Theos-Talk Archives (April 2001 Message tt00039)

Dear John,

Sorry for the delay in answering your email
of several days ago.

I will limit my comments to 3 of your points:

You wrote:

>was it or was it not the case that it
>was THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY who was responsible for bringing "The Secret
>Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled", "The Key to Theosophy", and so on wherever
it
>may be the case, back on the scene in the middle of all that was going
on
>back then? I'm not a scholarly type of a person, so I know not all of the
>many details a person like you may know. You seem to have originally
>studied, as best that I can tell, based on how you point out a few things
>to
>Dallas about where it was not the case, 100%, through the Theosophical
>Society, and Dallas, as well as I, mostly studied through the United Lodge
>of Theosophists (ULT) system -- which use all the literature published
by
>THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY.

John, I think what you write about HPB's three works is true. The Theosophy
Company is to be commended for producing photographic facsimiles of HPB's
original works. Plus when THEOSOPHY magazine was founded in 1912, this
forum provided serious Blavatsky students with reprints of HPB's articles
which had become hard to find unless one had access to old issues of THE
THEOSOPHIST, LUCIFER, etc.

When you write:

"You seem to have originally studied . . . through the Theosophical Society."

I'm am somewhat uncertain as to what you mean here. I have tried to study
Blavatsky's writings and the teachings of Theosophy without undue regard
for any of the existing Theosophical organizations including the ULT. But
I have read and used the publications of all the existings Theosophical
groups and have tried to find books and articles that are helpful in understanding
Blavatsky regardless of what organization or publisher issued the work.
I am as interested in the teachings as in the history but have done more
work on the historical side.


You write:

>You present many letters and writings of many people from the early days,
>who worked hard for the Theosophical Cause, but I'm not sure if you, with
>all the original stuff you have gathered and are presenting, have also
>pointed out where many of them later went astray, if that be the case,
as
>presented in many articles and series of article in THEOSOPHY magazine
>through the years. If I am wrong, please point that out. If not, and you
>have not focused on any of that, you may want to add the three series of
>articles about the ins and outs of what went on back in the early days
(they
>are found below), on to your long list of things for your readers to check
>out. This is what THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY has done in the three series, and
>many other writings in THEOSOPHY magazine. Of course if they are not
>accurate in what they point out, you may want to shed your own light on
>where you see they may be in error.

John, I will be more than happy to showcase some of these series of articles
and will write to you more about this in the very near future.


You write:

>I humbly suggest that if you and others, so much more skilled and in contact
>with so many more Theosophists from many organizations, than I am, one
who
>has kind of turned into a recluse, could pull together a "United Team",
>that
>presents endless writings dealing with all that affects humanity today,
>and
>on into the future, in a new publication, whatever it may be named (even
>if
>just on the web, for starters), that every web site within the Theosophical
>arena should put a link to this same one site, on their own sites. Even
>though each group continues doing whatever it does, in whatever
>publications, and in whatever ways, same as now, if each also had a link
>to
>this "United" publication, we may, as a Movement, begin to do better among
>ourselves and in catching the attention of humanity, and hopefully, the
>attention of the Adepts themselves, to a point, after a while, where they
>might even begin to be impressed enough with our "United" action to send
>in
>articles and series of articles, because we are finally working together,
>in
>the way they probably hope we would and should.
>

I certainly would like to see such a "united team". I will send your original
article to some of my correspondents who are also interested in this. I
would be most interested in your thoughts on this suggested publication.
What about Eldon Tucker's online publication? Is this the kind of of publication
you are thinking of?

Daniel

---------------------------------------
Daniel H. Caldwell
info@blavatskyarchives.com
---------------------------------------
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com
Publishes rare & hard-to-find source 
documents on Madame H.P. Blavatsky.
---------------------------------------
SELECTED THEOSOPHICAL BOOKS FOR SALE
http://blavatsky.cc
---------------------------------------
ESOTERIC WORLD OF MADAME BLAVATSKY
http://blavatskyarchives.com/esotericworld.htm
This new book contains a unique collection of 
rare reminiscences of H.P. Blavatsky's life.
---------------------------------------
Theosophyonthe.NET
http://theosophyonthe.net
Easy Net Access to the Classics of Theosophy
---------------------------------------
You can always access our main site 
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES by simply typing 
into the URL address bar the following 
6 characters: hpb.cc