Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00227)

Again read: HPB on Freemasonry see "HPB Speaks, vol. I, chapter VII, 
pp. 27-36".

Carl

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> Carl, Tillett, Friends, 
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> Thanks.
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> OK. 
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> So HPB was an "honorary member" of the Sat Bhai, and this, as 
early as  1877.
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> Honorary member is no active member; it means that a homage was 
made to her. 
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> Not the only one -- as she had a diploma from "Adoption Masonry", 
too. 
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> Honorary titles.
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> Best regards,  Carlos. 
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> Data:Sat, 4 Nov 2006 07:12:20 +1100 (EST)
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> Assunto:Theos-World HPB and Sat B'hai
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> > 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.
> > 
> > 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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> > Dr Gregory Tillett
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