Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00665)

Hi Bart,
How do you see the dividing line between promoting Bailey and Leadbeater.

Science of the sacrements is still published and distributed by TPH
Adyar this is a religious book that promotes the validity of the
Apolstolic succession, is that worthy of promotion in your opinion in
your opinion?

Leadbeater strikes me as just as religious as Bailey.
Both claimed contact with the same Mahatmas as HPB.
Leadbeater and Annie Besant started a Second Coming movement and a
World Mother movement with devotions prayers and commandments, if that
isn't religious I don't what is.

Perry



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Perry Coles wrote:
> > If the reason Bailey material is not promoted is in order to avoid 
> > takeovers I can understand that but I would say if a knowledge of the 
> > historical reasons was more widely known by the membership it is able 
> > to help lectern any animosity that may arise from this issue.
> 
> There's lots of information that's not promoted. Anon Lavey's Satanic 
> Bible is not, nor is the Book of Mormon, the books of Gerald Gardner, 
> nor, for that matter, the liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church.
Bailey 
> moves from philosophy into religion, albeit a theosophically based one, 
> and, as such, is worthy of study, but not promotion.
> 
> Bart