Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00122)

Although I don't recommend writing of Blavatsky for various reasons, I 
am sure that Blavatsky was totally against any kind of dogma. Devotees 
of Blavatsky did not understand what she expected and created dogma.

Blavatsky held that "the very root idea of the Society is free and 
fearless investigation." She addressed the question "What is a 
theosophist?":

"one need not necessarily recognize the existence of any special God 
or a deity. One need but worship the spirit of living nature, and try 
to identify oneself with it. . . . Be what he may, once that a student 
abandons the old and trodden highway of routine, and enters upon the 
solitary path of independent thought -- Godward -- he is a 
Theosophist; an original thinker, a seeker after the eternal truth 
with 'an inspiration of his own' to solve the universal problems." -- 
The Theosophist, October 1879, p. 6

It is clear from above passage that Blavatsky was totally against 
authority, dogma etc.

Anand Gholap




--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@A...> 
wrote:
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@A...> 
> wrote:
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> > > 
> > > A lot Leadbeater knew about drunks!! My mother wouldn't touch 
gin!
> > > 
> > > Chuck the heretic
> > 
> > But one might try to take pleasure by partially entering into 
> other's 
> > body who takes gin.
> 
> By now all people know your body is best for such purpose.