Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00333)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@y...> wrote:

> As a society of like minds, then there should be nothing, financial
> or personal, involved in the running of the TS that cannot be shared 
> with others of that society. Personal issues should be left to deal 
> with on a personal basis. If people's personal issues are getting
> in the way of their spirit of Theosophy then they are not ready to
> help others.

Yes. Now our Moscow Theosophical Society works without any president
or other officials. Several years of work have shown that it made the 
spirit in the society much better. 10 years ago we had a bitter 
experiense with president of Russian Theosophical Society. There were 
many who weren't content of his work and it was decided that he should 
resign. For instance the office of the society was used for trading 
food products including canned meat, while most of members were 
vegetarians and didn't know about it. But he managed so that he didn't 
return the library, archives and other property of the society.
So the members decided that there shouldn't be any presidents or other 
people who concentrate all the power in their hands anymore.
Of course, there are several enthusiasts who run most of the work, but 
they can't give any orders to others. They simply talk about the work 
done and discuss the further work on the general meetings.

Nor the Moscow Theosophical Society is regarded anymore as the 
superior society for the societies in other cities. Now Russian 
Theosophical Society exists as a confideration of lodges only, though 
the connection between them is often too loose. Yet the state of 
affairs is much better than was before.

With the best regards, Konstantin Zaitzev
http://www.theosophy.ru