Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00755)

At 08:04 PM 5/12/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>> The write up of internet activity in the UK's Theosophical Journal, and the
>> description of the Reading Lodge ... applause, applause. At least we have
>> some people on our side!
>
>I am curous as to why there are sides in this? It is great that what
>is happening is being printed but what does "us vs them" have to do
>with it?
>
>Am I missing something?
>BFN
>OOROO
>Michelle
>
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First let me say that your netiquette posting represents good policy. It
doesn't silence anyone and it does permit people to have short personal
relationship threads.

As to 'Us vs.Them" I doubt highly if anyone of us likes it or desired it,
but that is the situation that has arisen. There are two fairly easily
identifiable "interest groups" one represents the kind of thing Chuck was
complaining about..the "head centered THEOSOPHIST" and the other the "action
cenetered theosophist". There are fairly strong disagreements in two areas,
the first is psychic research-activity, and the second is what I have to
call "Orthodox Institutional Theosophy" which seems to resent and reject
those of us who are not so orthodox, some call us "revisionists". It had
gotten rather too acrimonious, but I think almost everyone has drawn back
from that now and things are getting more diplomatic, but the division is
clearly there. This division is nothing new, it extends all the way back to
the founding of the soicety.
As to the "News From England" well I rather think it represents a victory
(of sorts) for the revisionists.

alexis