Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00216)

Gregory,

Thanks for your comments. When I get a quiet moment, I will leave 
some further thoughts.

Daniel

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, <gregory@z...> wrote:
> 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