Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00398)

At 06:16 PM 4/12/96 -0500, you wrote:

Bob: I am going to echo alan's remark. Oh how nice to hear good sense
spoken. Your defintion of Theosophy Intenational is just exactly what it
should be, and unless I am terribly mistaken, you have put in words, what
most of us feel and very well too.

alexis dolgorukii, MTI,FTSA

>Bob,
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>I think TI is also a thing with which each one is able to fulfill their own
>dharma, whatever that dharma may be, ie do your own theosophical thing, with
>the support of others.
>Liesel
>Member TI, TSA, TS in Canada, HR
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>>In message <9604121519.AA19891@netra>, Robert Holmstrom
>><rholmstrom@voyageur.ca> writes
>>>Everyone seems to be talking about TI as a "container", something that a
>>>member fits "inside of" or excludes the offended.
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>>Everyone? Not me.
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>>>  I don't see it that way
>>>at all.  Should not the TI be a source of Theosophical information, possibly
>>>Theosophical values, and maybe a provider of signposts on the way?  In that
>>>way, it frees its members to search and to grow but does not "contain" them.
>>>Membership means only that one has accepted the requirements for membership
>>>but should not restrict anyone in any way.  One should always be free to
>>>make one's own errors and to learn from them.  One should be free to search
>>>any path one wishes, even CWL's if one has a hankering for mythopoeia.
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>>That's right!
>>>
>>>It seems to me the point of the three objects is that one must become free
>>>to search and actually search.  Beyond that there is no dogma to wrap
>>>oneself in.  Why should a prospective member then want to be wrapped in the
>>>TI?  The grand argument about what "freedom" is meant by the word "freedom"
>>>seems pointless to me.  Let each member take whatever meaning s/he walks in
>>>with and fly with it.  If it is "restrictive", said member will either drop
>>>out or break through the limits.  That is up to the individual, not the TI,
>>>imho.
>>>
>>>Take care,
>>>
>>>==<<Bob Holmstrom>>==  <rholmstrom@voyageur.ca>
>>>
>>Oh the joy of reading sense!
>>
>>Alan :-)
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