Theos-Talk Archives (May 2006 Message tt00173)

Sufilight,


Thanks. 

In part, Adyar has revised its positions. Ms. Radha has abandoned "astralism".

The problem, though, is:

1) She is basically limited to J. Krishnamurti's approach -- an approach which does not even study Karma and Reincarnation;

2) Ms. Radha did not advance in liberating the Adyar TS from its present power-structure, still  based in the ritualisms created by C. W. Leadbeater in order to better serve the Liberal Catholic Chuch and the expected "Second Coming" of Christ.

Honest and well-intentioned as Ms. Radha is, she is trying to keep to a policy of "business as usual" which does not fit actual facts. The world did change a lot since the 1930s.   

Facts show that HPB and Masters' Theosophy is as updated as ever, if it is not limited to dead-letter -- while CWL/AB's  ritualisms simply do not work any longer. 

>From 1934, with Jinarajadasa, down to Radha Burnier since 1980, the TS Adyar gradually got away from the cult of astralism and phenomena. N. Sri Ram -- 1953-1972 -- took significant steps in this silent, and limited,  evolution. 

Since the 1990s, John Algeo, Paul Johnson and Daniel Caldwell represent the utter  lack of common sense of only a part of the Adyar movement.  

But they also express the wide political distance existing between Adyar TS-India and Adyar TS - USA.  

Unfortunately, there is a growing paralysis and lack of leadership in Adyar-India,  which makes John Algeo's actions possible.  It's the crisis of a model. 

There will be more about that in the next few years and decades. 

Best regards,  Carlos. 





 


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Data:Sat, 6 May 2006 21:12:04 +0200

Assunto:Theos-World Cultivating the abnormal faculties, of clairvoyance and the like?

> Hallo all,
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> My views are:
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> This one aught to make TS Adyar rethink their positions.
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> In the "Path" for August, 1886, Mr. Judge, knowing well the tangential activities of Professor Coues, Mrs. Cables and others, and their inevitable outcome, published in the section, "Reviews and Notes", an article, Theosophy in the Press, in which, after noting the sudden appearance within a few months of many articles in the daily papers "full of misstatements mixed with ignorance of ... Theosophy," he goes on to say: 
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> "But some Theosophists have been guilty of ventilating in the papers the statement that Theosophy is astralism, that is to say, that the object of the Society is to induce people to go into the study and practice of spirit raising, cultivating the abnormal faculties, of clairvoyance and the like, ignoring entirely the prime object, real end, aim and raison d'être of the movement -- universal brotherhood and ethical teaching. In fact, we make bold to assert, from our own knowledge and from written documents, that the Mahatmas, who started the Society, and who stand behind it now, are distinctly opposed to making prominent these phenomenal leanings, this hunting after clairvoyance and astral bodies, and they have so declared most unmistakably, stating their wish and advice to be, that 'the Society should prosper on its ethical, philosophical and moral worth alone.' 
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> "Theosophists should haste to see that this false impression created at large, that it is a dangerous study, or that it is any way dangerous, or that we conceal our reasons for doing what we are doing, is done away with... If one or two persons in the Society imagine that the pursuit of psychical phenomena is its real end and aim and so declare, that weighs nothing against the immense body of the membership or against its widespread literature; it is merely their individual bias. 
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> "But at the same time, this imagination and misstatement are dangerous, and insidiously so. It is just the impression which the Jesuit college desires to be spread abroad concerning us, so that in one place ridicule may follow, and in another superstitious dread of the thing; which ever of these may happen to obtain, they would be equally well pleased. 
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> "Let Theosophists attend to this, and let them not forget, that the only authoritative statements of what are the ends and objects of the Society are contained in those printed in its by-laws. No amount of assertion to the contrary by any officer or member can change that declaration." 
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> http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/TheTheosophicalMovement-Series/Chapter-12.html
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