Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00367)

Darren,

My latest news about the Sphinx is pretty old-- what was
announced at the 1997 Egypt/Atlantis conference in Virginia
Beach, which was that a Florida State U. affiliated sonar project
had found what they believed to be a 40' by 20' (I think) cavity
near the Sphinx.  Digging there is out of the question, so I
think you misspoke in calling it that.  Last year, they had
applied for permission to send a probe down a shaft into this
space.  ARE seems to like to unveil news at these conferences,
and the 1998 one was just held.  But there is no news in the
current Venture Inward about it, which makes me suspect nothing
has gone forward.  This doesn't surprise me, as non-fulfillment
of the Hall of Records discovery prediction is what I expect and
said so in the book.  WHICH IS SHIPPED TOMORROW!!  (From printer
to distributor.)

Dan,

Don't want to get into a back and forth about the Mahatma
letters.  The question "Who wrote them?" can be taken at several
levels:
1) Whose physical handwriting are they in?
Haven't a clue, although to my amateur eye the KH letters look
like HPB's writing and the M letters like Damodar's.  I've seen
them in London.  However, expert opinion is so divided on this
that I have no fixed view.
2) Where do the ideas come from?
A large cast of characters, perhaps including Thakar Singh and
Ranbir Singh, who might have advised especially at the beginning.
But there is such a mixture of Asian and European
ideas that they cannot plausibly have come from such a limited
number of sources.
3) Who composed them?
HPB, mostly, with some help from others like Damodar.
Here I find the Hare brothers' arguments about use of language
persuasive.

I don't wish to argue these points but you asked my opinion.

PJ