" 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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