Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00300)

HPB certainly saw the writing on the wall:

set up * hard-and-fast dogmas * of its own, and so lost by 
imperceptible degrees that vitality which * living truth * alone can 
impart. You must remember that all our members have been bred and 
born in some creed or religion, that all are more or less of their 
generation both physically and mentally, and consequently that their 
* judgment is but too likely to be warped * and unconsciously 
* biassed * by some or all of these influences. If, then, they 
cannot be freed from such *inherent bias * ....