180 k? The Secret Lije of Naturewith members of the White Brotherhood both in and out of human
incarnation."The mahatmas, says Leviton, though rarefied human be-
ings for whom being alive or dead was spiritually inconsequential,
were certainly physically on earth at the end of the nineteenth century.
Adepts are universally described as distinctly fine-looking men,
their physical bodies practically perfect because of their living in com-
plete obedience to the laws of health and, above all, never worrying.
Master Morya was described by Hodson as appearing to be in the
prime of life, thirty-five to forty years old."I was able to observe the tex-
ture of His skin, the hairs of His head, and the wonderful 'light' of His
eyes."Yet when Madame Blavatsky met him in her childhood in the
18jos, he appeared exactly as in the early 1900s.
Master Koot Hoomi appeared to be about the same age as Morya,
though he was known to have taken a university degree in Europe
before the middle of the nineteenth century. Though a Kashmiri
Brahmin, he was as fair complexioned as the average Englishman, with
flowing brown hair, "ruddy with glints of gold as the sunlight catches
it, nose finely chiseled, eyes large and of a wonderful liquid blue, full of
love and joy, his expression ever changing as he smiles." In a remotely
former life he is reputed to have been the great teacher Pythagoras.
Master Morya explained to Hodson that the masters lived not only
in real houses with rooms, tables, and chairs, but also in what might be
called "placelessness," beyond the limitations of space. "In fact this
planet, earth, is only our bodily abiding place. We have bodies; so we
must have homes, and do so; but our real lives are relatively bodiless
and so virtually, if not wholly at first, limitless."
When Hodson asked how the adepts preserved the privacy of their
homes and of themselves, even against aerial photography, he received
the answer: "By the deflection of light, just as when a qualified Yogi
makes himself or herself invisible, as did H. P. Blavatsky."
Hodson's master, Tutuit Bey, said his headquarters was near where
Hodson thought it to be but was totally and occultly concealed from
the eyes of the world.The master said they were able to conceal their
centers by means of a maya veil drawn over them. "No one can see,