Theos-Talk Archives (October 2001 Message tt00144)

Frank,

I'm not sure why you felt that was a useful passage to qoute from at this
time. If you had qouted the complete passage you would have found HPB is
referring to the Eifel Tower, not the New York Statue of Liberty.

"Just back from under the far-reaching shadow of the eigth wonder of the
World - the gigantic iron carrot that goes by the name of the Eifel Tower.
Child of its country, wondrous in its size, useless in its object, as shaky
and vacillating as the Republican soil upon which it is built, it has not
one single moral feature of its seven ancestors, not one trait of atavism to
boast of. The architectural Leviathan of 1889 is not even - in the question
of usefulness - on a par with the New York Statue of Liberty, that would-be
rival of the ancient Pharos. It is simply one of the latest fungi of the
modern commercial enterprise, grown on the soil of cunning speculation, in
order to attract numberless flies - in the shape of tourists from the four
points of the world - which it very conscientiously does..." (CW XI 355)

[Footnote: This essay... was written by HPB soon after her return from a
trip to France and the Island of Jersey where she stayed from four to five
weeks. Compiler of Collected Writings]

...Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Reitemeyer [mailto:ringding@blinx.de]
> Sent: 09 October 2001 20:56
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> Subject: Re: Theos-World - US Karma
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> "... the New York Statue of Liberty, that would-be rival of the
> ancient Pharos. It is simply one of the latest fungi of modern
> commercial enterprise, grown on the soil of cunning speculation,
> in order to attract numberless flies..."
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> - Blavatsky Collected Writings XI:355
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