Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00205)

At 06:35 PM 4/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>In message <199604101834.OAA08179@ultra1.dreamscape.com>, "liesel f.
>deutsch" <liesel@dreamscape.com> writes
>>Chuck,
>>
>>Nobody's answering you, but I think you have a point there. We don't want to
>>stand there "we're free & you aren't, nja, nja, njaaa!"
>>
>>Liesel
>>Member TI, TSA, TS in Canadam HR
>>........................................................................
>
>I have answered Chuck ... and we're not saying that.  The importance of
>the "free" part of the statement is as much a declaration of ethos, of
>setting a standard for the future.  We *are* free and we want to *stay*
>free.  Nowhere in the TI statement do we denigrate *any* other
>theosophical setups - on the contrary, we hope to be of service *in
>amity* with them.
>
>If they seek to denigrate us, or deprive their members of any freedoms,
>the problems arising, if any, are theirs, not ours.  I hope that TI is
>something that will be looking forward, not backwards.  Let us learn
>from the mistakes of the past without parading them triumphantly as our
>raison d'etre.  Our raison d'etre is to promote the three objects in the
>best way we know how - and to seek and find even better ways by working
>together freely and honestly.  Yep.
>
>Alan
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>Alan:
Hear! Hear! Huzzah for you! Well put, and I agree with evey word.

alexis