Theos-Talk Archives (May 2009 Message tt00327)

Charlie Leadbeater, self elected Pope of the Liberal Catholic Church


On May 9, 2009, at 5/9/091:23 AM, Cass Silva wrote:

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> To: Anand Gholap <anandgholap@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, 9 May, 2009 3:53:54 AM
> Subject: Theos-World The Adepts (AnandGholap.Net-Online Theosophy)
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> "The Mahachohan is the type of the Statesman, the great Organizer,  
> though He too has many military qualities. He wears an Indian body,  
> and is tall and thin, with a sharp profile, very fine and clear- 
> cut, and no hair on the face. His face is rather stern, with a  
> strong, square chin; His eyes are deep and penetrating, and He  
> speaks somewhat abruptly, as a soldier speaks. He generally wears  
> Indian robes and a white turban.
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> The Master the Comte de St. Germain resembles Him in many ways.  
> Though He is not especially tall, He is very upright and military  
> in His bearing, and He has the exquisite courtesy and dignity of a  
> grand seigneur of the eighteenth century; we feel at once that He  
> belongs to a very old and noble family. His eyes are large and  
> brown, and are filled with tenderness and humour, though there is  
> in them a glint of power; and the splendour of His Presence impels  
> men to make obeisance. His face is olive-tanned; His close-cut  
> brown hair is parted in the centre and brushed back from the  
> forehead, and He has a short and pointed beard. Often He wears a  
> dark uniform with facings of gold lace-- often also a magnificent  
> red military cloak-- and these accentuate His soldier-like  
> appearance. He usually resides in an ancient castle in Eastern  
> Europe that has belonged to his family for many centuries.
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> The Master Serapis is tall, and fair in complexion. He is a Greek  
> by birth, though all His work has been done in Egypt and in  
> connection with the Egyptian Lodge. He is very distinguished and  
> ascetic in face, somewhat resembling the late Cardinal Newman.
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> Perhaps the Venetian Chohan is the handsomest of all the Members of  
> the Brotherhood. He is very tall-- about six feet five inches, and  
> has a flowing beard and golden hair somewhat like those of the  
> Manu; and His eyes are blue. Although He was born in Venice, His  
> family undoubtedly has Gothic blood in its veins, for He is a man  
> distinctly of that type.
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> The Master Hilarion is a Greek and, except that He has a slightly  
> aquiline nose, is of the ancient Greek type. His forehead is low  
> and broad, and resembles that of the Hermes of Praxiteles. He too  
> is wonderfully handsome, and looks rather younger than most of' the  
> Adepts.
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> He who was once the disciple Jesus is now wearing a Syrian body. He  
> has the dark skin, dark eyes and black beard of the Arab, and  
> generally wears white robes and a turban. He is the Master of  
> devotees, and the key-note of His Presence is an intense purity,  
> and a fiery type of devotion that brooks no obstacles. He lives  
> amongst the Druses of Mount Lebanon.
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> Two of the Great Ones with whom we have come into contact diverge  
> slightly from what perhaps we may call, with all reverence, the  
> usual type of the physical body of the Adept. One of these is the  
> spiritual Regent of India, He of whom Colonel Olcott several times  
> writes, to whom the name Jupiter was assigned in the book Man:  
> Whence, How and Whither. He is shorter than most members of the  
> Brotherhood, and is the only one of Them, so far as I am aware,  
> whose hair shows streaks of grey. He holds Himself very upright and  
> moves with alertness and military precision. He is a landed  
> proprietor, and during the visit which I paid to Him with Swami T.  
> Subba Row, I saw Him several times transacting business with men  
> who appeared to be foremen, bringing reports to Him and receiving  
> instructions. The other is the Master Djwal Kul, who is still  
> wearing the same body in which He attained Adeptship only a few  
> years ago. Perhaps for that reason it has not been possible to
>  make that body a perfect reproduction of the Augoeides. His face  
> is distinctly Tibetan in character, with high cheek bones, and is  
> somewhat rugged in appearance, showing signs of age.
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> Sometimes an Adept for some special purpose wants a body to use  
> temporarily amid the bustle of the world. That will be the case  
> when the World-Teacher comes, and we have been told that several  
> other Adepts also may then appear, to act as His lieutenants and  
> assist Him in His great work for humanity. Most of these Great Ones  
> will follow the example of Their Chief, and borrow temporarily the  
> bodies of Their pupils, so it is necessary that a certain number of  
> such vehicles should be ready for Their use. Students sometimes ask  
> why, since the Adepts have physical bodies already, They will need  
> others on this occasion.
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> PERFECT PHYSICAL VEHICLES
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> Those who, attaining the level of Adeptship, choose as Their future  
> career to remain upon this world and help directly in the evolution  
> of Their own humanity, find it convenient for Their work to retain  
> physical bodies. In order to be suitable for Their purposes, these  
> bodies must be of no ordinary kind. Not only must they be  
> absolutely sound in health, but they must also be perfect  
> expressions of as much of the ego as can be manifested on the  
> physical plane.
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> The building up of such a body as this is no light task. When the  
> ego of an ordinary man comes down to his new baby body, he finds it  
> in charge of an artificial elemental, which has been created  
> according to his karma, as I have described in The Inner Life. This  
> elemental is industriously occupied in modelling the form which is  
> soon to be born in the outer world, and it remains after birth and  
> continues that moulding process usually until the body is six or  
> seven years old. During this period the ego is gradually acquiring  
> closer contact with his new vehicles, emotional and mental as well  
> as physical, and is becoming accustomed to them ; but the actual  
> work done by himself upon these new vehicles up to the point at  
> which the elemental withdraws is, in most cases, inconsiderable. He  
> is certainly in connection with the body, but generally pays but  
> little attention to it, preferring to wait until it has reached a  
> stage where it is more responsive to his
>  efforts.
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> The case of an Adept is very different from this. As there is no  
> evil karma to be worked out, no artificial elemental is at work,  
> and the ego himself is in sole charge of the development of the  
> body from the beginning finding himself limited only by its  
> heredity. This enables a far more refined and delicate instrument  
> to be produced, but it also involves more trouble for the ego, and  
> engages for some years a considerable amount of his time and  
> energy. In consequence of this, and no doubt for other reasons as  
> well, an Adept does not wish to repeat the process more often than  
> is strictly necessary, and He therefore makes His physical body  
> last as long as possible. Our bodies grow old and die for various  
> reasons, from inherited weakness, disease, accident and self- 
> indulgence, worry and overwork. But in the case of an Adept none of  
> these causes is present, though we must of course remember that His  
> body is fit for work and capable of endurance immeasurably
>  beyond those of ordinary men. "
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> Best
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