Theos-Talk Archives (June 2012 Message tt00002)

Madame Blavatsky defines a guru as follows:

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A  real Guru is a man of profound knowledge, exoteric and esoteric, especially the latter; and one who has brought his carnal nature under subjection of the WILL; who has developed in himself both the power (siddhi) to control the forces of nature, and the capacity to probe her secrets by the help of the formerly latent but now active powers of his being.
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Her definition of a Mahatma is:

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A Mahatma is a personage, who, by special training and education, has evolved those higher faculties and has attained that spiritual knowledge, which ordinary humanity will acquire after passing through numberless series of reincarnations during the process of cosmic evolution, provided, of course, that they do not go, in the meanwhile, against the purposes of Nature and thus bring to their own annihilation.
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Quoted from Dr N C Ramanujachary's informative article at:

http://theosnet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/divine-knowledge

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER / BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com

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