Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00149)

>Rich Taylor responds,
>
>Jerry, this is a problem that all long-time ULT students have.  Much as I
>appreciate Dallas in his ability to go to the source (and like most ULT
>students, he knows the source material very, very well), there is a *very*
>deep-seated myth in ULT that if you can quote the original material, and
speak
>in the same words, you understand what HPB is saying with *No
Interpretation.*
>I can't stress this myth strongly enough.
>

Thanks for the info. I am not familiar with ULT, but you do seem to be
right.
Of course there are lots of fundamentalist Christians who say exactly the
same thing about the Bible (I tried to argue with one gentleman once and
finally just had to give up and walk away).


>Because the original books are kept in print, and the Key and the Ocean are
>read over and over again in study classes (with absolutely nothing outside
the
>Theosophical canon allowed into group study at most lodges) ULTers imagine
>that they are still doing HPB's work, and that they aren't changing the
>movement one bit, unlike, say, all the naughty Adyar people, and even the
>slightly less naughty Point Loma/Pasadena folks, who accepted new Leaders.
>

If the Theosophical movement doesn't change over time, it will surely die.

Thanks Rich.

Jerry S.