Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00937)

Friends,
 
There has always been in the Adyar Society  a certain number of sincere students of the teachings given by H.P. Blavatsky and  the Masters.  
 
Even today, there are some dedicated H.P.B. students in the United Kingdom and other  national sections of the Adyar T.S. 
 
Among these brave souls was Ms. Ianthe H. Hoskins,  who served for several years as the General Secretary of the Adyar TS in England (1972-78 and 1989-92).  I met her when she  taught at Adyar?s Summer School, in India,  in 1994.  We corresponded for some time, and she was one of the first  persons to show me the real importance of HPB  for a long-standing theosophist.  I owe the same debt of gratitude to Geoffrey Farthing. 
 
A woman with a great sense of humour, Ianthe Hoskins? last book was ?Time, Duration and Immortality?. 
 
There we see the Stoic poem bel.ow. It suggests that the truth-seeker must be prepared to  face many obstacles, especially if  he has to face an environment like the one in the Leadbeaterian Theosophical Society: 
 
THE SEARCH
 
By Ianthe H. Hoskins
 
There is no path for me, no God, no guide;
I fling away from light and leading hand; 
I have no sword, no staff, no friend beside:
Alone, unarmed, I seek an unknown land.
 
With bruised fingers and with bleeding feet,
Alone I tread, while round me and before
Foe upon foe assails me, whom I greet
As friends to lead me to the unknown shore. 
 
Give me no counsel, proffer me no aid, 
No star in my impenetrale night;
Alone, alone my journey has to be made
Through the here-darkness to the yonder Light.
 
So shall the pilgrim known from whence he came, 
The spark be one with the eternal  flame. (1) 
 


Regards,  Carlos. 
 
 
NOTE: 

(1) ?Time, Duration and Immortality?, by Ianthe H. Hoskins,  Theosophical  Publishing  House, London, 2000, 38 pp., see p. 37.  Ianthe died in September 2001. 
 


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