Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00231)

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Lindsay <phillip@esotericastrologer.org>
[mailto:phillip@esotericastrologer.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:54 AM
To: theos-talk-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Lindsay quits

actually I haven't quit - I messed up my online ID and am waiting 
for membership approval...

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Weeks" <nick.weeks@w...> 
wrote:
> Below is the last note I rcvd privately from Philip Lindsay.
> 
> My private response to him said I saw no reason to keep forwarding 
his notes
> to Theos-talk, so I gave him the Theos-talk address so he could do 
it himself.
> I also said I would respond to the note below, privately or 
publicly, as he
> wished. However that note of mine bounced and the Mailer Demon 
said the Yahoo
> account had been closed down. So I guess preaching is PL's 
milieu, not
> discussion with non-residents of the Baileywick.
> 
> But he can have the last word -- written below.
> 
> Fare Thee Well,
> 
> Nicholas
> 
> 
> From: <aabhpb@y...>
> To: "Nick Weeks" <nick.weeks@w...>
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Pseudo-theosophy of AAB & CWL
> 
> NW:
> > > Your second sentence must be rhetorical, since you continue
> > writing as if your
> > > assumption about pseudo-theosophy is correct. It is not. 
Pseudo-
> > theosophy is
> > > whatever teaching professes to be based on, and share the KEY 
or
> > BASIC tenets
> > > of HPB & her Gurus, but does not. Therefore Crosbie, Wadia,
> > Tingley, Purucker
> > > for example, do share these keynotes of original Theosophy and 
to
> > my mind are
> > > real Theosophists. Absolute fidelity to each and every 
teaching
> > that HPB gave
> > > is not needed. But one must have a notion of which teachings 
are
> > basic &
> > > vital and which are not.
> 
> PL:
> > So who decides or has decided what teaching does not'share the 
KEY
> > or BASIC tenets of HPB & her Gurus' - what great authority, TS or
> > otherwise claimed it thus?
> >
> > It seems a minority group within the TS (probably the ES) , who 
have
> > an undue influence, deem it so.
> 
> NW:
> > >If your DK is same as HPB's DK why are his MAIN
> > >teachings opposed to the real Brothers teachings?
> 
> 
> PL:
> > Again you make the assumption that you know who the 'real 
brothers'
> > teachings are. Your 'stuff and nonsense' remark is just a cheap
> > provocation and an insult to those very Brothers you claim to
> > recognise. It is you who have distorted BASIC theosophy by your
> > inability to plumb the new teachings and thereby retard its 
progress.
> >
> > But as with most fundamentalists, I can see dialogue is futile...