Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00244)

The expelled ("for good reason") Robert Crosbie, who never possessed the occult ring of Judge, wrote in a letter (no date is given):

"In Mrs. Tingley there is apparent lack of sincerity, and much that is the opposite of theosophical conduct."
- The Friendly (!?) Philosopher, p. 375.

According to George Orwell's doublethink the term "friendly" means here of course "unfriendly". Of course he gives no proofs or a reliable rationale for his accusations. But he cannot give any because Katherine Tingley was a most sincerely, true Theosophist, a high chela of the same Master HPB had and a member of Their Lodge. OTOH, Robert Crosbie was only a proud lay.

On p. 372 one reads:

"U.L.T." and its Declaration will be compared by many with the claims made by the various societies and their exponents... We make none: we point to the Message, the Messengers, and Their enunciation of the Work... The position is unique und unassailable in that it makes no claim to any other authority than the Message and the Messengers."

So, how sincerely is Robert Crosbie for himself and how reliable are his claims that his position is unique? Did Katherine Tingley taught her pupils any other things than the "Message and the Messengers"? No, she always pointed to the Message and always pointed to the guruparampara.

Crosbie vowed to follow Katherine Tingley as the Messenger of the Masters. Later on, when he plotted against the Messenger and the work in ES and TS, he was expelled and forced to leave Headquarters. Four years later, 1909, he launched his "United (!?) Lodge Of Theosophists", appointed himself "Outer Head" of his ES (calling it D.E.S.) and claimed to be the one who has kept "the link unbroken" to Judge (!!) who died in 1896. What a luck that it took him only 14 years to take notice of it!

Actually it was Katherine Tingley work that was unique. She built the seat of the school in the far West of which both HPB and Judge always dreamed and wrote, collected together the scattered letters of HPB, prepared the "Blavatsky Collected Writings" and the "Mahatma Letters", reprinted HPB's and Judge's books, taught hundreds of pupils to develop their spiritual will, attracted the highest minds of the world to her school, saved the original program of the TS, reunited the ES with the TS in 1898, opened the next stage of evolutionary development of the Theosophical Movement and was eager to support peace among the nations.

So, when Crosbie describes his proud work as unique it is according to Orwell's doublethink to be understood as "bad copied".





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