Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00296)

"Neither our philosophy nor ourselves believe in a God, least of all 
in one whose pronoun necessitates a capital H. (...) Our doctrine 
knows no compromises. It either affirms or denies, for it never 
teaches but that which it knows to be the truth. Therefore, we deny 
God both as philosophers and as Buddhists. We know there are 
planetary and other spiritual lives, and we know there is in our 
system no such thing as God, either personal or impersonal. Parabrahm 
is not a God, but absolute immutable law, and Iswar is the effect of 
Avidya and Maya, ignorance based upon the great delusion. The 
word "God" was invented to designate the unknown cause of those 
effects which man has either admired or dreaded without understanding 
them, and since we claim and that we are able to prove what we claim -
- i.e. the knowledge of that cause and causes we are in a position to 
maintain there is no God or Gods behind them."

(http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-10.htm)


In view of the statement above, by one of HPB's Teachers, can Jews, 
Christians and Muslins be theosophists?


pedro