Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00437)

Friends,

I don't remember positively saying Judge was not a mason. I did not study his life in depth. I remember I said the theosophical movement as conceived by HPB has generally a positive view of Masonry as a tradition and as a philosophy, and that  there are Masons who are theosophists, but that no ritualism whatsoever should be considered "theosophical" or stimulated. 

I agree with MKR that apparently there are no signs that Olcott was active in Masonry after 1875.  I guess that as to historical facts, we should try to keep to facts which have a source, as much as possible.  To say "it might be possible to prove that..." is no sound basis. 

It is like Leadbeater saying there is a strong agriculture in Mars,  and that everyone jumps like  Australian cangoroos in Mercury,  due to the limited amount of gravity in that planet.  

They might so jump, if they existed;  but they don't;  and it is better for us not to jump to conclusions.


Carlos. 


 


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