Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00572)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson <kpauljohnson@y...>" 
<kpauljohnson@y...> wrote:
> Kind of a reversal of people like 
> Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, or Ellen G. White: no one except 
> members of the churches they founded has any interest in their 
> writings.

Very interesting indeed and very encouraging that Blavatsky is still 
popular. One comment about White that may be of interest to 
someone. A few years ago some scholar in the 7th Day Adventist 
church decided to subject her "revelations: to a critical 
examination. He found out that instead of getting her stuff from 
angelic beings as she claimed, she plagiarized the lot of it from now 
forgotten nineteenth century preachers. Just copied reams of drivel 
verbatim. He published a book and was summarily drummed out of the 
church, which of course responds the same way as any other Community 
of True Believers when proof positive is brought forward that their 
beliefs are baloney. Anyway, those who have ears, let them hear: the 
truth about Whit has been established beyond reasonable doubt. The 
fellow wrote a book about it but I remember neither his name nor that 
of his book.