Theos-Talk Archives (February 1997 Message tl00413)

> From: RIhle@aol.com
> Subject: Re: Defining Theosophy
>
> Richard Ihle writes-->
>
> This “definition-building” is a very subtle thing, and it has been developing
> little by little for a long, long time.  Only two things remain to be
> accomplished, in my opinion:  1) a direct official statement that ~Theosophy~
> is simply a lexical synonym meaning “HPB-teachings,” and 2) a direct official
> statement that these teachings occupy a special place above conventional
> scrutiny and debate because they were the special supernatural dispensations
> from the special supernatural Mahatmas.
>
In the relatively short time I've been in TSA, I've gotten the impression that
the Mahatma letters were something under glass, like an antique in a
museum.  They are regularly taken out and studied, then put back, as if
what was communicated in them, in their time, would always be valid.
Forever.

I always wonder if the Mahatmas, Masters,
or whatever, could, should or would drop letters from my ceiling (or
any one else's), what would they say TODAY?  Would they make
changes, corrections and see things in the light of the coming New Age?
If truth, rolling like tumbleweed down that pathless land, is ever renewing
itself and revealing itself in fresh form, why wouldn't They?

-AEB
















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