Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00922)

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> From: Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jhe@toto.csustan.edu>
>  
> JHE
> The history of the LCC is so intertwined with the TS that I hold
> little hope for it either.  CWL's and GSA's idea for the LCC was
> for it to be the vehicle for the new religion brought forward by
> the world teacher (Krishnamurti).  As someone had mentioned
> before on theos-l, being active in the LCC, ES, Co-Masonry and
> the Egyptian Rite are to this day expected of those who wish to
> find themselves in the inner group that really runs the TS.  In
> the eyes of those ruling Bishops, this remains the one important
> function of the LCC.  IMO, if the LCC is to survive and grow, it
> will have to dissociate itself from the TS and find its own
> purpose for existance.

It's past history and birth is intertwined with TS, but the public
face, lately, is one of independence from TS.  If you look at
their web page, their no mention of TS at all.

http://199.171.97.168/English/Organizations/LCC.GB/LCC.html

I'm not sure I understand you about the one important
function of the LCC.  To provide bishops who will then be
leaders of TS?  Very few bishops or priests that I know have
much to do with the other groups - they're too busy trying to
make a living, keep a church running and have time for
their families.

What I have heard is that the church exists in case the
NEXT world teacher comes and want to use it, which
sounds like that person was still looking towards the past.

As for new associations, there is a rather large congregation in
Fairfield, Iowa, near Maharishi's school that is filled with 
members who publicly espouse both Liberal Catholicism
and Maharishi's philosophy.

> JHE
> This "set of beliefs" idea is the great schizophrenia of the TS
> that Annie Besant and CWL had so much trouble over.  Ernest Wood
> talks about it in his book.  All of that "inner government"
> authority that CWL devised in 1908 -- for which he and Besant
> became the mouthpiece -- was in direct contradiction to the
> freedom of thought ideals established by HPB, HSO and WQJ.  It is
> one of the really interesting dynamics that made the TS to crazy
> during the Besant/Leadbeater years.  Besant would on the one hand
> preach freedom of thought and then push people out of the TS who
> disagreeded with her. 
>  
You're right.  I knew there was something strange about what
had been going on there but I couldn't see it clearly or put it into
words.

-AEB