Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00208)

prmoliveira wrote:
> The rantings of Dr Tillet against the Adyar TS are not new. What is 
> new, though, is his attempt to use my posting to attack the American 
> Section of the TS for publishing "The Letters of HPB". 
Frankly, most people in the TS don't really care who's in charge, up to 
a certain extent. However, the American Section (over protests that 
include my own) has recently changed the form of its Board of Directors 
so that it is virtually impossible that someone who is not known and 
liked by the current Board of Directors to become a member of the Board 
or officer of the TSA.

The membership list is kept private (I have suggested that people have 
a checkbox on their membership form to allow their contact information 
shared with other members), and the districts have expanded to such a 
size that the only way a candidate can be known to enough members to 
make a difference in voting is by being a National Speaker, or 
publishing in a TSA publication (since the Federation publications only 
reach about half the voting membership in a district), or by physically 
visiting many Lodges over very large area at their own time and expense. 
This is even more true in the International section. So, although there 
is no official "point of view", what we do have is effectively a 
self-perpetuating oligarchy.

Bart