Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00174)

This seems a special karmic space for those involved.  Anyone that wants my
opinion on the matter please write me privately.  Any dying needed to
preserve the good name and work of Alice Bailey and D.K. please contact me.

Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
To: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
Date: Friday, May 19, 2000 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: Several Comments on Alice Bailey


>Drpsionic@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the issue is not the words themselves but whether or not the
>> followers of Alice Bailey still ascribe to them.
>>
>> Alice Bailey was a person of her time and her comments reflected a dark
>> undercurrent of the esotericism of that time, repugnant as they may be to
us
>> and this is true of all writers, including HPB.
>
>    Though HPB tended to vacilate on the issue.
>
>    The only reason why I brought up the issue was because those who
disliked
>Bailey were being compared to Nazi's; I was prepared to, figuratively
speaking,
>keep my mouth shut.
>
>    Actually, I have a secondary problem with Bailey, which is her
"esoteric
>astrology" is based, at least partially, on the concept that matter and
energy
>are NOT the same thing, that Newton was right and that Einstein was wrong
(yes,
>I know, they were both wrong; Newton was just wronger).
>
>    Bart Lidofsky
>
>
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