Theos-Talk Archives (March 2001 Message tt00059)

Bart wrote:

>> 1) Since the Mahatmas are unerringly correct, the evidence of scientific
>> experiment must be incorrect.
>>
>> 2) The Mahatmas were wrong.
>>
>> 3) The Mahatmas used a definition of the TERM "potential energy" that
>> originated with Sinnett, and HE got it wrong.
>>
>> I tend to go with #3, and must admit that I have a problem with people
>> who go with #1.

To which Frank replied:

>4) The Masters can err and the term "potential energy" is correct.

I go perhaps with "3" also, but this is not the purpose of this post. If the
Masters could err then, can they NOW?

It occurs to me that any conclusions derive from writings by the Masters of
the late 1800s. It is now the year 2001 AD. We have all experienced
spiritual growth within our lifetimes. Who is to say "where" the well-known
Mahatmas 'are' now? This is important. They are real Beings, and simply must
have moved on. In speaking of them or writing of them, we must keep in mind
that they are one and a quarter centuries more advanced, though it is a
given that their recorded Letters (which I have touched and pondered in the
physical and are readily available to me in London) cannot be forgotten.

Yet they were and are simply that - letters. This is doubly evident when you
read the actual letters in your hands - thoughts and advice written on the
run upon any piece of paper, by any pen or crayon, readily to hand.

What would the Mahatmas say, mayhap definitively, TODAY? It is a priori that
they are very much alive in the here-and-now, even most certainly aware of
this internet forum and all that takes place upon it!

I respect and understand that the purpose of this forum is to discuss the
tangible, written record of the Mahatmas and of HPB. Nevertheless, in
attuning with the Mahatmas inwardly, we certainly will not find them 'where'
they were then. They have had over a century to progress, and methinks they
have done exactly that. Worth keeping in mind?

David Tame