Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00233)

W. Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
> I read your recent positing, and I read with chagrin that you see
> fit to reproduce (without and proof or additional supporting
> facts, the old calumny that HPB is supposed (by some writers and
> detractors) to have practiced fraud.  What escapes my
> comprehension is why should she have done this ?  Further, who
> are they to determine that they have doubts and suspicions of
> here.  What are they based on?  Do you have them to share with me
> ?

	She did commit fraud. She stated that the Mahatmas produced phenomena
that she, herself produced. Moria got so angry about it, he broke his
pipe. At least according to Koot Hoomi.

> I would say from having read and researched most of the early
> literature (books, articles, magazines, letters, etc...) of the
> Theos. Movement of this era, that HPB had no reason to do
> anything that was not honest and straightforward.

	She wanted to demonstrate that there was more to the world than one's
senses could detect. Faked Sidhi's can demonstrate that almost as well
as the real thing.

	As far as the rest of your statement goes, you are going way beyond my
statement. I stated that almost certainly (leaving room for a shadow of
a doubt), HPB faked AT LEAST SOME of her pheonmena. The phrase "at least
some" can and should be taken to mean that at least some were not faked.
And I then pointed out that, even if she did so, she did so to prove a
point that could be proven by faked Sidhi's.

	Bart Lidofsky