A 2011 Open Letter
to the President to the Adyar Society
Carlos Cardoso
Aveline
Ms. Radha Burnier (1923-2013)
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Editorial Note:
The following
correspondence is part of a
chain of open
letters to the president of the
Adyar Theosophical
Society, Radha Burnier.
Starting in 2006, the annual messages proceeded
for various years. After Mrs. Burnier died in 2013,
the precariousness of international leadership in the
Adyar Society showed it was the time to stop the action.
A considerable
amount of awareness about the issue
of Justice to
William Judge had been attained already.
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Mrs. Radha Burnier
International President,
The Theosophical
Society,
India
India
Brasília, April 13th, 2011.
Dear Ms. Radha Burnier,
Greetings from
Brazil.
The present letter deals
with the subject of serendipity or the emerging of good karma.
Each day is a new
day. Every aspect of life is always new,
provided that we remain free from naïve attachment to past events.
The following
paragraphs aim therefore at submitting to you an entirely new idea: that you
might take action to help correct the existing injustice towards William Q.
Judge.
This is only the
sixth time in five years that students from various countries and theosophical
associations write to you about the topic. In historical time, half a decade is
but an instant. It might be compared to the fraction of a second. Yet, even in
such a short time a limited but solid progress was made in the direction of a “pan-theosophical
dialogue”, a respectful and frank exchange of views among people belonging
to different theosophical associations, or to none of them, on issues dealing
with the past and future of the movement.
The chain of
letters to India has started to become more than a yearly celebration of
William Judge’s life and work.
Writing to the president
of the Adyar Society is a way to reflect upon and strengthen the unity of the
theosophical movement as a whole.
Just as the
politically motivated persecution against Judge in 1894-1895 provoked the first
formal split in the theosophical movement, a calm and philosophical examination
of that mistake will provide a key to understanding the Dynamic Unity of the
movement, in the present as in the future.
Once karma is ready,
change can occur in many different forms according to circumstances. Karmic adjustments
cannot be avoided. If one form of
renewal is blocked, another one emerges. You are an honest person, and everyone
owes you respect. You are also human. Except
for a short letter to me by the middle of 2004, you have avoided any clear
statement in defense of H. P. Blavatsky, although you know the main founder of
the movement has been surreptitiously and gravely slandered by dr. John Algeo
and the USA-TPH since December 2003.
In 2006 and 2007, you
wrote a few kind letters answering with a “No” to requests from various
countries asking you to reopen and reconsider the so-called “Besant’s Case Against
Judge”.
Perhaps it was not
a coincidence that, soon after such an omission in defending the truth about
two of the three founders, you had to face an electoral coup d’etat organized by your very same vice-president, Dr.
John Algeo of the TPH-USA.
The main tactics of
Dr. Algeo’s followers, in their failed attempt to “win” the international
election in 2008, was spreading false statements about your physical health. The
method was rather similar to the one previously used against HPB.
The 2007-2010
crisis should therefore not be seen as an isolated event, or as something
unrelated to the karma of the movement.
It does more than revealing the level of ethics of some of your
colleagues at that time.
It might be seen as
a wake up call to everyone. It could be a sign among others that the whole movement,
not only Adyar, needs an ethical renewal, and that ethics towards our Founders,
including H.P. Blavatsky and William Judge, is present at the very foundation
of the brotherhood and truthfulness we need in this century; a century whose number, H.P.B. warned, equals three times seven.
It will be no
secret to you that the theosophical movement must have an aura, and that the
living center of that aura is made by the skandhas given to the movement by its
main founders. You and many others among
us all are aware of the fact that the movement has several levels of action and
being. It is indeed septenary. Its lasting and occult structure was built
through the self-sacrifice and efforts of the Founders, while they were working
in close cooperation with Masters of the Wisdom. Masters themselves also contributed to the building
of such a Central Aura during the formative years of the movement.
It is possible that
no attempt to deny that central magnetic field - whether “masonic” or “liberal
catholic” - will be able to last forever. Every unbiased student can see the nature of
the ritualistic “aura” created by Annie Besant after she decided to ignore the 1900 Letter from a Master. I
refer to the full text of the 1900 letter, addressed to Mrs. Besant, and
only published during the second half of the 1980s.
The ritualistic -
if not popish - magnetic field created after 1900 is but a secondary structure existing
around the central aura, and unfortunately feeding on it. It is therefore
a happy circumstance that it cannot and will not outlive its own cycle.
At the end of
probationary periods, the Law of Justice opens room to serendipity.
The 2007-2010 power
crisis is another indication of the closing of a mayavic cycle; but it is not
the first one. It came less than one decade after the crisis which caused the formal
split in the “theosophical masonry”.
Pseudo-theosophical
ritualism was fabricated at the beginning of the 20th century by Mrs. Besant
and a false clairvoyant. Beneath the
surface of appearances often absurd, in layers deeper than the ill-informed pursuit
of personal ambition, there may be a magnetic link between the center of the
aura of the movement and the conscience Duty of sincere theosophists.
The karma and
magnetism of the movement have their own tectonic layers, and these can
rearrange the surface of their crust as cycles of falsehood end, and cycles of
rebirth begin.
You are the seventh
president of the Adyar Society, and everyone knows what H.P.B. wrote about
number seven in life and in the theosophical movement, in two different
articles. In theory, it is not impossible for you to help clear the way back to
those long-standing, deeper foundations of the movement which were abandoned in
the 1890s by your Society during the persecution against William Judge.
Of course, a narrow-minded
perspective would say that writing letters to you on the topic of Respect
for Our Founders is an effort made “against the Adyar Society”.
Such an illusion
could only emerge from a blind and bureaucratic feeling of attachment to corporate
organizations.
In fact, the idea
of Justice to Judge and the effort around it constitute a gift to
your Society. The action is based upon the fact that your Society is a living
process, apt to respond, sooner or later, to new realities and cycles. As we
all know, Justice may take time, but it doesn’t fail.
Truth can often be
seen and transmitted through small events. The humble chain of letters about Justice
to Judge is a friendly initiative. It is but putting at your disposal some of
the lost elements of information which are necessary for your Society to reconcile
itself with its own deeper Dharma. Such
a “dharmic” Duty is shared by Adyar with those sectors of the theosophical
movement which already know that William Judge was one of its main founders, and
are aware of the fact that his books and articles have a unique value for
truth-seekers in the 21st century.
It would be an
illusion to think or to say that the Adyar Society is unimportant.
It will be good for
the theosophical movement to have a more quickly awakening Adyar Society. You
and every theosophist can take practical steps in that direction. The movement
is but one. It is undivided at the occult plane, and you can take the
initiative to accelerate its liberation from some of its worst 20th century
delusions, thus clearly opening the door for a much better future.
In any case, you
have, and you deserve, the sincere respect and admiration of all.
Best regards,
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
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In September 2016, after
a careful analysis of the state of the esoteric movement worldwide, group of students
decided to form the Independent Lodge of
Theosophists, whose priorities include the building of a better future in
the different dimensions of life.
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