Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00405)

Rich,
The problem with trying to align anything with the Adepts is that we really
know so damnably little about them.  True, we have writings of HPB and the
Colonel, and WQJ for that matter, as well as the Mahatma Letters, but they
leave us with more questions than answers.  As a personal matter, while I
believe in the Masters I do not necessarily believe the Masters.
OK, you can take a moment to smooth your hair back down from that one.
Why do I say that?  Well, look at the evidence.
We have the word of HPB and the Colonel and WQJ that the Masters exist and
they were in communication with them.  Very good.  But did the Masters tell
them the entire truth or just those things it was either convenient or
appropriate for them to hear?
We have the Mahatma letters, but they are just one side of the conversation
and if you have ever listened to one person talking on the phone you know
what I mean.  Things can become pretty garbled.
Add to that the reality of what one local Theosophist terms "Mr. Spookapook"
and you get an interesting possible mix of real Adepts and astral pranksters.
 It is a combination that makes any theosophical movement based on alignment
with them very difficult at best and in my admittedly arrogant view accounts
for a lot of the mess our early brethren found themselves in.
The truth is that such an alignment would probably be impossible under any
circumstances, humans being what they are and theosophists being the most
argumentative and bull-headed of the lot.  We have enough trouble aligning
our cars with the road at times.
So where do we really go from here?
I think that right now the best thing to do is wait and see what happens in
the next few years.  The TS (Adyar) is in a weird historic period as
spiritual organizations go.  It has to do something but cannot quite figure
out what.  But unlike my fellow gang members I am not about to write it off
yet.  There are too many variables at work for me to do that and I tend to be
afflicted with more patience than dumb ol' Job at times.  The other TS
organizations have problems of their own and I know very little about them so
I will not comment.  TI has great potential but our very broadness and
openness can put us in some difficulty at times, witness the continuing
confusion over our statement of purpose and objects.
So I am just going to sit back and watch for a while before making any
decisions about starting something totally new.

Chuck the Barbarian MTI, FTSA, M G of 5
Heretic
Troublemaker