Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01057)

At 02:51 PM 4/24/96 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, alexis dolgorukii wrote:
>
>> Any esoteric school without an adept to lead it and teach it is totally
>> invalid,
>
>Yes. Yes. A thousand times Yes. As ornate, detailed, and expensive as a
>lamp is, it is still nothing but a lump of dead metal if its not plugged
>into a current. And curiously enough, in the spiritual world, it seems
>that as a general rule the complexity of the lamp's design varies
>inversely with its proximity to the current.
>								-JRC
>
>JRC: How very, very true! And the further we get from Blavatsky's death,
the morre ornate and prolix the so-alled "Theosophical Core Teachings
become. What a loss! Not HPB of course, but the theosophical movement, and
it's purpose as a service organization.

alexis dolgorukii
The Eclectic Theosophist