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Re: Theos-World Re: Strange pattern of secrecy/non transparency

Jun 19, 2009 09:51 AM
by Bill Meredith


<So you want to dis-organize everything and throw the White Lodge into the trashcan?>
  
Many attempts have been  made to form a nucleus of universal brotherhood. Perhaps a lodge is one such attempt.  An e-mail group might be another.  A network yet another. A theosophical society still another. A church?  (perhaps a Unitarian Universalist Church?)  --a liberal catholic church? a political party?  maybe libertarian?  All of these appear to be attempts to organize people into loyalists for a particular piece of truth--the piece the original founder picked up.
What is most often lost in these organizations is the individual spirit of adventure and inquisitive nature that caused the the original founder to go looking for truth in the first place.  Organizational adherents are made into comfortable followers and finally into believers in a piece of folk-lore.  

I believe an organization can exist to foster an environment for individually directed truth seeking --one that makes "original founders" of every member.  Such an organization will have no creed or dogma .  It will have no leaders and hence no followers.  It will be a group of brothers and sisters who inquire insatiably after truth and challenge each other relentlessly not to rest comfortably in yesterday's version of truth.  

<I hold it to be true, that there are ordinary organizations and there are those who call themselves spiritual organizations and there are REAL spiritual organizations .>

You are personally free to cling to that truth your whole life. 

I believe that truth is a matter of personal discernment and that to organize it is to capture, limit and disguise a piece of it--and eventually to perpetuate that piece as a myth totally absent of the vitality of the living truth.  

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