Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00650)

Dear Carlos,

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" <carlosaveline@...> 
wrote:

> if you have to be false, in order to get a wider public, then you
> should forget about the wider public and keep to a smaller group
> of persons, with truthfulness.

> Especially if your motto is "There is no Religion higher than 
Truth."

> Out of respect for the "consumer", so to say, our
> "product" has to be "worthwhile" and has to have "good quality"

It would be good and acceptible if we knew for sure where is the 
truth. But we do not.
If certain books make people more kind or open-minded, we should 
promote them, I think, as we probably have no other criteria of truth 
than the practical one, i.e. in which extent the teaching can decrease 
our suffering. So on our site we keep not strictly theosophical but 
also buddhist and rosicrucian books, as they can also help.
I don't see that those who read Leadbeater rush into ritualism; on the 
contrary, they try to control their character and their fear of death 
decreases.
When using cat metaphor (it is chinese, I think) I didn't take it 
literally, as Christians would do, in a sence of catching the souls. 
This metaphor originally means "anything goes", any means which helps 
should be used.
And I don't regard myself dishonest when I use certain books, because 
I really don't know which is true and which is false, so I can't be 
accused in lie.
Some people BELIEVE that certain doctrine is truth, but as a rule they 
don't differ much from followers of the dogmatic religions.
It's the very fact that the Theosophical society promotes the books of 
different doctrines differs it from many new-age sects existing now.