Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00216)

Yeah but/"but"... ^:-/ ... And, like you 
say, then there's the library, so ...

Speculatively,
Mauri

walkinsnotwelcome wrote:
> --- 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.