Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00133)

The Donant article is biased and full of misconception and gives hardly a
true view of history. I have been told by a Pasadena official that this text
is actually to be "updated". Do you really believe the fairy tale of an
"elitist group"? It's quite upside down with the "serious internal esoteric
troubles" (Fn. 10 in: GdeP: In the Temple, PLP, p. xv).
The ES members were forced by the new leadership to break their pledges and
violate the theosophical principles for which the Point Loma tradition
stands for. This crisis was foreseen by GdeP and he wanted his pupils and
coworkers to remain true to the esoteric principles. And so they did and
were bullied by the new lead. George Cardinal LeGreos says: The destructors
of Theosophy.
But a strange thing happened: The old pupils and coworkers (in Germany and
the Netherlands around the half of the membership) which could not follow
the "new", false and selfish way didn't played the ostrichs and they keep on
with their duties and their works as now independent Point Loma groups,
scattered around the world without a central HQ (like the mason movement),
but true to the original programme and their teachers.
This serious esoteric crisis broke out in 1946 with the claim of Conger,
three months after he took office as TS leader, to hold the same occult
status as HPB and forced the members to accept him as new Outer Head of the
ES. When he closed the ES (with James Long as the real background force) in
1951 the ES was in its 77th year of existence and it was the 53rd year after
the ES was reunited in a heroic task by Katherine Tingley with the TS. The
end of the story is that Conger and Long had not all the success they wished
and the true theosophists are working up to present within the theosophical
movement, although disconnected with the exoteric body as it was until KT
came. Boris de Zirkoff declared in 1975 in an address to the Anniversary
Convention in NY: If there would be no ES exist, then the whole TS would be
nothing else as a lie.
Frank

>You may find the latest publication from the American section (Alan
>Donant) to be of interest. It looks and feels like a SUNRISE, but is all
>about Col Conger and his wild ride at Leadership after de Purucker.
>
>According to the above, when Col Conger took over he discovered that the
>ES was an elitist group who wanted esoteric teachings while giving
>nothing back. Now de Purucker was able to provide esoteric instruction.
>The Col was not, and he admitted as much.  In fact, no one of Purucker's
>stature was available, and this led to a lot of bitching and in-fighting
>from disgruntled members who wanted more teachings. After much arguing
>and complaining from members, the Col (with Long's help) closed the ESs
>and they have never reopened.



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