Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00170)

At 035200 AM 12/13/95 -0500 Rich wrote:
>Liesel wrote
>
>> Rich
>>
>> If you were the Secretary of the Boston Lodge please tell us how it
>> came about that the building near Boston U campus was sold.
>>
>> Also do you know what happened to Lou DeLuca?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>The building near Boston Univesity was sold because a Boston University
>wanted it back and b it was necessary to liquidate funds to pay for the
>lawsuit and to have dividends to split up between the two parties. 2/3 of
>the assets remaining after the legal fees went to the newly incorporated
>and independent Besant Lodge autonomous from TSA and 1/3 went to the
>Blavatsky branch headed by regional director Fernando De Torrijos and his
>wife Ruth. The building near BU was sold to the campus for nearly 01 million
>dollars. There were nearly $400000 in legal fees and then $390000 went to
>the Besant Lodge and nearly $200000 went to the Blavatsky lodge.
>
>The Besant group used their money to buy the new building in Arlington a
>suburb of Boston on the other side of the Charles River the next city out
>beyond Cambridge.
>
>The Blavatsky group meets privately in homes of members and to my knowledge
>does not yet have meetings open to the public. It is not clear where the
>funds have gone but I suppose that is the business of the TSA in Wheaton.
>
>Both sides have very devoted serious Theosophists with totally opposing
>points of view. If I were to characterize it the Besant lodge is into
>"neo-Theosophy" and the Blavatsky lodge sticks to the lines first laid down
>HPB Judge and the Mahatmas. But that is only my personal impression.
>
>The Besant lodge likes to proudly show their "orthodoxy" by touting their
>S.D. study group but I founded that study group myself over the strong
>disinterest of the TS board there and for months we met in the BU building
>with two members me and one student from Boston College. I have since moved
>to UC Berkeley my student to pursue his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara.
>
>Besant lodge never had a real interest in HPB except as a name to conjure
>with and a figurehead under which to carry out their Bailey/Roerich/New Age
>program. I strongly disapprove of their studies but HEY --- that's my
>opinion and you will not catch me insulting them let alone spreading
>vicious lies about using their monies from the lawsuit fraudulently.
>
>Rich
>

Rich:

1 what a waste of money that could have been spent for much more
productive purposes.

2 glad you posted the information.

...doss