Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00235)

Just to add a thought to the very interesting exchange between 
Dallas and Jerry. The following is what Dr Hugh Shearman wrote in 
The Theosophist (October 1971):


"There are those who regard these ontologies [Blavatsky's and 
Leadbeater's], these descriptions of the nature of things, as 
constituting "Theosophy", who indeed believe that time will show one 
or both of them to be factually true in nearly all respects, and who 
treat the Theosophical Society as if its purpose was to convert 
people to a belief in the truth of these and other similar models 
that have been presented within the Society. With great respect, the 
writer of this article cannot bring himself to feel that "Theosophy" 
consists of descriptions or of the contents of a literature. 
Theosophy, of which all these things are expressions and sign-
postings, has to be sought out in experience by each individual. It 
is not something that has been found by somebody else and can be 
taught to others. ...

Theosophy, true wisdom, cannot be caught or conveyed by any 
ontological system or any exposition of the nature of things. It 
cannot be "disseminated". It is to be found rather in a stripping 
away of ontological concepts till a living reality dominates our 
lives, our sympathies and thoughts, and we become, as Madame 
Blavatsky put it, "a mere beneficent force in Nature"."


pedro