Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00190)

I'd like to say that, for me, one of the most interesting 
considerations re the historic aspects of Theosophy has 
to do with how "karma was dealt with," in a sense, by 
the Mahatmas when they chose Olcott and HPB and 
others as their agents, in that I suspect that the 
Mahatmas knowingly applied karma against karma 
from some "higher perspective," while somehow staying 
within some kind of what might be called "karmic" 
rules or guidelines. In other words, I tend to suspect 
that they could, in some ways, read the various karmic 
trends, as though from some "higher perspective," 
knowing about possible repercussions to their 
Theosophic efforts later on from Besant, Sinnet, 
Leadbeater, etc, and so when we read, say, A.L. 
Cleathers's "The Great Betrayal," and the like, it's as if 
(from my point of view, at any rate) such detractors 
have all along been causing, in effect, in a sense, a 
somewhat significantly different effect, in retrospect, 
than they might have imagined, at the time, having the 
effect of making Theosophy more and more obviously 
meaningful to more and more people who (as a result 
of, for example, A.L. Cleather's "The Great Betrayal") 
are being offered a perspective of r/Reality that they 
might otherwise tend to miss. Not that there's a 
shortage of detractors these days. 

Speculatively,
Mauri