Theos-Talk Archives (December 1996 Message tl00790)

At 09:29 AM 12/31/96 -0500, you wrote:
>----------
>> From: M K Ramadoss <ramadoss@eden.com>
>>
>>         Secondly, the statement that the money shall be spent for local
>TS
>> activities. The statement can be interpreted very widely. "National
>Approved
>> Lecturers" (and their spouses) (even now some of the spouses do travel to
>> Lodges with National Lecturers) can travel First Class to NY, stay in
>most
>> expensive hotels and enjoy themselves and those who are on their side.
>> Again, these individuals who visit for Theosophical activity, may be
>doing
>> lip service, since the real purpose of their visit may be connected with
>> other *business* or *religious* or *spiritual* activity by disguising the
>> visit as for Theosophical purposes. All these could be justified as
>> Theosophical activity and can be justified. Also the National Directors
>are
>> likely to be very very secretive about disclosing how much money they
>have
>> and how it is being spent. There is no requirement that they disclose it
>to
>> the ordinary members. Accountability, must not be based on *trust*, but
>> built-in openness and requirement to disclose.
>>
>Just a note about my knowledge of one well-known speaker that travels to
>Chicago for area lectures.  That person stays at the luxurious and
>fabulously well-appointed Olcott in Wheaton and eats in their gourmet
>basement
>cafeteria.  Occasionally, some of his
>friends get together and take him out to a restaurant, with their own
>money.
>One study group member drove out to Wheaton, a far western suburb,
>picked him up at Olcott, brought him to the study group on the North Side
>of
>Chicago and then delivered him back to Olcott when his lecture was over.
>The study group member was using his own car and maybe TSA paid for gas, I
>don't know.
>If lecturers and others are getting the aboved mentioned perks in New York
>City, I think we're getting gypped here in Illinois. : -)
>
>-AEB


          Glad you posted the msg. I am *not* saying it is happening now.
          It can happen at a future date.
          I should have been more clear on this.

          As for spouses traveling with lecturers, we have had lecturers
whose spouses accompanied them.

MKR