Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00221)

One of the ways in which a group of people can be side-tracked or
led into a futile Maelstrom of opinions, is to suggest that there
is something fishy about the persons responsible for providing
that information that leads to the secrets embedded in Nature.
Theosophy is one of the ways in which such a gateway is opened.
It is both a matter of sentiment, and of knowledge.  Each
reinforces the other when used with precision.

The problem of who and what HPB was as a person has largely been
resolved through the Sylvia Cranston biography "HPB" published by
Tarcher, New York in 1993.  It is based on documents that we can
all access and verify for ourselves.  It sets right the various
opinions that were circulated by earlier biographical writers who
based themselves on partial or inaccurate information.

A few months ago the Theosophical University Press in Pasadena
issued Dr.  Vernon Harison's monograph on the Masters' letters
that had been at issue in the "Hodgson's Report" published in
1884 by the S.P.R.

In one of the illustrations given there, it is shown by an
enlargment that a precipitated letter consisted, in its phrases,
of a series of small blue colored lines, which were NOT
CONTINUOUS, but broken and interspaced with white lines of equal
width such as might be obtained by applying the difraction
interferometry of light.  It is a technology which has only
lately appeared and no apparatus for its application was
available in 1880-1884.  The process, even today would be
difficult to apply.  It shows that the Masters and their servants
knew of advanced methods (which form a part of the secrets of
nature) which were unknown to the technology of the West in their
days.

But these are not the real proofs.  The real proofs lie in that
which was written.  In the philosophy, the ethics, the compassion
and eclecticism that is apparent in virtually every pharse used
and every intention offered in the philosophy of Theosophy.

What does it matter who are the names, places or people who, in
retorospect are suspected of being either the Masters or their
servants?

It is quite natural that those of us who feel a reverence for
such Entities such Ideals, as the Masters represent to us,
respond and protest their debasement.  But of what use is the
pursuit of such a course ? We cannot change the opinion of anyone
else, but, only present what we consider to be useful and valid.

it is distracting from our real work which, in my esteem, is the
continued verification of the accuracy of the philosophy that we
have received and can use.  that is where our energy is most
needed.  Let us be consdtructive and work for the future.