Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00098)

Gosh! You spent too much time writing here! Too much messages to 
read! Sorry for my bad English.

Konstantin wrote:
"We have no any evidences that HPB opinion was that he failed. But the
Inner Group at large really failed, if I remember correctly. And if he
wasn't there, it's really a good recommendation for him."

We know he failed (be he the "little man" or not). H.P.B stop to keep 
a contact with him. I don't know where you read this, but the Inner 
Group didn't failed, it was ment to be while HPB was alive. It was an 
occult group, and HPB was a conection to the masters during the 
meetings. One master assisted personally the Inner Group. It was 
created by their suggestion, for HPB to keep a group of peaople and 
efectivelly work with occultism. For the TS wasn't `working' good 
anymore. Each person of the Inner Group was chosen by reccomendation 
of the masters. So if Leadbeatter wasn't there, and not even in the 
Esoteric Session (the door to the inner group) this is definetly a 
bad reccomendantion for him.

"But the essential difference between Leadbeater and A.
Cleather (and many other people of that sort) that he never criticized
anyone and never tried to ruin some other's work, but only made his
own work, though maybe imperfectly."

When you compromise yourself with occultism, it is your duty to try 
to keep the teaching accessible in the most pure way. Didn't HPB 
herself criticized the missionaries, the jesuits, the entire church? 
Didn't she critized the materialism of man of science and the 
false `english gentelman'. Dind't she criticized a lot many things? 
And you are not criticizing her for that. So why should we criticize 
the ones who were trying to warn people of the danger of some 
teaching that were appearing in the `theosophic world' and war 
contrary to HPB. Why should we judge them badly for trying to keep 
the true teachings of HPB alive, when Besant was reediting the 
SD "correcting" (that is, changing) HPB words. If someone writes 
warning of the danger of nazism, or of the universal church 
(protestant) or of some crazy cults... you wouldn't criticize them.. 
I think is the same thing.
G.R.S Mead was one of the greatest reserchers the TS had, he was 
completely dedicated to the spiritual work. He did a lot. The 
countess of watchmeister was always with HPB and I guess she knew 
what she was talking about. Westcott was the founder of Golden Dawn 
and had a conctact with souls such as Ayton. Alice Cleather was the 
responsible for publishing the Voice of Silence (a book written 
specially for the Inner Group – and only after went to public) in 
China, with an adendum of the Panchem Lama. She tried to keep the 
teachings of HPB alive and founded a Blavatsky Library, without 
Besant's changes. Isabel Cooper Oakley was making wonderfull 
historical researches... most of (if not all) the inner group – that 
is, the effective disciples of HPB – left the TS when Besant Started 
to `invent'. You have wonderfull people writing and researching about 
many wonderfulthinga. But what most theosophists do is stay with the 
besant-leadbeater couple and ignore the rest.