Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00454)

>I am more and more come to believe that statements of the messengers
of the Masters shouldn't be taken literally, but are just the means to
drive the reader to one or another way of conduct.


Mmmmh, a dangerous interpretation!

What do you make with this Mahatma words:
"Do not regard this as metaphorical but as a real fact, which may be 
demonstrated to you some day."
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-47.htm

>Remember the story of Narayan in "Caves & jungles"; he was rejected as
a chela because he was married, or rather involved. But didn't Master
know it beforehand? Wouldn't it be more sincere to say him on the
first meeting that he cannot be a chela?

I understand that Masters are not able to eliminate karma.
With which right should he then turn away a candidate.
It's the would-be-chela's problem and free will to decide which way he goes.
Do you also charge your mother that you cannot play piano?

I notice from talks with East European people who were under socialistic 
tyranny that they even 16 years after the fall of the Berlin wall have still 
the old habit to charge other people for their own faults.
That is socialistic, communistic and **** [self censored ], not 
theosophical.

>Or take another instanse. We read that in ancient Egypt a neophite
when passed all tests had the final one. A beautiful girl came in and
said that she is a prize for a triumphant disciple. Pious authors add
that those who were tempted became the slaves in the temple. But there
is another consideration. The girl was a slave, and she would be set
free if she succeeded. Which is the left-hand path and which is a
right-hand path: to fail as a candidate but to set the slave girl
free, or to continue his self-seaking way to occult knowledge?

To fail the initiation deliberate or half-deliberate and miss the 
opportunity to help many people later on in favor to liberate a temple slave 
is idiotic and not wise.
It is the girl's karma that she is there and she has not a bad life. To 
interfere and create bad own karma helps here not much, because she is not 
wiser by it.
Another case would be if she were in danger of life or starving from hunger.

Frank