion of Masters from distant, hard to believe, but real fleshly
folk, to higher plane, non-physical, angelic wardens of humanity.

| Channeling does figure in here Nick as the concept was embraced by
many
| early theosophists in their spiritualist adventures. The voluminous
| material suggests to me that there is much "nonsense" as you have
described
| it going on to the present day, and still associated with the very
Masters
| such as Morya and the others can be found in the Church Triumphant
of Ms.
| Prophet and others, this does I think cast a disreputable light on
the
| whole matter.

Exactly right.  All I am saying is that the real always precedes the
counterfeit.  The names used for the Adept Brothers by Leadbeater,
Bailey, Creme, Ballard et al are the same (in many cases) as those of
HPB's gurus, but they have zero in common beyond their names.

Best,

Nicholas

Nicholas Weeks <> nick.weeks@.att.net <> Los Angeles
"The only refuge for him who aspires to true perfection is Buddha
alone."



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