Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00453)

I think an important lesson here is to never forget that it is the 
victors who write the history. Truth always seems to lie in a vast gray 
area somewhere between 'patriotic' and 'barbaric.'

--jhe



Frank Reitemeyer wrote:

> "For years G. Bernhard Shaw, with his brilliant satire, has fought hypocrisy of all kinds: the 'patriotic' hypocrisy of those who deceived themselves and millions of others during the World-War by claiming that the Allies were all noble-minded humanitarians and defenders of smaller nations, and the Central Powers blood-thirsty barbarians..."
>
> - The Theosophical Path, Nov. 1927, p. 476, Point Loma Theosophical Society, edited by Katherine Tingley (Tulku and direct successor to H.P.B. as Leader in the Aryan-Chaldeo-Tibetan esoteric Arhat guru-parampara, the conferring line of the Good Law).