Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00199)

Good question! I can only assume that (i) the ULT placed such emphasis on 
there being no organization, no leadership and no authority within the 
ULT (not, of course, the case in fact) that the acknowledgement of an 
inner group would have been too threatening and would have undermined the 
public claims, and (ii) the existence of a secret group that really was 
kept secret provided greater status for the members of it. There are now 
very few really secret groups .... the existence, if not the inner 
teachings and rituals, of almost all secret societies are now scholarly, 
if not common, knowledge. It would be good if all the DES documents could 
be published together with a history of this important branch (if we can 
call it that) of the ES tradition within the TS. I have had some 
interesting conversations with ULT "important people" about the DES .... 
no-one has ever denied its existence, but nor have they admitted it. 
Rather like talking with Adyar people about the Egyptian Rite, the 
details and rituals of which should also be published.
Dr Gregory Tillett