Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00618)

krsanna wrote:
> 1.  What will the TSA achieve if they win the lawsuit?  
> ANSWER:  Greater authority for the territory they have named as 
> their domain, which is theosophy in America.  Justification for 
> their existence, by demonstrating that Theosophical lodges need 
> authority and supervision and that the TSA's spin on theosophy is 
> right.  Market domination.  These are common human behaviors that 
> have driven much human history.  Certainly, you do not suggest that 
> TSA is free of ignorance and territoriality.  
	Now, tell me, what is it that Tacoma was doing that was in violation of 
the TSA board's idea of Theosophy?


> 2.  Bart wrote:  I don't understand Tacoma's [explanation].  
> ANSWER:  It is regrettable that you do not understand Tacoma's 
> desire for autonomy.  
	I understand Tacoma's desire for autonomy. I don't understand what they 
are saying that the TSA's justification is. What more will the TSA gain 
by the takeover which they don't already have? It's got to be more than 
a theoretical victory, or else there would not be any justification of 
the use of assets.

> HPB abolished Adyar (TSA's daddy's home) as the parent organization 
> and declared lodges autonomous in 1887.  TSA has no legal claim to 
> theosophical lodges other than the authority lodges voluntarily 
> accept.  
	Can you please show me where this was done, and what HPB's authority to 
do so was?

> Tacoma has never relinquished its autonomy to the TSA at Wheaton.  
> For 60 years, Tacoma has protected its autonomy.  The Lodge elected 
> to not revise its bylaws on several occasions since 1941, because it 
> did not want to relinquish the autonomy provided it by the existing 
> bylaws.  
	The TSA claims that Tacoma is in violation of the 1941 bylaws.

> Personally, I elected to not pass on the drivel that TSA dishes out 
> in the guise of theosophy.  
	What drivel DO you believe in?

	Bart