Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00770)

Hi, here is an excerpt from Wood's rare book - "Is This Theosophy?".

Does it look familiary to what you may have seen in your National Section?
It appears that this is how it is supposed to really work. Things don't seem
to change even after decades.

You make up your own mind.

MKR

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        By 1925 prayers of all the materially powerful religions were
introduced on the Society's official platform, and the movement definitely
degenerated into a brotherhood of creeds.  Criticism of other people's ideas
became "unbrotherly!" And besides, it "spoiled the work," and the work was
largely a conveyance of blessings and forces by those who were admitted to
the systems of organized access to these things.  On these grounds offices
were filled, and invitations were issued to leaders to preside and lecture
at the Society's gatherings nearly all over the world.

        Bishop Leadbeater and his agents were eminent in the theosophical
weakness of wanting things both ways at once, though that was quite
illogical.  The Society must be quite without dogma, and yet its councils
must be governed and its platforms occupied by those who were eager to
promote certain beliefs, leaderships and objectives, and members who opposed
these must be kept in the background.

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