Theos-Talk Archives (December 2009 Message tt00069)

This sentence should read:

We are lucky that timely disclosure and broadcast
over Internet and furor caused by membership around the world resulted
in the plan to be NOT APPROVED last year.


mkr

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM, MKR <mkr777@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Upcoming GC Meeting
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> As usual, I suppose the next meeting of GC is scheduled on Dec 25.
> Everyone is keeping silent and members have no idea of what issues are
> going to be discussed and what decisions are going to be taken which
> affect TS and its members. The GC members having gotten used to the
> ultra secrecy of the proposals and proceedings of the meeting, looks
> like, want to continue it, no matter what ordinary members think of
> it. I hope they had a first hand lesson from last yearâs events
> surrounding the meeting, especially the ultra secret proposal by a
> Quartet to seize control of the Presidency, thus the future of the TS
> by making the president a puppet of a handful of GC members from the
> West. It was the non-transparent environment which allowed the Quartet
> to think of the clever proposal and not a single one of them would
> have dared to stand up in public before members and announce their
> idea how they are better fitted to appoint the president ignoring
> members world-wide. We are lucky that timely disclosure and broadcast
> over Internet and furor caused by membership around the world resulted
> in the plan to be approved last year. The plan has not been formally
> withdrawn and there was no public apology to the members from the
> Quartet. We have no idea whether the proposal is on the table or
> efforts would be made to bring it up using other clever tricks in the
> upcoming meeting. The only safeguard to protect such unwise and
> self-serving moves being made by some GC members is to bring
> transparency to the agenda and the proceedings. I hope the GC would
> discuss the transparency issue keeping in focus the strong warning
> given in the 1900 letter. Continued misleading secrecy is bound to
> bring about some serious misguided decisions taken by the GC to
> negatively affect the TS and its members. Serious public discussion
> of issues is bound to point out any flaws in any potential decisions.
> It also gives an opportunity for an ordinary member to point out that
> the King has no clothes.
>
> Only thing that the powerless individual members, like you and me, can
> do is to pray and meditate that none of the GC members even think of
> any self-serving moves.and surprise us.
>
> MKR
>
> PS: Recently I noticed that the Quartet member who formally proposed
> the now famous ultra secret disenfranchisement move and the next in
> command in TSA are going to present two programs at Krotona Institute
> of Theosophy next April-May. I hope it is an indication of a positive
> move of reconciliation and unification which we have not seen since
> the start of last year's events. Krotona Institute is setup as an
> independent trust headed by the OH of the ES. As such no theosophical
> leader has control over the institution.
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