Theos-Talk Archives (July 2009 Message tt00121)

Dear Preethi

I sympathise with your position and have followed your 
postings here with sadness. I remember you well from
my stay in Adyar in 1996.

Unfortunately, what you have experienced in Adyar is little 
different from that which occurs in many organizations. 

We may hope that the elected officials live up to the high 
ideals of Theosophy and the Society, but sadly most of us 
have our flaws and are sometimes unable to keep kama/manas
in check.

I was also in receipt of outrageous lies and gossip in my
lodge, which went unchallenged by those who should have
taken a stand. Their refusal so to do was explained to
me that it was unbrotherly to disturb the "harmony" of 
the lodge! 
As I have posted before in this forum, genuine Harmony is 
only maintained where truth, courage and honesty are 
practiced in opposition to power politics and expediency. 

>From my perspective, your decision to remove yourself from 
that organization has freed you to live by your own ideals
without the sometimes overwhelming effect of nearby,
destructive energies. 

My action was also to withdraw from the Society and a 
few of us started our own Theosophical study/practice 
group. We have four groups, each meeting weekly, where
we study and compare the original literature with respect 
and appreciation, whilst supporting each other in our 
attempts to live the life.

I wish you well in your life after the Adyar Theosophical 
Society. If our experience is anything to go by, you will 
enjoy a genuine honesty and freedom that is too often 
lacking in that organization.

Kind regards
Nigel


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, preethi muthiah <seeker_preethi@...> wrote:
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> Dear Nigel,
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> If you have the courage of your convictions, you get kicked out on to the road. That is where i am at the moment, for standing up and fighting against the corruption the President endorses through her relatives.
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> Preethi
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> --- On Thu, 9/7/09, nhcareyta <nhcareyta@...> wrote:
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> From: nhcareyta <nhcareyta@...>
> Subject: Theos-World Re: Did Leadbeater Encourage "blind following"??
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, 9 July, 2009, 7:30 AM
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>       --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, "danielhcaldwell" <danielhcaldwell@ ...> wrote:
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> > Did Leadbeater encourage "blind following" as
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> > Anand phrases it?
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> > You be the judge.  Here is what Mr. Leadbeater said
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> > about Mrs. Besant:
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> Yes Daniel, and all
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> And this blind following demanded from a man who lied 
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> repeatedly, who manifestly contradicted the very masters he 
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> claimed to represent and who admitted to serious sexual 
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> misdemeanours with young boysâ?¦ and whose many 
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> fantastical statements in his books have been removed by 
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> "theosophical" publishers to avoid both extreme embarrassment
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> and justified discredit, and to maintain the blind following 
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> of a blatant liar.
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> Is it any wonder that deception and deceit from whatever 
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> quarter continues to infect some in the Adyar Theosophical 
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> Society.
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> It is disappointing the many honourable members in that
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> organisation continue to permit these violations to occur.
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> Courage of convictions it seems is in short supply. 
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> Regards
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> Nigel
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> > "What can I say to you of your President [Annie
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> > Besant] that you do not know already? Her colossal
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> > intellect, her unfailing wisdom, her unrivalled
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> > eloquence, her splendid forgetfulness of self,
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> > her untiring devotion of work for others - all
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> > these are but a small part of her greatness;
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> > they are on the surface, they may be seen by all,
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> > they leap to the eyes. But there are other qualities,
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> > other powers, of which you cannot know, because they
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> > pertain to the secrets of Initiation. She is a
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> > pupil of our Masters; from the fount of Their
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> > archaic wisdom she derives her own, the plans which
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> > she is carrying out are Their plans for the welfare
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> > of the world. THINK THEREFORE, HOW GREAT AN
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> > HONOUR IT IS FOR YOU that you should be permitted
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> > to work under her, for in doing so you are virtually
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> > working under Them. THINK HOW WATCHFUL YOU SHOULD
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> > BE TO MISS NO HINT WHICH FALLS FROM HER LIPS, to carry
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> > out EXACTLY whatever instructions she may give to you.
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> > Remember...there will be times when you cannot
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> > understand her motives, for she is taking into account
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> > many things which you cannot see and of which
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> > she must not tell you. BUT WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND
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> > OR NOT, YOU WILL BE WISE TO FOLLOW HER IMPLICITLY, JUST
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> > BECAUSE SHE KNOWS.
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> > THIS IS NOT MERE SUPPOSITION ON MY PART, NO MERE
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> > FLIGHT OF THE IMAGINATION; I HAVE STOOD BESIDE YOUR
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> > PRESIDENT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUPREME DIRECTOR
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> > OF EVOLUTION ON THIS GLOBE, AND I KNOW WHEREOF I
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> > SPEAK. Let the wise hear my words, and act accordingly. "
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> > Caps added. Adyar Album, p. 45.
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