Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00074)

I could not begin to understand how something so trivial as smoking
could deny one the passage to true spirituality.

-Mark H.

On 5/2/05, Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well Daniel, if it was good enough for HPB (to die with a cigarette in her mouth), it is good enough for me!
> Cass
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> "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anand,
> 
> When you have to throw in such comments as
> "....Blavatsky who died with cigarette in mouth"
> plus in light of some of your similar comments
> in previous posts, one may wonder if Mme. Blavatsky's
> smoking "bothers" you.
> 
> Apparently Mr. Leadbeater and Mrs. Besant were
> NOT so "bothered" or "disgusted" with HPB's smoking.
> 
> Remember what Master Morya said to Sinnett:
> 
> "The sweet pulp of the orange is inside the skin...."
> 
> I quote some other possibly relevant passages from the
> same letter of the Master's:
> 
> "You saw only that Bennett had unwashed hands, uncleaned nails and
> used coarse language and had -- to you -- a generally unsavoury
> aspect. But if that sort of thing is your criterion of moral
> excellence or potential power, how many adepts or wonder producing
> lamas would pass your muster? This is part of your blindness. Were
> he to die this minute -- and I'll use a Christian phraseology to
> make you comprehend me the better -- few hotter tears would drop
> from the eye of the recording Angel of Death over other such ill-
> used men, as the tear Bennett would receive for his share. Few men
> have suffered -- and unjustly suffered -- as he has; and as few have
> a more kind, unselfish and truthful a heart. That's all: and the
> unwashed Bennett is morally as far superior to the gentlemanly Hume
> as you are superior to your Bearer."
> 
> "... our Buddha-like friend [KH] can see thro' the varnish, the
> grain of the wood beneath and inside the slimy, stinking oyster --
> the 'priceless pearl within!' B---- is an honest man and of a
> sincere heart, besides being one of tremendous moral courage and a
> martyr to boot. Such our K.H. loves -- whereas he would have only
> scorn for a Chesterfield and a Grandison. I suppose that the
> stooping of the finished "gentleman" K.H., to the coarse fibred
> infidel Bennett is no more surprising than the alleged stooping of
> the 'gentleman' Jesus to the prostitute Magdalene: There's a moral
> smell as well as a physical one good friend. See how well K.H. read
> your character when he would not send the Lahore youth to talk with
> you without a change of dress. The sweet pulp of the orange is
> inside the skin -- Sahib: try to look inside boxes for jewels and do
> not trust to those lying in the lid. I say again: the man is an
> honest man and a very earnest one; not exactly an angel -- they must
> be hunted for in fashionable churches, parties at aristocratical
> mansions, theatres and clubs and such other sanctums -- but as
> angels are outside our cosmogony we are glad of the help of even
> honest and plucky tho' dirty men."
> 
> Daniel
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Mark Hamilton Jr.
waking.adept@gmail.com