Theos-Talk Archives (October 2009 Message tt00002)

Joseph Ross' book Krotona Vol IV is a mine of invaluable information for
anyone interested in theosophical history. He has presented information that
you will find nowhere else. Anyone interested in theosophical historical
material, should get hold of a copy.

MKR

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:05 AM, preethi muthiah <seeker_preethi@yahoo.com>wrote:

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> I never knew this statement existed but i am glad i made the right
> choice...and chose to quit the ES before attacking the President...but of
> course, then the President ought not to head the ES either because she
> attacks every single individual without gratitude to anyone for their
> helping her to carry on her work...why doesn't the President quit the ES,
> MKR?
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> Fraternally
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> Preethi
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> --- On Wed, 23/9/09, MKR <mkr777@gmail.com <mkr777%40gmail.com>> wrote:
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> From: MKR <mkr777@gmail.com <mkr777%40gmail.com>>
> Subject: Theos-World Some comments on how Internet is used by theosophists
> To: "theos-talk" <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com<theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
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> Date: Wednesday, 23 September, 2009, 9:12 AM
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> I recently came upon a very interesting letter sent by Annie Besant to
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> member of ES in June 1923. In it, she states:
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> Anyone in the ES who takes part in any movement in the TS which tends to
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> cause trouble or stir up unfriendly feelings towards any member of the TS,
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> will be expelled from the School as soon as the fact comes to my notice; I
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> shall accept no excuse as to good intentions. Anyone who wants to attack
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> another member, feeling it to be his duty, must resign from the School
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> before making such attack.
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> (pp. 53; Krotona Vol IV by Joseph Ross)
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> In the 21st century, with the advent of Internet, we have seen some
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> interesting pattern of action from theosophists to hide their hand from
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> their actions. With Besant's statement as the backdrop, let us look at
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> them.
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> 1. A pattern of keeping silent, while surrogates do the work of making
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> statements or raising issues with no substantive factual evidence.
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> 2. Use others as a front and distribute statements, which they themselves
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> dare not to make. Those who end up as fronts feel good because they are
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> to appear scholarly, important and smart to the public.
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> 3. A pattern of using pseudonyms to hide their real identity as well as
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> avoid taking personal responsibility. Once the pseudonym users are
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> questioned further about their identity, they get cold feet and disappear.
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> These pseudonym users may be acting on their own and/or acting as catâs
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> of their controllers.
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> 4. Use Wiki as a shield to protect anonymity. Post a statement or a
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> comment on Wiki and extract it to distribute it and then go and delete it
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> from Wiki. Wiki has open access for editing and also allows anonymity of
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> editors. To the gullible, this may appear as a legit statement of facts.
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> Another issue we have seen is that long term leaders, members and elders
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> keep silent perhaps because of the political and other consequences of
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> speaking their minds publicly. (Some times, it takes a great courage and
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> risk to speak the Truth. Many in the past have given their lives to speak
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> truth.) In today's TS, this may be as serious as losing their comfortable
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> room and board.
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> So when there are serious issues and problems, such as those we have seen
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> the recent past, it falls on the lap of the ordinary novice members to wake
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> up and speak up.
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> Whatever anyone thinks of the above issues, one thing is for sure. But for
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> the Internet and a few dedicated ordinary members, TS today would be far
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> different from what it is now and perhaps much dismembered.
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> MKR
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