Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00156)

Hi,

I think one of the things to remember is that the majority of masters
(male or female) don't come out into the open. We had but two masters
who did reasonably public work - at the time of Blavatsky - which
isn't a very large sample set. 

Anyhow, I think even in the Mahatma letters there is mention that
there are female adepts and that in fact one of them had found out a
'new' truth. 

On the other hand: having a female body has obvious social and
physical disadvantages associated with it (though the social ones are
less in this century). I think if one had the choice, it would be
logical to choose a male body. Though hormonally speaking it may be as
difficult to deal with testosteron as it is to deal with hormonal cycles. 

Just a few thoughts.
Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "ramanujachary n.c."
<yensiare@y...> wrote:
> It is not that there are no female adepts. T Subba Row
> has dealt with this topic in one of his essays
> appearing in the book Esoteric Writings. The women
> adepts are not involved in 'public work' in the
> meaning of the term we use today. But they are very
> much involved in service to the betterment of
> humanity.
> Ramanujachary
> --- James <jamesfox@a...> wrote:
> > The subject of female masters and why there appear
> > to none to speak of has 
> > arisen several times at our TS meetings. A brief
> > survey of the archives 
> > here has not thrown up any discussion on this matter
> > so I am curious to 
> > know what others think about the almost total
> > absence of females from the 
> > lineup of known masters.
> > 
> > One possibility put forward by Leadbeater seems to
> > be that the great work 
> > of women is to allow souls to incarnate and that men
> > are given other 
> > opportunities but not that of motherhood. This may
> > go some way to 
> > explaining why masters whom I take to be
> > androgynous, so to speak, become 
> > associated with male physical plane personalities,
> > but are in fact neither 
> > male or female. What do you think?
> > 
> > James