Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00189)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" <kpauljohnson@y...> 
wrote:
> Dear Mauri,

...But there is a category of interrelated ideas on which multiple 
> perspectives are regarded as threatening and which therefore must 
be 
> silenced/avoided. #1 on the list might well be Masters and their 
> relationship to Theosophy, #2 being the relationship between 
> Leadbeater and Krishnamurti (which the Krishnamurti-ites of all 
> varieties seem as spooked by as the Leadbeater-did-no-wrong 
TSers.) 
> Resistance to multiperspectivalism in Theosophy is IMO strongest in 
> the ES (which has the one true secret path to get to the only real 
> Masters, concocted mainly by that poor victim of endless slanders, 
> CWL) and the ULT (which has the one authoritative body of 
scriptures 
> which represents the Masters' teaching.) But that small minority 
of 
> dogmatic Theosophists is the tail that wags us multiperspectivalist 
> dogs in local lodges and study centers and most of all at-large 
> membership. If Adyar local groups' multiperspectivalism is 
> superficial, and covers up hidden dogmatism about sacred cow 
> subjects at the national and international levels, there's 
something 
> fraudulent about the whole enterprise. 

It's that final phrase,"there's something fraudulent about the 
whole enterprise", which is how I've come to feel about the 
Theosophical Society. And it's in that context that I mentioned 
the "Masters" issue. It's not important to me whether a given 
theosophical organization has anything to do with adepts, but when 
that's the original source of being of this particular one, and when 
the situation becomes fundamentally different and this isn't publicly 
acknowledged and dealt with, the situation becomes ridiculous, and 
phrases like "hollow shell" and "pathetic remnant" come to 
mind. 
It's got a nice library, though.