Re: Theos-World Jerry on The United Lodge of Theosophists and The Mahatma Letters
May 05, 2005 01:08 PM
by Jerry Hejka-Ekins
I've never heard of anyone attempting to organize a Mahatma Letters
class at a ULT Lodge either. "The Parent Lodge" in Los Angeles is the
only one I ever regularly attended, and that is from about 1976 to 1990,
when we left the area. At that time, the prevailing attitude was that
the Mahatma Letters were "private." So, even the discussion of or
quoting from the Mahatma Letters (other than those quoted in the Occult
World) was discouraged. The prevailing attitude was that Barker was in
error when he published them in 1923. I doubt whether such a class
could have been organized then. But keep in mind that the Parent Lodge
would have been the most bound to traditions. Other ULT Lodges
sometimes did things the Parent Lodge would not. Nevertheless, people
have died since then and things are changing all the way around.
Jerry
Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:
Jerry wrote:
"While I have never heard of a ULT Lodge studying
the Mahatma Letters, I don't think I have ever met
a ULT associate who has not read them on his/her own."
So are you saying that if a ULT associate wanted
to form a Mahatma Letters class at a ULT Lodge
he would be told by someone [the "leader"??]
that he could NOT conduct such a class?
Or let us say a ULT Lodge decided to conduct
such a class, would the class go forward?
Or at a ULT Lodge, let us
say at the LA Lodge, is it proper [or permitted}
for a ULT associate to refer to or quote a passage
from the Mahatma Letters in the course of a
discussion or a lecture?
Daniel
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