Theos-Talk Archives (May 1998 Message tt00269)

K. Paul Johnson <pjohnson@vsla.edu> writes
>Which gets back to the same issue.  Theosophy, the eternal dharma
>present in every monad, doesn't come from books, although they
>can point us toward it.

How true this is.  I get a little upset by being given lists of citations
and/or quotes from the works of HPB and others, for taken in such a
manner they will always be out of context.  Seekers after truth should
by all means be prepared to study all the literature available, but the
best method is, as ever, to start at the beginning and move on from
there.

>  "Theosophy" as a brand name does refer
>to HPB's specific *doctrines* but she warned again and again that
>we should never confuse the "specific tenets" with essential
>theosophia.
>Cheers,
>Paul

Exactly.  To build our individual temples begins with taking one brick
and placing upon another.  From time to time the wall will fall over, and
we will have to start over!  And so we learn.

Alan
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