Theos-Talk Archives (March 2000 Message tt00063)

"W. Dallas TenBroeck" wrote:

> affair  -- only the members profited and supported.  Judge was in
> the same case as can be proved from the records of the TS in New
> York.  He paid for all the preliminary operations and as money
> came in for the Work, he spent it right away in promulgation.  He
> did not believe in FUNDS.  (Olcott did and established them for
> various purposes: a Library, Education, etc... )  It is all in
> the magazines, the "Supplements," and other public or Annual
> convention records.  The details can be re-discovered by any good
> researcher.

    According to HPB, in an article defending charging membership dues
for the London Lodge (I don't have it in front of me, but I believe it
was either 1 or 10 pounds per year; the article is in the COLLECTED
WRITINGS, and can be found looking in the index under either Lodges or
Theosophical Lodges, once again, I'm not quite sure). In any case, she
pointed out that it was better to charge dues than to go out for
donations, and be beholden to the donors (a policy that was dropped
almost immediately after her death....). I used this article several
years back when trying to convince the New York Lodge to charge the
going rate for courses that were not directly related to Theosophy (the
main reason was that, by charging a low rate, we were paradoxically
filling our classes with people whose primary consideration was money).

    Bart Lidofsky



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