Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00148)

It is not quite true to say that "the problem with
Rampa is the same as with Blavatsky" since theree is
no Lobsang Rampa. That character is a fiction
concocted by an English writer named Cyril Hoskins who
has allegedly never been to Tibet and knows nothing
about the place.

Besides, haven't you read the "dead woman" theory of
Dallas TenBroek? According to the "dead woman" theory
nobody can comment on Blavatsky except Sylvia Cranston
(Lord knows why) and nobody can comment on Sylvia,
because she, too, is dead as a doornail. 
Fundamentalists can comment all they want, though.


--- bri_mue <bri_mue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John: "I once read a brief editorial by someone who
> had been to 
> Tibet, and said Rampa was a clever fraud who must
> have read a lot of 
> Theosophy. As I recall, though, this critic didn't
> have anything 
> specific against Rampa, and was just voicing his
> opinion."
> 
> Blavatsky indeed wrote many of the things that where
> later taken up 
> by Rampa, for example in the SD,2:319 Blavatsky
> describes how "the 
> elect" who survived the demise of the Lemurian and
> Atlantean races 
> took refuge in Shambhala, whence they became the
> teachers of the 
> Aryan race, and so on.
> 
> But the problem with Rampa is indeed the same as
> with Blavatsky. I 
> addressed some of these Rampa/Blavatsky inventions
> on the links in 
> following posting:
> 
> 
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/4938
> 
> See also: 
> 
> 
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/5044
> 
> 
> 
> Brigitte
> 
> 
> --- In theos-talk@y..., "John Beers" <johnb@q...>
> wrote:
> > Mic wrote, "I have just finished reading "The
> Third Eye" and was 
> impressed
> > with its seeming honesty. Apart from the dubious
> integrity of the 
> author,
> > would it be a fairly accurate account of the life
> of a Tibetan 
> monk?"
> > 
> > I don't know. I read that book, and
> considered it reasonable 
> and very
> > interesting. A part I'll never forget was his
> coming to the 
> monastery, age
> > 6, I think. He had been dropped off at the gate,
> and there was 
> another kid
> > whose father was a butcher. The monks screamed at
> this kid, called 
> him a
> > murderer, and chased him away.
> > 
> > I once read a brief editorial by someone who
> had been to Tibet, 
> and said
> > Rampa was a clever fraud who must have read a lot
> of Theosophy. As 
> I
> > recall, though, this critic didn't have anything
> specific against 
> Rampa, and
> > was just voicing his opinion. In my mind, I file
> Rampa as "Gee, 
> that's
> > interesting. I wonder if it's true?" There is
> nothing so flagrant 
> that
> > would make me say it's false.
> > 
> > As I recall, in his later life, he was
> obsessed with inventing 
> a device
> > by which people could see things on the higher
> planes, and he 
> regarded this
> > as his life's purpose.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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