Dear Jerry,
While
it is not about Besant and Leadbeater, it is also not about
Blavatsky.
While TSA does publish books by Blavatsky, Besant and Leadbeater,
most
of their books are by more current authors on other subjects--such
as
Buddhism, mysticism, mythology, Feng Shui etc. What I am saying
is that
TSA does not promote Blavatsky any more than Besant and
Leadbeater. And
they promote books on many other subjects besides.
To me this does not appear right way of doing Theosophical work.
There are many other organizations already doing work of spreading
Feng Shui etc. TS had many good occultists like AB, CWL and others
in that tradition. TSA and TS should focus on spreading writing done
by these authors because this knowledge is not available at other
places. Also TS has some special philosophy to offer and that
writing is available because of clairvoyant investigations done by
occultists in TS. Quality of that is much better than writing
outside, in my opinion.
They achieved their objectives. That is, to centralize power and
minimize autonomy. Traditionally, Theosophy was promulgated
through
independent lodges where members gathered and studied, and
discussed the
teachings in Theosophical books. Through restructuring, most of
the
Lodges have disappeared and members have to rely upon their own
resources, or join the "National Lodge" which becomes the sole
voice.
This situation would make sick any honest member of TS.
Unfortunately decline of Theosophy has happened not only in America,
but also in Europe and many other countries. Indeed situation is
very bad. Membership is very low, those who are members have
negligible knowledge of Theosophy and have become fanatic. This
fundamentalism is driving away people from TS and Theosophy. This
failure of TS in last two decades is effect and every effect has
some cause behind it. So it is important to know causes of this
failure of TS.
Anand Gholap
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