Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00484)

Paul:

Your message is the clearest explanation of where you come from and what 
you tried to do in your book.

For my slow working mind, it took this long to clearly understand it. This 
also reminds me of what Jiddu Krishnamurti has always maintained as regards 
Masters/Adepts. Of course there is a strong sentiment of opposition to and 
in some cases downright denunciation of Krishnamurti by many of those 
belonging to the traditional/organizational school for their perception of 
his ingratitude for not following the traditional theosophical *beliefs* 
including that of Masters after all the *help* TS gave him in his early 
days. So you seem to be in very good company.

mkr

At 10:53 PM 12/21/01 +0000, kpauljohnson wrote:
> --- In theos-talk@y..., Steve Stubbs <stevestubbs@y...> wrote:
> >
> > The Pratt article is a piece of pratt. The issue is
> > not whether Paul has correctly identified the
> > mahatmas, but whether ther were any mahatmas to
> > identify. I say there were and he says there were
> > not.
>
> Thanks for your opinion of the piece in question (piece of what, I
> leave to others to say.) BUT-- I spent years trying to prove that
> there *were* Mahatmas behind the scenes of the 1880s TS. All we
> differ on is the *connections* among HPB's mentors and sponsors, not
> whether or not she had any. (Isn't that right?-- I say she was
> linked to many *different* "lodges"-- Masonic, Sufi, Theravada, Sikh,
> Vedanta, etc.-- whose only connection was their common acquaintance
> with her. You say there was some overarching organization to which
> all these folks belonged?) It is not the *Masters* I call a myth--
> after all the book's title claims to reveal them and how can you
> reveal something nonexistent-- but the Great White Lodge. And maybe
> we differ also on what we mean by "Mahatmas." I mean "the people HPB
> was talking about when she talked about her Mahatmas" regardless of
> how much they deserved the appelation-- their inner spiritual status
> being of course inaccessible to the profane historical researcher who
> is Akashically illiterate :)
>
> Happy holidays,
>
> PJ