Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00747)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:


> But as far as I can tell, you have chosen to
> ignore the serious issues to be found in what both
> Madame Blavatsky and the Mahatma Koot Hoomi
> wrote about:
> 
> "wild and fanciful speculation" about Theosophy
> 
> "erroneous notions" about Theosophy
> 
> "garbled and distorted versions" of Theosophy
> 
> "false ideas" grafted onto Theosophy
> 
> "disfigured" expositions of Theosophy
> 
> "imitations of Occultism and Theosophy"
> 
> I again invite your atttention to what they
> wrote which has been posted at:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/18249


An independent observer might see that your attitude to Theosophy and 
its 'original teachings' is becoming increasingly theological, 
sectarian and crystallized. It seems to replicate, for example, the 
Church's attitude to the different Gnostics groups in the early 
Christian era by establishing a definitive and granite-like Theology 
that must be accepted as the only true and real benchmark of the 
Christian tradition.

In one of her letters to the American Conventions (April 1888), 
Madame Blavstky wrote:

"Orthodoxy in Theosophy is a thing neither possible nor desirable. It 
is diversity of opinion, within certain limits, that keeps the 
Theosophical Society a living and a healthy body, its many other ugly 
features notwithstanding. Were it not, also, for the existence of a 
large amount of uncertainty in the minds of students of Theosophy, 
such healthy divergencies would be impossible, and the Society would 
degenerate into a sect, in which a narrow and stereotyped creed would 
take the place of the living and breathing spirit of Truth and an 
ever growing Knowledge."

You may go on with your campaign to denounce the writings of Annie 
Besant and C. W. Leadbeater as "garbled and distorted versions" of 
Theosophy, but please don't expect me to be a part of it.

Personally, I find useful as a guideline in my studies the advice 
given by St. Paul (and quoted by Madame Blavatsky in "Isis Unveiled", 
vol. II, p. 84): 

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." (1 Thess. 5.21)


Pedro