Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00419)

Philips writes
> Please give a reference to the statement that "HPB thought of the TS as
> a recruiting camp for Chelas".
Foreword in Letters from the Masters of Wisdom, second series, by Vice
president C.
Jinarajadasa T.P.H. Adyar 1925 pp 59 -60 It was there at the bottom!
More:
"It was to prevent the Society falling to pieces later, that H.P.B. finally
revived the original idea of a secret nucleus to the Society, and
established the "Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society".Colonel
Olcott's suspicions of an imperium in imperio, which H.P.B. might thus
create in the Society, was only put to rest by his reciept of instructions
on August 22, 1888, from Master K.H. while on his way to London on S.S.
Shannon."
BTW none of this was really answered.

Colonel Olcott almost went out of his way to ignore the occult
basis of the society; so far did he go that, about 1888, the Master K.H.
told H.P.B. that
 "the Society has liberated itself from our grasp and
influence and we have let it go- we make no unwilling slaves. He says he
has saved it? He has saved its body, but he allowed through fear its soul
to escape; it is now a soulless corpse, a machine run so far well enough,
but will fall to pieces when he is gone. Out of the three objects the
second alone is attended to, but it is no longer either a brotherhood, nor
a body over the face of which broods the spirit from beyond the Great
Range. His kindness and love of peace are great and truly Gautamic in their
spirit; but he has misapplied that kindness."

H.P.B.'s memorandum of this talk with the Master is at Adyar.
Bruce