Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00058)

In a message dated 11/6/99 5:43:51 PM Central Standard Time, dalval@nwc.net
writes:

> Theosophy is not a patch work of material collected and somehow
>  made into a "collage,"
I never claimed it was.  But if you are doing historical detective work,
you end up with a patch work of material because of the vagaries
of history.  What we find is the debris of whathas not been destroyed
in the past.  The claim was that HPB's esoteric source was most likely
Dzog chen, which claims to be a buddhism older than Gautama's Buddhism.
Dzog chen is not a syncretistic mixture of mutually alien elements.  Yet,
digging up its history may give the appearance of that because of
the nature of the flotsam and debris washed up of buried on the
shore of the present that constitutes the physical evidence and
residue of the past.

Grigor