Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00374)

Here's a couple of quotes (that might 
interest Paul, maybe, eg ...) from HPB 
about adepts:

<<"It is just because the highest 
attributes of adeptship have to do with
principles in human nature which quite 
transcend the limits of physical
existence, that the adept or Mahatma can 
only be such in the highest
acceptation of the word, when he is, as 
the phrase goes, “out of the body,”
or at all events thrown by special 
efforts of his will into an abnormal
condition. When he is not called upon 
to make such efforts or to pass
entirely beyond the limitations of this 
fleshly prison, he is much more
like an ordinary man than experience of 
him in some of his aspects would
lead his disciples to believe."

"If we keep constantly in mind that an 
adept is only truly an adept when
exercising adept functions, but that 
when exercising these he may soar into
spiritual rapport with that which is, in 
regard at all events to the
limitations of our solar system, all 
that we practically mean by
omniscience, we shall then be guarded 
from many of the mistakes that the
embarrassments of the subject might 
create.">>