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Re: Theos-World H.P. Blavatsky's Writings & the Letters of the Masters

Apr 09, 2005 07:31 PM
by Mauri




Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:

<<Furthermore, why did the Masters want HPB to write all of this material if it was to be superseded and supplanted within a relatively short period of time by the writings of Bailey, Judge, de
Purucker, Besant, Leadbeater, Ballard, etc.? >>

I suspect that, in many cases, where the extraction of wisdom might be an interest, then "reading between the lines" might not always be enough. Also I feel that one could interpret writings in general in terms of possible related or alternate meanings that an author might not even have thought of. In any case, I don't see how any kind of esoteric topics could be literally interpreted without misunderstandings about "esoteric aspects." I suspect that the Catholic Church has made the mistake of literally interpreting the Esoteric/Wisdom Tradition, with the result that, eg, Pope John Paul II has approved cults like Focolare, Neocatechumenate, Liberation and Communion.

I just read in Gordon Urquhart's THE POPE'S ARMADA that Catholic cults have totalitarian, fundamentalist, extreme right-wing administrators. The author spent nine years at one of those cults (Focolare). Quoting from page 67:

<<Our minds, attitudes and beliefs were to be radically changed, not through a gradual process of learning and growth of personal conviction but through an intensive barrage which would often be quite openly referred to, jokingly, as brainwashing.>>

Not that one person's brainwashing, importance, comfort, usefulness, Theosophical writings, etc, might not be another's whatever.

Speculatively,
Mauri






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