Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01141)

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> > Mark Hamilton Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > Theosophy teaches that there are actually not one, but seven parts of
> > > man and some of them separate at death.
> > Any statement which starts out with "Theosophy teaches" is going to 
> > turn off a good portion of your audience. In addition, you are ignoring
> > the first principle of THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
> >
> > Bart
>
> Would you mind explaining that? What's the relevance of your first remark? 
> What is the principle Mark is ignoring? How? 
The relevance of the first remark is that it implies that the writer is 
the boss, telling us underlings what to believe.

As far as the second, look to the first of the three postulates of the 
Secret Doctrine.