Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00242)

Daniel,  

Are you back to "business as usual", then?  :-)

A wide intellectual horizon, you have.   

But -- are you so sure nobody reads it any way, so that  you can endlessly repeat it all over again, and no one will ever notice it? Go ahead, then, brother. 

Carlos. 




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Data:Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:42:35 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Evasions and Misrepresentations about Robert Crosbie

> Dr. H. N. Stokes Writes about Evasions 
> and Misrepresentations about Robert Crosbie
> by U.L.T./Theosophy Company Writers
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> In the first edition of "The United Lodge of Theosophists: Its Mission
> and its Future" (published by the Theosophy Company, Los Angeles,
> California), the reader will find on page 7 the following
> statements. 
> 
> This text is a very good example of how to IGNORE and SUPPRESS 
> historic facts and create what can be called an IMAGINARY account of 
> Robert Crosbie's involvement with Mrs. Katherine Tingley. 
> 
> See some of Dr. H.N. Stoke's important comments AFTER the following 
> account.
> 
> First the ULT/TC account:
> 
> ===========================================================
> On the death of Mr. Judge in 1896, Mr. Crosbie did what was possible
> to induce those most prominent in the T.S.A. to heed the dying words
> of Judge - 'There should be calmness. Hold fast; go slow.' But the
> same influences held sway as had produced all former wrong courses.
> Ambition and the desire to lead on the part of the few caused Mrs.
> Katherine Tingley to be heralded to the membership as the 'successor'
> of Mr. Judge, as Mrs. Besant had claimed to be the 'successor' of
> H.P.B. As ninety-eight per cent of the members accepted the
> representations made, Mr. Crosbie could only go with the majority if
> he would not desert the work built up by the sacrifices of H.P.B. and
> Mr. Judge before him.
> 
> Then ensued two painful years of rivalry - first between the T.S.A.,
> under the leadership of Mrs. Tingley, and the Olcott-Besant society;
> then of violent dissentions between Mrs. Tingley and those who had
> been responsible for foisting her upon the confidence of the members
> of the T.S.A. This latter war of clashing ambitions and pretensions
> to apostolic authority, culminated in the Chicago convention in
> February, 1898, where by the vote of more than ninety per cent of the
> delegates, the name of T.S.A. was changed to that of 'The Universal
> Brotherhood and Theosophical Society' and a new constitution adopted
> giving to Madame Tingley absolute autocratic control over all the
> activities of the society. A handful of the delegates - those who
> had originally vouched for Madame Tingley - 'bolted' the
> Convention, and thereafter called themselves the T.S.A.
> 
> Of all these events Mr. Crosbie was a witness and, as before, found
> no way open but to abide by the decision of the majority. For the
> ensuing six years he worked to the fullest extent possible to keep
> alive the spirit of fraternity and theosophical propagandum. By 1904
> the once strong membership had dwindled away under the lurid
> management of Mrs. Tingley until there remained but a few hundred out
> of thousands Further efforts being useless, Mr. Crosbie left the
> Tingley society and removed to Los Angeles, California.
> ================================================================
> 
> I now give BELOW some of Dr. H.N. Stokes' critical comments on the 
> above U.L.T./TC statement. These are strong words from Stokes who 
> was also a vocal critic of the Leadbeater-Besant "misleading mayavic 
> ideations":
> 
> =============================================================
> How entirely false is the impression which the above [statement] 
> appears designed to create will be seen from an article published by 
> Mr. Crosbie in THE SEARCH LIGHT, Vo. 1, No. 1, April, 1898, pages 
> 3,4, two months after the Chicago convention referred to [above]. It 
> is only one of several that could be cited. One can see [from Mr. 
> Crosbie's article] that Mr. Crosbie was not only heart and soul with 
> Mrs. Tingley, but entertained a very poor opinion of her opponents 
> who, he claimed, were being sifted out for the good of the Movement. 
> His "propagandum" was the "propagandum" of Mrs. Tingley....
> 
> It is inconceivable that the writers of the official but anonymous 
> U.L.T. pamphlet [see statement above]... were unacquainted with the 
> fact that Mr. Crosbie was for fully eight years an ardent Tingleyite, 
> and it is inconceivable that so honorable a man should have made 
> false pretenses to the members of the association which he founded. 
> Why, then, have they used such evasions and misrepresentations which 
> can only reflect on his character, while they place at its head the 
> words "There is no Religion higher than Truth"?
> ==============================================================
> Quoted from: O. E. LIBRARY CRITIC, March 1933, pp. [8] and [10].
> 
> There is more commentary by Dr. Stokes on the ULT/TC statement about 
> Crosbie and I will try to reproduce more of them later.
> 
> Daniel
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