Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00224)

Rodolfo Don writes and Alan responds,

> >If you read Theosophy International first object, the way it stands on the
> >web now (the revised version), it could apply to any of the criminal gangs
> >that we have here in California and elsewhere. "To form a nucleus within
> >the universal human family, without distinction of sex, sexual
orientation,
> >creed, class, or color."
> >
> >This is very sad, and I refuse to be part of it.
>
> None of us can opt out of the human race, or the human condition.  That
> such criminal gangs exist is a mark of human failure, but the people who
> are in such gangs are, whether we like it or them, still members of the
> human family within which we hope to create a more harmonious and co-
> operative example they may come to appreciate and follow.  Without doubt
> (surely?) the founders intended their "nucleus" to reach out to *all*
> beings, in which the idea of "class" would include the "criminal class"
> - not just those of whom we happen to approve.


Um, Alan -- you've totally missed Rodolfo's point.  He didn't mean to say
that criminal gangs should be excluded from our ideas about brotherhood.  He
meant that a gang could write a constitution for its existence based on the
very same platform you have based TI on.  I quite agree.

The TI platform is extremely watered down, and says almost nothing
specifically about Theosophy.