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Theos-World Re: "Blavatsky died with cigarette in mouth." (corrected)

May 11, 2005 05:57 AM
by Erica Letzerich


Dear Krishtar,

Theosophy will never be a religion. But yeah there is a growing 
dangerous of we or future generations to witness the birth of a new 
religion. The Secret Doctrine will be the bible and Blavatsky the 
daughter of a virgin or fount of a miraculous birth. And this is the 
direction our fundamentalist's friends are walking towards. They 
believe, as it was mentioned here in recent previous post, 
everything after Blavatsky's writings are second hand teachings.

Erica

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> 
wrote:
> Leon
> I make your words, mine.
> Open mind is the first thing we ought to bear in mind when 
studying any philosophy.
> Curiously, man can transform any belief into a religion.
> I just wonder how would all things be if Krishnamurti didnīt split 
with the movement and really become its head ,just like Leadbeater 
expected and managed to.
> Theosophy would probably be considered , turned into an organized  
religion, with all the pomp it needed.
> From sacraments - under the guide of a Mahachohan - to very 
complicated rituals...oh God.
> Just my view, of course.
> 
> K
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: leonmaurer@a... 
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: "Blavatsky died with cigarette in 
mouth." (corrected)
> 
> 
> All these "facts" presented by Amand Gholap are nothing more 
than personal 
> opinions -- conditioned by his own prejudicial biases, beliefs 
and convictions 
> -- that have been refuted over and over again by the Masters and 
others. When 
> will he wake up and see things as they really are?   
> 
> The real nature of reality can never be written down. This 
includes both HPB 
> and CWL who saw the fundamental ontological basis of reality 
from their own 
> individually personal points of view which incorporated their 
own particular 
> emotional and mental biases which was also conditioned by their 
education and 
> the times and societies they lived in.   
> 
> Therefore, neither of them could explain -- if we take their 
dead letters at 
> their face value -- the true nature of occult reality that would 
be consistent 
> with each other. Nevertheless Blavatsky gave it out first in 
its entirely, 
> and taught it to both Besant and Leadbeater -- who then 
reinterpreted it based 
> on their personal biases toward the Christian religion that they 
were co
> nditioned into believing since birth. Blavatsky pushed it in 
the opposite 
> direction because she was conditioned to hate the Jesuits and 
Catholicism and thus was 
> biased against all organized religions of a personal God 
nature. Thus all 
> their inner visions are questionable. As for fundamental 
reality and its 
> metaphysical ontology, that has never changed. And has its 
basis in fundamental 
> truths that go beyond any written interpretation.  
> 
> That's why HPB said, when not so conditioned, that the real 
occult 
> ontological truth is hidden "in and around the words and between 
the lines," and only 
> through our own intuition and self devised study and practice, 
could we ever 
> truly understand it in its entirely. Thus we each have to find 
that truth for 
> ourselves, and cannot be stuck in the dead letter writings of 
either HPB or CWL.  
> 
> The problem here is that Amand is as much a "dead letter" 
Leadbeater 
> fundamentalist as those who read the Secret Doctrine in its dead 
letter are Blavatsky 
> fundamentalists.  
> 
> The true occultists/theosophists are neither. And take what 
they know to be 
> the truth from their own inner intuitive understanding -- based 
on a 
> comprehensive study of all the writings and interpretations, so 
as to compare them, 
> cull out the inconsistencies and arrive at the "golden mean" of 
absolute truth 
> through their own direct inner visionary experience -- without 
any biases or 
> prejudices that come from the conditioning of their lower 
natures. 
> 
> Enough said.
> 
> Leon Maurer     
> 
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