Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00170)

Sanctius,

Both you, and the other students whom you are communicating with, when
dealing with historical issues within the Theosophical Movement, may find a
lot of useful information in these three series of articles, which are found
in a section of the Wisdom World web site. They surely are not all of the
necessary information on the subject, but this student feels that the
inquirer who has not read them yet, will find a reasonably good and solid
portion of it from these points of view: quantity, sequential method, and
accuracy:

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SOME OF THE HISTORICAL INTERNAL PROBLEMS OF THE
MODERN THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT ITSELF -- SINCE 1875

Compiler's note: The articles presented in this section are offered so that
all present-day Theosophists, from all organizations, and from none, can
understand, along with all of humanity, some of this history -- so as to
learn from it and then put it aside from a practical working-together point
of view. Why? So that the wisest and most knowledgeable members from within
all of the groups can now come together and present a "United" front of
pure, undistorted, and undiluted Theosophy to humanity that can always hold
its own under the welcomed and tough scrutiny and investigation of all
scientists, scholars, teachers, philosophers, thinkers, and religionists of
this world. How? In two new publications, for starters, as proposed in the
right-hand column of the "Main Page" and in the continuing "Introductory
Brochure" link. Both links are found at the bottom of every page on this web
site.

The Theosophical Movement (34-part series) (January 1920, to October 1922):
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/TheTheosophicalMovement-Series/index.html

The Rising Cycle (13-part series) (October 1926, to October 1927):
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/theosophicalmovement/index.html

Aftermath (10-part series) (January 1935, to October 1935):
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/AFTERMATH-10-PartSeries/index.html

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The above section about the Theosophical Movement is on this INDEX page,
which contains many other sections and series of articles:
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/index.html

John DeSantis
(Compiler)
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You may find a great deal of the Truth that you are searching for here:
http://www.wisdomworld.org/index.html

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sanctius@mail.com wrote:

> Bart:
> >Theosophy is not supposed to be a religion; it is more
> >taking religion, and paying attention instead to the
> >"man behind the curtain", to use a phrase from a prominent
> >Theosophical author.
>
> Who says theosophy is not supposed to be a religion? Men behind the
> curtain? Or probably even HPB herself? Who is HPB to say what
> theosophy is? She was merely a scribe that was writing up of some
> guys' views on theosophy. Those mahatma-guys don't have any authority
> over theosophy either. They didn't invent the reality, and theosophy
> is reality as it is. If I write about gravity, and call my
> organization Gravitophical Society, I don't suggest I have right to
> say that nobody else can't write a treatise on gravity, or found
> another Gravitophical Society?
>
> >The problem is that everybody wanted to be a successor to
> >Blavatsky and nobody wanted to be a successor to Olcott.
>
> Only problem there is that the successors probably didn't write
> anything by themselves. All they wanted others do all the work, and
> then stand proud guarding the books. I think HPB and Olcott and Judge
> were fine people, and are a lot finer today (in human form or
> without). They did write a lot of good stuff and they made a lot of
> good things. BUT: There are going to be people who are going to
> present us much more accurate views on theosophy that those three
> combined! Do not forget what Jesus said, that we all shall one day do
> greater deeds what HE had done. Excelsior!
>
> >In doing so, many of these leaders tried to take their
> >personal religious views, and make them the official
> >Theosophical Society "party line".
>
> Names darling, I want the names of those wrongdoers... O;-)
>
> PS.
> My responses may unveil some irritation out
> of sensitive readers' emotional vehicle.
> But that is only a good thing, because
> it heals by doing that. So excuse me.
>
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