Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00033)

Jerry:

I would like to present to you this hypothesis:

Might it not be that the increasingly limited dedications represent H.P.B.s
decreasing hope that what she/he was trying to say would ever be fully
comprehended? When she observed the membership totally fascinated by
"parlour tricks" and totally disinterested in the explanation of those
tricks, when she viewed Theosophists jockying for power and influence
instead of putting their influence and energies into actual service to
humanity? When she realized that many prominent theosophists regarded her as
detrimental to the society?

H.P.B. started out full of hope and optimism as time went by those hopes and
that optimism began to wear very thin indeed. Perhaps that is why the extent
of her dedications got more and more limited. She felt more and more limited.

alexis