Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00245)

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From: Blavatsky Archives <blavatskyarchives@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 6:40 AM
Subject: Theos-World Questions about something Leon wrote


> Leon wrote in part:
>
> "I think Dallas has already made it clear that there is no
> hierarchical relationship between the independent local Lodges and
> associate run study groups, or any overriding dictatorial powers
that
> can govern how each individual Lodge or student associate freely
goes
> about their self determined business. For example, many years ago I
> set up a ULT study group in Florida, that -- had we sufficient
> members to justify a registration under state and federal laws as
> a "not for profit association" requiring our own premises and
> tax free status -- could have been chartered by the Parent ULT as an
> "independent Lodge." (At that time, incidentally, we were studying
> the occult teachings in the Vedas, Puranas and Upanishads with the
> help of a Hindu initiate.) At no time did the Parent ULT ever give
> us any restrictions or guidance, have any interest, or ask for any
> reports on what we were doing."
>
> Okay, Leon. Let's take this a step or two further. Let's say that
> eventually your Florida ULT study group had been chartered by the
> Parent ULT as an "independent Lodge". And let's say the associates
> of your Florida lodge then decided they wanted to have a public
study
> class in the lodge on THE MAHATMA LETTERS. Are you telling me that
> the Parent ULT would have no say so in the matter, in fact would
have
> no concern whatsoever about this study class?

And take it a little further. Let it study another book about
Theosophy, by a Soviet Style "Non-Person", who actually worked with
HPB, and HSO, and Annie Besant. What if they decided to study C. W.
Leadbeater's OUTLINE OF THEOSOPHY (1915), currently available from a
non-Theosophical publisher?

Will that be OK with the parent body?

Dennis