Theos-Talk Archives (June 1998 Message tt00627)

June 26th

Dear Gerry and Marshall:

Butting in with my 0.02,  I have often found statements that HPB
has made which at the time I did not understand or follow the
logic of.  I set them aside to be verified. and have found over
some years sometime, that they dovetailed with the philosophy of
Theosophy that she presented eventually.

There are exception such a spellings and a few minor errors,
which may have resulted from errors in proof reading.  But, bye
and large, Theosophy as she placed it before us is coherent and
comprehensive.  No other writer that I know of has been able to
match her scope, and detailed knowledge of ancient and current
thought (in her days).  I grew to trust the statements made,
while retaining my own right to check them out as far as possible
by parallel studies.            Dallas

> Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 4:21 PM
> From: "Jerry Schueler" <gschueler@netgsi.com>
> Subject: Re: Theosophy=HPB?

>> The study of theosophy (and lets forget the capital T vs lower
t)the
>> way  I understood from HPB, is not only to study all belief,
all
>> religions, all mythologies, all sciences, all arts, and so on,
but to do
>> in a 'special' way which is what I call theosophy. That system
of
>> investigating into the above mentioned, to extract Nature's
Laws, to
>> prove them in ones life, to compare them with other ways of
expressing
>> them, and so on, is what Theosophy is all about. ...
>
>Martin, I agree with you here, but the problem that I have
encountered
>is in "to prove them in one's life" or rather in one's
experiences.
>What happens if your personal experience doesn't "fit" with one
of
>HPB's teachings? Well, you have to ask yourself if HPB is wrong,
or
>if maybe you are going crazy. Or, you can just ascribe her
teaching
>to the exoteric, and try to convince yourself that your
expriences
>are esoteric, and that no real discontinuity exists. I submit
that
>sooner or later this will happen to all of us.
>
>Jerry S.
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