Theos-Talk Archives (August 1999 Message tt00056)

Thanks Aiden!

I appreciate your remarks about comparative religion and
Theosophy...enabling people to better appreciate other religions, cultures
is a good part of the stated goals of the Society!

>That's a beginning.  I know it won't appeal to liberal 'modernisers', but I
>suspect that there will be a return to cultural conservatism in the next
>century, in which Theosophy could have great intellectual clout.
>
>Best Wishes.


I think you need though to lower your back hairs about those liberal
modernisers. Those modernizers are stealing the field in some respects and
we can learn a lot from them, other wise we fall back to a reactionary mode
and are branded as stuffy old fuddy dudddys... Please don't take that
personally Aiden, I say this only only for discussion purposes...The World
Parliament of Religions both I and II have set up ongoing committees that
report continually... As the world does a shrinky dink we will all be
compressed together and egalitarianism as much as we dislike it will be
upon us I suspect..so what to do?  I say we join them and prepare ourselves
rather than resist kicking and screaming,,,If we don't lead in this then we
will be asked to get out of the way and be forgotten...

I have a painful feeling when I say this ... but I think we should be
prepared to throw out the baggage when it blocks the view, by that I mean
adopt a more light weight and scientific attitude when there's a
conflict... mind you... there is much about this that is personally painful
to me, but I'm afraid we will have to relegate a great deal of theosophic
literature to a historical status, focusing on how advanced it was for the
time, but is of course now obsolete from a scientific standpoint! Only in
this way, I feel can we relate meaningfully to people who are alive today!
There... I've said it and it feels good!   - Art Gregory


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