Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00311)

Would anyone have given credence to a "female Master" in a Male 
dominated century? The time wasn't right, I don't believe it is a 
discrimination issue, or male propaganda. Look what HPB went 
through as a Disciple, imagine proposing Super Women as her source.  
Women were to be seen but not heard, even having to take pseudonysms 
as male authors on fictional works, but I believe, "the times they 
are a changing"  
Cass

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> 
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Anand Gholap 
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 8:40 PM
> Subject: Theos-World Masters
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> " 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. "
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> Complete book can be read at
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