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Re: Theos-World Why ULT became local while Adyar TS International Organization

Mar 31, 2005 05:44 PM
by Jerry Hejka-Ekins


Anand,

OK, here is what I understand that you are saying:

1. ULT , the Point Loma/Pasadena Theosophical Society and other unnamed Theosophical organizations are "separatist groups."
2. By separatist groups" you mean Organizations which oppose the Adyar TS.
3. The Adyar TS is the only Theosophical Organization which the Masters support and "guide."
4. I assume that ULT and Pasadena TS are friendly to the Adyar TS.


Well, let me begin by saying that I go by personal experience in these matters about who is opposed to whom--not assumptions. I have been a member of the Adyar TS for 42 years, and observed quite a lot of its history first hand. I am also an associate of ULT and a member of the Pasadena TS for over 20 years each. I occasionally visit the Temple of the People in Haycyon CA., am acauainted with the past and the present Guardian in Chief. I never became active or joined the Temple of the People, because of their remote location makes it difficult for me to keep in touch with them. However, I have always felt very welcome there on those occasions when I have visited. All of these organizations are very aware of my membership with the Adyar TS, yet they all welcome me as a fellow Theosophist to their meetings and other activities.

In 1984 I was President of the Southern California Federation TSA, and I organized a conference at Ojai called "The Theosophical Movement, Networking for Unity." The conference was well attended with over 150 people. We invited key people in the TSA, Pasadena TS, Point Loma Publications, and ULT to speak at the conference. After the conference, Theosophical groups in the TSA, ULT and Pasadena began announcing Networking conferences and began newsletters. It was only the TSA which began to undermine the networking effort, and these conferences were quietly discouraged. The Networking Conferences begun by ULT are still going today, and are held each August in different locations in California. The upcoming one will be in or near Santa Barbara. Last Year's was held in San Diego. The Pasadena TS held networking conferences in 1988 and 1991, and invited myself and other Adyar TS members to participate in planning them.

I should also add that for many years the Long Beach Branch TSA and the Long Beach ULT met together and jointly held meetings for the public. That was done by mutual agreement of the two groups. Since the so called "Head" of ULT participated in and helped organize these joint meetings, I must assume that there were no objections as far as ULT was concerned.
From this personal experience, and much more I could share, I have to
conclude that it is not the non Adyar organizations which oppose Adyar, but the Adyar and TSA management which demonstratively opposed other Theosophical organizations.

Now the questions I pose to you are these:

1. Since all of these Theosophical Groups profess universal brotherhood, why is it that only TSA does not encourage fraternalization of its members with fellow Theosophists of other Organizations?
2. If the non Adyar Theosophical organizations are really separatist, then why do they welcome fraternalization with other Theosophical groups.
3. Why is it that only TSA, an Adyar organization not encourage this fraternalization?


While members of non Adyar Theosophical Organizations have their own traditions, and may disagree with some of the beliefs held by some members of the Adyar TS, they have certainly demonstrated that they are willing to put aside their differences and welcome members of all other Theosophical organizations as brothers. Why should this not also be encouraged in the Adyar TS?

--j





Anand Gholap wrote:

Jerry,
You are assuming that these seperatist groups and it's members were friendly with the Masters' Society (Adyar TS) In reality many of them were hostile towards Adyar TS. To oppose Masters' Society and it's leaders in reality means opposing Masters themselves.
If ULT wanted to help Masters' Society they could have expressly stated so. There are many groups and individuals who work independently but they expressly say that they are only complementary to Masters' Society (Adyar TS) and not competing with it. Competing with Masters' Society in reality means competing and opposing Masters themselves. Should we assume that these individuals are working under influence of dark powers and so opposing Masters' Society.
Anand Gholap


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jjhe@c...> wrote:


Anand,

In what way do you consider ULT a separatist group, and in what way

does

ULT challenge the Masters? ULT is merely an association of

Students of

Theosophy who are dedicated to the study of what they

term "original

teachings." Their early task was to keep in print Blavsky's and Judge's writings when other Theosophical organizations had either allowed them to go out of print, or published them in an edited and sometimes, revised, form. Personally, I believe that we owe a

debt of

thanks to ULT for keeping in print these writings in the form that Blavatsky and Judge had originally published them.
Do you feel that the Pasadena/Point Loma TS challenged the

Masters? Did

you know that Trever Barker, who compiled and published the Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, was a Point Loma Theosophist?
Perhaps I am not understanding your point. Please explain.

--j



Anand Gholap wrote:



Jerry,
I was talking about not just ULT but all seperatist groups which broke up from the Masters' Society (Adyar TS) and created new organizations to challenge the Masters.
Anand Gholap

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jjhe@c...> wrote:




As long as you are educating us on "the important facts", may I



correct



a few, perhaps, less important ones in your message in order to



put



your "facts" into perspective:

1. The ULT did not split off of the Adyar Society. It would be



more



accurate to say that it was a break off of the Theosophical

Society




led



by Ernest Hargrove. It is true that Robert Crosbie, one of the



primary



founders of ULT was at an earlier time a member of the Point Loma Theosophical Society, but he left that organization joined the



Hargrove



Society and formed a group under then left the Hargrove society

and

formed the ULT around 1909.
2. I'm not sure what you mean by "local organization" but ULT has branches in Europe, India, North and South America.
3. Memberships in all of the Theosophical Organizations went



through



cycles of increase and decline at the same time (which in my



opinion, is



an indication as to how closely they are linked together



karmically).



4. I have been involved in the four presently existing

Theosophical

Organizations (Pasadena, ULT, Adyar) and know people and have



friends in



all of them. My experience has been that they all have their

share




of



bright intuitive and dull unintuitive members.
5. Nevertheless, I think it is misleading to compare the Adyar TS



to



ULT, because the two organizations are of very different

natures.




The



Adyar TS is a membership organization who support the

Theosophical

Society, while the ULT is an association of independent students



working



to promote the Theosophical Movement.
--j


Anand Gholap wrote:





After splitting of the Society, Judge Society, ULT depended



heavily on



Blavatsky's writing for more than 100 years. In many parts of

the

world Blavatsky's writing was not appreciated, it could not



convince



intuition and intellect of people. In many parts it was actually hated. Result is Judge Society became local organization. Adyar TS because of Masters' blessings got many occultists who



wrote



well and it was appreciated by people around the world. So Adyar



TS



became International organization.
I don't have much interest in organizational politics. But these



are



important facts.
Anand Gholap





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