Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00405)

Fortunately for it's devotees, Theosophy recommends, and indeed, 
exhorts, that the student learn first and foremost to think for 
himself. All else comes from that.

Adelasie

On 9 Apr 2005 at 21:48, Mauri wrote:

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> << Each one who feels drawn to the 
> study, who feels that here is something 
> important, or comforting, or useful, or 
> helpful, or stimulating, or worth 
> sharing, or inspirational, or in any way
> however feels that his or her life has 
> been somehow changed by contact with 
> this ancient lore, has made a difference 
> to the evolution of the whole human 
> race. This is what matters.
> Administration is somewhat less 
> important. >>>>>
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> If such broader views were prevelant 
> enough on this planet, I suspect that 
> things might tend to be somewhat different.
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> I just read in Gordon Urquhart's THE 
> POPE'S ARMADA that Pope-approved 
> Catholic cults have totalitarian, 
> fundamentalist, extreme right-wing 
> administrators who, I suspect, wouldn't 
> agree with your approach as stated in 
> that post if it involved any kind of 
> self-induced thoughts or efforts. The 
> author spent nine years at one of those 
> cults (Focolare). Quoting from page 67:
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> <<Out minds, attitudes and beliefs were 
> to be radically changed, not through a 
> gradual process of learning and growth 
> of personal conviction but through an 
> intensive barrage which would often be 
> quite openly referred to, jokingly, as 
> brainwashing.>>
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> Not that one person's brainwashing, 
> importantance, comfort, usefulness, etc, 
> might not be another's whatever.
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> Speculatively,
> Mauri
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