Theos-Talk Archives (June 1998 Message tt00733)

>W. Dallas TenBroeck <dalval@nwc.net> writes
>>June 29th
>>
>>Dallas offers a few more quotes for consideration:
>>
>>
>>>From HPB on the T S :
>>
>>"...the Theosophical Society...It is a brotherhood of humanity,
>>established to make away with all and every dogmatic religion
>>founded on dead-letter interpretation, and to teach people and
>>every member to believe but in one impersonal God;  to rely upon
>>his (man's) own powers;  to consider himself his only saviour;
>>to learn the infinitude of the occult psychological powers hidden
>>within his own physical man;  to develop these powers;  and to
>>give him the assurance of the immortality of his divine spirit
>>and the survival of his soul;
>
>That may have been her intention. It hasn't happened, and HPB herself
>has become a source of dead-letter interpretation.
>


It depends on who does the interpretation.