Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00145)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" <kpauljohnson@y...> 
wrote:
> That could well have been *reported*

Unfortunatelky I cannot check my memory because the matter was of 
zero interest to me at the time and I discarded all the documents I 
received. My recollection is, the leaders defended themslves on the 
ground that ACT was a bunch of fired TSA employees. That seemed 
entirely credible to me at the time.

> I used to admire The Quest but haven't seen it in years. Online 
> Theosophists did not generally seem to share my opinion of it under 
> William Metzger's editorship, though. How is its quality at 
present?

Can't say because I do not follow it. The library is one of a very 
small number of institutions of its type and scope (the ARE has a 
comparable library) and it seems to me this is where they really 
stand out. Theosophy is so complicated that years of study are 
required to understand it, and that guarantees it will never have 
many devotees or exert much influence. It would be possible to make 
it more palatable, but thus far all that has appeared is charlatans 
like Leadbeater and unreadable books like Barborka's DIVINE PLAN. B 
said in his book that Blavatsky never did give out the seven keys to 
interpretation, when the whole of the SD is an explanation of the 
seven keys, and he saw the whole thing as a set of disconnected ideas 
whereas it is intended to be a system. That suggests that even 
people of great ability are unable to tackle this. If Barborka does 
not understand the SD, there is little likelihood that the masses 
will ever understand it.