Theos-Talk Archives (April 2001 Message tt00124)

While I read the article you mentioned, I ran into the following quote. I 
think that every inquirer and newbee to theosophy should read it, because 
it would protect him/her from being misled or influenced by the 
organizational leaderships and writings from keeping their independence so 
as to make independent inquiry of the material that modern theosophy has 
presented. Also it should be supplemented the fact that other officially 
unrelated organizations such as Co-Masonry and Liberal Catholic Church etc. 
are being pushed by the organization which has nothing to do with what HPB 
presented as modern theosophy.

mkr

PS: Organizations do not like those who follow their own conscience and 
reason; it is easy to manage and keep in line those who blindly follow the 
organizationally correct views.

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Our "views" have to stand or fall upon their own merit, since we claim 
neither divine revelation nor infallibility.

Determined to follow but one voice -- that of our conscience and reason -- 
we will go on analyzing and laughing at everything that claims to be divine 
truth notwithstanding that it is stamped, for all but the incurably blind, 
with every sign of falsification. Those tinselled rags of human workmanship 
all called "divine inspiration", all mutually conflicting.

We take nothing on faith, and would feel extremely mortified were any of 
our Theosophists to accept the smallest phenomenon on second-hand evidence.

The world teems with prophets, and since we neither tolerate nor believe in 
them, we reject both the old as the modern Balaam, and would as soon 
believe his ass talking Latin to us.

Has any one of these "prophets" ever benefited mankind? No! On the 
contrary, each of them has dug for those who believed on him one more deep 
chasm, until humanity is now absolutely honey-combed with such chasms. Who 
will fill up those accursed pits?

--H.P.B.: The Theosophist, May, 1883.



At 07:19 PM 4/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
> Based on the current discussion and concerns, these series of articles
> may be well worth reading:
>
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