Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00580)

Pedro,
When you see dogma and fundamentalism why don't you criticize it. 
By showing only good quotations and conveniently ignoring enormous 
faults don't you think members are kept in darkness to their 
detriment. 
When negative side is shown you don't like it. Facts are facts. Let 
us face them. 

Thanks for Annie Besant's wise passages. They support my views and 
show how ridiculous dogma is.

Another thing is CWL and AB have shown problems in Blavatsky's 
writing in their usual polite manner. If you have read their writings 
let me know where these have come. Otherwise read again carefully in 
case you want to know them.

> Let me draw your attention to what Annie Besant wrote in 1913 
(Adyar 
> Pamphlet 36):
> 
> "Some of our members echo the statements of one seer or another, 
and 
> seem to consider that such a statement ought to preclude further 
> discussion. But no one in the TS has any authority to lay down 
what 
> people shall think, or not think, on any subject. We are not in 
the 
> position of an orthodox Church, which has certain definite articles 
> of faith, which imposes certain definite creeds in which all 
faithful 
> members are bound to believe. The only point which we must accept 
is 
> Universal Brotherhood, and even as to that we may differ in our 
> definition of it. Outside that, we are at perfect liberty to form 
> our own opinions on every subject; and the reason of that policy is 
> clear and an exceedingly good one. No intellectual opinion is 
worth 
> the holding unless it is obtained by the individual effort of the 
> person who holds that opinion. It is far healthier to exercise our 
> intelligence, even if we come to a wrong conclusion and form an 
> inaccurate opinion, than simply, like parrots, the echo what other 
> people say, and so put out of all possibility intellectual 
> development."
Regards.
Anand Gholap