Theos-Talk Archives (April 2006 Message tt00754)

Dear Cass,

If that is a question, I can quote tomorrow from the preface of "The Secret Doctrine", ULT's edition. 

Carlos.


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Data:Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:51:29 -0700 (PDT)

Assunto:Theos-World Re: 3RD VOLUME OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE

> Anyone know what happened to the 3rd Volume of The Secret Doctrine as HPB said that it was almost completed.
> Cass
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> carlosaveline wrote: Chuck, Friends,
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> 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. 
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> And Tillett's book on Leadbeater, and Olcott's "Old Diary Leaves", etc.
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> 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. 
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> Bruce is right in the sense that we have been discussing too much of personalities and too litlle of contents. 
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> You are rightin the sense that understanding personality is an important part of the business.
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> 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. 
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> 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". 
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> Now, studying their lives and learning from their experiences is really important. 
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> Regards, Carlos.
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> Data:Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:57:43 EDT
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> Assunto:Re: Theos-World MKR, Bruce, Chuck and the Movement
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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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