Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00243)

Dear Friends:

Is HPB still alive? If not, then Dallas TenBroek is
commenting on a woman who is DEAD! Was HPB still
alive when Sylvia Cranston wrote her "biography"? If
not, then Cranston was commenting on a woman who was
DEAD! She was dead dead dead dead dead. According to
their own standards of comment, Dallas TenBroek and
Sylvia Cranston have no right to comment on a woman
who is dead. Only I have a right to comment on a
woman who is dead. Or, more precisely, to comment on
the STATEMENTS of a woman who is dead and on the
STATEMENTS of her acolyte who is also dead. If they
were truthful, then their statements said what they
said and what thet said happened, happened.

According to internal evidence in their own
statements, there was smoking going on in Philadelphia
and New York. And it wasn't a pack of Lucky Strikes
that they were smoking, either, folks. People who
smoke a pack of Luckies don't see flowers coming out
of the walls and a dozen pencils where there is only
one. No, ladies and gentlemen, I submit that this was
a different brand of smokes than one could get from
just any old cigar store in those days.

Rawson, Woolf, Coleman, Devemey, Godwin, and many,
many orhers merely corroborate the statements of the
two principals to this drama. Not that they need all
this corroboration. I believe HPB and Olcott, whether
corroborated by good and reliable testimony or not.


SS

--- dalval14@earthlink.net wrote:
> Thursday, December 13, 2001
> 
> Dear Friends:
> 
> I note from the dates of the material quoted [
> Hannah Wolfe, and
> Albert Rawson ] that they appear in journals AFTER
> the death of
> Mme. Blavatsky (she died May 8th 1891).
> 
> These reports were published in 2 separate magazines
> -- see
> below -- Jen. and in Feb. 1892). She had no
> opportunity to see
> or to answer them.
> 
> Coleman's reports have been found and shown to be
> defective long
> back, while H P B was still alive.
> 
> D. D. Home. never met Mme. Blavatsky while she was
> alive.
> Theosophy Magazine, July 1931, p. 416, Vol. 19. ]
> Both had
> great enmity for H P B.
> 
> Dallas
> 
> ===================================
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel H Caldwell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:26 PM
> To: theos-talk
> Subject: Part II: Did Blavatsky smoke hashish and
> drink alcohol?
> 
> =====================================
> 
> Part II
> 1
> 
> 
> Let me first quote what Hannah Wolff said about
> Madame Blavatsky allegedly smoking hashish:
> 
> "It was evident from the first that she smoked
> tobacco to great excess, frequently, as she
> told me, using a pound a day. I soon learned also
> that she was addicted to the use of haschish. She
> several times endeavored to persuade me to try
> the effect upon myself. She said she had smoked
> opium, seen its visions and dreamed its dreams, but
> that the beatitudes enjoyed in the use of haschish
> were as heaven to its hell. She said she found
> nothing to compare with its effects in arousing and
> stimulating the imagination." THE RELIGO-
> PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, Jan. 2, 1892, P. 502
> 
> =====================================
> 2
> 
> Albert Rawson gives his account of HPB and
> her use of hashish in this short passage:
> 
> "She had tried hasheesh in Cairo with success, and
> she again indulged in it in this city under the care
> of myself and Dr. Edward Sutton Smith, who had a
> large experience with the drug among his patients at
> Mount Lebanon, Syria. She said, 'Hasheesh multiplies
> ones life a thousandfold. My experiences are real
> as if they wer ordinary events of actual life. Ah!
> I have ean xplanation. It is a recollection of my
> former
> existences, my previous incarnations. It is a
> wonderful
> drug, and it clears up a profound mystery."
> (FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY, Feb. 1892, p. 202.)
> 
> I believe this is all of the testimony concerning
> Madame Blavatsky's alleged use of hashish. Is
> there more?
> 
> We can all agree that Rawson and Wolff
> gave testimony to Madame Blavatsky's
> use of hashish. They said it but should
> one believe them?
> 
> CUT
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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