Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00260)

--- In theos-talk@y..., "brianmuehlbach" <brianmuehlbach@y...> wrote:
> In spite of the fact that millions of people claim "The Protocols 
of Zion" 
> are not a fraud, I say it is. And so are the Mahatma letters that, 
> although not identical with, are just as much concocted as The 
Protocols 
> of The Elders Of Zion.

The internal evidence in the Protocols is quite different. The same 
problems of evidence do not appear in the Mahatma Letters. The 
problem in the latter case is that the claim was made that the 
mahatmas dictated the letters but did not write them, and that 
Damodar and HPB (the "amanuensis chelas") wrote them, but that they 
contained the thoughts of others. The burden is then to establish 
whether this claim is true, or whether the letters are actually the 
work of HPB, possibly unconsciously to herself. The question is 
complicated by the further claim that some of the letters were 
actually penned by mahatmas, and not by "amanuensis chelas," and the 
fact that some of them, such as the Shannon letter, could not have 
been delivered by either HPB or Damodar.