Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00049)

Tony,
thank you for keeping me (us) informed. The case of censorship in some
"theosophical" (!??) lists (what a parody) is very important.
Also the case with HPBs  "thin oblong squares" and the distortion of this
Masonic term in the ULT-version of her "Voice of the Silence" is of high
importance to all Blavatsky students.
Is what you wrote a play on the censorship habit of Reed Carson in his
"moderated" lists?
Were your emails banned from his list, too?
Frank

> Does this ring any bells anywhere, and what are we to make of it?
>
> The following appeared in the editorial of a magazine on antiquarian
books,
> about a subscribers list for librarians, book collector's etc:
>
> The list: "is largely made up of librarians, book dealers and book
> collectors, from around the world some 1,600 in number. The quiet types
you
> would believe. This list which usually posts only a few messages each day
> suddenly produced over fifty e-mails in one day.  What had happened?  The
> list-server based in America, the 'land of the free' had sent out an
e-mail
> from the moderator informing the subscribers that certain types of e-mails
> were now banned.  Apparently, at least one subscriber had been moved from
> the list.  For several days the e-mails raged, the contents ranged from
> sensible questions to rather rude remarks about the moderator, subscribers
> left the list.  It all reminds me of children squabbling in a playground.
> But as one subscriber pointed out what had happened to 'freedom of
> speech'...." [ANTIQUARIAN BOOK MONTHLY, May 2000 issue)
>
> How is this to be SQUARED (THIN OBLONG SQUARED, that is) with the whole
> spirit of the freedom of the Internet?
>
> As an example, it is interesting to see the different reactions to HPB's
use
> of the term "thin oblong squares":
>
> Both Peter and Daniel have developed the whole concept of THIN OBLONG
> SQUARES using quotes from HPB and other sources.
>
> Others simply say HPB got it wrong, at the same time accusing others of
> bickering, being Jesuits and god knows what else, for suggesting HPB was
> right.
>
> And others MODERATE HPB's "The Voice of the Silence," so that yet others
> never get the opportunity of knowing that HPB ever wrote THIN OBLONG
> SQUARES.
>
> Tony



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