Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00310)

Halllo Krishtar and all,

My views are:

It is wellknown that in the past Men was given greater importance than 
women, when the talke fell on leadership.
It is only comparatively recently in our latest years of evolution that 
women - in many countries with their various cultures - has been given the 
needed acceptance as publicly known leaders within spiritual circles and 
outside spiritual circles.
So this is partly the answer. And we known that even at HPB's time only few 
females were taught publicly as Lamas and groomed to be public teachers in 
Tibet.
The same happened on public leadership in many other countries at that time 
with their different cultures.

It is however wellknown that the greatest Sheik Ibn El-Arabi (d. 1240) was 
taught by a female named Fatima. Ibn El-Arabi was also known to the west as 
Doctor Maximus the Alchemist.


from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "krishtar" <krishtar_a@brturbo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Masters Man or woman



Anand and others
Hello.
A question
Why are the Masters always characterized as male and not as a female 
creature too?
Arenīt there women who have reached their enlightenment in History of 
spirituality or the masculine gender has always hush it up?


The Church has always considered Mary of Magdalen a whore, and throughout 
many apocriph gospels we deduce she was one of Jesus dearest disciples and 
one of the first iniciated women recorded in written history , besides the 
goddesses in India, of course.

Krishtar






----- Original Message ----- 
From: Anand Gholap
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 8:40 PM
Subject: Theos-World Masters



www.AnandGholap.net

" THERE has been among Theosophical students a great deal of vagueness and 
uncertainty about the Masters, so perhaps it may help us to realize how 
natural Their lives are, and how there is an ordinary physical side to them, 
if I say a few words about the daily life and appearance of some of Them. 
There is no one physical characteristic by which an Adept can be infallibly 
distinguished from other men, but He always appears impressive, noble, 
dignified, holy and serene, and anyone meeting Him could hardly fail to 
recognize that he was in the presence of a remarkable man. He is the strong 
but silent man, speaking only when He has a definite object in view, to 
encourage, to help or to warn, yet He is wonderfully benevolent and full of 
a keen sense of humour-- humour always of a kindly order, used never to 
wound, but always to lighten the troubles of life. The Master Morya once 
said that it is impossible to make progress on the occult Path without a 
sense of humour, and certainly all the Adepts whom I have seen have 
possessed that qualification.
48. Most of 
Them are distinctly fine-looking men; Their physical bodies are practically 
perfect, for They live in complete obedience to the laws of health, and 
above all They never worry about anything. All Their evil karma has long 
been exhausted, and thus the physical body is as perfect an expression of 
the Augoeides or glorified body of the ego as the limitations of the 
physical plane will allow, so that not only is the present body of an Adept 
usually splendidly handsome, but also new body that He may take in a 
subsequent incarnation is likely to be an almost exact reproduction of the 
old one, allowing for racial and family differences, because there is 
nothing to modify it. This freedom from karma gives Them, when for any 
reason They choose to take new bodies, entire liberty to select a birth in 
any country or race that may be convenient for the work that They have to 
do, and thus the nationality of the particular bodies which They happen to 
be wearing at any given time is not of primary importance. "

Complete book can be read at

http://www.anandgholap.net/Masters_And_Path-CWL.htm


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