Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00146)

Gregory, Friends,


I would like to submit an idea. As a suggestion. 

That there is a difference -- a technical difference -- between a secret society, strictu sensu, and an esoteric school.

An esoteric school (as a  masonry, Archane School, etc.) is an esoteric, selective group/institution, but not a "secret" one,  since its existence in itself is relatively well-known and public. Only its membership is not public. 

For instance, HPB wrote many pages about the Esoteric School in her book "The Key to Theosophy". Every new member of the Adyar TS is even today told that an Esoteric School exists, etc. 

On the other hand, the Adyar "Egyptian Rite" is a "secret society", indeed,  in the sense that it tries to be completely unknown. No one is supposed to positively know of its existence except its members.  Not even senior members of the Adyar ES, or "33 degrees" of Theosophical Masonry.  

In a sense,  the E.R. tries to imitate the Rosicrucians of ealier centuries, whose outer existence was never fully documented, as we know.   

The difference between the Adyar E.R. and the old, authentic  Rosicrucians is that the Fraternity of the Rosicrucians, being an authentic group, was never used for the political control of larger bodies being presented to the public as "based on liberty of thought"... 

The occult trap in Adyar Society is that is uses "liberty of thought" as a façade for that very same kind of "misleading secrecy" brilliantly anounced, and denounced in advance, by a Mahatma in the 1900 Letter, full text. 

The more one knows about the "inner power structure" in Adyar TS, the more one has to pay homage and feel grateful to whom wrote and sent that 1900 letter. That I can assure you. 

"Misleading secrecy", as mentioned in the 1900 "last farewell" letter,  is the key to understand the E.R. and the "theosophical masonry" created by the "bishops" CWL and Wedgwood  in their attempt to build a Messianic Advent through J. Krishnamurti.  Hence the "theurgic" aspect of at least one of such ritualisms.

I would not care to talk about that -- except for its dire influence on a exoteric Society created by HPB to be an open forum of search for Truth. And -- for the fact that its influence reaches all of the movement, as there is no such thing as an "occult separation" among theosophical groups. (And -- for the fact that the Adyar TS directly protects coward, disguised  attacks against the Founders.)  

The 1900 Letter talks about an "esoteric popery".  

The actual means of political control of such an "esoteric Popery" consist of three ritualisms:  Adyar-Masonry, E.R. and the Adyar ES (as it is today). 


Best regards,   Carlos.




 
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Data:Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:50:57 +1000 (EST)

Assunto:Theos-World The Egyptian Rite

> The notes on the ER posted to theos-talk were based on a section of a
> paper, "The Esoteric Within the Exoteric: Secret Societies in the
> Theosophical Movement" which I wrote many years ago, and which I have been
> revising and expanding ever since. There were many secret groups in
> Theosophical organizations - from Sinnett's London Lodge's ES to the ULT's
> DES. I presented parts of the paper, including that on the ER, at a
> Theosophical History conference in California. John Algeo was in the
> audience and he, and various other Adyar TS (and presumably ER) members,
> let their severe disapproval of my reference to the ER be known - not, of
> course, directly to me. Fortunately, over the years I have been able to
> acquire much more information on the ER, including copies of its rituals.
> Dr Brendan French, in his PhD thesis on "The Theosophical Masters",
> provides a detailed, scholarly analysis of Leadbeater's original
> intentions for this "most powerful occult rite in the world". It sought to
> "make Masters" by ritual means - it was the culmination of Leadbeater's
> theory that ritual magic provides a technology for "spiritualization" or
> occult evolution without much conscious effort on the part of individuals
> being thus "spiritualized". In the same way, he taught that the Liberal
> Catholic Mass poured forth into the world powerful vibrations which
> hastened the evolution of those in the vicinity (even those outside the
> church and unconscious of any such vibrations).
> I was interested to note how effectively the secrecy of the ER had been
> maintained - until "The Elder Brother" there seems not to have been a
> single reference in print to it. Leadbeater's "The Hidden Life in
> Freemasonry" contains some information about the ER, albeit only
> identifiable as such by those "in the know".
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> Dr Gregory Tillett
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