Theos-Talk Archives (December 2005 Message tt00349)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
>
> Anand, you write:
> 
> "her [HPB's] writing is such that sect or cult
> automatically forms among her students..."
> 
> What does this really mean?
> 
This is a good question. Blavatsky did not have high opinion about 
herself and her writing. She did not want her writing to become cause 
of cult or sect. She expressly wrote against dogma and denied any 
absolute authority. So her intention was right. But problem is she 
wrote in such style that whoever reads it, studies it becomes dogmatic, 
fundamentalist even fanatic. Her intentions were good but unfortunately 
she could not write in proper manner which would have avoided dogma, 
sect. Her students automatically become so. Neither Blavatsky not 
students want to become dogmatic but that happens automatically when 
one studies writing of Blavatsky. And later it becomes very difficult 
for students to realize that they have become dogmatic and even if they 
realize, they can't change their minds easily. Mental machinery gets so 
damaged that person can't get out of dogma easily. 

Anand Gholap