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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 11:20:10 -0400
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Dear Anthony,

As I mentioned earlier, anything can be argued for or against. Doing
either, though, is not a definitive sign of intelligence. More often than
not, it's a sign of rigid positionality. Regardless, we are all here to
learn lessons, and learn them, we will.

In the follow-up correspondence from A. P. Noto, a mention is made of the
great interest that existed for mysticism in the late 1800's & early
1900's. It is to this that I would like to address my attention, especially
in light of the present claims being made by Benjamin Creme and his
followers that Mr. Creme is Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher, as well as
Christ returned.

The Theosophical Society was founded in America in 1875, by Colonel Henry
Steel Olcott and Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The Society had three
objectives : 1. To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity
without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color; 2. To encourage
the study of Comparitive Religion, Philosophy and Science; 3. To
investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man. In
1882, their headquarters were moved to India where Theosophy rapidly spread
throughout the world.

Madame Blavatsky, due in part to her strong esoteric background, formed a
tight inner circle - a Society within the Society. The inner teaching of
the chosen group was a belief in evolution through a series of lives
leading to ultimate perfection. At that point, the ego, the soul, is
released from the Wheel of Karma and any necessity to incarnate into this
world again. Part of this belief was that at a certain stage in evolution,
the ego is ready to enter on the Path of Discipleship which leads to
Adepthood and membership in the Great White Brotherhood - those perfect
beings who govern and direct the world. A few of those Adepts (Masters)
chose to remain in human form to aid in the evolution of those entering on
the Path.

The two Masters claimed to have taken the Theosophical Society under their
protection were Master Morya and Master Kuthumi. Above the Masters level
came a hierarchy of glorious beings, including Lord Maiterya, the World
Teacher - known in the West as the Christ and, in the East, as the
Bodhisattva. Lord Maitreya is said to have had two incarnations on Earth.
In fourth century B.C., as Sri Krishna, and later as Jesus of Nazareth.

As early as 1889, Madame Blavatsky proclaimed the true purpose of the
Society - to prepare humanity for the reception of the World Teacher. Five
years after Blavatsky's death in 1896, Annie Besant, who assumed her
position in the Society, became even more vocal toward this end. Together
with Charles Webster Leadbeater, C. W. L. as he was called, they went about
preparing all for the arrival of Lord Maitreya.

Leadbeater, at age 62, was well known for his clairvoyant ability. One
evening, while on the beach, he came across a young boy standing by the
waters edge. Viewing his aura, he was amazed at its purity and complete
lack of any particle of selfishness. It was then that Leadbeater decided
that this was the vehicle that Lord Maitreya would enter the world by. This
entry process is known better today as a 'Walk-In'; a soul who voluntarily
gives up possession of his or her body for another soul to enter and reside
in. The accepted and chosen boy - Krishnamurti.

The background and story of Krishnamurti is a facinating study. For a
detailed account, read Mary Lutyens books, "Krishnamurti - The Years of
Awakening" and the follow-up, "Krishnamurti - The Years of Fulfilment".

Between 1875 and 1929, it's really hard to convery how truly popular the
Theosophical Society and Theosophy was worldwide, or even how well
Krishnamurti was received and accepted by that worldwide community as Lord
Maitreya, the World Teacher. A small example would be his first speech in
America at the Hollywood Bowl on May 15, 1928 before 16,000 people. The
Society even had a huge priviledged membership especially for Krishnamurti
called, "The Order of the Star"

On August 2, 1929, in Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti stood before three
thousand members of the Order of the Star, with many thousands of Dutch
people listening in on radio and gave the following address :

"We are going to discuss this morning the dissolution of the Order of the
Star. Many will be delighted, and others will be rather sad. It is a
question neither for rejoicing nor for sadness, because it is inevitable,
as I am going to explain...

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any
path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view,
and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth being limitless,
unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized;
nor should any organization be formed to lead or coerce people along any
particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how
impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual
matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes
dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed
on others.

This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is
narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who
are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the
individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the
mountaintop to the valley...

So that is the first reason, from my point of view why the Order of the
Star should be dissolved. In spite of this, you will probably form other
Orders, you will continue to belong to other organizations searching for
the Truth. I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind;
please understand this...

If an organization be created for this purpose, it becomes a crutch, a
weakness, a bondage, and must cripple the individual, and prevent him from
growing, from establishing his uniqueness, which lies in the discovery for
himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth. So that is another reason
why I have decided, as I happen to be the Head of the Order, to dissolve
it.

This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean
this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not
concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a
certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering
concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set
man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to
found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new
philosophies. Then you will naturally ask me why I go the world over,
continually speaking. I will tell you for what reason I do this; not
because I desire a following, nor because I desire a special group of
special disciples. (How men love to be different from their fellow-men,
however ridiculous, absurd and trivial their distinctions may be! I do not
want to encourage that absurdity) I have do disciples, no apostles, either
on earth or in the rhelm of spirituality.

Nor is the lure of money, nor the desire to live a comfortable life, which
attracts me. If I wanted to lead a comfortable life I would not come to a
Camp or live in a damp country! I am speaking frankly because I want this
settled once and for all. I do not want these childish discussions year
after year.

A newspaper reporter, who interviewed me, considered it a magnificent act
to dissolve an organization in which there were thousands and thousands of
members. To him it was a great act because he said : 'What will you do
afterwards, how will you live? You will have no following, people will no
longer listen to you.' If there are only five people who will listen, who
will live, who will have their faces turned towards eternity, it will be
sufficient. Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who
are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather
translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant lives?....

Because I am free, unconditioned, whole, not the part, not the relative,
but the whole Truth that is eternal, I desire those, who seek to understand
me, to be free, not to follow me, not to make out of me a cage which will
become a religion, a sect. Rather should they be free from all fears --
from the fear of religion, from the fear of salvation, from the fear of
spirituality, from the fear of love, from the fear of death, from the fear
of life itself. As an artist paints a picture because he takes delight in
that painting, because it is his self-expression, his glory, his
well-being, so I do this and not because I want anything from anyone. You
are accustomed to authority or to the atmosphere of authority which you
think will lead you to spirituality. You think and hope that another can by
his extraordinary powers- a miracle - transport you to this rhelm of
eternal freedom which is Happiness. Your whole outlook on life is based on
that authority.

You have listened to me for three years now without any change taking place
except in the few. Now analyze what I am saying, be critical, so that you
may understand thoroughly, fundamentally...

Fo eighteen years you have been preparing for this event, for the Coming of
the World Teacher. For eighteen years you have organized, you have looked
for someone who would give you a new delight to your hearts and minds, who
would transform your whole life, who would give you a new understanding;
for someone who would raise you to a new plane of life, who would give you
new encouragement, who would set you free-- and now look at what is
happening! Consider, reason with yourselves, and discover in what way that
belief has made you different-- not with the superficial difference of the
wearing of a badge, which is trivial, absurd. In what manner has such a
belief swept away all unessential things of life? That is the only way to
judge : in what way are you freer, greater, more dangerous to every society
which is based on the false and unessential? In what way have the members
of this organization of the Star become different?...

You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your
happiness on someone else for your enlightenment on someone else... when I
say look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the
purification, and for the incorruptibility of the self, not one of you is
willing to do it. There may be a few, but very, very few. So why have an
organization?...

No man from outside can make you free; nor can organized worship, nor the
immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming
yourselves into an organization, nor throwing yourselves into work, make
you free. You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on
an altar and worship it. But that is what you are doing when organizations
become your chief concern. 'How many members are there in it?' That is the
first question I am asked by all newspaper reporters. 'How many followers
have you? By their number we shall judge whether what you say is true or
false.' I do not know how many there are. I am not concerned with that. If
there were even one man who had been set free, that were enough...

Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the
Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold
that key. That key is your own self and in the development and the
purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom
of Eternity...

You have been accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is
your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you
are incorruptible?....

But those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that
which is eternal, without a beginning and without an end, will walk
together with greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is
unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they
will become the flame, because they understand. Such a body we must create,
and that is my purpose. Because of that true friendship- which you do not
seem to know - there will be real cooperation on the part of each one. And
this is not because of authority, not because of salvation, but because you
really understand, and hence are capable of living in the eternal. This is
a greater thing than all pleasure, than all sacrifice.

So those are some of the reasons why after careful consideration for two
years, I have made this decision. It is not from a momentary impulse. I
have not been persuaded to it by anyone- I am not persuaded in such things.
For two years I have been thinking about this, slowly, carefully,
patiently, and I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be
its Head. You can form other organizations and expect someone else. With
that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for
those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally
free."