Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00343)

Dallas:
    You set forth at very detailed list of concepts taught in modern Theosophy
which it offers to the public in plain language for the first time.   I agree
that we have gotten much more detail from the S.D. and other Theosophical
works than from the "fragments of an ancient faith", but that is the nature of
secret organizations.
	I personally like Barborka's The Divine Plan, a study guide to the S.D.,  for
the way its organizes and presents these doctrines, starting with the
fundamental propositions, in a gradual and sequential pattern.  Given the fact
that the church no longer has the power to burn us at the stake for heresy,
public disclosure is now both possible and necessary.
	But I happen to think that Theosophy must be more than study and memorization
of facts.  It must be more than a mere body of esoteric knowledge.  There is
too much in its literature that stresses that personal self-transformation
through a process of union, [the Path?] is necessary to really understand
[through experience?] the occult truths contained in the S.D.    IMHO, the
mystery schools probably taught the process necessary to understand the
knowledge, always a subjective process depending on the development of the
seeker, as well as the knowledge itself.   Are we doing this today?

    Brant Jackson [BJack5259@aol.com]