Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00127)

K. Paul Johnson wrote:

> > It is times like this that I am ashamed to be a Thesophist at all
> > (exoterically considered), and quite happy to be a student of
> > AAB's ...  though also a dedicated and devoted student of HPB's
> > *at heart*.  On the surface, I have to chuckle at what is *still*
> > going on here ...  :)
>
> Alice was one of the first to get ostracized for what she wrote
> about Masters.

True.  But, according to the original rules laid out by HPB for
the Esoteric Section, it was forbidden for members to publicly
release communications they received from the Masters.
Therefore, at least if those rules were still in effect at the
time, it was right and proper for Bailey to be tossed from the ES
(but not the TS).