Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00272)

Feb 20th 1998

Dear Thoa: O.

The T S was not started so as to engage in politics of any kind.
HPB would not permit it and so long as she was alive it did not
operate at any time under that method.

The T S was established to promulgate Theosophy and to provide to
those interested in its work and its Objects a place dedicated to
their study and inquiry and to be of help to the world at large
because of BROTHERHOOD being put into action.

The T S is not engaged in policing its members.  Brotherhood
precludes that.  If it has allowed personal opinions and politics
to enter its area it is violating its own principles.

However, the T S is a name given to principles and ideas.  It
should exist for that alone.

Its members, as individuals ought to resist any attempt to
abridge or reduce that basis.  If they have not historically, and
do not at present resist, then they tacitly allow a grand project
to fail.  The failure is therefore individual.

Periodically I have referred to two key articles by HPB which
sets this principle clearly in view:

A PUZZLE FROM ADYAR        LUCIFER Vol. 4, p. 506,  Aug. 1889

WHY I DO NOT RETURN TO INDIA   (April 1890)       THEOSOPHIST,
July 1929

In my very humble opinion any further discussion on the situation
ought to be abridged.

It up to the members of the T S to make what changes or decisions
they deem necessary.

The principles are clear, as I see them.  Applications and
progress are always individual.

No one was ever set up, HPB included, as a "Leader" of anyone in
Theosophy or in the TS.

                    I hope this clarifies
Dallas

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>From: "Thoa Thi-Kim Tran" <thoalight@aol.com>
>Date: Friday, February 20, 1998 3:30 AM
>Subject: An idea or oops


>Upon reflection and seeing the various responses, I realized
that I had no
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