Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00096)

Peter R Calvert wrote:

>  My questions is these:
>
> 1.   If the TS was directed in it's establishment from those who have humanity as a whole at
> heart, where and who are the people who now have that quality of connection to the directors
> (Mahatmas), are they being asked and what are they saying needs to be done, and are they being
> listened to?

Belief in the Masters was never a requirement for membership in the TS, and whether the leaders have
any contact with these Masters at the present time is a matter of faith on the part of  individual
members.  Therefore it is all a moot question.

> 2.   Is it true that the emphasis identified ~125 years is still relevant today?  In whose opinion,
> and with what authority?
>

When the objectives of an organization are no longer relevant, the organization must either change
those objectives (therefore for all intents and purposes becoming a different organization) or cease to
exist.  If a supposedly democratic and consensual organization like the TS wants to change its
objectives or change the emphases of those objectives, it seems to me that such a change would have to
be made through the consensus of the entire membership.

As for the emphases on brotherhood, I will have to agree with Doss.  This has been the primary
objective since 1880.  But of the three objectives, the first has always been the TS's greatest
failure--a state of affairs both the Mahatmas and HPB have commented upon.  If the TS and/or the TSA
chooses the de-emphasize the first object, then IMO, it is just one more example of the failure of the
TS to bring this object into realization.

For whatever my opinion is worth (and I claim no authority for it), I believe that the first object is
just a relevant today as it was when first established.  To de-emphasize it, IMO, is a serious mistake.

JJHE