Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00199)

Ok,I think I get it.  Theosophy is a system of belief and study requiring
years, decades, millenia to fully understand.  Those who do finally get it
are content to take the prize and spiritually masturbate with it in a closet
somewhere.  They have no obligation, nor feel any, to share the truths with
the rest of humanity.  They will, however, discuss truths with "initiates"
who will without question, based on a gut feeling,  spend years learning the
esoterica.  A prerequisit however is that the pupil not have any of that
nasty western mentality of expecting reason, proof, evidence or the like.
No, don't raise any questions about the foundations of the beliefs, or
where-after spending millenia in study-you may be led, just dive in.  Ya
gotta have faith brother.

I was led to theosophy because its central theme is that there is one
universal truth.  Any claim of truth(or segments thereof) puts the onus on
the advocates to do the provings.  Doesn't seem unreasonable to me to be
looking for some substance, not just vocabulary.

If all this rubs anyone the wrong way, just ignore my questions and I'll
eventually go away.  I'm sticking around though til I'm sure that I've
exhausted all I can reasonably do to find out what gems of truth may reside
here.  Randy