Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00219)

Carl, Tillett, Friends, 


Thanks.

OK. 

So HPB was an "honorary member" of the Sat Bhai, and this, as early as  1877.

Honorary member is no active member; it means that a homage was made to her. 

Not the only one -- as she had a diploma from "Adoption Masonry", too. 


Honorary titles.


Best regards,  Carlos. 








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Data:Sat, 4 Nov 2006 07:12:20 +1100 (EST)

Assunto:Theos-World HPB and Sat B'hai

> In April, 1878, HPB and Colonel Olcott discussed this possibility, and
> concluded that it would serve to restore ?the vital element of Oriental
> Mysticism? to the higher degrees. But there were objections from Indian
> members of the TS, and the scheme was abandoned. However, both HPB and
> Olcott were made Honorary Members of the Sat B?hai, on August 9, 1877. 
> HPB was made a member of the sixth degree, level one, Arch Auditor; the
> name of this degree and level was Rad, and, like the fifth and seventh
> degrees, was open both non-Masons and to women. HSO was made a member of
> the second degree, sixth level. Arch Courier; the name of this degree was
> Garuda, and it was open only to Master Masons (as was the first degree). 
> In Sat B?hai the first degree was the highest, and the seventh the lowest.
> 
> The Royal Oriental Order of Sikha (Apex) and the Sat B?hai seems to have
> been founded by an Anglo-Indian, Captain James Henry Lawrence Archer of
> the Indian Army, but the organization of the Order was largely of the work
> of Kenneth Robert Henderson Mackenzie (1833-86), author of the "Royal
> Masonic Cyclopaedia" (1877), and a member of the TS. The first public
> statements about the Order appeared in correspondence in "The Freemason"
> in early 1871, however although great claims were made for its antiquity
> and importance, and despite Mackenzie?s efforts to establish it as a
> working organization, it does not seem to have moved much beyond being a
> plan. By January, 1879, Mackenzie had concluded that the Order had
> finished.
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> The Sat B?hai was never adopted for use within the TS.
> 
> Information on the membership of HPB and HSO in Sat B'hai comes from the
> archives of the Order which were (and, I believe, still are) in the Yarker
> archives in London, where I had access to them.
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