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Reactie op More photographs of the 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society (Adyar) door katinka

katinka — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:49:28 +0000

Sure, nice, but not really suitable for a site like this.

Reactie op More photographs of the 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society (Adyar) door Konstantin Zaitzev

Konstantin Zaitzev — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:01:32 +0000

It would be nice to place larger size photos for those shots which contain large numbers of people as the first one, and for those where the main persons are on the background (like “Radha Burnier enjoying a conversation with Dara Tatray”).

Reactie op Dara Tatray at the Theosophical World Congress door The 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society, Rome, 2010 | Theosophical Society Adyar

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:18:11 +0000

[...] ‘The Scientific Basis of Universal Brotherhood’ [...]

Reactie op Marja Artamaa’s workshop at the Theosophical World Congress door The 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society, Rome, 2010 | Theosophical Society Adyar

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:16:51 +0000

[...] 2. ‘Challenges in Brotherhood’ [...]

Reactie op Marja Artamaa’s workshop at the Theosophical World Congress door More photographs of the 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society (Adyar) | Theosophical Society Adyar

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:02:27 +0000

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Reactie op Marja Artamaa’s workshop at the Theosophical World Congress door The Theosophical World Congress evaluated | Theosophical Society Adyar

The Theosophical World Congress evaluated | Theosophical Society Adyar — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:10:52 +0000

[...] The workshops were not about how to improve our work in the TS, and most were mini-lectures instead of workshops. Don’t get me wrong though: it takes real skill to do a workshop for a hundred people like Betty Blend had to do. The only theosophist I know who has training to take on that kind of large group and make it interactive and ‘work’ for everybody is Marja Artamaa – on whose workshop I will be reporting later (see Marja Artamaa’s workshop). [...]

Reactie op The Theosophical World Congress evaluated door Maureen

Maureen — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:21:19 +0000

Brilliant evaluation. Couldn’t add or detract a word of it even if I wanted to.
Agree wholeheartedly with your comments about Vic Hao Chin…..what is done in the Philippines Section is truly impressive, not just ‘words’ either….I have been there and seen for myself. Every country could learn a great deal from Vic’s example.

Reactie op W.Q. Judge and Annie Besant – an uncomfortable heritage door Katinka Hesselink

Katinka Hesselink — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:54:48 +0000

Hi,

This is precisely NOT how the Theosophical Society Adyar views this situation. As individuals we may believe that the Mahatmas and Blavatsky’s teachings are the basis for (our) theosophy, but the organization puts freedom of thought above that. So if people believe that Leadbeater’s teachings are valuable, they are as free to study them as they are to study Buddhism or Krishnamurti. Whether or not scholars feel there is a discontinuity in the teachings between Leadbeater and Blavatsky on issues like the afterlife, or not.

The TS Adyar never had an official list of teachings. In fact: Blavatsky warned against that. So even her teachings are not ‘gospel’ to the TS Adyar.

Reactie op W.Q. Judge and Annie Besant – an uncomfortable heritage door Leslie Royce Pochos

Leslie Royce Pochos — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:24:57 +0000

The point seems simple, really: if Theosophy was given out by the Masters through H.P.B., then any ideas labelled as Theosophy have to agree with those ideas, not disagree with them. The argument can be made that Masters did not correct H.P.B. when she was wrong and that They allowed her to mislead the world. But who wants to follow the teachings of any such Masters?

Thus what was in her original works is the statement of Theosophy; what agrees with that, no matter who wrote it, is also Theosophy. The problem lies with ideas that are in opposition to the original teachings that are labelled and accepted as Theosophy.

It does not matter what group we belong to as much as it matters what Theosophy we study.

Reactie op W.Q. Judge and Annie Besant – an uncomfortable heritage door Janet Kerschner

Janet Kerschner — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:04:12 +0000

Bravo! You have hit every nail squarely on the head. Let’s accept that Judge and Besant were both very fine theosophists and human beings, but neither was perfect and blameless. We can never know exactly what went on in their time, and it does not matter since we do not know the bigger karmic picture anyway. Being judgmental is damaging. In the TS Adyar I am free to read writings from both of them, and am richer for it. I especially like their speeches at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, when they were still working together for Theosophy. The main hall in the headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, in Wheaton Illinois, has portraits of Judge and Olcott with HPB between. HPB’s portrait is very slightly elevated, but all are the same size!