Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00116)

Responding to PJ's reply:

Dallas's posting of August 10th ("What does theosophy deal") hits the nail
on the head.

It is all too easy for us to end up spending vast amounts of time/energy on
peripherals (e.g. religions, Who's Who in the guru stakes, the various
high-ways and bye-ways of personal preference/interpretation etc.) and
little or no time/energy on fundamentals (e.g. Be-ness, Abstract
Space/Abstract Motion, Brotherhood etc.).

Kindest regards,
Paul (Bazzer)



> 1. What schools of teachings are sources endorsed by HPB as genuine?  In
> various places and to various degrees, Vedanta, Tibetan Buddhism, Kabala,
> Rosicrucianism, Sikhism, Hermeticism, Zoroastrianism, Sufism.
> 2. By whom are contemporary exponents in these schools of
> teaching authorized?  Varies according to the source, but usually
> by initiatory pedigree, that is the person or institution under
> which they studied.
> 3. Who are they, individually?  Here you've got me since I'm not
> a seeker of Masters myself, but I can refer you to an excellent
> resource: Andrew Rawlinson's Book of Enlightened Masters, which
> just treats of Western initiates into Eastern traditions.  It's a
> 650 page compendium most of which is a series of capsule sketches
> of such figures by category: Theravada, Zen, Tibetan Buddhism,
> Zen, Sufism, Hinduism, Independent.  For teaching adepts in
> Western traditions, there's not one single source like that but
> searching the Net under the individual tradition that interests
> you would suffice.