Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00085)

Feb 10th

Dallas says:

To be able to secure an answer to this question of "seal" and
Judge blurring it, I would like to know where this story
originates ?  Is there a source that I can go and refer to ?
Book, Letter, Magazine article, if so where exactly ?

Do you, or does someone have an exact record of the Bodelean
Library documents that I might be able to see = or a reproduction
?

Thanks

Dallas

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From:	owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com
[mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com] On Behalf Of D.
Porter
Sent:	Wednesday, February 10, 1999 5:21 PM
To:	theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject:	Theos-World This was forwarded to me...

Hi all ,

Below is an email I received 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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