Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00094)

Thursday, July 12, 2001

Dear Dr. Tillett:

Thanks and noted

I would however observe that "anonymity" is not a crime, and in
this case was deliberately adopted by the U.L.T. as a basis for
impersonalizing all its work and directing attention to the main
CAUSE for its existence; THE PRESERVATION AND THE PROMULGATION
OF THE original teachings of THEOSOPHY.
I may also add that I have personally reviewed and checked almost
all of the references used in the 2 books mentioned [ THE
THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT -- 1875 - 1950 ] and have been able to
trace their sources or have seen, read or have actual copies of
the relevant items.

Best wishes,
Dallas

DTB

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-----Original Message-----
From: gregory@zeta.org.au [mailto:gregory@zeta.org.au]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:12 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: Theos-World ULT Mysteries

THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT, as interesting as it is (in both
significantly
different editions), cannot be described as a "documentary
history".
There is no documentation of most of the sources, for example. It
is
written entirely on the basis of the ULT position: nothing wrong
with
that so long as it's clear that this is the perspective of the
author,
but it hardly equates with "documentary history" (any more than,
say,
Josephine Ransom's history does, or Joy Mill's recent history of
(essentially the Adyar) Theosophical movement in America, which
manages
to omit substantial amounts of history, presumably because Adyar
would
prefer not to recall them). It is difficult to know how any work
without
a named author or authors can expect to be taken seriously,
although in
the case of THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT, the publisher's identity
discloses
its perspective. One might wonder, of course, why there is no
reference
in that work to the DES.

Dr Gregory Tillett



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