Theos-Talk Archives (April 1995 Message tl00153)

The idea of "Core Concepts" in Theosophy always bothered me.
They are very Aristotelian in nature.  Once you separate them,
define them, explain them you have got nowhere.  They are a
closed road.  Ultimately they lead to the death of Theosophy in a
study group and in our minds.

You see, Theosophy -interpreting the spirit of HPB - is shown in
two faces:

......... Exoterically = through the three objects of the T. S.
.........  Esoterically = through the three fundamental
propositions as established in the Secret Doctrine, see Proem.

There you provide the seeker with a lot of hope and wonder, with
a whole picture, a historical, mythical and mystical path that
transcends our own souls....  there is no end to it .  .  .  We
become like Socrates who knowing nothing made him at the eyes of
Apollo through the Pythias the wisest of all Athenians.

As HPB said in the SD,  Anthropogenesis (Vol 2. pag. 24 )
"Put more metaphysically, the classification given here .  .  .
is more one of convenience than of absolute philosophical
accuracy."

With concepts like the core ones you immediately polarize people.
Some will like them or dislike them.

What follows is my observation in lodges throughout the world: we
tend to label people as: they are theosophist, they are prepared,
they certainly studied these concepts in previous lives .  .  .
.  .  or they will not grasp these concepts because of .  .  .
bla bla bla...

But Theosophy is a open book of wisdom that provides light of our
inside and about the Kosmos which are the same and one.  It is
though love of wisdom that we may explain the terms required to
be used in theosophy, and here we should use the Sanskrit,
Hebrew, etc words to open like roto rooters do the clogged
antakarana of the listener.  your brother:

Martin Leiderman  (martinlei@eworld.com)