Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00579)

Cass,

I am suggesting, or rather sharing with you the information that HPB wrote the theosophical movement has no ritual. 

For she wrote: 

“Having neither dogma nor ritual – these two being but fetters, a material body which suffocates the soul – we do not employ the ‘ceremonial magic’ of the Western Kabalists; we know its dangers too well to have anything to do with it.” (1) 
 
 Is that clear?  "No ritual", I guess, is plain English.
 
 
 Best regards, Carlos. 
 
 
 
 NOTES:
 
 (1) “The Beacon of the Unknown”, a text published in “HPB Collected Writings”, TPH, India/USA, volume XI, see p. 266. The quotation is by the end of part IV in that text. 


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