Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00284)

Friends,


The info brought by dr. Tillett (see below)  can be also found in the ML, Ranson, Sylvia Cranston and all major historians. 

C. Jinarajadasa, for instance, and later Cranston, have published facsimiles of the written vow and commitment taken by the F.T.S. Thomas Alva Edison, the scientist, including as to keeping secrecy about the teachings. 


Carlos. 



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Data:Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:03:08 +1100 (EST)

Assunto:Theos-World Ritual Initiations in the TS

> In its early days the TS worked as a secret society. At a meeting on
> January 12, 1876 a resolution was passed: That in future the Society adopt
> the principle of secrecy in connection with its proceedings and
> transactions, and that a Committee be appointed to draw up and report upon
> details necessary to give effect to such a change.
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> Thereafter, Fellows were admitted through a ritual initiation in which
> they were given passwords, grips and signs which they undertook to keep
> secret and by which they were enabled to recognize other members. But
> there was little practical effort to maintain secrecy, even though
> applicants for membership signed a document in which they pledged ?to ever
> maintain ABSOLUTE SECRECY respecting [the Society?s] proceedings,
> including its investigations and experiments, except in so far as
> publication may be authorized by the society or council?.
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> At the 1885 Convention the rules were revised, and the Objects more or
> less as presently held were adopted. The Initiation ceremony was abandoned
> ?as giving rise to misunderstanding on the part of the public, and the
> form of obligation being repugnant to many.? But the signs and passwords
> were retained.
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> Has anyone seen the texts of the ritual initiations from 1876-1885? Or the
> signs and passwords that were retained (until when?) after 1885?
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> Dr Gregory Tillett
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