Theos-Talk Archives (October 2008 Message tt00017)

What is amazing is that such utter, self-evident nonsense was not drowned  
out by roaring laughter.
 
Chuck the Heretic
 
 
In a message dated 10/1/2008 4:31:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
Nigel Carey once wrote on Theos-Talk
about "the blindly, obedient  mindset" to be found
among some Adyar TS members.

Now we find on  Theos-Talk a great deal of discussion and
even complaining, etc. about how  elected leaders and officials act or 
don't act in conducting the business  of the Adyar T.S.

I ask: Have the "mindsets" of these elected  leaders
and officials been created and influenced by the "thought  atmosphere" 
engendered by C.W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant? 

Or at  least to some degree?

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING OUTSTANDING  EXAMPLES:

What kind of "mindset" was C.W. Leadbeater  encouraging
when he declared the  following???

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What  can I say to you of your [T.S.] President [Annie
Besant] that you do not  know already? Her colossal
intellect, her unfailing wisdom, her  unrivalled
eloquence, her splendid forgetfulness of self,
her untiring  devotion of work for others - all
these are but a small part of her  greatness;
they are on the surface, they may be seen by all,
they leap  to the eyes. But there are other qualities,
other powers, of which you  cannot know, because they
pertain to the secrets of Initiation. She is  a
pupil of our Masters; from the fount of Their
archaic wisdom she  derives her own, the plans which
she is carrying out are Their plans for  the welfare
of the world. THINK THEREFORE, HOW GREAT AN
HONOUR IT IS FOR  YOU that you should be permitted
to work under her, for in doing so you are  virtually
working under Them. THINK HOW WATCHFUL YOU SHOULD
BE TO MISS  NO HINT WHICH FALLS FROM HER LIPS, to carry
out EXACTLY whatever  instructions she may give to you.

Remember...there will be times when  you cannot
understand her motives, for she is taking into account
many  things which you cannot see and of which
she must not tell you. BUT WHETHER  YOU UNDERSTAND
OR NOT, YOU WILL BE WISE TO FOLLOW HER IMPLICITLY,  JUST
BECAUSE SHE KNOWS.

THIS IS NOT MERE SUPPOSITION ON MY PART, NO  MERE
FLIGHT OF THE IMAGINATION; I HAVE STOOD BESIDE YOUR
PRESIDENT IN  THE PRESENCE OF THE SUPREME DIRECTOR
OF EVOLUTION ON THIS GLOBE, AND I KNOW  WHEREOF I
SPEAK. Let the wise hear my words, and act  accordingly.
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[Caps  added. Quoted from Adyar Album, p. 45.]

It might be noted here that one  of the HINTS that fell from
Mrs. Besant's lips (or at least came from her  pen!) was as follows:

"By hard, patient work he [C.W. Leadbeater] has  won
rewards . . . until he stands perhaps the most trusted of  his
Master's disciples ON THE THRESHOLD OF DIVINITY."
[The Theosophist,  November 1911, p. 308 Caps added.]

And in 1925 Annie Besant herself  said the following to the 
Theosophical world and members of the Adyar  T.S.:

"And now I have to give you, by command of the King, His  message,
and some of the messages of the Lord Maitreya and His  great
Brothers. . . what I am saying, as to matter of announcement,  is
definitely at the command of the King whom I serve.

His taking  possession of His chosen vehicle . . . will be soon.
Then He will choose,  as before, His twelve apostles . . . and their
chief, the Lord Himself. He  has already chosen them, but I have only
the command to mention seven who  have reached the stage of Arhatship,
Who were the 'Arhats'?

The  first two, my brother Charles Leadbeater and myself, . . . C.
Jinarajadasa,  . . . George Arundale, Oscar Kollerstrom, . . .  Rukmini
Arundale....

I left out one and must leave out another.  Naturally, our
Krishnaji [Jiddu Krishnamurti] was one, but he is to be the  vehicle
of the Lord. And the other is one who is very dear to all of us,  as
to the whole Brotherhood: Bishop James Wedgwood. He had borne  his
crucifixion before the seal of Arhatship was set upon him by his  King.
Those are the first seven of the twelve whom He has chosen,  with
Himself as the thirteenth. 'Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye  do
well, for so I am.'

Now the wonder may come into your mind:  H.P.B. was the only one
who was really announced as the messenger of the  Master. Since then
the world has grown a good deal, and it is possible that  while the
few may be repelled, many thousands will be attracted to  the
Christ. . . . Whatever the effect, since He has said it, it is
done.  . ."

The Theosophist, November, 1925

Daniel
_http://hpb.cc_ (http://hpb.cc/) 


 




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