RE: Theos-World Re: Eating our words ?
Jul 08, 2000 03:05 PM
by Peter Merriott
Hi Dennis,
Are you sure it was the Master Morya's house that was too offensive for KH
after his 'retreat'? I remember you mentioning this passage before but I
didn't take in whose residence it was at the time. Could you let us have
the reference again.
Thanks.
Peter
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> [mailto:owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com]On Behalf Of Dennis Kier
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> To: theos-talk@theosophy.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: Eating our words ?
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> Spencer wrote:
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> > When discussing the world of vegetarianism one is reminded of the quote
> > from
> > HPB when she states something to the effect of, "Imagine how spiritual
> > the cows must be."
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> And the Masters M & KH weren't vegetarians all the time either, and so
> didn't seem to be impressed by it all. I have mentioned when KH went for
> his higher initiation, and then returned, he discovered that the meat
> eating atmosphere of Morya's house was too offensive for him, and they had
> to clean and to neutralize the house before he could enter. He observed,
> however that he would probably be hardened to it in about a year's time.
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> And then there is the comment made by Master Morya, (I think) to A.P.
> Sinnett telling him not to bother becoming a vegetarian, since he would
> never become an iniatiate in this life time anyway.
>
> His attitude seems to me to be that there needs to be a special reason to
> give up eating meat, and that otherwise it dosen't matter. He is not
> concerned with the "moral" aspects of it.
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