Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00046)

>Art wrote:
>
>> I will take a Jeddu Krishnamurti anyday over a
>> Koothumi, or a Sri Aurobindo over a Dhwal Khul, or a Swendenborg over a
>> Saint Germaine... Name them all my friend... they will not measure up in
>> thought, depth or spiritual power. When the Gita can be apprehended in its
>> original language (as English can only approximate) it is far
>> more powerful
>> and penetrating than a few crumbs of Morya!
>
>It is the Masters who are the true founders and inspirers of the TS and the
>Theosophical movement of the last 100+ years, Art.  Are we to proclaim
>ourselves as theosophists in one breath and speak so disparagingly of these
>great souls and teachers, who were the founders, in the next?  "Ingratitude
>is not among our vices", one of Them writes.  Yet now it seems we can have a
>TS that does not even include the study of Theosophy but is "sans the
>Masters and HPB...except as a nodding histortical
>note...".
>
>
>...Peter

Peter , I most sincerely believe with all my soul when I say this that we
will be truer to our traditrion as theosophists if we acknowledge that as
much as the early thesophists received what they felt was guidance from the
Masters, that we can now say that such guidance is superfluous. Before the
dawn even a old match or a candle will do, now that we have so much more
available than people did a hundred years ago I think its really a shame
people still want to huddle about a few burnt matches even if they were the
ones actually held by HPB.

Theosophy is much more ancient than HPB ... Sankaracharya was a
theosophist... Jacob Boehme was onme, and so were countless others... I do
respect what HPB accomplished which was monumental for the time and her
vast writings, but  these need not be the sole or only source for
theosophists in this day! - Art


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