CASS: Acknowledging the Others' Relevancy
Mar 21, 2006 08:31 AM
by carlosaveline cardoso aveline
Cass,
If the question was NOT a metaphor, they split some 10 centuries ago.
A few years ago, Pope John Paul II publically apologized for the Vatican
mistakes with regard to Ortodox Christians.
If the question WAS a metaphor, all Churches, Religions, Philosophies and
Sciences interact among themselves, and therefore are actually relevant to
each other, whether they acknowledge this or not.
Theosophy suggests mutual acknowledgement is both stimulating and fun.
Carlos.
From: Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World Imagining Adyar TS as Irrelevant?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:19:54 -0800 (PST)
Carlos
Is the Greek Orthodox Church relevant to the Papacy?
Cass
carlosaveline cardoso aveline <carlosaveline@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Friends,
Krsanna says (see below):
"I believe that Adyar is irrelevant to the degree it is not capable of
doing
the work of theosophy, to unify by showing that all esoteric knowledge
stems
from one common tree, and this knowledge has become exoteric. Contemporary
Theosophists who hide in the shadow history or some vague future, 25,000
years from now, are equally incapable of doing the work of theosophy in the
contemporary world and, in this way, irrelevant to the degree they fail to
deal with conditions of the world as it now exists in exoteric and esoteric
terms."
I say:
1) No one is hiding in the future. The practical reason for looking things
in a comparatively long term
is that it gives us a much better perspective of reality as we face short
term challenges. Time, and space, in the SD, is much wider that 25,000
years and our planet Earth.
2) Who is the "spiritual authority" to judge that Adyar is "irrelevant"?
Is
Krsanna modestly offering herself to such a position? Adyar is part of the
theosophical movement; it is far from being the smallest of its parts; it
has many sincere students, including undrieds of HPB students; all of the
movement is "relevant" in the long run.
3) It is beautiful to acknowledge our own relative irrelevancy in the
greater scheme of things; it is not correct or accurate to judge OTHERS as
irrelevant.
4) Mistakes are NEVER irrelevant as they always hide important lessons.
Adyar TS's mistakes are relevant and identifying them will give important
lessons not only to its own members, but to all the movement.
Actual differences between Adyar TS and other theosophical organizations
can
be much smaller than some of us think.
There is a difference between fighting Adyar and fighting Adyar's
illusions. These illusions are, in a way, the illusions of the movement as
a
whole.
Adyar TS members are our brothers and sisters. Sometimes, family
relationships are uneasy and difficult, but frank discussions can help.
Brothers and sisters are always relevant to each other.
Best regards, Carlos.
>From: "TimeStar"
>Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
>To:
>Subject: Theos-World HPB's resignation from Adyar and its irrelevancy
>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:01:16 -0700
>
>Dear nhcareta:
>
>I had never seen the letter in which HPB resigned from the Adyar TS,
which
>was later ordered to be produced in court by a judge in 1929. Thank you
>for
>bringing it to the attention of this group. Adyar has never published
the
>letter in its entirety, except with all derogatory comments about Adyar
>removed?
>
>I believe that Adyar is irrelevant to the degree it is not capable of
doing
>the work of theosophy, to unify by showing that all esoteric knowledge
>stems
>from one common tree, and this knowledge has become exoteric.
Contemporary
>Theosophists who hide in the shadow history or some vague future, 25,000
>years from now, are equally incapable of doing the work of theosophy in
the
>contemporary world and, in this way, irrelevant to the degree they fail
to
>deal with conditions of the world as it now exists in exoteric and
esoteric
>terms.
>
>HPB used newspapers, magazines, books, and contemporary events of her day
>to
>illustrate the principles she taught. She was dynamic and present in the
>world.
>
>All individuals of this planet and the developing life forms are one,
>including mineral, plant and animal. Saying that Theosophical Societies
>and
>Theosophists are one on the inner plane without including all life of the
>planet constitutes a new caste system of theosophical interests.
>
>In this oneness of all life on earth, Adyar has failed the theosophical
>mission and HPB resigned from it. She abolished the authority of the
>parent
>society declaring all lodges autonomous. Her resignation, it seems,
>prophesied the future of Theosophy: "Mankind - the majority at any rate
-
>hates to think for itself. It resents as an insult the humblest
invitation
>to step for a moment outside the old well-beaten track, and, judging for
>itself, to enter into a new path in some fresh direction."
>
>Theosophists and their societies are as mired in dogma as any other
>religion
>has ever been. They have become the new "dead letter."
>
>Again, thank you for this post.
>
>Best regards,
>Krsanna Duran
>
>nhcareyta wrote:
>In light of recent postings, this article written in 1991 and
subsequently
>published in The Canadian Theosophist might be of interest. It was sent
to
>me whilst involved in personal correspondence with the author during my
>early stages of disenthrallment and disillusionment with the Adyar T.S.
>
>IN MEMORY OF H P. BLAVATSKY
>BY D. J. BUXEY
>"We cannot exaggerate the debt we owe to H.P.B. She brought us the
>Light...and we can best carry on her work by remembering the gratitude
that
>we owe her.
>Dr. Annie Besant.
>H.P.B. resigned ("in utter disgust." as she called it) from the
>Theosophical
>Society on the New Day of Spring, March 21, 1985. She ended her words on
>the matter with:
>"I leave with, one and all, to every one of my friends and sympathizers,
my
>loving farewell. I would implore you all to be true to the Society (this
>essay is being written only " to be true to the Society", as she puts it.
-
>D.J.B.) and not to permit it to be over-thrown by the enemy.
>Fraternally and ever yours - in life or death.
>H.P. Blavatsky.
>
>Adyar was happy to see her go. As she put it later, there was hatred from
>every department in Adyar towards her.
>Why did the Council of the T.S. accept her resignation? Perhaps, as she
put
>it, (I am quoting from The Canadian Theosophist. Sept.-Oct. 1982, p.80.
>Vol.63, No. 4):
>"Mankind - the majority at any rate - hates to think for itself. It
resents
>as an insult the humblest invitation to step for a moment outside the old
>well-beaten track, and, judging for itself, to enter into a new path in
>some
>fresh direction."
>This essay is being written, in her memory, precisely for the T.S. to
move
>"in some fresh direction" in the second century of its existence. As I
was
>writing my paper for the International Conference, as invited, and came
to
>this point, the biographer of H.P.B., my neighbor, came in I asked him
why
>he ended his book on H.P.B. with her resignation and did not go further.
>His
>answer shook me. He said, as invited, he speaks to the lodges, but never
>became a member - (this surprised me) - "as so sordid is the history of
the
>T.S. that I want no part of it."
>I then remonstrated. "You are then presenting only part of the picture."
>His reply was, "Be it so. but I cannot wash dirty linen in public." After
>her resignation, H.P.B. then left India on March 30, 1885, against her
will
>as she put it later to friends. As she saw the shores of her beloved
India
>recede, she wept like a baby. She was carried on board ship without a
>change
>of clothes, and, in her own words, "...indecent haste."
>And now, with her out of the way Adyar started playing games. It started
>"manufacturing" Masters in their factory, - not merely manufacture, but
>commercializing and selling "Them" also, much as the Christian
missionaries
>sell Jesus - their American TV. programs earn at least a 100 million
>dollars. In the last bulletin of Convention No. 4 that a friend sent to
me
>from Adyar, it mentioned that a property in Holland reverted to Adyar.
But
>I
>happened to read Dr. Besant's Watch Tower notes in The Theosophist of how
>the property was made to be donated. The donor said that she was made a
>member or pupil of the Great White Brotherhood (Annie Besant's eyes
widened
>at this stage) and she was put on probation by the Master K.H. This was
>Bishop Wedgwood's mischief - when I went to see him in Camberley in 1950
he
>had already gone mad (from tertiary syphilis. -Ed.). Dr. Besant said that
>she had never heard of such a thing (that the property was being
donated),
>-
>all sorts of things happened behind her back - but she was accepting the
>property nevertheless. This is just an example to illustrate the point.
The
>property, Huizen has now come to belong to Adyar.
>H.P. Blavatsky now declared:
>a. I cannot now live at Headquarters from which the Masters and Their
>Spirit are virtually banished.
>
>b. The Presence of Their portraits will not help. They are a dead letter.
>(These portraits are now in the E.S. Shrine Room.)
>
>c. No advice of mine on occult lines seems likely to be accepted.
>
>d. The fact of my relations with the Masters is doubted, even totally
>denied
>by some, and I myself having no right to the Headquarters, what reason is
>there, therefore, for me to live at Adyar?
>
>This letter has been kept secret from Adyarites to this day. Only when a
>Parsee judge objected was it partially repeated in The Theosophist of
1929.
>By then Annie Besant was losing her memory (she asked Krishnamurti if
they
>had ever met!), and was nearly dying, so they (Adyar officials) felt it
was
>of no harm then. But all derogatory references to Adyar, even until then
>(1929) were removed. After H.P. Blavatsky's departure from Adyar, the
>Masters became "alive" at the Adyar Convention. Who was to stop them? A
>member, Franz Hartman, astonished at all these goings on, wrote to H.P.B.
>and I quote from her very long letter of April 1885:
>"As to ... that portion of your letter where you speak of the "army" of
>the
>deluded (viz. T.S. members at the Convention) and the "imaginary"
Mahatmas
>of Olcott - you are absolutely and sadly right". (Note "sadly right" and
>"imaginary Mahatmas, Olcott's Old Diary Leaves is pure fantasy and
>imagination - D.J.B.) "Have I not seen the thing for nearly 8 years?
Have
>I
>not struggled and fought against Olcott's ardent and gushing imagination
>and
>tried to stop him every day of my life?" (Note her words, "his gushing
>imagination" on Masters. - DJ.B.) "Was he not told by me that if he did
>not see the Masters in their true light and did not cease speaking and
>inflaming people's imagination, that he would be held responsible for all
>the evil the Society might come to?" ("Note the words, "inflaming
people's
>imagination" by tall stories about Masters. - D.J.B.)
>Who started inventing all this? To the German theosophist, (Hartman)
H.P.B.
>explained:
>"Then came Damodar and several other fanatics (note this word, - D.J.B.)
>calling them "Mahatmas" and little by little, the Adepts were transformed
>into Gods on earth. They...were becoming with every day more legendary
and
>miraculous. The idea that Masters were mortal men never crossed anyone's
>mind, though They wrote themselves repeatedly" Why did she not stop all
>this? As she put it at the end:
>"I was always occupied with The Theosophist, and ever in my room. All
were
>left to Olcott and Damodar, two fanatics." (The word "fanatics" appears
>again. D.J.B.) "How I protested and tried to swim against the current,
only
>Mr. Sinnett knows, and the Masters."
>The Masters (made, as H.P.B. says, omniscient, omnipotent and
omnipresent)
>leave the Society. We will quote only three phrases of what the Masters
>said, from Their numerous statements:
>1. 'The Society has liberated itself from our grasp and influence, and we
>have let it go."
>2. "This policy (Olcott's) has done more harm to the spirit of the
Society
>than several Coulombs can do." (What a strong and damaging statement to
>make, "more than what several Coulombs can do." - DJB.)
>3. "He (Olcott) saved his body (organization )but the T.S. is now a
>soulless
>corpse." (Or, he saved the body but killed the soul. - D.J.B)
>
>Now with the Master K.H. saying "the T.S, has failed", H.P.B. is asked to
>start a new movement. Her words:
>"Acting under the Master's orders. I began a new movement in the West on
>the
>original lines ... I founded (the magazine) Lucifer." Now the Lucifer was
>founded to attack The Theosophist, otherwise why two magazines? How else
>would her voice be heard? How else could she crusade, a brave and lone
>warrior against falsehood? With this we must slowly end her story.
>History continues, as the story of others begins, and it is with her
memory
>that we are more concerned about here. Just as Krishnamurti told me many
a
>time, once with tears in his eyes, how he was thrown out of Adyar at a
>moment's notice (he came to continue H.P.B.'s work), just as I saw, year
>after year, the pain in his eyes and words, we find from her letters the
>pain coming, as in this sentence:
>"...those for whom I had the deepest affection, regarding them as a
mother
>would her own sons ... have turned against me..." At this point we must
>stop; her story is over. What about her successor? His story would start.
>H.P.B. had told Wm. Q. Judge in July 1886 (and a number of times
>thereafter), "Take my place, Judge, ... replace me at Adyar."
>But Annie Besant played politics. "Politics" means fighting for power.
She
>need not have, for Judge was to die in a year, but she did not know this.
>She would have come to power in any case, and later confessed to many
>people, such as B.P. Wadia that she was misled. An Australian, Mouni
>Sadhu,
>in his In Days of Great Peace, says on p. 49:
>"On my enquiry late in 1926, Mrs. Besant wrote to me:
>'It is true that after the death of Col. Olcott in 1907, the Masters
>withdrew their direct guidance of the T.S.' " Besant died broken-hearted,
>and as Krishnamurti was to tell me and others later, she nevertheless was
>sincere, but the others were not. Olcott also realized this. In his
>biography, Hammer on the Mountain a conversation appears on page 299-
300:
>Olcott - "I have learned more, particularly as regards Judge -
>"Yes, Henry," I (Laura Langford - Holloway) said eagerly,
>Olcott - "I know now and it will comfort you to hear it, that I wronged
>Judge - not willfully or in malice; nevertheless I have done this and I
>regret it."
>"God bless you", I said and then thanked him for his brave recantation.
>H.P.B. tells her Masters she wants to start a new movement in her beloved
>India, the home of the Mahatmas, "of whom every Hindu school boy knows".
>(Mahatmas being true sanyasins etc.), but not in Europe. Master K.H.
asks
>her to go to pondicherry, but Adyar threatens arrest (as its existence is
>at
>stake), and in utter disgust, Master K.H. asks Aurobindo to go to
>Pondicherry. Was there any way to save the situation then? Yes, by
>recalling
>her, as the Master told her "most plainly":
>"Master told me most plainly that if the Society did not recall me before
>1886 (which it did not - D.J.B.) They would retire entirely from any
>connection with it, signify it to the London Lodge and other European and
>American Societies, and break every connection with every member."
>Conclusion:
>H.P.B. asks, "Whom do I blame?" (for this mess). She answers, "Certainly
>not
>I."
>Obviously blame goes to Olcott, as the Masters pinned the blame on him,
but
>she is so noble, so chivalrous, that she puts it this way, "Loaded and
>heavy
>is his karma, poor man...", but she does not blame him. Then whom? "To
>human
>nature, demanding money." - All this was done for money - for
organization,
>not teachings. So far as teachings were concerned, she had said, as J.
>Krishnamurti had told in practically the same words:
>"I saw with terror and anger the false track they (the T.S.) were all
>pursuing."
>When Judge started his magazine The Path, she had said, so far as the
>teachings are concerned:
>"Bravo! Judge, ... your Path outclasses my Lucifer any day." While for
>Adyar
>she said, "Adyar is the laughing-stock of the theosophists themselves,
let
>alone their enemies.
>Even Swami Vivekananda had said, "God knows what happened. But Judge was
>the
>best representative the theosophists ever had."
>Post Mortem
>Is there a post mortem? Possibly yes.
>Annie Besant died. She possibly saw things in a better light, and as
>reported in The Theosophist Dec.1941. P.232, told Arundale. "The Lodges
>have
>become confused ... they have forgotten what theosophy is. Their members
>run
>here, there, and everywhere, everywhere but towards Theosophy."
>"...everywhere but towards Theosophy". This is why this paper is being
>written. May there be a new turn of direction by 1991.*
>* The approximate time of writing of this essay. Add a prayer for a
belated
>new turn of direction in 1996. -Ed.
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