Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00140)

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From: ernesto <ernesto@bmu.com.pe>
To: <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:51 AM
Subject: Theos-World Aleister Crowley and Theosophy.


>
> Dear friends:
>
> Do any of you know if in this list has been previously discussed Aleister
> Crowley's teachings in relation with Theosophy?  Do any of you know what
he
> opined about HPB's teachers? Or the Mahatmas' opinion about himm, if any?

I would hope that their opinion is negative. In Magic Without Tears, he
gives about 3 pages to HPB, Besant and Krishnamurti, all unpleasant, and
distorted. -at about page 88-90. It is not worth persuing.

With his writing, you never know whether he knows what he is writing about,
or just writes from ignorance, or malitiousness. [I wish this browser had a
spell checker-].

With some of his books, and the Equinoxes, he had trouble with indexes.
There aren't many. The index in Magic Without Tears has no entry for
THEOSOPHY, but it does refer to Besant, and Blavatsky.

I DO recall that Israel Regardie had a definite negative opinion of Alice
Bailey.

Crowley was more negative toward Besant than toward HPB as I read it,
although I didn't study those pages just now, to see exactly what his
definitions of White Adepts, Yellow Adepts, and all the rest were about.
Perhaps it was about race. He specifically mentioned the "race" of
Krishnamurti, although I think that that was wrong, or mistaken. But then,
the British when in India referred to the natives with the "N" word, so
perhaps he was basing his opinion on the common British practice at the time
of referring to all conquered peoples negatively.

The Masters in their letters to Sinnett, referred to that word as applied to
them by the British, - and THEY are not amused.




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