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Theosophy in India July - August 1912

1912

At the risk of being misunderstood and of incurring the odium theologicum I venture to repeat that the accentuating of any person-cult the exaggerated adulation of any particular living or dead person aggressive assertions of one's beliefs as to the supereminance of any person the giving of prominence to distinctive and separative badges and bands and shibboleths and the formation of secret s [...] Thus in India e. g. while the work for the C. H. College has undoubtedly built up the beneficial influence of our honored P. T. S. and the reputation of the T. S. the T. S's conection with the propaganda of the new religion of the O. S. E. is equally certainly arousing wide-spread doubts and suspicions in the mind of the outside public as well as unrest within the T. S. itself. [...] To trace out and realise the laws and facts of the Common Consciousness in all the branches of knowledge systematically to search out and bring into prominence the truths common to all religions and all philosophies and all sciences and all arts and thereby promote the intellectual harmony of the world—this is the scope of the second object. [...] The endeavor in all these papers would be to state briefly the present conditions with their advantages and defects and to make suggestions ' in the light of Theosophy ' as to how the conditions could be bettered by the due cultivation of the ' ideals' and the gradual diminution of the materialist and sensuous tendencies and lack of character—which are mostly responsible for the evil in each ca [...] In the March-April number of Theosophy in India Babu Bhagavan Das the talented General Secretary of the Indian Section under the heading of " The T. S. and the Order of the Star in the East " has written at snipe length about certain differences and has specially alluded to certain expressions written in a letter by the President from Adyar in November 011 and published in the Vahan for January
philosophy religion
Pages
62
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120106
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Theosophy in India
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