Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00309)

At 08:53 AM 11/16/97 -0800, Nicholas Weeks wrote:
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>Below is a slightly abridged version of an HPB letter.
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> H. P. Blavatsky to the American Conventions
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> Copyright © 1979 by Theosophical University Press. All rights
> reserved.
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> The multiplication of local centers should be a foremost consideration
> in your minds, and each man should strive to be a center of work in
> himself. When his inner development has reached a certain point, he
> will naturally draw those with whom he is in contact under the same
> influence; a nucleus will be formed, round which other people will
> gather, forming a center from which information and spiritual
> influence radiate, and towards which higher influences are directed.
>
> But let no man set up a popery instead of Theosophy, as this would be
> suicidal and has ever ended most fatally. We are all fellow students,
> more or less advanced; but no one belonging to the Theosophical
> Society ought to count himself as more than, at best, a pupil-teacher
> -- one who has no right to dogmatize.
>

Hi, a very timely post.

Living a life where the influence of Theosophical doctrines (as each one
understands them) is dominating, will inevitably show itself up and that
seems to be the secret.

...M...