Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00267)

At 01:56 PM 3/31/1998 +1200, you wrote:
>Hi Tony,  thankyou for your response.
>>
>Re:  There are no second-hand adepts!	(Joy Mills.  T.S.)
>
>My byeline results from attending the 100th anniversary of TS in Hamilton
NZ in 1996, where
>Joy Mills, then the retiring national president of TS Australia (I think)
was giving a talk to the
>audience.  I had taken a seat directly adjacent to the place from which
she spoke, no more than 1
>metre away.  During that talk she said, with the force I have come to
recognise as deriving from
>inspiration of the moment, "there are no second-hand adepts!".  It
represented a concluding point
>in an argument for acquiring personal experiential knowledge, rather than
confining one's
>learning to the written representation of someone else's experience
(second-hand), or worse still,
>because even further removed from direct experience, their description of
yet another person's
>experience (third-hand).

Krishnaji has been talking about it for 60 years. While he did not use the
word "Adept", he was talked about secondhand human beings. So the statement
did not surprise me.

mkr