Theos-Talk Archives (August 2007 Message tt00394)

Leadbeater was a spiritualist not a theosophist.  He wouldn't have dared publish his doctrine while HPB had been living, or when the masters were still in communication.  More proof that there was no contact after HPB.
  Cass

M K Ramadoss <mkr777@gmail.com> wrote:
          On 8/25/07, Anand <AnandGholap@anandgholap.org> wrote:

>
> > While all the fantastic effects described may be as they are
> described, are
> > not the effects of the rituals in other temples such as the
> Buddhist, Hindu,
> > Zoroastrian, Moslem, etc are equally fantastic and effective since the
> > founders of the major faiths sure are fully knowledgeable of the
> effects in
> > the unseen world. So any comparative study will be informative and
> > educational consistent with the 2nd object of TS.
>
> You can read Some Glimpses of Occultism by CWL. And also there is
> information in Hidden Life in Freemasonry. Sometimes I feel that some
> religions like Hinduism have become defunct. For example in India
> there are only remnants of Hindu religion. Also you will see that many
> other religions have become defunct, just as civilizations become
> defunct. I see a lot of life still in Christian religion.
>

*Many may not agree with your feeling that religions like Hinduism have
become defunct. *
**
*If that be so, then it may be time for all theosophists to consider
converting to Christian religion and hope to get salvation thru Jesus, as
many christians believe. In spite of the push by theosophical leaders of the
past to encourage LCC, none of the Hindu theosophist leaders have disavowed
Hinduism and converted to LCC, and also changed their names to a christian
name. So one wonders if the Hindu theosophical leaders still consider there
is a lot of life left in Hinduism and has a lot to offer to the rest of the
world.*

*May be it is a topic we can present to theosophists at large and get some
feedback as to what they all feel. This is important because, the
theosophist population is shrinking in that as % of world population it has
been reducing for a long time.*

> >
> > On the other hand, HPB who was in constant contact with the Adepts
> and was
> > responsible for the major epic theosophical works and writings, has not
> > written about the occult forces in churches. One wonders whether
> they were
> > secondary to the primary mission of the TS?
>
> HPB's writing could not include many occult things because of her
> short life and circumstances that time did not allow elaboration. So
> much more knowledge one finds in the writings of Leadbeater and
> Besant. Writing on more topics was done later.
> Anand Gholap
>

*Looking at the writings of HPB and her attacks on the christian churches,
if she saw the vitality in christianity, surely she would have indicated it.
Also, as theosophists, we would not be satisfied with single source
information on the occult matters, because the source could be wrong in many
matters and multiple sources give us certain confidence in the accuracy of
the facts. But such multiple sources are few and far between. These are
issues of great importance to inquiring theosophists because, blind
following of anyone will not help anyone in the long run.*

mkr

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