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Future of Theosophical Society - Statement by Ernest Wood

Jun 14, 2005 07:37 PM
by MKR


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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