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Re: Theos-World Failure to communicate - to Paul

Dec 22, 2001 11:47 AM
by ramadoss


Paul:

Your message is the clearest explanation of where you come from and what you tried to do in your book.

For my slow working mind, it took this long to clearly understand it. This also reminds me of what Jiddu Krishnamurti has always maintained as regards Masters/Adepts. Of course there is a strong sentiment of opposition to and in some cases downright denunciation of Krishnamurti by many of those belonging to the traditional/organizational school for their perception of his ingratitude for not following the traditional theosophical *beliefs* including that of Masters after all the *help* TS gave him in his early days. So you seem to be in very good company.

mkr

At 10:53 PM 12/21/01 +0000, kpauljohnson wrote:
--- In theos-talk@y..., Steve Stubbs <stevestubbs@y...> wrote:
>
> The Pratt article is a piece of pratt. The issue is
> not whether Paul has correctly identified the
> mahatmas, but whether ther were any mahatmas to
> identify. I say there were and he says there were
> not.

Thanks for your opinion of the piece in question (piece of what, I
leave to others to say.) BUT-- I spent years trying to prove that
there *were* Mahatmas behind the scenes of the 1880s TS. All we
differ on is the *connections* among HPB's mentors and sponsors, not
whether or not she had any. (Isn't that right?-- I say she was
linked to many *different* "lodges"-- Masonic, Sufi, Theravada, Sikh,
Vedanta, etc.-- whose only connection was their common acquaintance
with her. You say there was some overarching organization to which
all these folks belonged?) It is not the *Masters* I call a myth--
after all the book's title claims to reveal them and how can you
reveal something nonexistent-- but the Great White Lodge. And maybe
we differ also on what we mean by "Mahatmas." I mean "the people HPB
was talking about when she talked about her Mahatmas" regardless of
how much they deserved the appelation-- their inner spiritual status
being of course inaccessible to the profane historical researcher who
is Akashically illiterate :)

Happy holidays,

PJ


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