Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00088)

>>...but when we repeatedly put forward a contentious view and say HPB
and the Masters agree with it, then we do need to back it up.>>

Peter, "a contentious view?"  If you mean liberation in a 
single lifetime, then I am already on record as saying that 
HPB never said anything to oppose it. She actually didn't 
say much one way or the other except the very exoteric 
view of karmic necessity that implies eternal rounds of
reincarnation. Now it just so happens that this view was
taught in the old days in india, and that this view is
exactly what Buddha opposed. Buddha proclaimed 4
Nobel Truths, which stressed that there is a way
out of these seemingly endless rounds of incarnations.
HPB was a Buddhist, not a Hindu. I can't help but
seeing a certain amount of humor in the idea that her
Theosophy has eliminated a key element of Buddhism
that separated it from the fatalistic views of Hinduism
and that my attempts to restore it are labeled as
contentious...

Jerry S.

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        


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