Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00603)

Anand,



Membership here is low indeed. Greece has 10 million population and around 80 members, Brazil has 180 million population and around 800 or 700 hundred members. In terms of % there is not much difference between the membership of the T.S. in Greece and membership in the T.S. in other countries. Generally membership in the T.S. is very low all over the world. Or do you consider a society with 35 or 40 thousand members all over the world a great number? 



In India how many members are there? 18 thousand or a little more? The population of India has passed the number of one billion, do you think in a country with 1 billion people the T.S. to have 18 thousand members is this a great number? I know I am not referring here to the exact numbers, but they are very close. If you think that such numbers are all right, it is your opinion. In my opinion such numbers are not all right and low membership in the T.S. is a reality not only in Greece but all over the world!



Erica


Anand Gholap <AnandGholap@AnandGholap.org> wrote:


Erica,
Membership in Greece is ridiculously low as compared to other 
countries, if I got correct figure. If you are new there then other 
leaders might be Blavatskians. Church may be strong but Greece is not 
a fundamentalist country. So there must be reasons for failure. 
People don't become members of TS by reading SD. Most come to 
Theosophy after reading books by Leadbeater. Afterwords few unlucky 
among them become diehard Blavatskians. Most others read CWL, AB etc. 
and some don't read anything. 
Anand Gholap


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church here is very, but very strong. For a child to join a public 
school has to be baptized in the church otherwise cannot join it. 
Because of the strength of the church, orthodoxy here condemns not 
only the Theosophical Society but Masonry, and any other movement.
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> Third this is not a matter of people accepting or not Blavatsky, 
because they do not only call Blavatsky Satanist but say much worst 
things about Leadbeater. Nobody is trying to impose Blavatsky or any 
other kind of teachings here.
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Theosophical Society in Greece (but I am a member of the T.S. 15 
years) so it is still too early to attribute anything related to the 
Theosophical Society here to me. 
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> By the way my personal preferences I try do not impose it on others 
and they are exclusively mine. If you conclude that I am a 
Blavatskyan it is your own conclusion I never said so. By the way 
Blavatsky was not a vegetarian, and many people are not vegetarian 
also,so is this a reason to judge them? Buddha's last meal was pork 
he was less enlightened for that? I don't think so.
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> Why do people in Greece call Theosophy satanic ? I found that 
> Theosophical movement failed in Greece despite favorable conditions 
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> diehard Blavatskian but why do you punish whole movement in Greece 
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