Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00019)

In message <Pine.ULT.3.91.960406152130.28813A-100000@selway.umt.edu,
JRC <jrcecon@selway.umt.edu writes
       I have only recently begun to actually understand what TI might
become - that the fire behind it is *larger* than simply a cyberspace
phenomena ... i.e., that the Internet is *foundational space* in which
it has been born, and the utter freedom of cyberspace is deeply
integrated into its foundation, but that the Internet is simply its
*Headquarters*, and not necessarily the entirety of its *range of
activities* - and your first discussions of "branches" is what sparked
that understanding.
       *Because* of the Internet, we can actually build a Theosophical
Society according to the *original intentions* behind the Objects.
Normally, I'd be extremely reticent about allying myself to yet another
Theosophical organization, as factionalism is too common a thread in our
history - but TI is fundamentally different ... any other faction that
has formed or broken off has done so on *exclusionary* grounds - begun
by saying "we believe in *this* rather than *that*, or that we follow
*this* fellow, not *that* one. TI, from its very beginning, seems aimed
not to become yet *another* faction, but rather what the TS was
*supposed* to be from the very beginning: A *place* where the vast
diversity of perspectives might have discourse with one another - with
all the terrors and wonders, nastiness and sublime beauty, flames and
love that a place filled with strong and autonomous individuals must
almost *necessarily* contain.
                                           -JRC

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