Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00258)

Inner resonance and intuition! You know, that quality which renders 
the separative concrete mind redundant. Intuition may have its flaws 
working through the relatively unredeemed form, but it is more 
reliable than the form of lower mind per se.

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "D. H. Caldwell <info@b...>" 
<info@b...> wrote:
> Phillip, what are your CRITERIA or STANDARDS?
> 
> Phillip, I asked you:
> 
> "Do you believe that there really are 'charlatanesque imitations 
of 
> Occultism and Theosophy. . . .' "?
> 
> You replied:
> 
> "Loads of them! Clare Prophet and Summit Lighthouse,I Am Movement, 
> and much other 'channelled' material. All make a travesty of the 
> Masters and distort. Funny I have seen the likes of Faivre et al 
> lump AAB in with them! Talk about ignorant prejudice!"
> 
> Phillip, from what you write in the above statement it would 
appear 
> that you have some kind of standard, some criteria. You have 
> apparently compared Prophet and the Ballards against this standard 
> and decided that their claims and teachings fall short and in fact 
> represent "a travesty of the Masters and distort."
> 
> In other words, it would appear that you have criteria by which 
you 
> can make a judgment that a certain teaching or claim (for example, 
> Bailey's teaching/claim) is part of "genuine" Occultism and 
Theosophy 
> but another teaching or claim (by Prophet or Ballard) is 
> a 'charlatanesque imitation of Occultism and Theosophy'."
> 
> Can you tell us what your criteria are? 
> 
> Daniel H. Caldwell
> BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
> http://hpb.cc