Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00476)

<<<On the face of things, the claim by HPB about her sponsors making similar efforts in the final quarter of each century doesn't make much sense. If the sources of these alleged efforts were from non-
Western cultures, would they use the Western calendar to schedule them? >>>

Paul, agreed. Indeed, esotericism does not respect our human calendars anywhere, and this claim of messengers only during the last quarter of a century is metaphorical, not literal. Messengers come out of human need, not human calendars.


<<<The demise of Gnosis magazine in 1999 was a sad sign of the end of a particular cycle of occult revival.>>

IMO Gnosis, just like the old Quest, died from a fog index that was way too high for its readership. I found myself nodding off during every Gnosis issue, and I quit my subscription a few years before its demise. This goes back to what I have been saying for many years - keep it in plain simple language, or you risk losing everyone except a few hardened scholars who only have an intellectual understanding anyway.

Jerry S.

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