Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01420)

M. Sufilight wrote:
> 1.
> So I understand you Bart, that you find the Muslims not to bea great root 
> religion and you think it to be a hybrid offshoot of Christianity with the 
> tinge of Judaism ?
I have no idea how you were able to deduce that from anything I have 
said. If you define a "root religion" to be a religion from which other 
religions have been derived, then Islam is, in fact, more of a leaf 
religion than a root one. Whether or not it's great, well, it's 
certainly been successful.

> You with other words agree upon the below excerpt from the Alice A. Bailey 
> book ?
Well, frankly, I think that the concept of the "rays" has been way 
overdone. It seems clear to me from the writings of Blavatsky and the 
Mahatmas that the idea of the rays are an abstraction; Leadbeater and 
Bailey took these as literal, concrete concepts, practically turning it 
into a religious point of view.

Bart