Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00383)

In a message dated 07/25/04 5:29:23 PM, AnandGholap@AnandGholap.org writes:

>HPB wrote what was necessary at her time. But now social-cultural-
>psychological conditions are changed tremendously.

What has that to do with the teaching of theosophical metaphysics based on 
fundamental principles, or with the aims and purposes of the Theosophical 
Movement? How has the social-cultural-psychological changes in conditions since the 
time of HPB effected the teachings of theosophy themselves? What is the 
nature of those changes? And, how do the teachers who came after HPB meet them in 
their reinterpretations and transformations of the theosophical truths? 
Specific cases and examples, please. 

Although it would seem to me that human nature hasn't changed much since the 
time of the Roman Empire -- where social-cultural and psychological conditions 
seem to have been much like the way they are today. In any event, what 
justification do the so called "leaders" who followed HPB have to distort the 
ancient metaphysical teachings toward their own religious biases, regardless of the 
social-cultural-psychological changes that may or may not have occurred since 
the 20th Century -- which HPB most definitely wrote for.

LHM