Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00201)

> - In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@A...> 
wrote:

>> Blavatsky is too hard for the 
>> generally lazy would-be occultists who find Leadbeater exciting. 

> Quality of writing of AB and Leadbeater is much higher then that of 
> Blavatsky's writing.

I think that both sides of discussion are somewhat wrong :)
Both did somewhat confused the cause and effects.

Theosophy fails where it becomes dogmatic and only one doctrine is 
preached, be it HPB, CWL, Krishnamurti or something else.
We have more instances of dogmatizing HPB than any other writer, so it 
made the false impression that HPB writings impede to revive 
theosophy. When some other writer is added, as CWL, for example, there 
are already two doctrines, for CWL himself no way denied HPB. Really I 
have seen only one example when follower of CWL doesn't value HPB, and 
you have seen it also. ;)
The different expositions of doctrine attract different types of 
people, and with many authors we surely attract more people than with 
any one of them.
Moreover, studying of one author only may attract dogmatic type of 
people (which see everywhere different doctrines, not different 
expositions) whom we needn't attract at all, for the little bunch of 
them can spoil the work of entire Theosophical Society (what they 
already really did).