Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00382)

An interesting quote from HPB I found may be worth keeping in mind in
regards to confusing supposed loyalty to an organisation with its
sacred myths and our search for truth - make of it what you will -

Perry



http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/PuzzleFromAdyar.htm

"It is pure nonsense to say that "H.P.B.... is loyal to the
Theosophical Society and to Adyar" (!?). H.P.B. is loyal to death to
the Theosophical CAUSE, and those great Teachers whose philosophy can
alone bind the whole of Humanity into one Brotherhood. Together with
Col. Olcott, she is the chief Founder and Builder of the Society which
was and is meant to represent that CAUSE; and if she is so loyal to H.
S. Olcott, it is not at all because of his being its "President," but,
firstly, because there is no man living who has worked harder for that
Society, or been more devoted to it than the Colonel, and, secondly,
because she regards him as a loyal friend and co-worker. Therefore the
degree of her sympathies with the "Theosophical Society and Adyar"
depends upon the degree of the loyalty of that Society to the CAUSE.
Let it break away from the original lines and show disloyalty in its
policy to the CAUSE and the original programme of the Society, and
H.P.B., calling the T. S. disloyal, will shake it off like dust from
her feet.

And what does "loyalty to Adyar" mean, in the name of all wonders?
What is Adyar, apart from that CAUSE and the two (not one Founder, if
you please) who represent it? Why not loyal to the compound or the
bath-room of Adyar? Adyar is the present Headquarters of the Society,
because these "Headquarters are wherever the President is," as stated
in the rules. To be logical, the Fellows of the T. S. had to be loyal
to Japan while Col. Olcott was there, and to London during his
presence here. There is no longer a "Parent Society"; it is abolished
and replaced by an aggregate body of Theosophical Societies, all
autonomous, as are the States of America, and all under one Head
President, who, together with H. P. Blavatsky, will champion the CAUSE
against the whole world. Such is the real state of things."