Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00159)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "cesar joanino" <adviser77@m...> 
wrote:
> I think the theosophical society must not drop this symbol,this 
symbol 
> refresent mystical meaning used by ancient civilisation and later 
on as what 
> has been said abused,perverted,by the nazis I think what the nazis 
think abt 
> this symbol refresent world conquest for them.but the symbol itself 
> refresent esoteric principle not violent conquest or whatsoever

Symbols mean whatever people cause them to mean. As someone pointed 
out, the swastika has acquired a significance which is not benign.

I was suggesting that it merely be allowed to quietly fall by the 
wayside, without fanfare. The TS would simply stop using it and do 
do without comment.