Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00589)

WHAT ARGUMENT ? WHAT 'STRAW MAN' ? PROPOSTION # 1. BELOW IS A 
STATEMENT OF ASSERTIONS FOUND IN THEOSOPHICAL SOURCES THEMSELVES. 

--- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Bhakti Ananda Goswami wrote:
> > 
> > WHAT WERE THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MASTERS THE MASTERS OF ?
> 
> A body of knowledge.
> 
> > THEOSOPHICAL PROPOSITIONS
> > 
> > 1. THE ONLY TRUE PHILOSOPHY OF THE EARTH, THEOSOPHY IDENTIFIED AS
> > BUDDHISM, IS FOUND IN THE MAHATMAS' LETTERS, AND THESE LETTERS ARE
> > THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF ESOTERIC / OCCULT OR HIGHER WISDOM FOR
> > THEOSOPHISTS. NEXT TO THESE LETTERS, THE "STANZAS OF DYZAN" ARE 
OF
> > CANONICAL IMPORTANCE TO THEOSOPHISTS.
> 
> Straw man argument. The rest of your message bcomes 
meaningless.
> 
> Bart Lidofsky