Theos-Talk Archives (April 1998 Message tt00357)

alpha@dircon.co.uk wrote:

> Alan writes:
>
> >It is nonetheless to his [Leadbeater's] credit that he popularised and made
> more
> >comprehensible many standard theosophical concepts.
>
> Or is this the ploy of the dugpa/black magician? Mixing "truth" with
> fiction, and in Leadbeater's case dangerous fiction. Popularising is
> pandering to the lower/outer man, the lower desires and passions. Once the
> pristine purity of the true teachings (of the inner "higher" man) are
> popularised, they lose that pristine purity. The popularised stuff is
> around all over the place in abundance and the PATH is hidden in the
> undergrowth of popularization. It is for us to lift ourselves out of the
> myre, and Theosophy (the wisdom of the gods) points out the way.
> Tony

Being more accessible or "popular" does not in itself mean it is wrong (or
right).

Bjorn