Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00240)

On Sat, 4 May 1996 Richtay@aol.com wrote:

> 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."
> > >
			<snip>
>
> 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

Ah, but this is a big point. What is *now* called Theosophy by *some* is
not mentioned in (nor, it should be noted, excluded by) the TI Objects.
But I might point out that what is *now* called Theosphy is not metioned
in the *orginal* Objects either.
								-JRC