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