Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00078)

Hi all ,

Below is an email I recieved from a friend on the NOVELTY list I have
talked about before. Many of the people on the NOVELTY list study both HPB
and Crowley, although we are mostly pretty young and hence our learning
tries to fit it in with our own drug experiences. 

Can anyone tell me the whole story (sans verbosity) of what is referred to
below?

namaste

Darren 

(aka NOS, world leader pretend)


>
>Care Darren,
>
>Sorry I never got a chance to join the Theosophy forum of which you
>are a member.
>
>As long as there is time, there is always the possibility of change.:)
>
>I had a question for you about your handle "NOS".
>
>I would have guessed it was an acronym for "Novum Ordum Seculorum".
>
>However, in connection with some threads on another forum to which I
>belong, it occurred to me that it might refer to the important
>distinction between "vos" and "nos" in novelness.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Below pls find some novel thoughts of my own on the subject.  It is
>excerpted from a post a sent to our forum, which you might have missed.
>
>Yours in the light,
>Dana
>
>[...
>> When you say that some one asked for an answer and your "psi"
>> responded.  This is the sense in which I use the term spirit as in:
>> 
>> "I am always with you in spirit, so long as you can afford the
>> licensing fee on my passive-consent."
>>
>> Yesterday, I had to send a notarized letter yesterday.
>> 
>> Notaries make me laugh because for $5.00 a stranger will witness you
>to
>> god and country(speaking of the licensing fee of passive consent...).
>> 
>> Even though, I called ahead with my particulars, there was some sort
>> of brouhaha in the notaries office
>> (Apparently, US passports are not an appropriate form of
>> identification for a notary because they contain no address.).
>> 
>> Finally, I managed to make an appropriate impression, and my letter
>> was imprinted.
>> 
>> Negatively, I discovered outside that the evil-bitch of a clark had
>> stamped my doc upside down.
>> 
>> The only reason this little yarn is relevant to synchronicity theory
>> at all is in how it reflects upon a conversation which I had at a TS
>> mtg on Friday night.
>> 
>> In the years following the death of HPB, a great legal controversy
>> pulled the TS apart and nearly brought it to an end.
>> 
>> The whole controversy began when a sealed letter(the seal was made of
>> wax-smoke) was presented to vice-president Judge.
>> 
>> Judge was asked to confirm that the seal was his own.
>> 
>> Judge is reported to have, with his finger, blotted the mark beyond
>> recognition.
>> 
>> The reason this is of particular interest to my story is because of
>> the very special nature of this seal.
>> 
>> Do to the flambouant nature of the seals character, it appeared when
>> viewed from one perspective to read "Me" and from the opposite
>> perspective to read "We".
>> 
>> The reason that Judge's act became such a great controversy within the
>> society is that the use of "M" seal, the upside-down position, by the
>> vice-president, may have implied the "passive consent" of the
>> President of the society Col. Olcott.
>> 
>> President Olcott considered the destruction of the mark by
>> Vice-President Judge at least a sl(e)ight to honor, and possibly a
>> criminal act.
>> 
>> The controversy which followed is a matter of historical record both
>> the Judge-Olcott letters have been printed, and the original scripts
>> are stored in the Bodelean Inst.
>> 
>> ...]
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