RE: Theos-World Questions about something Leon wrote
Jul 25, 2001 05:53 PM
by nos
I just read that and I realise that jesus didn't actually bring Lazarus
back from the 'dead' he just overturned his excommunication. - So
readinto that what you will....
Nos
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##From: nos [mailto:nos@granite.net.au]
##Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2001 10:23 AM
##To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
##Subject: RE: Theos-World Questions about something Leon wrote
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##HPB says in SDIII that the only real test of an Adept is
##whether he can bring someone back from the 'dead' - and she
##qualifies that term.
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####-----Original Message-----
####From: leonmaurer@aol.com [mailto:leonmaurer@aol.com]
####Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2001 10:08 AM
####To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
####Subject: Re: Theos-World Questions about something Leon
##wrote ## ## ##In a message dated 07/25/01 9:56:35 AM,
##johnb@quickinfo.net writes: ## ##>Dallas wrote, " It has been
##said that he who speaks of seeing and
####>meeting with the Master thereby loses touch. My judgment
####would be that
####>if, as is said, Leadbeater had stood "face t face with the 'Great
####>Initiator,' it
####would
####>never have been spoken of by him, and no other would have
##known the
####>fact. Leadbeater sought to be recognized as a great
####teacher...any one
####>claiming Adeptship is not an Adept, and this is in the very
####nature of
####>things...."
####>
####> Pythagoras allowed his pupils to call him the
##Hyperborean Apollo.
####>He also spoke of his past lives. Shall we assume he was a
##fraud? ## ##Aside from the fact that Dallas didn't write that
##-- Robert
####Crosbie (possibly
####an Adept, IMHO, Judging from his writings) did -- I would
####ask... How do you
####know whether or not Pythagorus allowed his students to call
####him that?
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####However, even if he did allow it, did he also allow non
####students the same
####right by claiming the title in a public book or outside his
####school? Also,
####don't you think that speaking of past lives by an Adept to
####his avowed and
####initiated students is one thing, while bragging about them in
####public is
####another?
####
####The way that any teacher can be assumed a fraud or not, is by
####testing his/her
####teachings in the light of the Master within (if you have
####awakened him), or
####against the truths taught by a recognized Master.
####Leadbeater, in my view
####(after long and deep study of all the great Masters) meets
####none of these
####criteria.
####
####LHM
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