Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00075)

Jerry:
>Here she is giving us the opinion of her School. There are other schools
>who do not see the lotus sexual symbolism as profane or degraded.
>This is the area of my disagreement with HPB and her School. To say
>that sex (or anything else) is degraded or "foul" is purely a subjective
>and cultural call with no basis in fact. I think that she was saying this
>for the benefit of puritanical Westerners who she needed for her TS.

Tantra is a minority view in the East too.  Standard Buddhism, Vedanta &
Jainism etc. are with HPB in putting personal, and thus sexual, purity in
an important place in their religious life.

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<> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
  The effects of karma may be counteracted or mitigated by the thoughts
  and acts of oneself or of another.  "Aphorisms on Karma"