Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00344)

Dear Daniel,

As with most things, and mostly all things theosophical, it's all a 
matter of one's point of view. We may as well quibble about how many 
angels can dance on the head of a pin. Who knows? Who cares? What is 
an angel? And what, indeed, is a Master? What are the limitations 
that govern His reality? Do we have any idea? Can we have any idea? 
Do we suppose that said limitations are the same as those that govern 
our reality, stuck as we are here on the material plane? 

Personally I am willing to assert that it's all true. Paul Johnson is 
a nice and sincere guy who obviously believes what he has written, or 
at least is willing to suggest it could be true. For those to whom 
his seems the best explanation, so be it. Who am I do demand that 
anyone think what I think about anything? But for me, all that HPB 
said or wrote has validity on some plane in some context from some 
point of view. Personally I don't care if it makes intellectual 
sense. The mind is the slayer of the real. The intellect is 
handicapped when the subject is immaterial, or in any way 
transcendental. I would rather accept what I find in the teachings 
that have been offered me in this cycle by some great souls, and try 
them it for myself. If there is something I cannot accept, I put it 
aside and wait, for if I am devoted to becoming that to which I 
aspire (a better more fully realized human being, somewhat more in 
accord with my own higher ideals) all will be revealed to me in its 
right time, and I don't have to struggle with it at all. I just have 
to live my life in a righteous way and never give up trying. 

That's my take, but hey, to each his own.

All the best,
Adelasie

On 21 Oct 2004 at 15:35, Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:

> 
> 
> To Dallas, Jerry & other Theosophists:
> HPB gives "four mutually contradictory versions"
> about her Master according to Paul Johnson
> 
> I hope that some Theosophists as well as
> other readers on this list will comment and give
> their observations on what Johnson wrote about this subject.