Theos-Talk Archives (April 2006 Message tt00725)

Chuck, Friends,

No doubt, Sylvia Cranston's book on HPB, which is a long biography, has a great value, just as Ernest Pelletier's book on William Judge (1,000 pp.) also has. 

And Tillett's book on Leadbeater, and Olcott's  "Old Diary Leaves", etc.

I guess Bruce's point is that we should also be able to discuss the philosophical aspects of the movement; its teaching, its message, its wisdom, its future. 

Bruce is right in the sense that we have been discussing too much of personalities and too litlle of contents.  

You are rightin the sense that understanding personality is an important part of the business.

By the way, HPB's intended third volume of the "Secret Doctrine" was to pay a lot of attention to Lives of Adepts -- individual lives, therefore.  There is something of that material in the "Collected Writings", volume XIV.  But she estudies lives of people with a philosophical approach.  Keeping to gossips and  personality clashes is different. 

Yet even worse than keeping stuck to gossips about theosophical leaders, is to circulate wild and proved slanders about them, under the pretext of "letting people to decide for themselves". 

Now, studying their lives and learning from their experiences is really important. 

Regards,  Carlos.






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Data:Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:57:43 EDT

Assunto:Re: Theos-World MKR, Bruce, Chuck and the Movement

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> In a message dated 4/25/2006 7:50:10 PM Central Standard Time, 
> carlosaveline@terra.com.br writes:
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> Some discussion is inevitable and even healthy, as Chuck says. 
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> It is more than that, it is necessary. Theosophy did not spring from the 
> void, nor did the Angel Gabriel look down on HPB and say, "Get to work!" 
> Theosophy is not something set in stone, depending upon some holy writ that is 
> unchanging and infallible. It is a process, a continuous development. And it 
> is not a movement. The only movement we find in Theosophy usually comes not 
> from the head or the heart but from another part of the anatomy. 
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> Ideas have their roots in the experience of those who expound them. Be it 
> the interminable wordiness of HPB, the wackiness of CWL, the sentimental 
> lunacy of Annie Besant, the bizarre imaginings of Katherine Tingley etc. All have 
> contributed and all have their weaknesses as well as strengths, foolishness 
> as well as wisdom. But it is only studying the people behind the ideas that 
> we can judge and understand the ideas.
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> To ignore the personalities of Theosophy would reduce us to despicable 
> bibliolators, worshipping the words with no understanding of what produced them.
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> Chuck the Heretic
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