Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tl00042)

This is a subject we have discussed in the past.

Here is what I found in ML to APS:

Writing about Evil, Master K.H. says:

It is not nature that creates diseases, but man. The latter's mission and
destiny in the economy of nature is to die his natural death brought by old
age; save accident, neither a savage nor a wild (free) animal dies of
disease. Food, sexual relations, drink, are all natural necessities of
life; yet excess in them brings on disease, misery, suffering, mental and
physical, and the latter are transmitted as the greatest evils of future
generations, the progeny of culprits.

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What is very telling is the recognition of sexual relations and drink among
the natural necessities of life, which some feel incompatible with spritual
progress.

When a novice reads the theosophical classics and runs into the traditional
members many of whom may not agree with the above, the novice is at a loss
to understand.

mkr