Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00017)

ramadoss@gbronline.com wrote:
> In the early days, theosophists took active interest on various issues
> relating to the welfare of the oppressed people and espoused causes which
> were not politically correct at that time. But things changed.

Theosophists still do. The Theosophical Society never did. According to
to Blavatsky, the only position that the Theosophical Society should
take in politics is to increase the level of understanding between
opposing sides (which I have been active in doing in the New York Lodge;
for example, last year, I gave a lecture, "Reuniting a Divided Nation",
where I pointed out that well-intentioned liberals and conservatives had
much the same goals, the differences were in what they considered the
best way of achieving these, and that the major conflicts were caused by
outspoken members of both sides who had hidden, selfish agendas that
they were pushing, hidden under supposed solutions to problems (such as
Rush Limbaugh's "How do I make 'I got mine, everybody else can go to
hell' sound like fairness" agenda, or Hillary Clinton's "How can I make
a health system maximize the government's control of the individual?"
agenda). 

Bart Lidofsky