Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00605)

Erica, 
I calculated percentage and that showed very low membership as 
percentage of total population, as compared to many other countries.
If you have numbers it will be interesting to see percentage in 
various countries.
Anand Gholap

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@y...> 
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> 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? 
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> 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!
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> Anand Gholap <AnandGholap@A...> wrote:
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> 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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> > First of all the Theosophical Society in Greece did not fail. 
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> > Second the Greek reality is very different from many countries, 
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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 
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> > I am now only one year and three months an active member in the 
> 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 
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> 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 
> > there. In my opinion this is due to bad direction. I know you are 
> > diehard Blavatskian but why do you punish whole movement in 
Greece 
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> > that. People don't accept Blavatsky in many parts of the world 
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> > still you insist on her writing. Result is Theosophical movement 
> > failed in Greece.
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