Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00159)

> Bruce wrote:

> A forerunner to the I Am movement was the The Life and teachings of the
> Masters of the Far East By Baird Spalding- the Theology is similiar. There
> were some less successful offshoots such as The Bridge.

I loved those books.

> The Theosphical publication the O.E. Critic was of course quite critical of
> Ballard at the time. It mentions a couple of books which showed that
> Ballard's Unveiled Mysteries could not have possibly been true, checking
> dates names and times. It was a work of fiction like the Celestine
> Prophecy.

Can you supply verifiable specifics?

> The religion appealed, being a Disneyland version of the Masters. Much like
> the Wizard of Oz with Ballard in white suit working furiously behind the
> panel.

Maybe the Masters felt that they overshot their expectation of peoples
ability to
understand the deeper stuff and wanted to try speaking to humanity on a
simpler level?
After all, it was broad effective change they were after, not the
creation of a relatively
small group of occult PhDs. Jesus did the same thing when he taught
parables to the multitudes. I agree that the I AM movement is simpler
and generally more devotional, like a group for bhakti yogis, but I
don't see that as a particularly bad thing, do you?.

> The Occult Brotherhood responsible for this movement is of course still
> active and when Clear Profit is out of the way something else will pop up.

Clear Profit? Do you mean Elizabeth Clare Prophet?

> It is interesting that the true Masters reiterate time and again that they
> do not found organisations let alone religions.

"Scuze me, true masters? Have you heard of maybe, ... Krishna, Moses,
Jesus, Buddha?

Mark
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