Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00164)

Quoted from: The O.E. Library Critic
(Oct. 1937): -

"BRYAN'S BULL'S-EYE SHOTS AT THE BALLARDS"
Besides being a transparent fraud, the teachings of the Ballards are
calculated to make their victims' brains ooze out at their toes. You have
but to attend a meeting or two to see signs of incipent madness. Dr Gerald
B. Bryan has shown them up in five excellent brochures ...

Jan 1937

BRYAN BURSTS THE BALLARD BUBBLE

...Dr Bryan has rendered a great service to the cause of truth and sanity
by exposing what is perhaps the most "catching" superstition of the present
day. He shows that the Ballard writings and teachings are mostly pure
fiction filled with glaring contradictions and distorted presentations of a
few truths, filched from standard sources and diluted with the most
ridiculous occult rubbish ever put before a credulous public, and
spiritually and mentally destructive ...

Dear Mark, I hope you are not a devoted follower and therefore offended by
this - my apologies if you are.
I have a good deal more, but this is enough?
>
> >
you wrote:
>
> Maybe the Masters felt that they overshot their expectation of peoples
> ability to
> understand the deeper stuff and wanted to try speaking to humanity on a
> simpler level?

Perhaps.
But I do not feel that they work that way. They wish to talk us up, and
give us a challenge.

> After all, it was broad effective change they were after, not the
> creation of a relatively
> small group of occult PhDs

The Masters do not teach knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

. Jesus did the same thing when he taught
> parables to the multitudes.

Yes, with a great depth behind them.

I agree that the I AM movement is simpler
> and generally more devotional, like a group for bhakti yogis, but I
> don't see that as a particularly bad thing, do you?.

There are some positives. But do the Masters really want just that kind of
adulation? Doesn't it get in the way of their real work? That is why their
real names are secret. And they do not make themselves public.
Their charisma is overwhelmingly potent and therefore harmful to a free
development of the pupil.


> "Scuze me, true masters? Have you heard of maybe, ... Krishna, Moses,
> Jesus, Buddha?

Jesus and Buddha (and can we say Krishna) did not write a word, and did not
found a religion - their followers did. Moses recorded his own death, and
what religion did he found?


regards,
Bruce.