Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00206)

by both Blavatsky and Olcott? I find "Old Diary Leaves" ODL to be a 
golden source of history and one which is accessible to everyone. I 
find it interesting in their love of comparative religions (which 
they lived and not just talked about) to be one which should have 
all of us scratching our heads. I mean they both took pansil--or 
were initiated as Buddhists and then fell in love with the Sikhs and 
the ceremonies of the Golden Temple! I am not sure off the top of my 
head if they were initiated into Sikhism, since they were not 
Indian, not sure if that was possible back then, but isn't it 
strange, not to me as I attended the Congress on World Religions, 
held in Chicago which only comes around every 100 years, that they 
went around in and out of religions like it was no big deal? 

This is one of my favorite stories about the chums, and it saddens 
me that no one really talks about Olcott and his role in the TS. 
However, Judge is no less an important character.

On Radhasoami studies they are having a big discussion about the 
role of Salig Ram in shaping Radhasoami. Well, it seems that the 
later masters left out one little detail that SR had made clear: 
That everyone could initiate, not just the select line of chosen 
masters. That would be the same as saying that anyone could be a 
priest or perform the same rites as a priest as long as they were 
catholic and had observed the religion for a set period of time. 

What does that have to do with the TS today? Well, according to 
Alice Bailey, the TS as a spiritual organ is now defunct, dead, 
over. And if you go to TS meetings around the country, you will find 
that it has an aura much like the moon, something is missing, and 
it's not just Netemara who finds this. Sure there are some meetings 
which may have a good number of people and meetings, but as an 
evolutionary role and spiritual organ the bataan (sp) or Dharma has 
been passed on to its successor.

Netemara