Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00318)

Frank:
Every Master is an adept, but not every adept is a Master.

Bee:
So also says Harold Waldwin Percival who wrote an interesting book 'Adepts,
Masters & Mahatmas back in the 1920's I think it was.

Frank:
Thanks, Bee for the info. Yes, that was the common view of all Theosophist
of the "old school", from HPB, Judge, Tingley etc. onwards. But it seems as
if this distinction today is sometimes lost.
F.e. when the Pasadena TS was going online with their version of the "Occult
Encyclopaedia" in Jan. 1999 they have had for some weeks under the entry
"Adept" the explanation: Another word for a Master, but later on it was
corrected.
That's another example of how are mistakes are smuggeled into texts when
later people claim to have the same knowledge as the author has had.