Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00167)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, leonmaurer@a... wrote:
> Only your own intellectual capacity and discernment can tell you 
what is or 
> is not "racism"

There is a human tendency to self deception, and the constant 
attempts by some on this list to link Theosophy with Nazism made me 
stary to wonder if I had been deceiving myself.

> don't you agree that you are then labeling yourself as not 
> being among "all those who are in the true service of humanity"? 
(as HPB 
> defined the word

I have seen very little evidence that Theosophists are serving 
humanity,but I may have mssed the point of the question.

> If that's so, then, you are certainly acting as a "fellow traveler" 
with all 
> those so called "Nazi Members"

I am not aa Nazi. Are you?

> As for Leadbeater, In spite of his personal foibles, and his 
distortions of 
> theosophy with its diversion into an organized religion based on 
his personal 
> biases and prejudices, he was a quite knowledgeable occultist, and 
taught 
> some profound truths

I am afraid I would have to disagree.