Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00076)

Ed wrote: <<What Theosophical threat are you talking 
about?>>

I'm speculatively referring to what might be called a 
"continuation of a threat," (say?), that seems to have surfaced a 
while back when the missionaries in India, with the 
cooperation of the Coulombs (in the nineteenth century) seem 
to have found fault with Theosophy, HPB, etc. In other words, 
it has occurred to me (and no one else?) that there might be 
some people in some religions that might tend to see some kind 
of threat in SOME forms of Theosophy, maybe. And, being 
rather speculatively inclined, at the moment, I tend to wonder 
about what some such religious individuals might actually do 
about their perceived threats and competitors (ie, though others 
might weightily argue that the Theosophical Movement is so 
miniscule in its influence in relation to the mainstream religions 
that they can't see how anybody in their right mind could see 
Theosophy threatening or competing in any kind of mainstream 
sense).

That is, though the Theosophical Movement, today, might be 
seen to be lacking in some sort of "mainstream influence" (in 
some sense, possibly?), I can't help thinking that, since 
Theosophy does seem to represent, as I see it, an alternative or 
choice in the field of "spiritually engaging thought and 
activity," (in a sense, potentially?), in general, that there might 
be those who might tend to ... whatever ... That is, I seem to be 
currently suffering (if not particularly severely, as I see it, 
would you believe?) from a tendency to speculate about such 
as how some detractors of Theosophy might go about 
detracting (not that I'm beyond reproach, myself, being as 
speculatively inclined as I am).

Speculatively,
Mauri