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Re: Theos-World Re: Forget HPB & her writing, consider Besant as & move on

Dec 31, 2005 06:37 AM
by M. Sufilight


Hallo all,

This one is perhaps helpful in understanding Anands view.

"SUFI, ESOTERICAL and THEOSOPHICAL attitudes TOWARD RELIGIOUS and OTHER CULTS"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/24361 (april 2005, by M. Sufilight)

But, I guess item 8. at the bottom in the above link was a more important reason to
the later more dogmatic tendencies and activities.



from
M. Sufilight


----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@AnandGholap.org>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Theos-World Re: Forget HPB & her writing, consider Besant as & move on


--- 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














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