Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01396)

Carl Ek,

I will direct this posting to you but others may also be
interested.

Notice Mr. Aveline's KEY statements in what he writes below:

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The ULT has no official or centralized policy about what it defines 
as side-issues. So you can't, as I can't, talk about ULT's party line 
about any other theosophical organizations. All you can do is to 
quote from here and there, as anyone can. Especially from 1925 and 
from 1950 editions of "The Theosophical Movement" -- which, by the 
way, is a great, a superb book.
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The statements I call attention to are:

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The ULT has no official or centralized policy about what it defines 
as side-issues. So you can't, as I can't, talk about ULT's party line 
about any other theosophical organizations.
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Here we see Mr. Aveline actually propagating one of the myths of the 
ULT.  He says the ULT has no official or centralized policy and he 
apparently wants us to believe therefore they have no policies...
period.  But anyone who has spent anytime studying the ULT knows that 
the organization does have policies --- maybe not "official" whatever 
Mr. Aveline may want that word to mean.  But they have policies and 
they are followed and even enforced.

I guess he is trying to tell people that we can't talk about ULT's 
party line like we can talk about other  theosophical organizations 
because the ULT doesn't have a party line.

If this is what he is trying to convey to us, then this reminds me of 
a contention made by the late Dallas Tenbroeck. 

Dallas asserted that the ULT doesn't engage in politics like the 
other Theosophical organizations do.

What do you think?

Daniel