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Re: RE: ARE WE QUALIFIED TO CRITICIZE H.P.B.?

Jan 08, 1999 11:21 AM
by M K Ramadoss


At 12:20 PM 1/8/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>>In what respect have any of today's "magical and occult schools" aided
>>Humanity as a WHOLE?  Read "The Key to Theosophy", pages 20 -27 etc,
>>facsimile edition.
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>Paul.
>
>
>Actually there are many.  Let me just give you one.  Crowley taught
>that we were now in a new age, the age of Horus, and one of its
>distinguishing features, he said, was equality of the sexes. This
>idea, foreign at the time he gave it, was strengthened by his followers
>over many years, and today we certainly see this occuring at least in
>some countries.  Most magic work is not noticable, nor are its results
>acknowledged.
>
>Jerry S.

I think that the First Object of TS does make the equality of sexes,
including equality of races, castes, creeds etc basic to TS. This was at a
time the differences to caste, creed, race, sex, color etc were rampant and
so I find that the Founders of TS were quite ahead on this issue.

mkr



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