Theos-Talk Archives (April 2008 Message tt00256)

In the Rules and Regulations of the TS we can read: "The General 
Council shall be the Governing Body of The Theosophical Society." So, 
it is the General Council which shall determine the policy of the 
Society and not the President. The President is the "First 
Administrator," the manager, who executes the policy determined by the 
GC. And, as the GC shall be a body of representatives of all the 
members of the Society, there are all the members of the Society who 
shall determine the policy of the Society and, on the other hand, the 
reason why the President is directly elected by all the members of the 
Society. This is the idea, the democratic ideal in the Rules and 
Regulations of the TS. And in this respect the issue of the health of 
the President should be at all out of the question.

Anton