Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00187)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> A) Blavatsky was not an Adept.

I do not remember the source after all these years, but someone 
recapped a conversation with her and said she would have been an 
adept except for her violent temper.

> B) Who said "easily distracted"? Note that they are not Mahatmas 
all 
> the time, and they ARE human.

Two commentsL

(1) Adept was considered degree lower than mahatma, so that one got 
promoted via initiation from adept grade to mahatma grade.

(2) There waas plenty of dallying in the TS with the chelas. Mabel 
Collins got crosswise with HPB for having affairs with two chelas at 
the same time. Yeats mentioned this in his AITOBIGRAPHIES, which is 
a literary masterpiece by the way, and said Blavatsky told her: "My 
dear, I cannot permit you more than one." "Celibacy" among these 
people was pure myth.