Theos-Talk Archives (September 2000 Message tt00023)

Dallas writes:
> As any aspiring theosophist might say:  The unassailable basis
> for union among Theosophists, wherever and however situated, is
> SIMILARITY OF AIM PURPOSE AND TEACHING.  This will remove all
> barriers of any kind.  I find that it is a phrase used by one of
> the Messengers.  It is significant, and avoids all conflict with


I agree, but that is only a dream as we Theosophists even agree not who was
a messenger and who was not.
HPB appointed Judge as her successor, but Adyar rejects it.
Judge appointed Tingley as his successor, but ULT and Temple of the People
rejects it.
Purucker appointed no one, but his collegues didn't accept Conger's claim to
be in touch with Masters.
Conger appointed Hartley as successor, but Pasadena people didn't accept it.
Long claimed to be the new messenger, but many Pasadena people didn't accept
it.
The 1975 messenger didn't appeared (or is not known). At least one group
claims to have him in their ranks.

And some Theosophists even allow not discussion about that matter.
Far more complicated is what is the teaching and what not.
For example the Adyar TS has several teaching a Point Loma Theosophist
cannot subscribe to.
Their website even doesn't accept Judge as a Co-Founder as HPB did.
The reality is that there exist in Theosophy today at least 3 different
schools.
Buddhism has three different schools too:
1. Hinayana
2. Mahayana
3. Vajrayana

I hold this counts also for Theosophy lineages - we have Hinayana Theosophy,
Mahayana Theosophy and Vajrayana Theosophy.

As Purucker put it so well a thounsand times, these differences are only
differences in opinion and there is no level-headed reason for not working
together.
In 1975 PTS John Coats gave fresh and vital impulses for co-operation, but
it seems that nothing happened.
Are we Theosophists of today the guys of which HPB and GdeP warned us? Do we
produce bad karma?
Frank




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