Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00832)

Friends, 

How do we look at diversity in the movement?  How to we look at our differences? 

Diversity is not synonym to Darwinian competition. Diversity is also a common ground for mutual help. 
In fact, Piotr Kropotkin proved in his book "Mutual Help - a factor in evolution" that mutual help is far more important than competition in all evolutionary processes, from chemical --  yes --  from chemical level to plant life, animal life and human history.   
In ecology, diversity is healthy, and monoculture or uniformity is unhealthy.  So it is with Theosophy. 
It is from that perspective that we in the theosophical movement can best exercise our "sacred" right to criticize each other.  

Each one of us is co-responsible for the improvement of all the others;  as human beings, and as truth-seekers. 

No sector of the movement is perfect. Every human group has failings and some victories ; and criticism and praise should be both made to enhance things. 

It is in this way that  I try to look at the movement as a whole. 

The Pasadena TS, Point Loma Groups, Edmonton TS, ULT, and other initiatives have difficulties, make mistakes, etc.  But they have more in common than otherwise.   They also have much in common  with the Adyar TS -- and, from my perspective, more especially with the HPB students in the Adyar TS. 

But even World Goodwill, Arcane School, Agni Yoga and other groups have some fundamental things in common with us, no doubt.  

There is a "larger theosophical movement" which includes all persons who partake in the planetary consciousness now emerging.

Al Gore, Fritjof Capra, Rupert Sheldrake, and many others are theosophists in that sense. 

It is clear that HPB had that perspective in her own time.  

It  has not been her idea, or an idea of the Mahatmas, to divide the movement she found  in smaller and closed groups, each one attached to its own pet ideology, all separated from each other by dense walls of mutual criticisms and negative psychological projections.    

The best things we all have, are the things we have in common.  It is in this sense that I support the abstrat idea of G. de P.'s "fraternization movement". 
An important movement which, for me, raised the same essential proposition earlier formulated by  the 1909 ULT declaration.   

There is an article by Bruce in "FOHAT", published a couple of years ago, which draws basically the same vision of the movement as a whole.   

Best regards,  Carlos. 


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