Russian Theosophists
Dec 28, 1996 06:59 AM
by K. Paul Johnson
Perhaps because of my study of the Cayce readings I'm feeling
some frustration about lack of communication between Russian
Theosophists and the rest of us. Cayce says that Russia will
lead the world spiritually once communism is dethroned and
gives 1998 as the beginning of the New Age. In my search of
publications in various languages it was really exciting to
see that there are 32 Russian books on Theosophy published in
the 1990s alone! I looked them up and most were by HPB; but
couldn't read the titles.
As I understand it there is a full-fledged revival of interest
in Theosophy in Russia but we in the West and elsewhere in
the world are being left in the dark about it because the
Russian Theosophists are not affiliated formally with Adyar
Pasadena or ULT. It would be a lot to ask an organization as
small as Pasadena or ULT to do much in the way of networking
with these folks in Russia but at one point it looked like
Adyar was making a good start. What happened? All I get from
third-hand reports is to put it in my own terms that they
won't play Adyar's way so to hell with them. More
specifically this from a board member but my memory is hazy
that they were only interested in HPB and that this was
unacceptable to Adyar. It is regrettable that Yugoslavia
Denmark and Canada were lost to the TS. But it is catastrophic
if the greatest opportunity for the movement in these times--
the rebirth of interest in HPB in her native land-- is being
discarded simply because it cannot be totally controlled
by an international headquarters that seems obsessed with
control.
Somebody please tell me I'm wrong and that things have
changed or that the reports I've gotten were incorrect. Or if
they are correct does anyone have any suggestions about how
Western Theosophists can go over the heads of our organizations
and link up with our Russian sisters and brothers despite their
lack of "political correctness"? This of course takes literacy
in Russian which I suppose is quite rare in our ranks.
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