Theos-Talk Archives (September 1995 Message tl00921)

JRC writes:

> I think one of the problems with spiritual and religious
> organizations (and Theosophy is no exception) is that most are founded by
> either one individual or a small group of individuals who do have
> virtually unlimited authority while alive, but after they go, their
> spiritual descendants then institutionalize that original authority (or
> at least attempt to) - but the personal magnetism of the founder(s), from
> whence their authority derived, is not present.
Is that where authority is derived, from personal magnetism? Or is that just
where people THINK it is derived?

RIch