From: "stevestubbs" <stevestubbs@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World female masters
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:55:08 -0000
--- 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.
That's news to me. Was Mabel Collins a reliable source? I know detractors
contemporary with HPB tried to sling such charges at her.