Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00174)

Tony:
>You are trying to get some of us to say that there are errors in the
>original 1888 edition of "The Secret Doctrine."

If you want to know what I am "trying to do" -- why not ask me first? All
I'm saying is there are mistakes in the SD, both the original and the BdZ
edition.  Also I am mystified why you keep ignoring the prosaic
possibility. But I am not interested in changing your mindset.
[...]

>In the first fundamental proposition Boris adds in the word Upanishad, after
>Mandukya (which he puts in italics).  "in the words of Mandukya,
>"unthinkable and unspeakable."" is how HPB and the Masters put it.  Does it
>have to be referring to the Mandukya Upanishad?  Wouldn't you allow others
>you may be studying "The Secret Doctrine" with to express another view?

If one goes to verse 7 of the Mandukya Up. you will find the words
(allowing for different translators) "unthinkable and unspeakable."  So
tell me why you think it is not from the Mandukya upanishad?  As for
stopping your self-expression -- I'm reading what you are writing -- so
where are you restricted?
[...]

>The point being made is that every student of the SD should be allowed that
>choice, however odd or rediculous it may appear to others, without some
>authoratitive editor coming in and saying it should be this.  Just the
>mention of things like karma, reincarnation, vegetarianism, theosophy, etc,
>seem rediculous to some, or is it many?

Real outside authorities are made by us, by our confidence in their
abilities, insight etc., not by claims made for them or by them.  Since
most of us only consider our self as an authority, I think the fuss about
authorities imposing on us is overstated.


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<> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
	"Men must learn to love the truth before they thoroughly believe it."
		Blavatsky