Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00123)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@A...> 
wrote:
> 
Clear, so you mean you pretend(adore) authority,dogma and...??????

That HPB is against that facts, makes her a good cheer!
Christina



> 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:
> > 
> > --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" 
<AnandGholap@A...> 
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 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.