Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tl00173)

In message <199801250504.WAA16677@selway.umt.edu>, JRC
<jrcecon@selway.umt.edu> writes
>... please contemplate the
>fact that (according to evidence so far received) at least 3/4, and possibly
>as many as 9/10's of the officers and board members of the TS *are* ES
>members, and while we *are* free to have this discussion here, we would
>*not* be permitted to at Theosophical Headquarters, could not do a
>seminar/discussion session about it at a Summer Convention, nor publish even
>a word of it in any official publication of the American TS ... and I
>believe this fact *profoundly* dishonors the founders - who actually seemed
>to believe that the phrase "There is no religion higher than truth" ought to
>be *genuinely lived*.

I left the TS in England precisely because of this attitude.  Some Lodge
members wanted serious discussions and studies from the point of view
of what later became the Theosophy International approach.  In
consequence, I was *summarily* dismissed from the committee of my
own Lodge (of which I had previously been presient for two
consecutive years) and those of us who wished to pursue Truth were
obliged to meet separately away from Lodge premises.  Most of us left
or allowed our membership to lapse in consequence.  The committee
member who instigated this "purge" was/is an ES member, and
although the Gen Sec in England was forced to enter the fray by
chairing the Lodge's agm, I was not allowed to be present, as I had
transferred my membership to unattached (member at large) as a means
of preventing them throwing me out altogether (which was on the
cards).  The Gen Sec at the time was/is *also* an ES member.

Alan the truthseeker
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