Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00290)

" 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."