Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00379)

In the past, I have posted msgs suggesting that all upcoming growing 
vigorous spiritual organizations historically were led by young to middle 
aged leadership. Lord Jesus was young, Lord Buddha was around the same age, 
Shri Shankaracharya, considered one of the greatest of modern religious 
leaders was just sixteen when he started his career, Jiddu Krishnamurti was 
quite young when he started speaking. HPB, Olcott and Judge were in their 
prime of life. All of the above did their work full-time 7/24.

If we look at the leadership of TS for last several decades, we find old 
women and men are at the helm, in International and several National 
Headquarters. This is good from a worldly point of view as they bring a lot 
of worldly experience to manage an organization. Also based on my own 
observation at the branches I have witnessed in the US and India, during 
the last half century, there is a dramatic reduction in the level of 
vitality at branch level. So the organization may continue in the current 
"maintenance" mode until money runs out, which may be several decades since 
bequests may be expected from old members who are still alive.

While on my journey in cyberspace I found the following quote which is 
interesting.

Paul Brunton was a contemporary of Ernest Wood: In an unedited, undated 
essay (by Brunton), “Theosophy,” most likely written in the 1940s, it is 
stated:

Prof. Ernest Wood, for twenty years the Secretary of the Society’s Adyar 
branch, admitted privately to Brunton in 1940, "The Theosophical Society is 
dead; it has no future."
The above is excerpted from the following publication:
Paul Brunton - A Bridge Between India and the West - by Annie Cahn Fung 
translated from Paul Brunton: un pont entre l’Inde et l’Occident a doctoral 
thesis presented to the Department of Religious Anthropology Université de 
Paris IV Sorbonne, 1992


mkr


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