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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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