Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tl00038)

Dear Doss, Thoa and Members of TS,

M K Ramadoss wrote:

>                "And it is we, the humble disciples of these perfect
>Lamas, who are
>expected to allow the Theosophical Society to drop its noblest title, that
>of the Brotherhood of Humanity, to become a simple school of philosophy!
>No, no, good brothers, you have been labouring under the mistake too long
>already. Let us understand each other. He who does not feel competent to
>grasp the noble idea sufficiently to work for it, need not undertake a task
>too heavy for him. But there is hardly a Theosophist in the whole Society
>unable to effectually help it by correcting erroneous impressions of
>outsiders, by himself actually propagating this idea. Oh! for noble and
>unselfish men to help us effectually in that divine task! All our
>knowledge, past and present, would not be sufficient to repay him."
>
(II(J
>        When one considers all of the above it is very clear that wrong
>messages
>are being sent about the mission of TS. They tend to attract selfish
>persons seeking personal development and personal goals or scholarship with
>no interest in the "Orphan Humanity" or Universal Brotherhood. I do not
>know how much harm it has already done to TS in the United States. If this
>continues, more and more wrongly motivated selfish individuals would be
>joining the TS and it is only a question of time for TSA to be wrecked by
>its selfish membership who have no interest in Universal Brotherhood.
>
>        I think the situation is a very serious one and needs swift and
>decisive
>action.

This is Eiichi Tosaki. I am the one of them who are using this TS to
gather authentic knowledge about Theosophy for my 'personal goals' and
'scholarship'. I am writing PhD dissertation concerning a Dutch artist
Piet Mondrian, who was a theosophist and whose art was deeply influenced
by being a lifetime theosophist.

So far the exchanges of ideas with Thoa & Mark and others on TS have
been very fruitful to me: because of this I added one more chapter
"Theory of rhythm in Mondrian and Hinduism" to my dissertation. Hitherto
as far as I know, no other art historians have excavated this topic
fully (some of them actually have wrote about the relationship between
Mondrian and Theosophy, but not so deep).

I myself had found the first clue the relationship between Mondrian and
Hinduism through the text of Bailey and I put the question on this TS,
and Thoa and Mark kindly deepened and ascertained the linking. This
linking will be a discovery in the context of art history. I (and Thoa)
will be a first discoverer. But honestly I do not care.

The fact that I am writing a dissertation in art history to get a degree
and hopefully to get a job concerning this area, does not kill my desire
to disseminate and share my ideas with public. I had not gotten a time
enough to deepen my idea about art until starting the PhD candidature in
Australia. I quit my comparatively lucrative job in Japan for getting
this opportunity. I find this is a noble thing. Definitely thinking of
art through theosophy has enriched my understanding of art and
philosophy. I appreciate theosophists and members of this TS for this.

To me writing about Mondrian especially in the context of theosophy and
the philosophy in this concern occurs in the aura of esoteric atmosphere
of Hinduism or Yoga and Theosophy (actually I first got the idea of
writing about 'Mondrian and Rhythm' while I was meditating on the rock
in the mountainous place called Madovan (maybe wrong spelling) in India,
which I visited to attend the Spiritual University of Raga Yoga sect. It
was a kind of a sacred inspiration to me). I hope in the future I'd like
to publish my dissertation and art historians will start to think about
the linkage between Western Modern Art and Hinduism (and Theosophy) more
seriously. This trend nobody can stop since the more deeply you meditate
about the spirituality in art, the more inevitably you encounter the
Hindu or esoteric doctrine. Who is the first discoverer of this does not
matter.

Arguments between Thoa and I are now hitting the bedrock of Hegelian
logicalism, which sounds too much scholastic and dry. However, this, I
believer, is not the hardest part. Hardest part will come later:
Mondrian (or Western abstract artists in this century) and Hinduism.
When we start to hit another bedrock of this, we may seek for the help
from the other knowledgeable TS members.

I wonder whether we should retreat our arguments from this TS until we
get into more theosophical topics. Actually we retreated couple months
ago but later we realized some of your member kept following our
arguments and put them back on this TS. I am pretty happy to retreat our
arguments for a while. How do you think, Thoa and other member of TS?

I hope I am not disturbing the dissemination of your noble idea of
"Universal Brotherhood."

Sorry for my messy English (English is my second language).

Sincerely,

Eiichi